Women’s College
World Series

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11Texas TechWin

78

NRMississippi State

20

Texas Tech ran the table 8-0 in five innings to open the Women's College World Series. NiJaree Canady was untouchable through four — two hits, no runs, a walk and three strikeouts — before Kaitlyn Terry slammed the door with a perfect fifth. Jackie Lis cracked the only home run and drove in three, and early run support from Mia Williams and M. Davis put it out of reach before Mississippi State's Cinderella run could find a pulse. The Bulldogs managed just two hits, both singles, and never threatened.

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7TennesseeWin

76

2Texas

53

No. 7 Tennessee knocked off defending national champion Texas, the No. 2 seed, 6-3 to open the Women's College World Series. The Volunteers broke through with a three-run second inning off Longhorns ace Teagan Kavan and never trailed. Sage Mardjetko set the tone with four scoreless innings — one hit, two walks — and Karlyn Pickens worked the final three for the save. Elsa Morrison did the damage, going 2-for-3 with three RBI, while Taelyn Holley reached three times and scored twice atop the order. Texas answered with a run in the fifth and two in the sixth to climb within 5-3, but Tennessee tacked on an insurance run in the seventh and the Longhorns went quietly in the bottom half.

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1AlabamaWin

106

8UCLA

63

No. 1 Alabama erased an early deficit to beat No. 8 UCLA 6-3 in the Women's College World Series opener. Marlie Giles singled home a run in the first before UCLA punched back with a three-run third on Rylee Slimp's two-run homer and Megan Grant's solo shot. Alexis Pupillo drew the Tide even at 3-3 with a two-run blast in the fifth, and Brooke Wells broke it open an inning later, launching a three-run homer to center for the lead. Ace Jocelyn Briski went the distance — six hits, no walks, nine strikeouts — to improve to 24-3 and send Alabama to the winners' bracket.

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4NebraskaWin

85

5Arkansas

83

No. 4 Nebraska outlasted No. 5 Arkansas 5-3 in 10 innings to close a wild opening night, Ava Kuszak crushing a two-run walk-off homer to center to send the Huskers to the winners' bracket. Kailey Wyckoff staked Arkansas to a 2-0 lead with a two-run shot in the second, but Nebraska drew even in the fourth on an RBI single from S. Bland and a Bella Bacon run-scoring groundout. Arkansas nudged back ahead in the eighth on an Ella McDowell single — and Hannah Coor answered instantly with a game-tying solo homer. From there it belonged to Jordy Frahm, who went the distance: all 10 innings, nine strikeouts, three runs on eight hits to improve to 21-4 before Kuszak ended it. Robyn Herron, back in the circle after a midgame exit, absorbed the loss.

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2TexasWin

64

NRMississippi State

40

Defending national champion Texas stayed alive with a 4-0 shutout of Mississippi State, ending the Bulldogs' Cinderella run and sending the No. 2 seed into Sunday's bracket. Teagan Kavan was untouchable — a four-hit complete game with no walks, the fourth WCWS shutout of her career — and the Longhorn power did the rest. Kaiah Altmeyer launched a two-run homer in the second and Kayden Henry tacked on a solo shot in the fifth. Mississippi State, making its first-ever WCWS appearance, managed four hits — three of them off the bat of X. Romero — but never solved Kavan and was shut out for the first time in the postseason.

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8UCLAWin

811

5Arkansas

30

UCLA's record-setting offense erupted for a nine-run second inning and run-ruled Arkansas 11-0 in five, ending the Razorbacks' first WCWS run. The Bruins launched four home runs: Aleena Garcia opened the scoring with a solo shot, Soo-Jin Berry crushed a three-run blast, and Megan Grant followed with a three-run homer — her 42nd of the season, extending her own NCAA single-season record. Jolyna Lamar added a solo shot in the fifth. Taylor Tinsley needed just three hits and two strikeouts over five scoreless innings to send UCLA into Sunday. Arkansas, in its first-ever WCWS, managed three singles and never threatened.

