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Texas softball beats Baylor again, looks poised to become unanimous No. 1 team in nation

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April 13, 2024

Texas softball beats Baylor again, looks poised to become unanimous No. 1 team in nation

Texas secured its softball series win over Baylor with a 9-6 victory in a back-and-forth banger Saturday at McCombs Field.

On Sunday, the Longhorns will try for the sweep a year after losing all three games to the Bears.

Baylor scored three runs in the first inning against Texas starter Citlaly Gutierrez, but the Longhorns responded with three of their own runs in the bottom of the frame. The wild opening inning set the tone for a game that featured 23 hits and several spectacular defensive plays.

More: Texas softball team shows it can handle newfound pressure in win over Texas State

Texas’ offensive outburst included a solo home run from Bella Dayton in the fifth inning and one from Alyssa Washington in the sixth that capped the scoring. The game also had a 3-for-4 performance with two RBIs for designated player Reese Atwood that pushed her team-high RBI tally to 57 for the season, and a 3-for-4 outing for Vivi Martinez, who is hitting .714 over her last five games.

Texas senior Estelle Czech earned her seventh win in the circle after coming on in relief of Gutierrez in the second, and Mac Morgan earned her first save of the season by holding Baylor to one hit and one run over the final two innings.

“It was a difficult game coming out and being down 3-0 in the bottom of the first, but it could’ve been worse, to be honest,” Texas coach Mike White said. “(Baylor) really came out and hit the ball really well and didn’t let Citlaly settle in.

“But our response was tremendous by coming out and scoring three runs straight away and basically making it a 0-0 game, again. Then we were able to score in every single inning except the second and just found a way to keep the press on them all afternoon.”

With a win in Sunday’s 1 p.m. at McCombs Field, Texas (34-6, 13-4 Big 12) will likely become the nation’s unanimous No. 1 team. The Longhorns are currently ranked atop the ESPN/USA Softball poll and stand No. 2 in the USA Today/NFCA poll behind three-time defending national champion Oklahoma, which lost Friday to BYU.

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Texas officials monitoring two residents who were on board ship with hantavirus outbreak

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May 7, 2026

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Texas officials monitoring two residents who were on board ship with hantavirus outbreak

AUSTIN, Texas (KBTX) – The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has notified the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) that two Texas residents were passengers on the MV Hondius, a ship that experienced an outbreak of hantavirus while traveling in the Atlantic Ocean. The passengers left the ship and returned to the United States before the outbreak was identified.

“Public health workers in Texas have reached the two individuals, and they report they are not experiencing any symptoms and did not have any contact with a sick person while aboard the ship. They have agreed to monitor themselves for symptoms with daily temperature checks and contact public health officials at any sign of a possible illness,” the agency said on Thursday in a statement.

DSHS will not release additional personal details about the passengers to protect their privacy.

“This is not the next COVID, but it is a serious infectious disease,” said Maria Van Kerkhove, director of epidemic and pandemic preparedness at the World Health Organization. “Most people will never be exposed to this.”

More than two dozen people from at least 12 different countries left the ship without contact tracing nearly two weeks after the first passenger died on board.

Health authorities on at least four continents are now tracking down and in some cases monitoring the cruise passengers who disembarked on April 24, and trying to trace others who may have come into contact with them since then.

That includes two people in Georgia who are also being monitored, according to our affiliate WTOC.

Hantaviruses are usually spread through contact with wild rodent droppings or urine. The strain in the Hondius outbreak, Andes virus, can spread from person to person in limited circumstances. It typically requires close, prolonged contact with a person who is actively sick with the disease.

It is not known to spread through casual contact such as shaking hands or being in the same room for a few minutes. There have been no documented cases where a person without symptoms spread it to someone else.

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Judge orders DHS to release Maine teen from Texas facility

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May 7, 2026

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Judge orders DHS to release Maine teen from Texas facility

PORTLAND (WGME) – A Portland woman who has been held in a Texas ICE facility for more than six months is reportedly set to be released by Friday.

That’s according to Maine Congresswoman Chellie Pingree, who traveled to the facility this week to demand that ICE release 19-year-old Olivia Andre.

Pingree says a federal district court judge ordered Andre to be released no later than Friday.

Andre and her family were arrested by ICE when they were seeking asylum in Canada.

DHS previously said Andre is in the United States illegally but didn’t explain why the rest of her family was released and she wasn’t.

Pingree called the conditions at the facility inhumane, and Andre’s lawyer says her physical and mental wellbeing deteriorated from not having access to clean drinking water, palatable food and appropriate medical care.

“Olivia and her family should never have been detained. The federal court ordered her release because the Trump administration had no lawful basis for detaining her,” Pingree said. “She suffered in detention for six months in violation of federal law and the U.S. Constitution’s protections.”

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