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Texas drops game two of the WCWS championship series 4-3

Joe Cookby:Joe Cook•06/06/25•

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It will all come down to game three.

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Texas fell 4-3 to Texas Tech in game two of the Women’s College World Series championship series and will play a winner take all game on Friday night. Texas Tech star NiJaree Canady made the most of the run support she received, and much of it was due to Texas miscues.

Those two of the four runs were earned.

With the bases loaded and two outs in the bottom of the fifth, the Red Raiders sent Alana Johnson to the plate. Texas pitcher Cambria Salmon got ahead 0-2, but Johnson fouled off two pitches, watched another for a ball, then fouled another off that just landed outside of catcher Reese Atwood’s reach.

Salmon’s 1-2 pitch hit Johnson in the leg, bringing home the first run of the game for TTU. With the bases loaded again in the next at bat, a wild pitch snuck through Atwood’s attempted block and allowed the runner from third to score to make it 2-0 Texas Tech.

Canady, who the Red Raiders’ national championship hopes depend on, was once again stellar. She made one mistake in the first six innings, allowing a 228 foot home run to Mia Scott in the top of the sixth that made it 2-1 Red Raiders.

In the sixth for Tech, a walk then an error by Joley Mitchell on a difficult ball between the pitcher, first base, and the second baseman put runners on the corners with one out. Texas star Teagan Kavan entered the circle but gave up a sac fly to Bailey Lindemuth to make it 3-1. Another error on next play slipped away from Mitchell and allowed Victoria Valdez, who originally reached on the one-out error, to score and make it 4-1.

Texas brought two runs home in the top of the seventh, but was unable to plate the third run it needed to tie the contest.

Canady finished her complete game and allowed six hits, three runs (two earned), and two walks, striking out six.

Texas started Mac Morgan in the circle, who lasted 2.0 innings and allowed no runs on two hits and a walk. Salmon replaced her and pitched 3.0 innings and allowed two earned runs, taking the loss. Citaly Gutierrez pitched 0.1 innings before she was replaced by Kavan. With runners on the corners and one out, Kavan allowed a sac fly and the error that scored Tech’s third and fourth runs, respectively, but those runs were charged to Gutierrez.

All three members of the top of the Texas order recorded hits for the second straight game. Katie Stewart, batting in the six-hole, became the first Longhorn outside the top four in the order to record a hit versus Canady. Leighann Goode joined her in that company later in the game.

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Texas and Texas Tech will face off tomorrow night at 7 p.m. on ESPN.

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