{"id":199746,"date":"2026-03-01T22:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T22:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/199746\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T22:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T22:20:10","slug":"softball-stays-close-but-falls-to-7-alabama-on-the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/199746\/","title":{"rendered":"Softball Stays Close, but Falls to #7 Alabama on the Road"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/memphis_tigers.png\" alt=\"University of Memphis\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Next Game:<\/p>\n<p>at University of Memphis<\/p>\n<p>3\/3\/2026 | 2 PM ET<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                    Mar. 03 (Tue) \/ 2 PM ET&#13;\n                <\/p>\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-opponent-logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/memphis_tigers.png\" alt=\"University of Memphis\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                        at\u00a0University of Memphis&#13;\n                    <\/p>\n<p>                    <a class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-details-history\" href=\"https:\/\/goldengrizzlies.com\/sports\/softball\/opponent-history\/university-of-memphis\/139\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">History <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                             &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                    TUSCALOOSA, Ala. &#8211; Oakland fell to No. 7 University of Alabama with a final score of 8-1 at Rhoads Stadium on Sunday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Golden Grizzlies managed just four hits, with its lone run coming in the third inning, while Alabama capitalized on a five-run fourth inning to secure the victory.<\/p>\n<p>The second inning saw the Crimson Tide take the lead when Wells scored on a sacrifice fly by Young, putting the score at 1-0 in favor of Alabama.<\/p>\n<p>In the third inning, Oakland tied the game. <a href=\"https:\/\/goldengrizzlies.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/storm-kentros\/12674\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"12674\" target=\"_blank\">Storm Kentros<\/a> doubled and advanced to third on a groundout. <a href=\"https:\/\/goldengrizzlies.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/autumn-liebhauser\/12688\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"12688\" target=\"_blank\">Autumn Liebhauser<\/a> then delivered with a single to left, bringing Kentros home as Oakland knotted the score at one run apiece.<\/p>\n<p>Alabama regained momentum in the fourth inning with a powerful offensive display. Taylor&#8217;s three-run homer and Roman&#8217;s two-run homer contributed to a five-run inning, pushing Alabama ahead 6-1.<\/p>\n<p>The sixth inning added two more runs for the Tide. Pate singled to bring in a run, and later scored on a single by Pupillo, extending Alabama&#8217;s lead to 8-1.<\/p>\n<p>The game concluded with Alabama securing the win, with a final score of 8-1.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/goldengrizzlies.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/kenna-bommarito\/12671\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"12671\" target=\"_blank\">Kenna Bommarito<\/a> pitched 3 1\/3 innings for Oakland, allowing six hits and striking out two batters. Bommarito threw 66 pitches, with 42 being strikes, and faced 17 batters. <a href=\"https:\/\/goldengrizzlies.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/jessica-nelson\/12704\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"12704\" target=\"_blank\">Jessica Nelson<\/a> came in for relief and pitched 2 2\/3 innings, giving up four hits with one strikeout.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/goldengrizzlies.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/autumn-liebhauser\/12688\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"12688\" target=\"_blank\">Autumn Liebhauser<\/a> recorded one hit and one RBI in three at-bats, contributing to the team&#8217;s offensive effort. Kam Troyer added a hit and reached base after being hit by a pitch in two plate appearances. <a href=\"https:\/\/goldengrizzlies.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/storm-kentros\/12674\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"12674\" target=\"_blank\">Storm Kentros<\/a> doubled and scored a run, finishing with one hit in two at-bats.<\/p>\n<p>The Golden Grizzlies continue a down south trip, playign a doubleheader at Memphis on Tuesday, Mar. 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; Next Game: at University of Memphis 3\/3\/2026 | 2 PM ET &#13; Mar. 03 (Tue)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-199746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199746","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=199746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}