CHAMPIONS: Sundown wins Texas high school softball 2A Division 2 state championship: live scoring, updates, recap

Garza, Ibarra power the Roughettes to their Class 2A Division 2 state softball title on Thursday

Levi Payton | May 29, 2025

The Sundown softball team celebrates its win over Shiner in the Class 2A Division II state championship Thursday, May 29, 2025, at Red & Charline McCombs Field in Austin. / Angela Piazza/Caller-Times / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images

Shiner and Sundown are set to meet Thursday morning with the UIL Class 2A Division 2 state title on the line.

The first pitch is scheduled for 10 a.m. at Red & Charline McCombs Field in Austin.

Shiner (30-5) enters unbeaten in postseason play and has done most of its damage at the plate. The Lady Comanches have scored 447 runs this season - putting them in the same statistical neighborhood as national powerhouse Melissa - and have scored double digits in 24 of their 35 games. That included blowout wins across multiple rounds, capped by a 10-0 and 10-4 sweep over Malakoff Cross Roads in the semifinals.

Sundown (34-6) has followed a similar formula, with offensive firepower scattered throughout the lineup. The Roughettes have plated 197 runs during their current eight-game winning streak and bounced back from a lone playoff loss with convincing series wins over Haskell and Muenster. Brynly Gregory (.642), Destiny Garza (.613), and Breigh Gregory (.579) have led a lineup that can change the game quickly, and both Gregory and Garza have been strong in the circle all postseason.

Shiner counters with a two-pitcher setup in Lauren Springfield (12-2, 1.95 ERA) and Dyllan Chrismon (11-2, 2.33 ERA), with senior shortstop Brinley Ramirez (.506, 45 RBI, 29 stolen bases) setting the tone at the top of the order. The Lady Comanches have scored 10 or more runs in 11 playoff games alone, including 19 in a win over Veritas Academy and 30 in a first-round rout of Bloomington.

Sundown’s lineup has been just as dangerous, with Garza and Brynly Gregory combining for 151 RBI this season. Breigh Gregory has also added 48 RBI and 73 runs scored, and Emry Jourden and Nayleen Morin have each contributed power and speed in the middle of the order. The Roughettes have outscored playoff opponents 131-21 over 11 games.

Check back here once the game begins for live scoring updates, posted below, and in-game highlights from Red & Charline McCombs Field as Shiner and Sundown battle for the 2A state crown.

In the meantime, check out our Class 1A-3A previews, as well as previews for 4A, 5A and 6A state championships.

You can also watch the game (subscription fee required) on NFHS Network.

Texas high school softball 2A Division 2 state championship: Shiner vs. Sundown; preview, live scoring, updates

Sundown softball fans celebrate the team's win over Muenster in Game 2 of their Class 2A Division II state semifinal series Friday, May 23, 2025, at the Hanner Sports Complex in Clyde. / Stephen Garcia/Avalanche-Journal / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images

Starting lineups

Sundown: Emry Jourden, SS; Brynly Gregory, C; Brieigh Gregory, RF; Destiny Garza, P; Camry Jourden, CF; Nayleen Morin, 2B; Ericka Posadas, 3B; Araceli Ibarra, 1B; Paola Huerta, DP; Ciena Jackson, LF.

Shiner: Brinley Ramirez, SS; Hailey Radicke, 2B; Lauren Springfield, P; Kloe Polasek; RF; Reagan Fluitt, 3B; Callie Sevcik, LF; Jo Caka, CF; Dyllan Chrismon, DP.

Top 1: (Shiner 0, Sundown 0)

We are underway. Sundown gets a leadoff walk, but Brenley Ramirez makes a tremendous defensive play to end the top of the first. 0-0.

Bottom 1: (Shiner 0, Sundown 0)

Shiner's half of the inning yielded no runs. A liner to short ended the frame. It's a 1-2-3 inning for pitcher Nayleen Morin.

Top 2: (Shiner 0, Sundown 0)

Shiner eft fielder Callie Sevcik makes a shoestring catch for the first out, then makes another tough grab for the second out. The outfielder is locked in early. Sundown has already made three outstanding defensive plays in the first four outs they've recorded.

Bottom 2: (Shiner 0, Sundown 0)

Shiner's Kloe Polasek gets the first hit of the game - a line drive to left center - but Sundown centerfielder Camry Jourden cuts it off and throws her out trying to stretch it into a double. Reagan Fluitt follows with a 1-out walk.

A fielder's choice and and error gives Shiner runners at second and third with 1 out.

Cami Cowan lifts a sacrifice fly to left and Shiner takes a 1-0 lead with 2 outs.

RUN(s) - That's all of the damage Shiner will get. End of the second inning, Shiner 1, Sundown 0.

Top 3: (Shiner 1, Sundown 0)

Araceli Ibarra gets a leadoff single, but she is stranded at first with two more defensive gems by Shiner. It's still 1-0 as we head to the bottom of the third.

Bottom 3: (Shiner 1, Sundown 0)

Destiny Garza gets her first strikeout and Shiner goes quietly in the third.

