Oklahoma City – Mia Scott struck a big slam, Teagan Kavan won another victory and Texas beat Texas Tech 10-4 in match 3 of Women’s College World Championship Series Friday evening to win his first national title.
Kavan, a second year student, gave no deserved race in the 31 heats she launched to the World Series. She went 4-0 with a backup in the World Series for Longhorns (56-12).
“It means the world,” she told ESPN after the victory. “I am so happy for this team. We did it.”
Leighann Goode struck a 3 -point circuit, Kayden Henry had three shots and Scott, Reese Atwood and Katie Stewart, each had two strokes for Texas.
Texas Tech star launcher Nijaree Canady, who launched all the throws for the Red Raiders in their first five World Series games, was fired after a round in match 3. She abandoned five points on five strokes and only launched 25 throws. She had launched 686 consecutive terrains dating from the start of the super regional before leaving.
Not even the support of the former Texas Tech football star Patrick Mahomes And his wife, Brittany, who was present, could put the Red Raiders (54-14) over it.
Texas had lost Oklahoma in the championship series two of the previous three years, and it has become the third team in the past 25 seasons to win the title after finishing second in the previous year. Oklahoma was one of the teams that Texas defeated on the way to the championship.
The night of Canady started like many of her others, when she removed the first striker she faced. After that, she did not look like the launcher who entered the match at the top of the nation in victories and in times. Homer de Goode in the first put the longhorns 5-0. Scott’s test came in the fourth round and gave a 10-0 lead in Texas.
Hailey Toney was a bright point for the Red Raiders. She chose to strike in two points in the fifth, then chose to hit another round in the seventh.
The information from the Associated Press was used in this report.
