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No. 2/3 Softball rallies during middle innings, but falls late to No. 3/4 Oklahoma
04.27.2025 | Softball
Texas scores eight unanswered runs, before Oklahoma plates go-ahead run in sixth.
NORMAN, Okla. – Sunday marked the final regular season home game for the fourth-ranked Oklahoma Sooners and the third-ranked Texas Longhorns were an inning away from spoiling senior day festivities, but OU scored a single run in the bottom of the sixth to escape with a 9-8 win to close out the three-game series.
As many in the Oklahoma Crimson and White were expecting a five-inning affair on Sunday as the Sooner led, 8-0, after three full innings, Texas had other ideas, and they displayed those thoughts over the next two frames.
After not having a base runner throughout the game's first three innings, Ashton Maloney sent the second pitch of her fourth-inning plate appearance back up the middle for a leadoff single. Kayden Henry followed by drawing a four-pitch walk and then the wheels started shaking on the Sooners' cart.
Over the next 20 pitches thrown by two different Oklahoma pitchers, the Texas offense strung together five consecutive singles that resulted in five runs. Leighann Goode made it a two-run contest with a one-out single through the left side following a fielder's choice.
The following inning was much of the same, too, as Mia Scott began the action by drawing a six-pitch walk. She came around to score five pitches later when Texas sophomore Katie Stewart blasted a 0-0 pitch 251-feet for a game-tying, two-run home run to cap eighth unanswered runs for the Longhorns.
After Cambria Salmon (6-1) kept the Oklahoma offense out of the run column during the fourth and fifth innings, the Sooners were about to break through against Texas' freshman right-hander on a sacrifice fly after loading the bases in the bottom of the sixth.
Texas, like it did so many times throughout the weekend, had an opportunity during the seventh inning as Reese Atwood drew a full-count walk and represented the game-tying run with only one out. But Stewart and Mitchell were unable to bring Kaydee Bennett, who pinch ran for Atwood, around from first.
FROM HEAD COACH MIKE WHITE
"Well, we were able to make a game of things, but just didn't have quite enough to win it. Obviously, giving up 23 runs in three games is tough to overcome, but I was pleased with how the team was able to fight back. They worked hard, but Oklahoma was too much this weekend. (The Sooners) swung the bats well and we ran into a hot team, and we've been a little bit cold over the last few weeks, to be truthful, but that gives us a lot of things to work on heading into next week. But Oklahoma deserved the series sweep. We just have to continue to work hard and get back right against Kentucky and then go to the SEC Tournament and play well there."
GAME NOTES
- As a result of her game-tying, two-run home run in the top of the fifth inning, Katie Stewart passed Jodi Reeves (1997-00) for 10th place on the program's career RBI list as the sophomore slugger pushed her career RBI total to 124.
- Stewart (124) joins Reese Atwood (198) and Mia Scott (175) as the only active Longhorn softball student-athletes on the program's career RBI list.
- Katie Stewart's fifth-inning home run also tied her with Lindsey Stephens (2014) and Taylor Thom (2013) for second place on the program's single-season RBI list with 66.
- Texas freshman pitcher Cambria Salmon's three-innings of work was her longest outing since going a career-long six innings in a non-conference game against Dayton in Columbus, Ohio on March 10, 2025.
- With her two-run single in the top of the fourth inning, second-year Longhorn Joley Mitchell was credited with her 100th hit since arriving on the Forty Acres.
- With her run-scoring single during the fourth inning, Reese Atwood added one more base to her season's total base total to push the statistic to 124, which is tied with Taylor Hoagland (2013) for eighth on the program's single-season total base list.
- Texas has now scored at least one run in all 51 games this season, which marks just the second time in program history that the Longhorns have scored at least one run in 50 consecutive games during a single season.
- Texas scored at least one run in the first 60 straight games to begin the 2023 campaign.
- The eight runs scored by Texas were the most runs scored in a game against Oklahoma since April 15, 2016, when the Sooners won, 9-8, in Norman.
UP NEXT
- Texas (42-9, 13-8) will now return back to the Lone Star State to conclude its 2025 regular season with a three-game SEC series against Kentucky that will begin at 6 p.m. CT on Thursday, May 1 before concluding at 1 p.m. CT on Saturday, May 3.
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Team Stats
Pitching:
W: Landry, Sam (17-3)
L: Salmon, Cambria (6-1)
Batting:
HR: Stewart, Katie 1
RBI: Atwood, Reese 1 ; Stewart, Katie 3 ; Mitchell, Joley 2 ; Hunter, Victoria 1 ; Goode, Leighann 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Maloney, Ashton 1 ; Henry, Kayden 1 ; Scott, Mia 2 ; Atwood, Reese 1 ; Stewart, Katie 2 ; Mitchell, Joley 1
Batting:
2B: Agbayani, Ailana 1
HR: Garcia, Gabbie 1 ; Parker, Ella 1
RBI: Garcia, Gabbie 4 ; Parker, Ella 2 ; Emerling, Isabela 1 ; Dayton, Abigale 1
SF: Emerling, Isabela 1
Base Running:
RUNS: Pickering, Kasidi 2 ; Garcia, Gabbie 1 ; Parker, Ella 1 ; McEnroe-Marinas, N. 1 ; Sanders, Cydney 1 ; Agbayani, Ailana 1 ; Emerling, Isabela 1 ; Dayton, Abigale 1
