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FSU softball season comes to end with 2-1 loss to Texas Tech in Super Regionals

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(Courtesy of Florida State Sports Information)

It came down to the final batter. The final pitch.

And in the end, NiJaree Canady was just too good for the Florida State softball team.

The Stanford transfer and first-team All-American allowed just one run on Friday and three hits. And with the tying run on third base and one out in the seventh inning, she induced two pop-outs to end the game and the Seminoles’ season.

Texas Tech advances to its first-ever Women’s College World Series with the 2-1 win, while FSU sees its year come to an end in the Super Regionals for a second straight season.

All told, Canady pitched 14 innings in the two wins and allowed five hits and just the one run. Florida State’s hitters struggled all series to get on top of her all-world rise ball and continually popped out.

Still, even though they could hardly string together any decent at-bats against the Texas Tech star, the Seminoles did make it very interesting in the seventh.

Katie Dack led off with a four-pitch walk. Then Michaela Edenfield, in her last at-bat in the garnet and gold, blooped a double to right-center to put runners on second and third with nobody out.

Freshman Shelby McKenzie, who had two of the team’s five hits in the two games, then grounded out to shortstop to score a run and advance the tying run to third.

Hallie Wacaser, who hit the ball better than anyone on Friday (a fly-out to the fence in dead center and then a ringing double to the wall in her next at-bat) popped up on the first pitch. Jaysoni Beachum then popped up moments later and the inning, game, series and season were over.

The story of the series obviously was Canady, but Florida State’s defense didn’t help matters.

The Seminoles committed three errors in Thursday’s 3-0 loss and then committed four more on Friday, which led to two unearned runs for the Red Raiders.

Which is all they ended up needing to end the 2025 FSU season.

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