{"id":152210,"date":"2025-06-04T23:14:58","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T23:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wcws-championship-live-updates-texas-vs-texas-tech-game-1-schedule-and-todays-latest-news-the-new-york-times\/"},"modified":"2025-06-04T23:14:58","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T23:14:58","slug":"wcws-championship-live-updates-texas-vs-texas-tech-game-1-schedule-and-todays-latest-news-the-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wcws-championship-live-updates-texas-vs-texas-tech-game-1-schedule-and-todays-latest-news-the-new-york-times\/","title":{"rendered":"WCWS championship live updates: Texas vs. Texas Tech Game 1 schedule and today\u2019s latest news – The New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Updated 3m ago<\/span>
Texas and Texas Tech both have gone undefeated in the Women's College World Series to reach the championship matchup, which begins tonight:<\/strong>
Read about how Texas Tech upset Oklahoma here<\/a> and how Texas reached the title series again here<\/a>.
The schedule:<\/strong>
*If necessary
But I have no doubt the Longhorns are going to put up a fight. In fact, I really feel like we'll have a pitchers duel in this one and wouldn't be surprised if this goes to extras. Even though Teagan Kavan struggled a little bit toward the end of the regular season and in the Super Regionals against Clemson, since coming to OKC she has locked things down. Mac Morgan looked great in the circle against Tennessee too. While Joley Mitchell and Katie Stewart have been coming in clutch at the plate with power, the big missing piece in Texas' offense right now is catcher Reese Atwood.
She's 0-for-12 in her last four games with a handful of strikeouts. If she doesn't get going tonight, it puts more pressure on these other Longhorns batters. Not that they haven't handled things just fine \u2013 especially with how well Leighann Goode has been hitting lately \u2013 but having that boost of a bat missing while in OKC has made games a lot tighter.
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But, if I have to make a pick, I think I'm going with Texas Tech. The energy around this team right now, from the steal of home to a walk-off sac fly, feels so special. Nija Canady has escaped jams time, and time again and her changeup has been on another level lately. Freshman shortstop Hailey Toney, first baseman Lauren Allred and right fielder Alana Johnson have been on offensive tears lately, leading the Red Raiders on what is currently a 12-game winning streak.
That's hard to top. I think Gerry Glasco is going to continue his aggressiveness on the bases and put these players in scoring position as often as possible to give Canady a lead to work with. The cherry on top of the cake? Mr. Texas Tech himself, Patrick Mahomes, is fully behind this team. …<\/p>\n

Making a pick for Game 1 of the championship series feels almost impossible. Texas Tech is riding such a hot streak through the entire postseason, and it seems like divine luck is on its side right now. On the other hand, Texas' path to a national title feels oh-so-clear with perennial foe of Oklahoma in the way. If we get Teagan Kavan vs. NiJaree Canady in the circle today, it truly feels like it could be anybody's game. …<\/p>\n

Have to include the Texas lineup here as well. These fans are ready to go!<\/p>\n

