March 9, 2006

Box Score

SAN MARCOS - Texas State shocked No. 2 Texas 2-1 in nine innings in front of a record-setting crowd of 1,184 at Bobcat Field on Thursday night, sending the Longhorns to their second loss of the season.

With the win, Texas State ended the nation's longest winning streak and snapped Texas' program-best 24-game winning streak.

Texas State (13-10) played its best ball of the season and was solid all night, committing no errors in the thrilling nine-inning victory.

Texas (26-2) struck early in the top of the third, after back-to-back doubles from Shannon Thomas and Desiree Williams gave the Longhorns the 1-0 lead.

The Bobcats responded with a run of their own in the bottom half of the fourth, when Ashton Peters scored off a Katie Ann Trahan single to shallow left field. Peters seemed to be out at the plate, but the ball came shooting out of the catcher's mitt to tie the game at 1-1.

Each team had its share of opportunities in the later innings, but neither team could manage a run due in part to great defensive efforts from both sides.

The game would go scoreless through the next five innings, until Texas State picked up the two biggest hits of the night in the bottom of the ninth inning.

With two outs and a runner on first, Chelsea Giroux sent a hanging, infield pop fly in the air which landed in between two Longhorn defenders for a double. A batter later, Amy Krueger recorded her third hit of the night when she sent a single up the middle that scored Karen Taylor for the game-winning run.

The Bobcats completed the biggest upset of the college softball season and stormed the field as if they had won the national championship.

Trahan picked up her eighth win of the season, pitching nine strong innings and striking out nine batters. She also received great defensive help from the rest of the Bobcats in the upset.

Texas dropped only its second game of the season, with the first loss on Feb. 11 at the Kajikawa Classic in Tempe to No. 5 Arizona, 1-0. The loss to Texas State marks the first defeat since the 2004 season.

The Bobcats remain perfect at home and hope to build from this momentum on the road, as they open conference play on Saturday at Southeastern Louisiana.