No. 1/1 Softball scores early, often to beat Texas State

Wednesday, April 9

Austin, TX

6 PM CT

University of Texas

38-3

Texas State

25-12

Texas State

Texas

No. 1/1 Softball scores early, often to beat Texas State

04.09.2025 | Softball

Box Score

Texas ties best start in program history with a 38-3 record through 41 games

By: Chris Allen Brown

AUSTIN, Texas – The University of Texas softball program wasn't the only thing returning on Wednesday night as Longhorn senior right-handed pitcher Mac Morgan was in near unhittable form as she did not allow an earned run throughout UT's 10-1 win over Texas State in five innings.

While Morgan (7-1) was perfect in the pitching circle through the game's first three frames, the Texas offense quickly rolled up 10 runs on 11 hits and one Texas State error to quickly race out to a 10-0 advantage on the scoreboard before the game eclipsed the hour mark.

The first six Texas batters successfully reached base in the bottom of the first with Reese Atwood, Joley Mitchell and Katie Stewart all having run-scoring plate appearances to give the Longhorns their fourth first-inning lead over their last five games played. The lead was ballooned two innings later when UT batted around en route to forcing three Bobcat pitchers to take the circle while scoring six runs on six hits.

FROM HEAD COACH MIKE WHITE

"Obviously, we were able to set the table early with our fast baserunners and then we can through and score some runs with some base hits in key situations. We tried some things on the base paths to push the envelope a little bit tonight to see if we might be able to do them later in the season. There are still some things from this game that we need to take away and work on, but overall, it was a really good performance from our pitching, some good defensive plays and, of course, Mac (Morgan) pitched well for us, too."

GAME NOTES

For the second consecutive outing, Texas senior right-hander Mac Morgan tied her season high in strikeouts by fanning four of the 21 Bobcat batters she faced in five innings.
- Wednesday night marked the fourth time this season that Morgan has struck out four batters in a single game.
The 10 runs scored by Texas throughout the game's five innings marked the most runs scored by a Longhorn offense against a Texas State team since April 3, 2019, when UT beat the Bobcats, 10-0, in six innings in Austin.
- Wednesday night marked just the seventh time in 63 all-time games against Texas State that Texas scored 10-or-more runs in a game.
During the bottom of the third, Texas senior Mia Scott drew a five-pitch walk, marking the 95th time throughout her four-year career that she's drawn a walk.
- Scott is now tied with Janae Jefferson (2018-22) and Lexy Bennett (2009-12) for fifth place on the program's career walks list.
By driving in three runs against the Bobcats, Texas junior Reese Atwood joins teammate Katie Stewart as the only Longhorn softball student-athletes to drive in 55-or-more runs in back-to-back seasons.
- Last season, Atwood drove in 90 runs, while Stewart plated 58.
- This season, Atwood has driven in 55 runs, while Stewart has brought home 62.
Wednesday night's game marked the 100th career game played for Texas sophomore Kayden Henry.
- Henry (100) joins Mia Scott (228), Joley Mitchell (214), Katie Cimusz (180), Reese Atwood (164), Ashton Maloney (164), Leighann Goode (143), Kaydee Bennett (133), Mac Morgan (115), and Katie Stewart (103) as Longhorn softball student-athletes to appear in 100-or-more career collegiate softball games.
Wednesday evening's contest marked just the fifth home game for Texas since March 5, 2025.
- With the win, the Longhorns are now 16-0 at Red & Charline McCombs Field this season.
  - Dating back to last season, UT has won its last 18 consecutive softball games on the Forty Acres.

UP NEXT

Texas (38-3, 10-2) will return to SEC play on Friday, April 11, when the top-ranked Longhorns take the softball diamond at Red & Charline McCombs Field for an 8 p.m. CT game against No. 7/5 Tennessee (32-8, 7-5) to begin a three-game conference series.
- The series will mark the first time the Volunteers have played a softball game against the Longhorns in Austin since Feb. 19, 2012, when Texas won, 3-2, in nine innings.
  - The contest remains the only time Tennessee has played Texas on the Forty Acres.

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