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7TennesseeWin

52

11Texas Tech

51

Emma Clarke led off the bottom of the ninth with a walk-off home run to straightaway center, and No. 7 Tennessee outlasted No. 11 Texas Tech 2-1 to win the Bracket B winners' game and move within one victory of the championship series. It was a pitchers' duel start to finish. Taelyn Holley staked the Vols to a 1-0 lead with a solo shot in the fifth, but Texas Tech manufactured a run in the seventh to even it. Karlyn Pickens gave Tennessee 6.2 strong innings — one run, five hits, six strikeouts — before Sage Mardjetko (16-2) slammed the door with 2.1 hitless innings to earn the win. Kaitlyn Terry and NiJaree Canady combined to hold Tennessee to a single run through eight, but Terry was back in the circle for the ninth when Clarke turned on a pitch and sent it out to end it. Texas Tech drops to Sunday's elimination bracket to face UCLA; Tennessee advances to the WCWS semifinals.

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1AlabamaWin

55

4Nebraska

11

Top-seeded Alabama moved within one win of the championship series as Jocelyn Briski spun a complete-game one-hitter to down No. 4 Nebraska 5-1 in the winners' bracket. The Tide needed only one swing for breathing room: catcher Marlie Giles golfed a two-out, three-run homer off Husker two-way ace Jordy Frahm in the first inning, then added a sacrifice fly for a four-RBI afternoon. Briski (25-3) allowed just one hit, walked none, and struck out six. Frahm (21-5) was charged with three runs over two innings before freshman Alexis Jensen steadied things with four innings of six-strikeout relief — but Nebraska's only hit all day was Hannah Camenzind's solo homer in the fourth. The Huskers drop to Sunday's elimination bracket to face Texas.

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2TexasWin

33

4Nebraska

41

No. 2 Texas ended Nebraska's dream season with a 3-1 elimination win, rallying for all three runs in the sixth to send the Huskers home. Jordy Frahm — already the first player in NCAA history with back-to-back 20-win, 20-homer seasons — led off the game with a solo shot off Teagan Kavan and then carried a no-hitter into the sixth. Five outs from history, she surrendered an infield single to Jaycie Nichols and a single to Kayden Henry before Katie Stewart turned on a pitch and drove it down the left-field line for a three-run homer and the lead. Frahm went the distance in a complete-game loss — three hits, five strikeouts — but her first-inning blast was the only run Nebraska would muster on four hits. Kavan answered with a complete game of her own, scattering four hits to improve to 27-6 and push the defending champions into a semifinal date with Tennessee.

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11Texas TechWin

148

8UCLA

107

Texas Tech outlasted UCLA 8-7 in nine innings to end the Bruins' season and claim the last semifinal berth. Jordan Woolery did everything she could — 3-for-4 with two home runs and five RBI, including a game-tying blast in the seventh — but the Red Raiders kept answering. Jasmyn Burns and Mia Williams (her 25th homer) went deep, and Williams and Mihiya Davis combined for six of Texas Tech's 14 hits to keep the pressure on Taylor Tinsley, who went all nine innings in the loss. Tied at 7 in the top of the ninth, Kaitlyn Terry — facing her former team — laced a go-ahead RBI double and came around on a UCLA error. NiJaree Canady, who started and then returned to the circle in the ninth, struck out Bri Alejandre to strand the tying run and slam the door; she and Terry combined for 14 strikeouts. Texas Tech moves on to face top-seeded Alabama in Monday's semifinal.

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2TexasWin

135

7Tennessee

52

Texas forced a winner-take-all semifinal, beating Tennessee 5-2 to push the defending champions one win from the championship series. Reese Atwood got the Longhorns going with a leadoff solo homer in the fourth, and after Gabby Leach's RBI triple tied it, Texas broke it open in the fifth — Katie Stewart led off with a solo shot and Hartson Wells followed with a two-run hit for a 4-1 lead. Citlaly Gutierrez (10-3) gave Texas 6.2 strong innings, scattering six hits and one earned run, before ace Teagan Kavan entered with the tying run aboard and the bases loaded in the seventh and struck out Elsa Morrison looking to slam the door for her fourth save of the postseason. Stewart finished 3-for-4 as Texas piled up 13 hits off Erin Nuwer and Sage Mardjetko (16-3), who took the loss. Having come up through the elimination bracket, Texas must beat the Vols once more in the if-necessary finale to reach the championship series.

