There will indeed be one more game for the Texas Tech Red Raiders. One more opportunity to play and beat the Texas Longhorns. That’s because, in a thrilling and anxiety-inducing Game 2 between Texas Tech and UT, the Red Raiders managed to come out on top of Texas.
And so now we’ll be treated to a winner-take-all sort of scenario. There’s one more game left in this 2025 NCAA softball season. There’s one more game as part of the 2025 Women’s College World Series. The Texas Tech Red Raiders and the Texas Longhorns will face off one more time. Whichever team wins on Friday will take hom the national championship.
No pressure. None at all. It’s not like the stakes in Friday night’s game are high or anything.
But the stakes were certainly high in Game 2 and we saw the Red Raiders, on multiple occasions, take advantage of blunders and errors from the Longhorns and then weather the storm in the 7th inning to claim a victory in what was a must-win situation.
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In this game, the Red Raiders turned once again to NiJaree Canady and she continued to perform at a remarkable level. It really feels like Canady is giving Texas Tech everything she has as she threw a grand total of 107 pitches against Texas across a complete seven innings. Canady managed to strike out six batters while limiting the damage to just three runs scored for UT.
At the plate, the Red Raiders only managed to accumulate five hits in 24 at-bats, but Texas Tech only struck out once in this game, managed to draw three walks, and also benefitted from a couple of errors on UT’s end. Oh! And there was a Texas Tech batter that was hit by a pitch.
Texas didn’t play the cleanest game ever. The Red Raiders managed to take advantage of those sorts of circumstances. Now we’re looking at a situation in which we will see Texas Tech and UT face off one more time with a championship on the line. No pressure. None at all.