{"id":169639,"date":"2026-02-08T21:05:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T21:05:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/169639\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T21:05:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T21:05:24","slug":"spartans-fall-1-0-in-pitching-duel-against-cal-sjsu-athletics-official-athletics-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/169639\/","title":{"rendered":"Spartans Fall 1-0 in Pitching Duel Against Cal &#8211; SJSU Athletics &#8211; Official Athletics Website"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>STANFORD, Calif. &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/player\/delaney-faus\" title=\"Delaney Faus\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Delaney Faus<\/a> pitched six innings while only allowing three hits and one run to lead San Jos\u00e9 State softball (1-4, 0-0 MW) in a 1-0 loss to Cal (1-3, 0-0 ACC), in the final game of the Stanford Invitational.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The contest was a defensive stalemate for much of the morning, with both teams remaining scoreless through the first five innings. The Spartans\u2019 defense was sharp,\u00a0committing zero errors throughout the contest.<\/p>\n<p>Cal broke the deadlock in the bottom of the sixth inning when Kyndal Todd hit a sacrifice fly to drive in the game&#8217;s only run.<\/p>\n<p>The loss snaps the Spartans&#8217; two-game winning streak over the Golden Bears.<\/p>\n<p>Pitching Performance: Faus threw 61 pitches, 46 of which were strikes, while striking out two batters in her first-ever complete game.<br \/>\nOffensive Spark: <a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/player\/reina-zermeno\" title=\"Reina Zermeno\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reina Zermeno<\/a> provided the primary offensive highlight for the Spartans, recording a double off Cal\u2019s Mya McGowan. Zermeno finished the day with two total bases.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/player\/carly-cummings\" title=\"Carly Cummings\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carly Cummings<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/player\/sarah-deplitch\" title=\"Sarah Deplitch\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sarah Deplitch<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/player\/ahmiya-noriega\" title=\"Ahmiya Noriega\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ahmiya Noriega<\/a> each reached base safely and each contributed one of the Spartans&#8217; four hits on the day.<\/p>\n<p>UP NEXT: The Spartans host the Silicon Valley Classic I starting Friday at Spartan Softball Stadium, and tickets are available <a style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\" href=\"https:\/\/sjsuspartans.evenue.net\/events\/SGSOFT\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>#AllSpartans<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STANFORD, Calif. &#8211; Delaney Faus pitched six innings while only allowing three hits and one run to lead&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[88,90,89,996,998,997,999,1000,1001],"class_list":{"0":"post-169639","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-jose","8":"tag-san-jose","9":"tag-san-jose-headlines","10":"tag-san-jose-news","11":"tag-san-jose-state","12":"tag-san-jose-state-athletics","13":"tag-san-jose-state-spartans","14":"tag-sjsu","15":"tag-sjsu-spartans","16":"tag-spartans"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}