In her first season at Texas Tech, former Keller star Alexa Langeliers has been a major contributor for a team that is two wins from the first softball national championship in school history.
As Texas Tech prepares to face Texas in Game 1 of the Women’s College World Series best-of-3 championship series Wednesday night, Langeliers is hitting .317, ranks third on the team in RBIs (40), is fourth in home runs (eight) and hits (52) and has the fifth-most runs scored (39). The senior second baseman is a transfer from Louisiana-Lafayette, and she was 3 for 5 and was on base four times in a two-game sweep of fifth-ranked Florida State in the Super Regionals as Tech advanced to the Women’s College World Series for the first time.
She is the sister of Shea Langeliers, a former Keller and Baylor standout who was selected ninth overall by the Atlanta Braves in the 2019 MLB draft and is now a catcher for the Athletics. She was an all-Sun Belt Conference second-team selection in 2022, 2023 and 2024.
There are four players from Dallas-area high schools on the rosters of the two national finalists, with sophomore outfielder Logan Halleman from Flower Mound also playing for Texas Tech and sophomore outfielder Adayah Wallace from Plano West and junior utility player Rachel Wells from Melissa at Texas.
Halleman was an NFCA high school All-American at Flower Mound, and last year she made the all-Big 12 freshman team after she had the second-best batting average for Tech (.345) and led the team with 18 stolen bases to rank third in the Big 12. This season, Halleman is hitting .360 — fourth-best on the team — while playing in 57 games and making 24 starts.
Wallace has appeared in 45 games, starting two for Texas, and she has scored 13 runs and is 7 for 8 on stolen base attempts. Wells has appeared in seven games and is hitting .400.
Texas (54-11) is in the championship series of the WCWS for the second consecutive season and third time over the last four years, and it will be trying to win its first title. Texas Tech (53-12) is coming off a 3-2 win over Oklahoma in the WCWS semifinals that ended OU’s bid for a fifth consecutive national championship.
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