Texas softball entered the 2025 NCAA tournament as one of the best teams in the country, with a No. 6 national seed and a foreseeable path to the Women’s College World Series.
In their second game of the tournament, the Longhorns are showing just how dangerous they can be.
Texas hit six home runs in its matchup Saturday against Michigan, with the dingers coming off the bats of five different players.
The offensive outburst carried the Longhorns to a 16-4 run-rule victory against the Wolverines, improving their record to 2-0 in the NCAA tournament. Texas has won those games by a combined score of 26-6, with both games ending in five innings.
Sophomore Katie Stewart, an all-SEC second team honoree, hit two of those six homers, both of them solo shots. The home runs were her 14th and 15th this season, the second-most on her team.
Notre Dame transfer Joley Mitchell provided the highlight of the onslaught with a grand slam that stretched the Longhorns’ lead to 13-3 as part of a nine-run fourth inning.
Leighann Goode, Kaydee Bennett and All-American Reese Atwood also homered for coach Mike White’s team.
In its first season in the SEC, Texas entered the day with a 47-10 record. The Longhorns are aiming to make it back to the WCWS for the third time in four seasons. Last year, they advanced to the WCWS championship series, where they fell to archrival Oklahoma, which claimed its fourth consecutive NCAA title.