Top 1 (T1) Texas is the visitor tonight... Kayden Henry leading off... Line single to right, bringing up Katie Stewart, who has homered in her last four games and has 31 on the season... As ESPN announcers note, home-plate ump showing early signs of giving Canady the high strike... Stewart pop-up near home for first out... Viviana Martinez fouls out near third base, two down... Reese Atwood up... Henry steals second; throw goes into center, but Henry can't advance further... Atwood grounds back to Canady to end the half-inning... Bottom 1 (B1) Mia Williams grounds to third for first out... Mihyia Davis, who homered in the first last night, HBP... Lauren Allred up... K looking for two outs... Jackie Lis up... Davis steals second... Lis with hard, sinking liner to center, but Henry crouches down to snare it in the air... T2 Leighann Goode up for Texas... Grounds back to Canady for first out... Hannah Wells K swinging for second out... Kaiah Altmeyer ground to short for final out... B...

 Game 1 of the championship series is about to get underway. Texas will be the home team... Top 1 (T1) Teagan Kavan strikes out Mia Williams to get things started... Mihyia Davis homers to left for a quick 1-0 Raider lead (can't find video)... Nothing further for Tech...  Bottom 1 (B1) Kayden Henry leads off with bunt single off of Raider starter Kaitlyn Terry... Katie Stewart homers to center ( video ) to put Longhorns up 2-1... Last year's TTU-Texas championship opener was a pitchers' duel... This year, not so much...Viviana Martinez singles up the middle... Will we see NiJaree Canady soon, as Tech coach Gerry Glasco has been frequently shuffling his pitchers?... Sticking with Terry... Fielder's choice and fly-out for first two outs... Hannah Wells singles, putting runners at the corners with two out... Now Canady's coming in... Kaiah Altmeyer with infield single, 3-1 Longhorns with runners on first and second... Ashton Maloney triples and suddenly it's 5-1 Te...

ALABAMA-TEXAS TECH Game 2 (Winner-take-all rematch) T1, Tech (the visitors in this one) wastes no time getting runners on first and second against Jocelyn Briski, but nothing comes of it... B1, Ni Jaree Canady starting for the Red Raiders... Per ESPN, it's her record 19th appearance in the WCWS, having made it all four years of her career (the first two with Stanford, the last two with Texas Tech)... Bama goes 1-2-3... 1-0 Tech after five, on a Jasmyn Burns homer T4... It's been Canady all the way so far for the Raiders, allowing only one hit... Briski has also gone all the way for the Tide, allowing six hits... Tech wins it 2-0, advancing to a rematch of last year's championship series against the University of Texas, beginning Wednesday night... This will be the Red Raiders' fourth elimination game of the tournament (Game 3 vs. Florida, last night's game vs. UCLA, and tonight's first game vs. Alabama) and they're still alive... Can they make it four for fo...