Kavan sends No. 3/4 Softball into NCAA Super Regionals

Sunday, May 18

Austin, TX

12 PM CT

University of Texas

49-10

UCF

35-24-1

Texas

UCF

Kavan sends No. 3/4 Softball into NCAA Super Regionals

05.18.2025 | Softball

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Texas clinches sixth-straight and 10th overall NCAA Super Regional appearance with 9-0 victory on Sunday.

By: Chris Allen Brown

AUSTIN, Texas – When one mixes together Teagan Kavan, Red & Charline McCombs Field and a NCAA Regional-clinching scenario, fans get one of the game's best young pitchers. And that's exactly what happened on Sunday afternoon as the Longhorns' sophomore ace turned in a seven-inning complete game shutout to beat UCF, 9-0, and send Texas into the NCAA Super Regionals.

Sunday's performance was Kavan's first seven-inning complete game shutout since April 11, 2025, when the Iowa native blanked then-No. 7/5 Tennessee, 3-0. Overall, it was Kavan's third seven-inning complete game shutout this season and ninth for her career. Of those nine career seven-inning complete game shutouts, four have come either against UCF or in a NCAA Regional-clinching game.

On March 22, 2024, Kavan shutout the Knights over seven innings in Orlando, before throwing 2.1 innings of scoreless relief two days later. When factoring in her performance on Sunday, Kavan has not allowed a run in 16.1 career innings pitched across three career appearances against UCF.

In last season's NCAA Regional-clinching game against Northwestern on May 19, 2024, Kavan was nearly perfect as she struck out 12 batters, issued a pair of walks and surrendered just one hit in seven scoreless innings. She has now not allowed a run to score in 14.0 consecutive innings pitched in NCAA Regional-clinching contests.

UCF's best opportunity to break into the run column against Kavan (23-4) on Sunday came during the bottom of the fourth inning when the Knights had runners on the corners and two away. But Kavan got Kendall Yarnell to strikeout on three pitches to strand the runners. That was the only time UCF got a runner to third base throughout the over two-and-a-half-hour game.

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FROM HEAD COACH MIKE WHITE

"I think (Teagan Kavan) was in command of her pitches a little bit better today. There were some patches there when she fell behind 3-0, but it's hard to know what going through their minds in that situation. But she was able to battle through it and kept her composure, like she always does but even more so today. She was able to make her pitches today, while we were making the plays we needed to behind her. But to be able to get a shutout from her at this point of the season was big, because she needed the work."

FROM SOPHOMORE TEAGAN KAVAN

"I think it's just been able me staying with the process. There are going to be ups and downs in a season. I've been on a down and not pitching how I've wanted to, so it was good to have a performance like today, especially going forward. It was good to have a good, big team win today, so I think I'll use that going forward because it was definitely helpful."

GAME NOTES

With her three hits throughout the contest, Mia Scott (300) joins Janae Jefferson (362) as the only student-athletes in Texas softball history with 300-or-more career hits.
- Additionally, Scott (56) broke Jefferson's Texas career doubles record (55) with her fifth inning double.
As a result of her leadoff single on the first pitch of the game, Ashton Maloney now has 81 hits on the season.
- Maloney becomes just third student-athlete in program history to reach the figure, joining Janae Jefferson (92 – 2022) and Lindsay Gardner (83 – 2000).
By adding four RBI to her regional total during Sunday's game, Reese Atwood finished Texas' three-game NCAA Regional slate with 13 RBI, which is the most by any player in program history during a NCAA Regional.
With her seventh-inning, two-run home run, Reese Atwood became the first student-athlete in program history to record multiple 20-home run seasons.
- Atwood finished the 2024 campaign with 23, before connecting for 20 home runs during the 2025 season.
  - For her career, Atwood now has 54 home runs, which is four shy of tying Taylor Hoagland's program record of 58.
With her strikeout for the second out in the bottom of the fifth, Teagan Kavan became the first Texas pitcher since Hailey Dolcini (217) in 2022 to have 200-or-more strikeouts in a single season.
As a result of Texas' win on Sunday, Longhorn softball head coach Mike White has now appeared in a NCAA Super Regional as a head coach in every single opportunity as a head coach.
- With the exception of the COVID-19 halted 2020 season, White has made 15 of 15 NCAA Super Regionals during his 16-year head coaching career.

UP NEXT

With the victory, sixth-seeded Texas (49-10) advances to its sixth consecutive NCAA Super Regional – all under seventh-year head coach Mike White – and will play No. 11 seed Clemson (47-12) in a three-game series next weekend.
- Television designation as well as an official start to the series will be announced following the conclusion of the remaining NCAA Regional contests on Sunday afternoon.

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