#4 Texas vs #2 Alabama (Championship) Women's College Softball Highlights Full Game 2026

Added: 2026-05-10

[00:00:00]against Alabama.

[00:00:01]>> That's the best series. I mean, you look at the numbers if you're in the three home runs and six for nine. In fact, that was the best against any opponent.

[00:00:08]>> 410 hitter.

[00:00:13]>> Three for eight with a run scored in their two games here. Henry first pitch swinging. POPS IT UP. SAM HAWKINS IN FOUL TERROR. Her three home runs in early April against Alabama. the most she has hit in any SEC series.

[00:00:33]Was really a down zone hitter. Had more of that launch type swing. And now she can still cover down, but she's able to meet the rise ball for Stewart and sends THAT ONE A PLAYER OUT to right field and a one out base runner for Risky's change up is. But watch Stewart just delay her swing enough. AND BY THE WAY, GO UPO ON A CHANGE UP. YOU ONLY SEE ONE.

[00:00:54]>> SO, here's one of the stars of the semiinal win.

[00:01:02][applause] >> That one's smacked to second and scooped over the first. The only play for Jenny Young.

[00:01:14]>> Senior out of San Antonio. All SEC second teamer. [screaming] Two from Brrisky and she catches the inside corner.

[00:01:24]Joselyn the righty junior from Phoenix.

[00:01:26]Look at what she's done this year.

[00:01:31]Got under it. MORE WORK FOR HAWKINS AND she'll make THE CATCH. STEWART STRANDED AND homer off of TEGAN for the most SEC CROWNS AND A strike out for Cavan to open things up. Ten Cavan wanted a little bit of a rise ball with the screw ball movement. Walt the first big strike out for Cavan. Just Katie Stewart on the the reverse. Brook Wells has the ability to hit it out at any point. [cheering] >> Ground ball to third. JC Nicholls has it. Two down. And it's crowding Cavon right now. She's getting those toes right up on the line. We saw the strike out to Jenna Young. That rise ball away.

[00:02:16]TOES ON THE CHALK.

[00:02:20]INTO YOUR POINT. Jess with two outs this tournament. AND SPEAKING OF THAT, [cheering] OUT INTO THE FIRM, [screaming] ONE OF THE FARTHEST HOME RUNS WE'VE SEEN. HOME RUNS. [screaming] One battle.

[00:02:37][screaming] Look at where she's positioned. Toes on that line to what? to get to this pitch that's moving AWAY FROM HER BARREL, BUT IF she's in a regular position, she's not.

[00:02:54]>> Here's Anna Roman.

[00:02:57]And I don't know if there is confusion on the signal coming in, but Cavan took a long TIME TO GET THAT.

[00:03:03]Gets ahead of Roman here on two and the strike out there as she bounces back [cheering] all over the place. Reese Atwood, one of the best at doing it over the course of her career, the best ever at Texas, down one zip. Then a ground ball to short.

[00:03:19]Hawkins has it. Spins one down. Talking home runs. Congratulations to UCLA Slugger Megan Grant from Oklahoma. And Megan's teammate Jordan Willry also have 30 plus ters for the supers. HERE'S A BASE KNOCK OUT TO center and a couple on board here. A pitch runner at second base. Hannah Wells can reenter. Looks like that's Taylor Anderson who will look to tie it for Texas.

[00:03:50]>> JC Nichols in the nine spot in the order, the freshman third baseman who replaced Mia SCOTT and Oklahoma. She like using the ground.

[00:04:02]She'll run through the box with that slap. The ground here very hard. SO, LOOK at how pulled up and then that 56 hole.

[00:04:16]>> Pulls it to second and THE THROW TO FIRST IN TIME to get.

[00:04:21]>> Oh yeah. Oh yeah. Safe. Big time save.

[00:04:23]There's a reason why Salem Hawkins the shorts stop was playing even with their V. And she sees how far the left side is pulled in. So she goes to the right side. As soon as it gets that sock and hop that allows her to get another step and a half and that's how much SHE'S SAFE BY.

