OKLAHOMA CITY — NiJaree Canady scattered six hits and pitched her manner out of a seventh-inning jam, and Texas Tech pressured a decisive third recreation within the Girls’s School World Sequence with a 3-2 victory over Texas on Thursday evening.
The Sport 3 showdown on Friday matches two groups on the lookout for their first nationwide title.
Canady, who allowed a go-ahead, two-run single for Texas whereas making an attempt to stroll a member of the Longhorns within the sixth inning of an eventual xxx-xx loss, once more went the gap for the Purple Raiders. She has pitched each inning within the tremendous regionals and World Sequence and carried a 4-1 result in the seventh.
However Texas’ Katie Stewart reached on an error by the shortstop and Canady hit Victoria Hunter to place runners on first and second with no outs. Leighann Goode doubled to left heart, scoring Stewart and shifting Hunter to 3rd. Pinch-hitter Katie Cimusz lined out to left area and Hunter scored to chop the deficit to 4-3.
However Canady acquired Ashton Mahoney to floor out and struck out Kayden Henry to finish the sport.
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