Overview

• Reese Atwood broke an 0-for-10 WCWS slump with a two-run, go-ahead single in the sixth inning after Texas Tech attempted an intentional walk.
• Pitcher Teagan Kavan delivered a complete-game three-hitter, maintaining her unbeaten streak in the series.
• Texas Tech scored its lone run in the fifth inning on an obstruction call that overturned a putout at second base.
• Texas now leads the best-of-three finals series 1-0 and can clinch the program’s first national softball title with a victory in Game 2.
• Texas Tech’s coach Gerry Glasco and ace NiJaree Canady both accepted responsibility for the backfired intentional walk.