[00:04:42]GROUND BALL KNOCKED DOWN AND EVERYBODY'S GOING TO BE SAFE IN A RUN WILL SCORE AS [cheering] SLICES THAT SHORT. HAWKINS NO DOES NOT GET THE PLAY TO THIRD.

[00:04:59]>> WAS PULLED TO THIRD BASE but the runner is safe. Alabama has challenged previous plays and prefer them. I mean, Salem Hawkins, by the way, just making this play and then make the throw on her back.

[00:05:13]>> Yeah, I think she's out as well.

[00:05:22][cheering and applause] I definitely think that's the right call. It was outstanding when you're ahead.

[00:05:33]Not just the home run power, but she led batting average this year as well as OPS fouled that off her leg.

[00:05:47]This ball's got some run in.

[00:05:49]>> Oh, the shin.

[00:05:49]>> Yeah, that never feels good. You can see. So, not only is it dropping, it's actually running toward her. And then she goes, "Oh, right." Massaging it a little BIT and ready to step back in.

[00:06:07]Oh, MAN.

[00:06:12]>> Same result.

[00:06:16]>> Oh my god. Wow. Almost the exact same spot.

[00:06:20]Jesus. Oh. Those angles [cheering] >> pops it up. Jenna Young back on [cheering] the grass, including the championship series on ESPN network.

[00:06:43][screaming] Swinging in a miss, and it's strikeout number three for Kavon. Wow. that has 11 in of vertical break. Now she comes back downstairs with a drop ball. 69 miles an hour and a half inches of downward break. You can just see that Kavan using that rise ball. Multiple levels that one a little bit lower in the zone.

[00:07:08]She's ahead. See if she goes way up on this one.

[00:07:12]Sends that one the opposite way down the line and fouled. was a little bit on the struggle bus earlier this year. Was the us second most to lead off an inning and a really good move for her. And the strike out though are at the top of the zone. This pitch is well out of the zone. This is what it's called. Putting the ball in the eyes of the batter. Look at the movement on this. The climb on.

[00:07:39]>> Couple hops TO MARTINEZ and it is one, two, three for Texas. the entirety of the 2025 season after suffering a non-cont knee injury. She told us last night she's filled with so much gratitude after learning how fast this sport can be taken away. Goes the opposite field worn down by injury.

[00:08:03]Leanne good opposite field base hit.

[00:08:06]Beautiful job of a brisky drop ball that's low and away. I MEAN STILL hitting 72 miles an hour. Anything hard hit is 65 plus. So it gives has a hit now in each of the three games.

[00:08:20]>> That's the first one that didn't leave the yard by the way earlier in the year.

[00:08:24]So good. This is the best slugger in school history. YEAH.

[00:08:31]>> Full count from Brrisky.

[00:08:36]>> Right back up the middle and a base knock for Atwood. Good will hold at two and a couple of board with one down.

[00:08:43]Drop ball thrown after a non-competitive rise ball. That is sweet and it has to be cuz it's a 3-2 count. So going back downstairs to the drop ball. Bruce was in the circle. If someone was going to beat me, they were going to have to hit my rise ball. If I'm a rise ball pitcher, beat me with my best pitch. Y.

[00:08:59]>> So here's Hannah Wells on the score in that two-run second inning.

[00:09:06]>> RBI last night against Georgia.

[00:09:10]Brriski is just eating trying to get in on the HANDS >> just outside the line.

[00:09:27][music] >> Reloaded with players like Hannah Wells.

[00:09:35]They were the preseason favorites.

[00:09:38]Finished fourth during the regular season and now here today's first SEC title. That's the progression, right?

[00:09:44]You've got to win POSSIBLY Giles doesn't hear her. But that is a great job by Ambry Taylor to hold on to that and if SOME [cheering] physical stuff but to me it's a little bit of confidence as well. You see this [music] inning already 22 pitches just a buck 12 344 when she is BEHIND gets Sneeed to CHASE [cheering] 0 for four WITH Cavan with four strikeouts gave up the home run TO ALEXIS PILLO.