Top 4: (Shiner 1, Sundown 0)

Destiny Garza helps herself with a two-base knock on an error. Shiner left fielder Callie Sevcik and centerfielder Jo Caka collided on the play, but both are staying in the game. Garza was initially awarded a double, but the scorer eventually changed it to an error on Sevcik.

RUN(s) - Camry Jourden laces a single and Garza races home and beats the throw to the plate with a nice slide and ties the game 1-1.

Bottom 4: (Shiner 1, Sundown 1)

HOME RUN! Shiner's Kailey Boedeker smashes a 2-run home run to left that smashed off the top of at least one vehicle. What a shot. It's 3-1, Shiner.

Shiner’s Kailey Boedeker celebrates a home run at home plate during the Class 2A division II UIL State Championship game against Sundown on May 29, 2025, at Red & Charline McCombs Field in Austin. / Angela Piazza/Caller-Times / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images

Reagan Fluitt follows with a double off the base of the wall, but is doubled up on a fly ball to left to end the inning after it's ruled that she failed to tag up. That's a huge out. On to the fifth.

Top 5: (Shiner 3, Sundown 1)

Ibarra leads off Sundown's fifth with a single. She is 2-for-2 today.

RUN(s) - Wacky stuff just happened. Paola Huerta singled to right. Ibarra raced to third on the play and the throw went to third. Huerta raced to second on the throw and overran the bag. When the second baseman attempted to tag Huerta, Ibarra raced home. Without tagging Huerta, Shiner threw home and the ball got away, allowing Ibarra to score to make it 3-2.

RUN(s) - Emry Jourden lifts a sacrifice fly to center and Sundown ties the game 3-3.

Bottom 5: (Shiner 3, Sundown 3)

Jo Caka got a 1-out single and Brinley Ramirez doubled, but Sundown pitcher Destiny Garza wriggled free of jam and didn't allow a run.

Top 6: (Shiner 3, Sundown 3)

Destiny Garza singled to lead off the sixth.

RUN(s) - Sundown catcher Ericka Posadas singles to drive in Garza to make it 4-3.

RUN(s) - Araceli Ibarra gets her third hit of the game - an RBI double to left - to drive in Posadas and Sundown leads 5-3.

Sundown’s Araceli Ibarra celebrates an out during the Class 2A division II UIL State Championship on May 29, 2025, at Red & Charline McCombs Field in Austin. / Angela Piazza/Caller-Times / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images

Bottom 6: (Sundown 5, Shiner 3)

Kailey Boedeker reaches on a single when a miscommunication between second base and center field fell into no-man's land.

Garza gets a huge strikeout - only her second of the day, then gets a harmless grounder to shortstop to end the inning. Sundown comes up to try adding to pad its 2-run lead, only three defensive outs away from a state title.

Top 7: (Sundown 5, Shiner 3)

Dyllon Chrismon came on to pitch for Shiner and Sundown's Emry Jourden leads off the seventh with a double to the wall in center.

Another miscommunication in center - this one by Shiner - allows Jorden and Brynly Gregory to move up to second and third with no outs. Sundown had a chance to break it open, and did.

RUN(s) - Breigh Gregory lifts a sacrifice fly to left and Sundown leads 6-3.

RUN(s) - After a pitch gets by the catcher, allowing Brynly Gregory to move up to third base, Destiny Garza helps herself again with a liner through the gap between shortstop and third base and brings home Gregory to make it 7-3. There's still 1 out.

RUN(s) - It's falling apart for Shiner in the seventh. An infield single by Camry Jourden on the infield was thrown into the right field corner - overshooting the first baseman on the throw - and Sundown scores two more on the error. Jourden jumped over the tag of the catcher, as she scores on a Little League home run and drives home Destiny Garza. It's 9-3. There's still 1 out.

Shiner now has 5 errors in the game - two of them in Sundown's 4-run seventh inning.

Aracelli Ibarra, batting eighth for Sundown, just smacked her fourth hit - a single to center - and she's 4-for-4.

Bottom 7: (Sundown 9, Shiner 3)

Garza gets a leadoff grounder to third. 1 out.

Garza gets a harmless fly ball to center 2 outs.

A hot-shot liner to second ends the game. Sundown wins the Class 2A Division 2 championship in its first ever trip to the state tournament.

Final: Sundown 9, Shiner 3

Sundown celebrates their 9-3 win against Shiner during the Class 2A Division II UIL State Championship on May 29, 2025, at Red & Charline McCombs Field in Austin. / Angela Piazza/Caller-Times / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images

Shiner and Sundown are set to meet Thursday morning with the UIL Class 2A Division 2 state title on the line.

The first pitch is scheduled for 10 a.m. at Red & Charline McCombs Field in Austin.

Check back here once the game begins for live scoring updates, posted below, and in-game highlights from Red & Charline McCombs Field as Shiner and Sundown battle for the 2A state crown.

In the meantime, check out our Class 1A-3A previews, as well as previews for 4A, 5A and 6A state championships.

You can also watch the game (subscription fee required) on NFHS Network.