Take a bow, Texas.

You deserve it.

And the rest of this Women’s College World Series field maybe should just bow down to the No. 1 seed Longhorns, who are playing like it. At least so far.

Coach Mike White’s not looking too far in the future. Of the seven trips he’s made to this event as coach of Oregon and now Texas in search of his first national championship, this marked the first time his club has won its first two games in a WCWS appearance.

“Feels a lot better to be in this position than the other,” White said.

A lot of the teams in Oklahoma City are envious of Texas’ current situation.

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Quite frankly, the Longhorns are looking like a team in a hurry with a perfect blend of power, clutch hitting, brilliant defense and stingy pitching. They might relish their 2-0 spot in the winners’ bracket, but they're sure not wasting any time.

On Saturday night, five of their first six batters scored in the first of two five-run sprees as the Longhorns (54-8) finished off No. 4 Florida in quick fashion, run-ruling the Gators 10-0 after only five innings. They scored another five runs in the fourth, making the 29th and 30th times this season that Texas has plated that many runs or more in a single inning. The game was over almost before it started.

With the win, these on-a-mission Longhorns have advanced to Monday night’s semifinals against the survivor of Sunday's UCLA-Stanford game, but they seem like a team hellbent on reaching the best-of-three finals. Those start on Wednesday night in Oklahoma City.

There’s no end to the versatility of this Texas team, which got hits from seven players and RBIs from five. The Longhorns knocked out Gators ace Keagan Rothrock, who beat Oklahoma State with a two-hit shutout on Thursday. The freshman right-hander, who has thrown in every Florida game this postseason, was masterful against the Cowgirls but lasted just 14 pitches against Texas.

“That many runs that quick,” Florida coach Tim Walton said of his quick hook. “Really not fooling anybody.”

Especially not Texas' Katie Stewart. The freshman first baseman ripped a big run-scoring double in the opening inning before Alyssa Washington cranked a three-run home run out of Devon Park off reliever Ava Brown to complete the stunning explosion in Texas’ first turn at bat.

Washington’s mom in the stands got the souvenir ball afterward, courtesy of the treasured WCWS tradition.

“The ball being given to my mom, that made my life,” Washington said. “That made my whole career. That was just a great moment.”

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Texas’ lineup provided all kind of heroic moments, everything from Mia Scott’s fancy glove work in the field and solo home run to Stewart’s three-run jack and her four RBIs to a diving catch by right fielder Ashton Maloney.

One shining moment after another.

“She could be the unsung hero,” White said of Stewart, who bats fifth in the order behind home run queen Reese Atwood and gets better pitches than her dangerous teammate with the 23 home runs. “They’d just walk (Atwood) if we didn’t have a productive hitter behind her.”

Oh, she’s productive. Of course, this lineup has productive hitters all over the place with all of them hitting .340 or higher. In their second five-run spot in the fourth, seven consecutive UT batters reached base. All after two were out and none on base. That’s productivity.

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The only other 2-0 team in the WCWS field? The Oklahoma Sooners. Yeah, them. The three-time defending national champions. These two seem to be destined to meet again as they did in 2022 when the Sooners beat the Longhorns two straight times in the championship series.

They have split four games this season. Texas won two of three in Austin in the regular season to help catapult it to the regular-season Big 12 title. OU won the rematch in the Big 12 Tournament.

Both have been dominant through two games.

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“We know there’s a lot of work ahead of us,” White said. “Can’t get too far ahead of ourselves.”

To be honest, Texas has played as close to perfect softball as a team can and even cut two innings of work off its pitching staff, which is still one of the deepest in college softball.

In two WCWS games so far, the Longhorns have outscored Stanford and Florida by a walloping 14-0 margin. Texas pitchers have given up two total hits. Two.

One was a hard-hit single off Washington’s glove at second base in the final inning Saturday as Mac Morgan threw a one-hitter just two weeks after tossing a no-hitter and coming within a two-out, last-inning walk of the school’s 12th perfect game.

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So freshman Teagan Kavan and Morgan have a pair of one-hitters, and Citlaly Gutierrez, who started the first game of the super regional, hasn’t thrown a pitch yet. Few teams can match that kind of pitching depth.

Florida had three baserunners the entire game off a single, a walk and a Texas error. Stanford had six. The two opponents have had just four baserunners even reach second base.

That’s dominance, my friends.

White so far has pulled every right lever. On Thursday he started with Kavan, who was over her super-regional nerves and up to the task. He started Morgan on Saturday, relying on her experience and savvy and a surprising strikeout ball to keep a dangerous Florida lineup in check.

“Mac was throwing her butt off out there,” an appreciative Washington said. “Just being able to have her back and work for her, it felt great.”

Of course, everything Texas has tried is working.

Monday's WCWS semifinals

No. 2 Oklahoma vs. No. 4 Florida/No. 14 Alabama winner, noon, ESPN; Texas vs. No. 6 UCLA/No. 8 Stanford winner, 7 p.m., ESPN2

This article originally appeared on Austin American-Statesman: Texas softball remains in perfect prime position at WCWS