Texas fans can get enough of Vic Hunter's game-clinching, pinch hit home run

The Texas Longhorns are still marching their way through the NCAA Softball Tournament, and that is thanks, almost entirely, to a sixth-inning home run by pinch hitter Victoria Hunter.

Texas head coach Mike White made the call to enter Hunter into the lineup, and it paid off immediately. In the second-to-last inning, the last chance for the Horns to keep their season alive, Texas was actually trailing the Arizona State Sun Devils 3-2, until Hunter stepped up to bat.

With outfielder Ashton Maloney already standing on first base, Hunter blasted a two-run home run, putting the Horns up 4-3, the game-winning score.

Since then, Texas fans (and even just some softball fans in general) can't stop watching Hunter's home run, applauding the pinch hitter on stepping up when her team needed her most.

Mike White made the perfect call in Game 2

White's decision to place Hunter into the hitting rotation, replacing infielder Jaycie Nichols, who started the game for the Longhorns, very likely saved Texas's season.

The game was the second matchup in Texas and Arizona State's three-game series. With the Sun Devils winning Game 1 of the series, a loss would have ended the Longhorns' postseason run, sending ASU to the College World Series instead of Texas.

Because of Hunter's two-run homer, the Horns won Game 2, booking a Game 3 matchup between the two teams to determine who will advance and who will stay home.

In order to keep hopes of defending their National Championship alive, the Longhorns and White will need to keep making big-time plays and perfectly-timed calls in order to down the Sun Devils for a second game in a row.

Texas and Arizona State are scheduled to throw out the first pitch of Game 3 at 3:30 p.m. CT on Sunday, May 24. The winner will advance to the WCWS, while the loser will have their season end.

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