Texas is champion again. The Longhorns defeated Texas Tech 4-1 on Thursday night, June 4, at Devon Park in Oklahoma City to complete a sweep of the Women’s College World Series championship series and win back-to-back NCAA national championships.

Texas (53-12) also won Game 1, 7-3, scoring five first-inning runs and holding off a Texas Tech rally keyed by Mia Williams’ two-run homer, with Viviana Martinez adding a sixth-inning sacrifice fly. The title is the program’s second NCAA crown — its first came in 2025, also against Texas Tech and ace NiJaree Canady — and Texas became the fifth Division I program to win back-to-back WCWS titles, and the first not named Oklahoma to do it in over a decade.

Junior right-hander Teagan Kavan was named the WCWS Most Outstanding Player for the second straight year, the first two-time MOP in WCWS history. She finished the tournament 4-1 with a 1.47 ERA, two saves and 30 strikeouts in 33⅓ innings, and combined for 11 strikeouts across her two championship-series appearances, including a complete game in Game 1.

In Game 2, senior Citlaly Gutierrez started and held Texas Tech to one run on three hits with three strikeouts, and Texas Tech led 1-0 in the third. The game turned in the fifth, when a ground ball by Martinez drew an errant throw from shortstop Hailey Toney and scored two runs to put Texas in front 2-1. Kavan entered in the sixth, struck out the side, and retired all six batters she faced — five by strikeout — before Kayden Henry’s solo home run and a Leighann Goode RBI single in the seventh set the final 4-1 margin.

Junior first baseman Katie Stewart hit four home runs at the WCWS, the third-most in a single WCWS, and joined Kavan on the 12-player All-Tournament Team. Texas lost its WCWS opener and still won the title — only the fifth team in history to do so — finishing 11-2 in the NCAA Tournament and 6-1 in Oklahoma City.

The sport’s surge showed in the stands and on television: Session 4 drew an all-time record 12,679 fans, the event averaged 11,769 per session with four sellouts, and Game 2 averaged 2.48 million viewers on ESPN and ESPNU — a college softball viewership record — peaking at 3 million, up 16 percent from the 2025 Game 2.