Folks. Gerry Glasco and the Texas Tech softball team are headed back to the Women’s College World Series championship series. In the second season of Glasco’s tenure in West Texas, the Red Raiders have made it to the WCWS finals twice now.
And for the second year in a row, the Red Raiders will get the distinct pleasure of facing the Texas Longhorns.
We’ll get more into that one in a minute. For now, let’s talk about how the Red Raiders just got (another) win over the Crimson Tide.
NiJaree Canady was absolutely unstoppable in this game. Though there have been a few moments where Canady hasn’t played as dominantly as we saw a season ago, Texas Tech got a complete game shutout effort from her against Alabama in Game 2 of the WCWS semifinals.
Through 7.0 innings pitched, Canady gave up just two hits and allowed one walk as she outdueled the duo of Jocelyn Briski and Vic Morten. Canady struck out six batters in the game. Meanwhile, Briski went through 5.0 innings of work and gave up eight hits but just one run while striking out three batters in the process. Morten gave up a couple of hits and a run in 2.0 innings pitched.
And that was largely the difference here.
Texas Tech softball sweeps Alabama in the Women’s College World Series semifinals to get a rematch with Texas
Canady’s remarkable performance put Texas Tech in a position to hold onto any lead that the Red Raiders could build. And they really didn’t need to build much of a lead. This game was so very different from what we saw in that frightening elimination game win against the UCLA Bruins on Sunday.
All Texas Tech needed from its lineup in this one?
Jasmyn Burns hit a solo shot home run in the fourth inning (which that would have been enough) and then Lauren Allred singled in the seventh inning which allowed Mihyia Davis to scoot to third and then a bad throw got Davis across home plate.
That’s it. Which, while it was a different type of stressful from what we saw against the Bruins on Sunday, it was still stressful.
Regardless. Texas Tech won. The Red Raiders are moving on. They’ve now won three in a row and are no longer on the brink of elimination. Texas Tech now has a shot to go compete for a national championship as the Red Raiders get a chance at revenge against the Texas Longhorns in the WCWS finals. What a game. What a team.
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