Texas A&M Drops Extra Innings Thriller at Texas, 9-8

Saturday, May 25

Austin, Texas

4:00 PM

Texas A&M

44-14

Texas

51-8

Texas

Texas A&M

Photo by: Evan Pilat/Texas A&M Athletics

May 25, 2024 | Softball

Box Score

By: Tyler Pounds, Athletics Communications

AUSTIN – The No. 16-seeded Texas A&M softball team dropped a thriller in extra innings at No. 1 Texas, 9-8, in game two of the Austin Super Regional, Saturday night at McCombs Field. The winner-take-all game three is slated for Sunday at 6:30 p.m. on ESPN2.

Texas A&M (44-14) had its back against the wall, facing a three-run deficit with two outs and two on when freshman Mya Perez hit her first career home run to even the score, 8-8, as the game moved to extra innings.

The two teams exchanged scoreless half innings in the eighth, before Texas (51-8) plated a run on a fielder's choice to lead 9-8 heading into the bottom of the ninth. Jazmine Hill led off with a single up the middle for her third hit of the game, before the Longhorns forced a lineout and pop up. Stepping to the plate with two-outs, Perez reached on a catcher's interference before the final out was made on a fielder's choice to second.

Texas A&M drew first blood in the bottom of the second inning when Julia Cottrill walked, followed by Hill smashing a two-run tater to left center for her ninth home run of the season. Five batters later, Kennedy Powell delivered an RBI single through the right side to score Scout Lovell from second base for the early 3-0 lead.

Texas threatened the following half inning loading the bases with one out, before Aggie starter Emiley Kennedy recorded her first strikeout of the day and forced a ground out to escape unscathed. The Longhorns chipped at the deficit with a solo home run in the fourth.

Ol' Sarge's charges extended the lead after Trinity Cannon knocked her third-round tripper of the Super Regional and 18th of the season with a two-run shot to lead 5-1 after the fifth inning.

The Longhorns gained its first lead scoring five runs on four hits to make it 6-5 heading to the bottom of the sixth, before adding a pair of runs in the seventh.

Kennedy (24-11) suffered the loss pitching 7.2 innings allowing six runs on 14 hits and three walks, while Brooke Vestal tossed 1.1 innings of relief, yielding three runs, one walk and one hit.

AGGIE TOP PERFORMERS
Jazmine Hill – 3-for-5, 1 HR, 2 R, 2 RBI
Mya Perez – 1-for-3, 1 HR, 3 RBI, 1 BB

NOTABLES

Jazmine Hill hit her ninth home run of the season and 45th career home run for the Arizona State graduate transfer.
Trinity Cannon extended her on-base streak to 13 games after being hit by a pitch in the third inning and hit her third home run of the Super Regional in the fifth inning.
Cannon's two-run home run marked her 18th of the season and tied the sixth-most in a season in program history.
Mya Perez hit a three-run home run, her first career home run, in the seventh to send the game into extra innings.
The multi-home run game marked the 19th of the season for the Maroon & White and ninth game with at least three round trippers.
Kennedy Powell extended her season-high on-base streak to nine games finishing 2-for-5, 1 RBI, 1 SB.
Texas A&M's eight runs adds to its season total of 366, the second-most in a season in program history. The team's 67 home runs in a season are tied eighth-most in a season.
The two teams combined to have four lead changes, 17 runs scored and 27 hits.
The Aggies move to 8-11 all-time in the Super Regional round and are 2-1 in the winner-take-all game three.