{"id":685211,"date":"2026-06-05T04:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T04:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/685211\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T04:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T04:16:09","slug":"texas-softball-vs-texas-tech-score-replay-as-ut-wins-2nd-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/685211\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas softball vs Texas Tech score: Replay as UT wins 2nd title"},"content":{"rendered":"

OKLAHOMA CITY \u2014 Texas pitcher Citlaly Gutierrez<\/a>\u00a0had another brilliant start, ace Teagan Kavan<\/a> got the save, and\u00a0Texas softball’s<\/a> bats did just enough against Texas Tech ace NiJaree Canady as the Longhorns claimed a second national championship with a 4-1 win Thursday in Game 2 of the Women’s College World Series.<\/p>\n

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Kavan earned her second straight WCWS most outstanding player award after tallying four complete-game wins and two saves, including one in Thursday\u2019s title-clinching triumph. In seven appearances at the WCWS this year, Kavan threw 33\u2153 innings and gave up 16 hits and seven total runs. She struck out five of the six batters she faced over her two innings.<\/p>\n

Read below for a replay and highlights from Thursday as the Texas Longhorns beat the Texas Tech Red Raiders in the Women\u2019s College World Series.<\/p>\n

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MORE: For me, Texas’ clutch 1B Katie Stewart is player of the year: WCWS takeaways | Golden<\/a><\/p>\n

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Texas Longhorns catcher Reese Atwood (14) and pitcher Teagan KAvan (17) celebrate winning game two of the NCAA Women\u2019s College World Series against Texas Tech at Devon Park on Thursday, June 4, 2026 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.<\/p>\n

Aaron E. Martinez\/Austin American-Statesman<\/p>\n

Texas pitcher Citlaly Gutierrez has another brilliant start, Teagan Kavan gets the save, and the Texas bats do just enough against Texas Tech ace NiJaree Canady as the Longhorns win a second national\u00a0championship.<\/p>\n

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Kayden Henry gives Texas that little insurance with a solo homer off NiJaree Canady, and pinch runner Alisa Sneed motors home on an RBI single by Leighann Goode. Teagan Kavan will come on and try to close out a second straight national championship for Texas.<\/p>\n

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Texas Longhorns outfielder Kayden Henry (21) celebrates a home run during game two of the NCAA Women\u2019s College World Series against Texas Tech at Devon Park on Thursday, June 4, 2026 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.<\/p>\n

Aaron E. Martinez\/Austin American-Statesman<\/p>\n

Teagan time for Texas. Kavan enters the game and strikes out the side. Texas Tech is down to its final three outs, but Texas would love a little insurance.<\/p>\n

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Texas Tech LF Logan Halleman makes another brilliant defensive play, this time robbing her Texas counterpart Kaiah Altmeyer of a likely RBI double. Tech pitcher NiJaree Canady gives up a single to Hannah Wells but nothing else. She’s allowed five hits with two strikeouts and two walks in six inning.<\/p>\n

Citlaly Gutierrez stays in the game for Texas at pitcher and sends the Red Raiders down in order, even if the third out on a throw to first by 3B Jaycie Nichols was really, really close. Teagan Kavan is warming up for Texas, which is a nice ace in the hole for Mike White, so to speak.<\/p>\n

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A Texas Tech error gives Texas the lead. With two outs and the bases loaded, Vivi Martinez chops a ball to SS Hailey Toney, who wildly throws the ball past third base for the error.\u00a0Jaycie Nichols and\u00a0Ashton Maloney score after Texas tallied two hits off Tech starter NiJaree Canady.<\/p>\n

Somewhat surprisingly, Texas brings in freshman Hannah Wells to pitch for Citlaly Gutierrez, who allowed three hits with one walk and two strikeouts in three innings. Wells gives up a single to Jasmyn Burns, who eventually reaches third on a wild pitch\u00a0from Wells. Wells also walks NaJaree Canady and hits\u00a0Mia Williams. Guess what? Gutierrez returns with the bases loaded and gets Mihyia Davis to fly out. Curious inning from Mike White.<\/p>\n

