OKLAHOMA CITY — Katie Stewart hit a house run, Mac Morgan and Teagan Kavan mixed on a baseball game, and Texas defeated Tennessee 2-0 on Monday to succeed in the Girls’s School World Sequence championship collection for the third time in 4 years.
Kavan, who threw an entire sport with eight strikeouts in Saturday’s 4-2 win over Oklahoma, got here on in aid of Morgan within the fifth inning and did not permit a success the remainder of the way in which. She struck out the Volunteers’ Emma Clarke to finish the sport.
Texas (54-11) will play both Oklahoma or Texas Tech within the best-of-three collection, which begins Wednesday. These groups sq. off in Monday evening’s different semifinal.
Texas confronted Oklahoma within the championship collection in 2024 and 2022, shedding each occasions.
Karlyn Pickens, a Nationwide Fastpitch Coaches Affiliation first-team All-American, allowed only one earned run on 5 hits and struck out 9 for Tennessee (47-17) on Monday.
Texas loaded the bases towards Pickens within the third with one out however could not rating. Reese Atwood struck out swinging and Joley Mitchell popped out to the catcher to finish the inning.
Issues acquired heated within the high of the fourth when Tennessee hitting coach Craig Snider, the previous Texas Tech head coach, appeared to have phrases with the Texas dugout and was ejected.
Stewart homered off Pickens to begin the fourth, a excessive drive to left that drifted past the outstretched glove of Alannah Leach. Pickens recovered rapidly, placing out the following three batters she confronted.
Morgan acquired the win, placing out 4 and strolling one. The Longhorns added an insurance coverage run the sixth on a throwing error by Vols third baseman Taylor Pannell.
The Related Press contributed to this story.