OKLAHOMA CITY — Two games, two one-hitters for Texas at the Women’s College World Series.
Mac Morgan was in the pitching circle at OGE Energy Field on Saturday as the top-seeded Longhorns rolled past No. 4 Florida, 10-0 in five innings, to reach the finals of their double-elimination bracket.
Morgan needed just 71 pitches to turn back the Gators, and the junior’s success helped the Longhorns rest freshman ace Teagan Kavan, who threw a one-hitter on Thursday in a 4-0 win over No. 8 Stanford.
“Honestly, I was just trying to produce ground balls for my defense because my defense showed up for me,” Morgan said. “It was my turn to show up for them. My dropball was working. I was looking for locations and trying to get my defense to work.”
Morgan took a no-hitter into the fifth before Florida’s Katie Kistler led off with a single. That was all the offense the Gators mustered, and after a double play and a groundout, the game was over as the mercy rule kicked in and cut the contest short by two innings.