OKLAHOMA CITY>> Oklahoma’s run of four straight Women’s College World Series titles ended when Lauren Allred’s walk-off sacrifice fly gave Texas Tech a 3-2 victory in the semifinals on Monday night.

Coach Patty Gasso’s Sooners (52-9) were down to their last strike in the top of the seventh inning when Abigale Dayton summoned a bit of magic, hitting a tying two-run homer off Red Raiders ace NiJaree Canady. It was just her third longball of the season.

But the Red Raiders (53-12) responded quickly in the bottom half. Mihyia Davis singled with one out and Hailey Toney followed with a double. Allred hit a fly ball to right field and Sydney Barker’s throw to the plate was wide, allowing Davis to score easily.

“Congratulations to Texas Tech,” Gasso said. “They earned that. They played well. They hit well. They pitched well. So well deserved.”

Texas Tech coach Gerry Glasco recounted how he told his team to refocus after giving up the lead.

“We don’t want it to be easy,” he said. “It’s Oklahoma. You knew it wasn’t going to be easy. Let’s go to work right here, win this right here in the bottom of the seventh.”

Texas Tech, in its first trip to the WCWS, will play Texas in the best-of-three championship series starting Wednesday. The Longhorns reached the finals for the third time in the past four years. They lost to Oklahoma in 2022 and 2024.

Sam Landry, the No. 1 overall pick in the Athletes Unlimited Softball League draft, took the complete-game loss.

Canady lost the shutout but got the win. She is the two-time reigning National Fastpitch Coaches Association Pitcher of the Year and was the USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year last season. Formerly with Stanford, she signed a name, image and likeness deal worth more than $1 million to go to Texas Tech.

TEXAS 2, TENNESSEE 0>> Katie Stewart hit a home run, Mac Morgan and Teagan Kavan combined on a 3-hitter and Texas (54-11) defeated Tennessee 2-0 on Monday to reach the Women’s College World Series championship series.

Kavan, who threw a complete game with eight strikeouts in Saturday’s 4-2 victory over Oklahoma, came on in relief of Morgan in the fifth inning and didn’t allow a hit the rest of the way. She struck out the Volunteers’ Emma Clarke to end the game.

Karlyn Pickens, a National Fastpitch Coaches Association first-team All-American, allowed just one earned run on five hits and struck out nine for Tennessee (47-17).

“My heart is full because of the young ladies to my right and the young ladies in that locker room,” Vols coach Karen Weekly said. “They’re sad for all the right reasons. It’s not about wins and losses; it’s about the joy they’ve experienced being together every single day. And I think people saw that in the way we played. They saw them bounce back. They saw how resilient, how gritty and tough they were.”