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2TexasWin

64

7Tennessee

20

Texas finished the comeback. Hours after closing out Game 11, Teagan Kavan went back to the circle and blanked Tennessee on two hits with six strikeouts, sending the No. 2 Longhorns past the No. 7 Vols 4-0 in the winner-take-all semifinal and into their third straight championship series. Texas manufactured everything it needed with small ball in the third: Jaycie Nichols and Kayden Henry opened with back-to-back infield singles, Viviana Martinez beat out a third infield hit to score Nichols, and Henry stole home on a delayed steal for a 2-0 lead before Reese Atwood doubled off the wall to plate Martinez. Katie Stewart led off the fourth with a solo home run — her second long ball in as many days — for the 4-0 final. Karlyn Pickens took the loss for Tennessee, which had opened the World Series by stunning the defending champions but needed just one win in the rematch and could not get it; Texas instead swept the same-day doubleheader to reach the final.

HR

11Texas TechWin

85

1Alabama

104

Texas Tech refused to go home. Mia Williams led off the bottom of the seventh with a walk-off home run to left-center, and the No. 11 Red Raiders stunned No. 1 overall seed Alabama 5-4 to force a winner-take-all deciding game. Tech out-homered the Tide to stay alive: Lauren Allred's solo shot and Hailey Toney's RBI double put the Red Raiders up 2-1 in the third, and after Marlie Giles answered with a solo homer in the fourth, Taylor Pannell's two-run blast in the fifth made it 4-2. Alabama wasn't done — Jena Young crushed a two-run homer in the top of the seventh to tie it 4-4 — but Williams ended it one half-inning later. The pitching was a two-way scramble: Kaitlyn Terry started and closed while ace NiJaree Canady bridged the middle with four strikeouts across two scoreless innings, and freshman Vic Moten took the loss in relief of SEC Pitcher of the Year Jocelyn Briski. Alabama actually out-hit Texas Tech 10-8, but five Red Raider runs on the long ball were enough. The same two teams meet again tonight for the right to face defending champion Texas in the championship series.

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11Texas TechWin

102

1Alabama

20

NiJaree Canady put the Red Raiders on her back. Hours after relieving in the G13 walk-off win, the $1.2M ace came back and threw a complete-game two-hit shutout, striking out six as No. 11 Texas Tech blanked No. 1 overall Alabama 2-0 to win the deciding semifinal and book a championship-series rematch with defending champion Texas. Jasmyn Burns provided all the cushion Canady needed with a leadoff solo homer to center in the fourth, and Texas Tech tacked on an insurance run in the seventh when Lauren Allred singled up the middle to score Mihyia Davis. Tech out-hit Alabama 10-2 and held the No. 1 seed scoreless to end its season. The performance was historic — Canady became the first pitcher to throw WCWS shutouts for two different schools and just the fourth to record a shutout in four separate Women's College World Series. One year after losing the 2025 final to Texas, Texas Tech gets the Longhorns again, starting Wednesday.

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2TexasWin

107

11Texas Tech

33

Texas seized the opener with a five-run first inning and never looked back, beating Texas Tech 7-3 to take a 1-0 lead in the championship series. Mihyia Davis put the Red Raiders up with a solo homer in the top of the first, but Texas answered with five in the bottom half — Katie Stewart's two-run homer, Kaiah Altmeyer's RBI single and Ashton Maloney's two-run triple chased Tech starter Kaitlyn Terry after just 1.1 innings. Teagan Kavan went the distance in the circle, scattering three runs (two on Mia Williams' fifth-inning homer) over a complete game with six strikeouts. Viviana Martinez drove in two as Texas piled up 10 hits.

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2TexasWin

84

11Texas Tech

41

Texas closed it out and repeated. Citlaly Gutierrez and a dominant Teagan Kavan held Texas Tech to a single run as the Longhorns rallied past NiJaree Canady 4-1 to sweep the championship series and win back-to-back national titles. Tech struck first on Lauren Allred's third-inning RBI single, but Texas flipped it in the fifth on a two-out throwing error that scored Jaycie Nichols and Ashton Maloney, then pulled away in the seventh on Kayden Henry's solo homer and Leighann Goode's RBI single. Hannah Wells opened, Gutierrez (W) bridged 4.1 innings on one run, and Kavan slammed the door with two perfect innings and five strikeouts to earn the save. Canady took a complete-game loss.