Atwood intentionally walks No. 3/4 Softball one win away from title

Wednesday, June 4

Oklahoma City, OK

7 p.m. CT

University of Texas

55-11

Texas Tech

53-13

TEXAS TECH

TEXAS

Atwood intentionally walks No. 3/4 Softball one win away from title

06.04.2025 | Softball

Box Score

Teagan Kavan ties Cat Osterman’s program record for most career wins at Women’s College World Series

By: Chris Allen Brown

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. – In a 2-hour, 7-minute classic that featured two of the best pitchers in all of Division I softball, it was Texas' two-time All-American Reese Atwood swinging at a 3-0 pitch nearly eye-leveled that provided the difference in the Longhorns' 2-1 win over Texas Tech in the first game of the Women's College World Series Championship Series on Wednesday night.

While Texas Tech was looking to take a 1-0 lead into the top of the seventh, Red Raider ace pitcher NiJaree Canady (33-6) was looking for the final out after striking out the first two Longhorns to open the frame.

And then Kayden Henry singled a 1-2 pitch into left field.

Representing the game-tying run, Henry stole second on the first pitch of Mia Scott's ensuring at bat.

Two pitches later, Scott blooped an 0-2 change-up over the head of Canady in the circle and into no-man's land for a two-out, infield single.

With second base open – after Henry advanced to third on the single – Scott swiped it on the first pitch as Texas Tech was attempting to intentionally walk Reese Atwood.

Atwood, after seeing two more "pitch out" pitches not go far enough out of the strike zone for her to relax at the plate, swung at a 3-0 pitch and drove in both Henry and Scott with a two-out single through the left side of the diamond and give Texas a 2-1 advantage.

Looking to put the finishing touches on her team-high 17th complete game of the season, Teagan Kavan (27-5) worked around a leadoff fielding error – to start the top of the seventh – by retiring the next three Red Raiders on just 11 pitches.

GAME NOTES

By getting hit with a pitch during the bottom of the second inning, Katie Stewart now has a team-high seven hit by pitches this season, which is tied for the sixth most by a Longhorn softball student-athlete during a single season.
With her third-inning strikeout for the inning's second out, Teagan Kavan extended her consecutive pitching appearances with at least one strikeout to 41 straight games.
- Kavan has struck out at least one batter in all of her appearances throughout the 2025 season.
  - The last time Kavan failed to strikeout a batter was June 5, 2024, in 2.1 innings of work against Oklahoma.
As a result of her two-out single through the left side in the bottom of the third, Ashton Maloney now has 91 hits on the season, which is one shy of tying Janae Jefferson's single-season hits record of 92 set throughout the 2022 campaign.
With her sixth inning stolen base, Kayden Henry now has 33 stolen bases on the season, which is tied with Brejae Washington (2014) for the third most by a Longhorn softball student-athlete in a single season.
- The stolen base is also Henry' 61st for her career, which is tied for the fifth most by a Longhorn in program history.
With the win on Wednesday night, the 2025 Texas Longhorn squad has tied the 2006 and 2024 teams for the most wins in a single season in program history with 55.
- A 56th win this season would not only give the program its first ever softball national championship, but also set a new single season wins record.
By earning the win in the pitching circle, Teagan Kavan now has five career wins at the WCWS, which ties Cat Osterman for the most by a Longhorn softball student-athlete in program history.
Despite Texas Tech scoring a fifth inning run, Texas sophomore Teagan Kavan still has not allowed an earned run in 24.0 innings pitched across four appearances at the 2025 WCWS.

UP NEXT

Texas (55-11) and Texas Tech (53-13) will return to the diamond at Devon Park for the second game in the best-of-three Women's College World Series Championship Series at 7 p.m. CT on Thursday, June 5.

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