Texas Tech All-American Kaitlyn Terry had been the Red Raiders' top arm throughout the game, but it was her bat that delivered the game-winning moment: an RBI double in the top of the ninth inning that proved to be the difference.

It put Texas Tech in position to take down UCLA in Sunday night's elimination game, 8-7, and push the No. 11-seed Red Raiders through to the Women's College World Series semifinals.

Tech faces No. 1-seed Alabama and needs to beat the Crimson Tide in back-to-back games to reach the championship round for a second year in a row.

Terry, the UCLA transfer who starred as a two-way monster in her first season in Lubbock, was featured in another chaotic sequence of pitching rotations initiated by Texas Tech head coach Gerry Glasco.

Senior superstar NiJaree Canady started the game, with Terry playing in left field, before the game ended with six changes between the two arms.

"It was great," Terry said of how she was able to impact the game. "Just trusting the ball in the circle and trusting my preparation at the plate, just knowing this team was going to have my back."

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Amid the shuffle, the Bruins had the big bats come up when they needed them most. Down to their final out, cleanup hitter Jordan Woolery hit a game-tying home run off of Canady in the bottom of the seventh inning to extend the game.

UCLA built on its NCAA record home run total as the only team in history to hit more than 200 round-trippers in a single season. Fans speculated online on whether it was a smart decision for Glasco to change to Canady mid-inning.

But moments later, Terry made the most of her opportunity to put an end to the game herself. She drove in what turned out to be the game-winning run with a double that scored Taylor Pannell, who led off with a single.

Texas Tech added another with Terry scoring on an infield error by the UCLA shortstop.

Then, the lefty came back out into the circle to begin the bottom of the inning. However, the Bruins kept battling. Woolery drove in her fifth run of the game with a single up the middle, which forced Glasco to go back to Canady.

Nija induced a flyout and froze the next battle with a fastball at the knees to end the game via a strikeout.

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In the postgame press conference, Glasco found no other way to describe the night than with a phrase he's used dating back to his early coaching days.

"When I coached junior high ball, I would always have my team, when something happened on the field [that was] exciting, ... one of the players would automatically yell, 'Softball,' as loud as they could. And everybody would count to three and say, 'I love this game.'

"And that's all I could think when the game ended, like: 'Softball! I love this game.'"