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05/28 16:13 CDT Lis homers, Canady throws 4 scoreless and Texas Tech opens WCWS
with 8-0 win vs. Mississippi St
Lis homers, Canady throws 4 scoreless and Texas Tech opens WCWS with 8-0 win
vs. Mississippi St
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) --- Jackie Lis belted a two-run home run, NiJaree Canady
pitched four scoreless innings, and Texas Tech opened the Women's College World
Series with a run-rule 8-0 victory over Mississippi State on Thursday.
Texas Tech (58-7) will play Tennessee on Saturday. Mississippi State (43-20)
will play the Texas in an elimination game on Friday. Tennessee defeated Texas
6-3 on Thursday.
The Red Raiders took a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the first inning when leadoff
hitter Mia Williams was hit by a pitch and Lis followed with a home run. Texas
Tech added two more in the second inning on RBI doubles from Lauren Allred and
Williams.
The Red Raiders scored four runs in the fifth inning on a single by Lis for her
third RBI of the game, an RBI-single by Kaitlyn Terry, and a one-out single by
Mihyia Davis in which two runs scored invoked the run rule with one out.
Canady (26-6), the two-time national pitcher of the year, allowed two hits and
struck out five in four innings. Terry pitched a 1-2-3 fifth inning.
For Mississippi State, Alyssa Faircloth (16-8) allowed four runs in 1 1/3
innings. Peja Goold gave up four runs, three earned, in three innings.
This is the first time since 2007 that neither Oklahoma nor Florida has been in
the WCWS. Mississippi State eliminated Oklahoma in the Super Regional round and
Texas Tech defeated Florida in another Super Regional.
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