The Brief<\/p>\n
Texas softball wins second-straight national title<\/p>\n
Celebration continued in Austin Friday night<\/p>\n
AUSTIN, Texas – The Texas Longhorn softball team is back on top again.<\/p>\n
After capturing their second straight national championship, the celebration continued back here in Austin.<\/p>\n
Local perspective<\/p>\n
The team may have won the title in Oklahoma City, but Friday night’s celebration was all about sharing it with the fans on the team’s home turf.<\/p>\n
Texas Athletics, Texas cheer and poms, the Longhorn band, Bevo, Smokey the Cannon, Hook Em’ and more all helped welcome home the national champs.<\/p>\n
Despite the rainy weather, fans turned out for the national champs. Supporters took to the stands and even the field to celebrate the historic championship run.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The first 500 fans received commemorative national championship posters.<\/p>\n
We caught up with fans before the celebration.<\/p>\n
“Last night my daughter fell asleep on the couch. So, we were silent, yelling, and keeping it going. But she saw her very first game here a couple of years ago and was like, I want to play on that field. And so, we’re just following along,” said Longhorn fan Alyssa Rivera<\/p>\n
“I’m so excited. This one definitely feels different. Like it feels like a lot bigger. So, it’s super exciting and I’m super happy for them,” said Longhorn fan Emma Talamantez.<\/p>\n
Dig deeper<\/p>\n
Texas became the fifth team in WCWS history to lose their opener in Oklahoma City and go on to lift the trophy.<\/p>\n
This is the program’s second overall title.<\/p>\n
Fans are already calling for a 3 peat. \u00a0<\/p>\n
The Source<\/p>\n
Information in this report comes from reporting\/interviews by FOX 7 Austin’s Jenna King<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief Texas softball wins second-straight national title Celebration continued in Austin Friday night AUSTIN, Texas – The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325792,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,93616,27,46468],"class_list":["post-325791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-softball-team","tag-texas","tag-texas-longhorn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}