Texas Tech fans are lined up to greet their team.
There\u2019s still an hour and a half to go until game time, but the first wave of fans seems to be an even split between the two Texas schools.
For the Glasco family, softball is the lingua franca, the language that connects them<\/a>.
It anchors Texas Tech coach Gerry Glasco to his daughter Tara Archibald, who is also the program\u2019s associate head coach. And it connects both of them \u2014 even now \u2014 to Geri Ann, Gerry\u2019s daughter and Tara\u2019s youngest sister, who was killed in a car crash in 2019 at just 24 years old.
\u201cFor us, it\u2019s like you can\u2019t go anywhere in the softball community without some sort of tie to Geri Ann,\u201d Tara said. \u201cAny park I go recruiting at, there\u2019s always some kind of memory that involves G. Then the people, even here.\u201d
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For Texas Tech coach, reminders of late daughter are everywhere at WCWS: \u2018She\u2019s been with us\u2019
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Texas\u2019 Joley Mitchell watched the Texas Tech-Oklahoma semifinal game with her parents on Monday night, saying, \u201cIt was the most entertaining game I\u2019d watched all week.\u201d
Teagan Kavan also watched with her family, some teammates and their families at a restaurant in downtown Oklahoma City. She said there were \u201ca lot of shocked people in the restaurant, including myself\u201d watching the seventh inning, which included a two-run comeback by Oklahoma before Texas Tech won on a walk-off sacrifice-fly.
Unlike Kavan, Mitchell, had a preference on who she wanted to face in the finals.
\u201cPersonally I wanted it to be OU,\u201d Mitchell said. \u201cIf you want to be the man you have to beat the man. I\u2019m happy either way, regardless, and I want to win this thing and I'm ready to go. But I\u2019m happy that we have a challenge right in front of us with NiJa.\u201d
\u201cI personally didn\u2019t care \u2026\u201d Kavan said. \u201cIt was going to be a tough road either way.\u201d
There\u2019s a lot of talk about NiJaree Canady\u2019s lucrative million-dollar NIL deal to join Texas Tech, but coach Gerry Glasco doesn\u2019t actually think the star ace\u2019s value is quantifiable.
\u201cI don\u2019t think you can put a value on what she\u2019s meant to Texas Tech,\u201d he said Tuesday. \u201cWhen you think of the magnitude of what she brought to our program in publicity. \u2026 What's the value of something like that? I don\u2019t know. And then to deliver. She\u2019s delivered over and over and over.
\u201cWhile we were growing as a team around her, she was just in that circle, a rock.\u201d
It is both Canady's \u2014 who reached the WCWS with Stanford the past two seasons \u2014 and Texas Tech\u2019s first trip to the WCWS championship series, a feeling that hasn\u2019t \u201cfully set in yet\u201d for Canady.
\u201cTo be able to say we\u2019re two games away, it\u2019s just amazing,\u201d she said Tuesday.
Texas Tech coach Gerry Glasco was lightheartedly asked Tuesday if he brought any other pitchers with him besides the wunderkind NiJaree Canady to the WCWS. He said, \u201cYeah, we did. They\u2019re dying to go.\u201d
\u201cWhen she gets her shot, Chloe (Riassetto) will be magnificent,\u201d Glasco said. \u201cWe\u2019re going to need more than NiJa in this three-game series, most likely.\u201d
Glasco said he thinks Canady \u2014 whom he called "Superman out there in the circle" \u2014 could pitch three more games if needed, but he thinks the team likely will turn to more than one pitcher in pursuit of its first-ever title.
Last year, in the WCWS semifinals, NiJaree Canady fell to Texas, 1-0, while she was still with Stanford, which sent the Longhorns to the championship series. Something tells me she's out for revenge this year. Texas is now through to the championship series for the third time in four years and has yet to hoist the trophy. This was not the matchup I would have predicted at the beginning of the season, but boy are we in for a good one.
Because of Texas' move to the SEC, Texas and Texas Tech didn't meet in conference play. But they did play a nonconference game, all the way back on Valentine's Day. Texas won that one 2-1 in nine innings. They also played on Feb. 16 with the Longhorns shutting out Tech 11-0. Texas was ranked No. 1 at that time. Texas Tech, meanwhile, has gotten a LOT better since February.
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We have an in-state showdown for the championship series. Both Texas and Texas Tech are looking for their first championship in program history. Teagan Kavan vs. NiJaree Canady. Two incredibly tough, gritty teams. We are in for one heck of a series starting Wednesday.
Other than Tennessee beating Florida 11-3 on Friday, every game in this Women's College World Series has been decided by three or fewer runs.
The other 11 games have been decided by 19 runs. Unbelievable.
We've had five walk-off wins at the WCWS this week:
How Texas advanced to the championship series:
Regional<\/strong>
Super Regional<\/strong>
WCWS<\/strong>
How Texas Tech advanced to the championship series:
Regional<\/strong>
Super Regional<\/strong>
WCWS<\/strong><\/p>\n

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John and Tracy Sellers arrived in Lubbock, Texas, the evening of Monday, July 22, with dinner reservations and an intention: to woo the best college softball player in the world to play for Texas Tech.<\/a>
The dinner was at Las Brisas, a white-tablecloth steakhouse just south of Texas Tech\u2019s campus that serves up lobster guacamole and a 25-ounce bone-in ribeye. The player was NiJaree Canady, USA Softball\u2019s Collegiate Player of the Year.
There were six seats at the table: the Sellers, Marc McDougal (a board member of the Matador Club, a Texas Tech-affiliated name, image and likeness collective), Canady and her parents. No coaches or university administrators. Just a few well-connected Tech supporters and a family with a menu full of options. The group made fast friends over a nearly three-hour meal.
Canady, a 6-foot pitching phenom from Topeka, Kan., was visiting Lubbock for the first time. She was less than two months removed from leading Stanford to the Women\u2019s College World Series semifinals as a sophomore, garnering mainstream headlines in the process. A few weeks later, she entered the transfer portal, the biggest star of a burgeoning sport hitting the open market.
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The unprecedented million-dollar recruitment of the nation\u2019s best softball player
A look at the Texas Longhorns:
Players to watch:<\/strong>
A look at the Texas Tech Red Raiders:
Players to watch:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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