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.