Texas Tech Eliminates UCLA 8-7 in 9 Innings at WCWS
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- Texas Tech beat UCLA 8-7 in nine innings Sunday night in Oklahoma City to advance to the WCWS semifinals, where the No. 11 Red Raiders must now defeat top-seeded Alabama twice on Monday to reach the championship series.
- Kaitlyn Terry, who transferred from UCLA after last season, drove in the go-ahead run against her former team and added five innings in the circle, allowing just two runs while striking out seven.
- UCLA's Megan Grant finished the season with 42 home runs — a Division I single-season record — and broke UCLA's career record with 91 homers during Saturday's rout of Arkansas.
- Jordan Woolery hit a two-run homer in the bottom of the seventh off ace Nijaree Canady to force extra innings, then singled in the ninth to put the tying run in scoring position before Canady struck out Bri Alejandre to end the game.
- Grant and Woolery ended their college careers as the only teammates in Division I history to each hit 30 or more home runs in the same season, with UCLA's lineup setting a national record of 209 home runs as a team.
Why it matters: Texas Tech's upset forces a doubleheader against unbeaten top-seeded Alabama on Monday, putting the Red Raiders one loss from elimination while ending the record-setting college careers of UCLA's Grant and Woolery — whose 30-plus homer tandem had no Division I precedent.
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