No. 1/1 Softball sets program record with 18th conference victory

Friday, April 26

Austin, TX

6 PM CT

University of Texas

40-6, 0

Iowa State

18-26, 0

Iowa State

Texas

No. 1/1 Softball sets program record with 18th conference victory

04.26.2024 | Softball

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Texas earns 40th victory in 46 games so far in the 2024 campaign.

By: Chris Allen Brown

AUSTIN, Texas – Another historic milestone has been added to a rapidly developing season for The University of Texas' softball program as the Longhorns earned a program-best 18th Big 12 Conference win with a 5-2 victory against Iowa State on Friday night. The win broke a tie with the 2002 squad for the most conference wins in a single season at 17.

In search of more gem to add to her season's reśumé, Texas freshman Teagan Kavan (14-2) took the circle to begin Friday's game and tossed five consecutive scoreless innings of one-hit softball to allow her team's offense to get going. And it did in the bottom of the third when Mia Scott belted a 3-1 pitch 272 feet for her fifth home run of the season and give the Longhorns a 1-0 lead.

An inning later, Texas, again, used the long ball to its advance when Katie Stewart sent a 1-2 pitch 263 feet for a two-run home run that also scored Reese Atwood and extended her team's lead out to 3-0. In the bottom of the fifth, the Longhorns were knocking on the door of a run-rule victory following run-scoring at bats from Viviana Martinez and Stewart to make it 5-0. As Katie Cimusz, who hit two home runs last weekend in Lawrence, stepped to the plate, she represented the game-ending run as Stewart and Alyssa Washington stood on base. But a pop-up ended the inning and extended the game.

As a result of the game extending, Iowa State was able to score two sixth-inning runs and threatened for more with the bases loaded and two away, but Kavan ended the threat with her eighth strikeout on the evening.

FROM HEAD COACH MIKE WHITE

"(I left Teagan Kavan) in (there in the sixth inning), because she needs to work through those types of situations. She was dominate and doing a great job early on, but she can't push the 'help' button all the time. But I like the way she got that last out and then Mac (Morgan) came in and did a good job as well. It was scary, though, knowing (Iowa State) was just one swing away — with the wind blowing out — from tying the game."6

FROM FRESHMAN FIRST BASE KATIE STEWART

"You know, Coach (Mike) White always just kind of mentions that we should be playing for us and not really worry about what everyone else is doing. So, we really just try to take everything just one game at a time and working from there. If (a championship) comes at the end of the season, then it comes."

GAME NOTES

Texas is now 32-0 on the season when scoring first after the Longhorns took a 1-0 lead off a Mia Scott solo home run in the bottom of the third.
With Friday night's victory, Texas has now won its 40th game on the season, marking the fourth consecutive season with 40-or-more victories including five of the last completed seasons.
The Longhorns are now 29-3 all time against Iowa State in games played in Austin, including an active streak of seven in a row.
With its five runs batted in (RBI) on the night, Texas' offense has now been credited with 316 RBI on the season, which is tied with the 2013 team for the fifth most in a single season.
Texas freshman Teagan Kavan's eight strikeouts in six innings of work on Friday marked the most strikeouts by the Iowa native against a Big 12 opponent in her career.

UP NEXT

Texas (40-6, 18-4) will look to extend its winning streak to not only 12 but 13 consecutive games when the Longhorns wrap up the three-game conference series against Iowa State with a doubleheader on Saturday, April 27 with games slated for 1 p.m. and 4 p.m., respectively.
- The series was originally slated for Friday-Saturday-Sunday but weather forecasted in and around the Austin area on Sunday resulted in the schedule shift.

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