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Texas makes some noise with a two-out double by Reese Atwood to the wall, and Leighann Goode reaches first after getting hit by NiJaree Canady. But Canady forces a soft flyout by Hannah Wells and has only allowed two hits without a walk.<\/p>\n

An infield single by Lauren Allred drives in speedy Mihyia Davis from second. Texas 2B Leighann Goode bobbled the ball, but Davis would likely have scored anyway so no error. Davis scored after a single and her second steal of the game. Tech base-running is beating the throws of Texas catcher Reese Atwood so far.<\/p>\n

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Texas is trying to slap its way onto base, but Tech starter\u00a0NiJaree Canady is forcing a series of weak groundouts. She’s allowed just one hit and has retired nine straight batters.<\/p>\n

Tech gets two on and one out after a walk to Kaitlyn Terry and a single by Jasmyn Burns, Tech’s first hit. But Texas starter Citlaly Gutierrez gets out of that little jam with a strikeout and a groundout by Lagi Quiroga.<\/p>\n

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Texas Tech’s NiJaree Canady gets her first\u00a0strikeout of the game vs. Hannah Wells, and she quickly gets through the second inning.<\/p>\n

Tech’s Mihyi Davis gets on base after getting hit by a Citlaly Gutierrez pitch and swipes her 140th career steal, but the Red Raiders can’t get a hit.<\/p>\n

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Texas leadoff hitter Kayden Henry opens the game with a single and gets her 30th steal of the season and 90th of her career, but Tech starter\u00a0NiJaree Canady forces a pair of popouts and a groundout by Reese Atwood to get out of the inning.<\/p>\n

Texas Tech’s NiJaree Canady throws a strike to Texas leadoff hitter Kayden Henry, and we’re off in Game 2. The Longhorns are trying to win a second straight national championship, and Texas Tech is trying to force a Game 3 Friday.<\/p>\n

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Not surprisingly, Texas Tech coach Gerry Glasco will start NiJaree Canady (29-6, 1.87 ERA, 0.86 WHIP) in the circle. But Texas coach Mike White\u00a0resisted the temptation to start ace Teagan Kavan for a second consecutive night and will go with senior Citlaly Gutierrez, who had arguably\u00a0her best game<\/a>\u00a0of a four-year career Monday in an elimination game against Tennessee when she threw 6\u2154 innings and gave up just five hits and two runs in a 5-2 win.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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SpotPos# PlayerBatsAvg1cf21 Kayden HenryL.40421b20 Katie StewartR.4303ss23 Viviana MartinezL.3874c14 Reese AtwoodR.32452b43 Leighann GoodeR.3276dp13 Hannah WellsR.2977lf44 Kaiah AltmeyerL.2998rf7 Ashton MaloneyL.29493b24 Jaycie NicholsR.32610p77 Citlaly GutierrezRSpotPos# PlayerBatsAvg12b1 Mia WilliamsR.4362cf42 Mihyia DavisL.4333rf11 Lauren AllredL.38441b0 Jackie LisR.42253b6 Taylor PannellR.3536lf55 Kaitlyn TerryL.4337dp12 Jasmyn BurnsR.3508ss32 Hailey ToneyL.3039c4 Lagi QuirogaR.32910p24 Nijaree CanadyR.200<\/p>\n

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When:\u00a07:08 p.m. Thursday<\/p>\n

Where: Devon Park, Oklahoma City<\/p>\n

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TV\/radio: ESPN; texaslonghorns.com<\/p>\n

Reach Texas beat reporter Thomas Jones via email at tjones@statesman.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OKLAHOMA CITY \u2014 Texas pitcher Citlaly Gutierrez\u00a0had another brilliant start, ace Teagan Kavan got the save, and\u00a0Texas softball’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":685212,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[297889,99,5690,218897,294328,280867,43021,294329,297890],"class_list":["post-685211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-college-softball","tag-sports","tag-texas-longhorns","tag-texas-longhorns-softball","tag-texas-tech-softball","tag-time-sensitive","tag-ttp-live-blog","tag-wcws","tag-women-s-college-world-series"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=685211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/685212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}