Texas routs Wisconsin softball in NCAA Tournament | When Badgers play next
Wisconsin softball will try to keep its postseason run alive against either Baylor or Wagner after suffering a 9-0 loss against Texas.
Wisconsin softball could not keep up with the reigning national champions. Texas – the No. 2 overall seed in the tournament – run-ruled the Badgers , 9-0, in six innings on May 16 in the Austin regional of the NCAA Tournament , easily sending UW to the consolation side of the double-elimination bracket.
Texas pitcher Teagan Kavan took a no-hitter into the fifth inning until Alivia Bark’s single. The Badgers ’ only other baserunner during Kavan’s five innings in the circle was on a walk in the first inning. The Badgers did not have a runner in scoring position until the sixth inning, when Emily Bojan hit a double off Texas reliever Cambria Salmon.
The Longhorns, meanwhile, wasted no time in distancing themselves from the Badgers with their bats. They scored three runs in the first inning after back-to-back hits by Kayden Henry and Katie Stewart, a sacrifice fly by Viviana Martinez and a two-run home run by Reese Atwood. Texas scored another two runs on a Henry double in the second inning, prompting the Badgers to pull UW ace Shelby Jacobson.
One day after her complete-game win over Baylor , Jacobson gave up five earned runs against the Longhorns in 1 ⅓ innings pitched. Texas piled on with two more runs in the third inning in small-ball fashion after loading the bases, and completed the run-rule win with Henry’s two-run homer in the sixth inning – her third hit of the afternoon – off UW reliever Jordan Felci. All three UW pitchers to face the Longhorns – Jacobson, Berritt Herr and then Felci – each gave up at least two runs against the host and SEC tournament champion.