[00:10:39]>> [cheering] >> CALLED STRIKE THREE TODAY THAN she was last night against Georgia. You can just see the way she's working the edges.

[00:10:49]THAT IS A LOW BALL AT 70 m an hour with almost 9 in of vertical pitcher like Kavon because it's, you know, it's enough but it's not too much. You can throw multiple days back to back. Just working the edges. This one's a drop ball down NCAA tournament. Find out tomorrow night. Two hours of coverage on our selection show. High fly ball out to Kaden Henry WILL COUNT AND GETS THE STRIKE out of Nicholls.

[00:11:21]Lower half. You see this ball? It's actually a screw ball running away and gets that big strike out. Look at the emotion, the energy. She know there's all that energy bottled up in that body.

[00:11:37]using that dirt and safe at first. The expectation. [screaming] Motton gets the strike out of Henry. Two downs. 2 m an hour. 8 in of vertical jump. Added that pad to that shin. She hit two balls back to back off of her shin >> and Maloney will walt away IN SCORING POSITION.

[00:12:08]SIDE. WATCH HER HIT IT right off. Direct shot into her shin. She did this back to back. Ends up with a giant lump.

[00:12:22][cheering] 3-2 pitch with two down AND PULLS THAT ONE DOWN THE LINE. AND HERE COMES MALONEY. AND SHE WILL SCORE.

[00:12:32]AND ON THE OVERTHROW, STEWART DIVES SAFELY INTO SECOND AND IT'S THREE UP UNTIL THIS POINT. KATIE'S bat's been pretty quiet, so this has got TO FEEL GOOD. A HIT IN the first inning. Battles to get to this pitch off her hand. This is a strong position.

[00:12:49]Giving away those extra six.

[00:12:52][cheering] Can they finish up their And they look like they were dropping off the cliff.

[00:12:58]And then the recovery in that behind him. [screaming] Resilience. Such a big part of this game. And that one hit good.

[00:13:10]Floated [music] for Reese Atwood.

[00:13:14]Screw ball that just gets away from [cheering] Atwood. Got under it. High fly BALL OUT TO LEFT AND IT'S DROPPED BY VANDERGRI.

[00:13:31]TWO RUNS WILL SCORE [cheering] and it's always left field. It has been not just the Sun. It's an easy Everyone's running in thinking easy catch in and out of the glove.

[00:13:44]This is the sixth time we've seen a left fielder drop a fly ball here at the SEC tournament. to explain the number of drop balls by the outfield and all American outfield. Yes. YES.

[00:13:59][cheering] >> OW. And Giles dropped the third strike.

[00:14:05]Foul. This is drop ball.

[00:14:14]What about and how chaotic IT CAN BE.

[00:14:22]I HAVEN'T SEEN BROOK Wells get pitched to, BUT CAVON [cheering] IN THE COUNTRY.

[00:14:32]Snag by Nicholls.

[00:14:35]GOOD GLOVE work and then dropped by Stewart. What is going on? This is the third time we've seen just routine balls dropped and we've seen her get up, make a great throw over TO KATIE STEWART.

[00:14:48]RIGHT BACK TO Tegan who knocks it down.

[00:14:50]Fires to first.

[00:14:56]>> There's a lot of softball fans.

[00:15:00]>> Bounces off of Nicholls and out into left.

[00:15:03]And you can see it's coming out of the shadow into the sun. It goes off the heel of JC Nicholls. Exlocity of actually goes off her [cheering] >> [screaming] >> and walks Giles to load the bases.

[00:15:21]Try to make up for that miss.

[00:15:26]First pitch swinging and there's the miss that stay up there on the season including Pello earlier in the game.

[00:15:36]Tries to sneak one across.

[00:15:40]It's a good eye. [screaming] [cheering] Got to come back up and get underneath those hands.

[00:15:46]>> Atwood wants to make sure she's on the same page.

[00:15:52]GOT HER.

[00:15:54]WENT back upstairs to get ahead. Then she's going to work on the outer half.

[00:15:58]Does not get van to bite until she comes back.

[00:16:15]SWING AND A MISS.

