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2026 WCWS Semifinal Monday

TEXAS-TENNESSEE 

Game 2 (Winner-take-all rematch)

Game should start around 2:15 Central... Just an editorial comment on my part: I don't know why the system has the same teams play two games in a row when players are tired, rather than alternating between the two sets of teams. In other words, why not have Texas Tech and Alabama play now and then have Texas and Tennessee come back after that? I assume the coaches have a say in the format, so maybe they prefer the current way.

Game 1

Texas needing to beat Tennessee twice to advance to the championship series, whereas Tennessee only needs one win... If Texas wins the first game early this afternoon, the rematch would follow shortly thereafter... Citlaly Gutierrez pitching for Longhorns. Erin Nuwer started for Tennessee, replaced after two by Sage Mardjetko... Longhorns take a 1-0 lead T4 on Reese Atwood homer. Texas put two runners on later in the inning, but nothing comes of it... B4, two-out rally for Vols. Gabby Leach triples to RF corner, driving in Ella Dodge, who had walked. Game tied 1-1... Leach stranded at third... T5, with one out, Katie Stewart gives Texas back the lead, 2-1, with homer to left... Viviana Martinez doubles to the gap in left-center, Atwood coming up... Atwood walks, with fourth ball due to pitcher clock violation... Leighann flares a single to shallow right, loading bases for Hannah Wells... Wells with long single off the wall in center, driving in two... 4-1 Texas... Runners on first and second with one out... Nuwer coming back in to pitch... Karlyn Pickens had been throwing in bullpen -- with ESPN announcers wondering why she hadn't been inserted with the score closer -- but now the score may be sufficiently out of reach (for now) to use Pickens... T6, still 4-1 Texas, but Longhorns put runners on first and second with two outs for Atwood... Groundout to end threat... B6, one-out double by Vols' Elsa Morrison... Nothing comes of it... T7, Texas with runners on second and third and one out after Kaiah Altmeyer double, trying to pad its lead... Run scores on grounder to first, two out, now 5-1 Texas... Grounder to second ends half-inning... B7, Tennessee needs at least four to avoid a winner-take-all rematch... Leadoff single... Foul pop to 1B-person Stewart for first out... Wild pitch advances runner to second... Walk puts runners on first and second... Stewart can't field grounder to first (error), loading bases and bringing tying run to the plate in Alannah Leach... Bloop pop to SS for second out... Emma Clarke, who hit game-winning homer Saturday against Texas Tech, is last chance for Vols... 2-1 count... Chopper that 2B-person Goode can't make play on. One run in (5-2 Texas) and bases still loaded... Teagan Kavan coming in to try to get final out for Horns... Elsa Morrison coming up as potential winning run (if she homers)... 1-0 count... 1-1... Big swing and miss, 1-2... Low, 2-2... K looking... Texas wins 5-2 to force winner-take-all rematch in 45 minutes...

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