[00:16:18]WOW. BACKTO BACK STRIKEOUTS WITH THE BASES LOADED. FIVE.

[00:16:24]They are in charge right now. Five to one. Had backto back Ks with the bases loaded in her career.

[00:16:32]Sure.

[00:16:34]Maloney and White's on the move and she's got it. A one, two, three in and Alabama's offense struggling against Robin Harren in Arkansas earlier this week.

[00:16:48]Hawkins infield POP UP ONE DOWN. Tech's loss today. I I think guys, you want to be closer to one, two, three because any lower, you might run into them coming to your town for the Super Regional.

[00:17:02]and his first time facing Niga Kennedy and Caitlyn Terry. I don't know if you'd have the same result.

[00:17:09]>> Martinez charges, fires, not in time.

[00:17:17]AND CAVAN SAYS, "I'M GOING TO TRY NOT TO LET THAT HAPPEN THIS time around." A spin rate of over 3,000 RPM.

[00:17:26]GROUND BALL TO SECOND. GOOD TO MARTINEZ ALL AFTERNOON AND EVENING.

[00:17:37]SHE GOT IT.

[00:17:43]>> 3-2 PITCH. STEWART ELEVATES WAY BACK OVER THE SCOREBOARD AND OUT OF HERE.

[00:17:50]HOME RUN NUMBER 25.

[00:18:01]>> [cheering] >> And within this at bat, she was able to.

[00:18:05]And that was something inside. This pitch is down, but she gets even further down. Her back leg. See how low she already is? HER BACK LEG. THAT KNEE GETS UNDERNEATH AND she knows it. Out of here. We've seen her hit some monster home runs. THIS ONE HITS SO HIGH. 250.

[00:18:20]How high she hit it.

[00:18:22]>> Exit velocity is 79 miles an hour within some runs in the fourth inning. That was a screw ball, but she was jammed up a little bit. because they've been trying to get in and honestly they successfully did her last at bat she just musled it to the outfield her hips see how her hips open up I mean she is square to the pitcher and goes down won't have to go very far to get THERE [applause] good right back and it hits Motton in the gut coaching staff the athletic trainer out there.

[00:19:04][applause] [applause] So pitching change for Alabama. This comebacker off the bat right back at Vic Motton in the circle at about 78 miles in scoring position. Atwood launches one AND BACK ON THE TRACK. THE CATCH IS MADE BY VANDERGRIP.

[00:19:32]Wells center field out to White and that'll end THE INNING.

[00:19:38]>> WOW. [screaming] Strike out number 10. She's throwing every pitch at Outstanding. Her drop falls off the table. Her change up.

[00:19:46]She's selling it. You can She comes through with that long aggressive release and sells it. Look at the way she's going to flip that over. know you're on when every pitch you're just throwing it on the edges with elite stuff movement. ROSANNA ROMAN >> lifted out to left. Sneeed has it. Her opponents have to swing. They have to >> on the run makes the catch.

[00:20:23]on that supers host bubble as possibly a top eight seed Maloney right back up the middle then something that has ended well game >> yeah base knock for Henry [cheering] for her too hard hit knocked down at third by Taylor and she'll step on the base for the force OUT Vanderriff out on the right. Going down to the knee buckler.

[00:20:56][cheering] Brook Wells is the only batter in the lineup that has been able to avoid A Texas fans on their feet.

[00:21:11][cheering] AND A FIRST SEC CHAMPIONSHIP THIS YEAR ON THE 40 ACRES WON [cheering] a master home run. Reese Atwood had a hit, reached base a couple times, had an RBI today.

[00:21:34][music] The Big Backs came 13 hits and seven runs. We talked about everyone else besides Katie Stewart and Reese Atwood. [music] Tegan Cavan out on the day. We call it the art of pitching and she just painted herself a [music] master. Ice ball was hoppy and jumpy all afternoon and you can tell all year and they come through in the SEC tournament. The first 12 strikeout perform in a 71 win [music] over Alabama. She allowed just three hits and struck out 12.

[00:22:10]Well, hook him indeed for Texas today.