{"id":230107,"date":"2026-03-21T13:10:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T13:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/230107\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T13:10:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T13:10:16","slug":"broncos-rally-past-bulldogs-boise-state-university-athletics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/230107\/","title":{"rendered":"Broncos Rally Past Bulldogs – Boise State University Athletics"},"content":{"rendered":"

BOISE, Idaho \u2013 Kate Penberthy’s<\/a> two-run home run in the fifth inning provided the winning margin in Boise State’s 5-3 victory over Fresno State, Friday night.
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\nPenberthy’s swing capped a four-run inning and brought Boise State (16-17, 2-2 Mountain West) all the way back from a 3-0 deficit.
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\nFresno State (12-12, 1-3) scored after a leadoff walk in the second and tallied twice in the third on a home run that followed a 50-50 ball the Broncos failed to field cleanly.
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\nBoise State did not hit a ball out of the infield and only had one hit through four innings before loading the bases with one out in the fifth on two walks and a single. Jorja Crider<\/a> came off the bench and nearly gave the Broncos the lead, but settled for a deep sacrifice fly to cut the deficit to 3-1.
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\nIn the sixth, Skylar Stroh<\/a> led off with a double and Marissa Gonzalez<\/a> singled. A pair of misplays by the Bulldogs allowed both runners to score and tie the game 3-3.
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\nPenberthy then lifted a 2-1 pitch over the wall in left field for her sixth home run of the season.
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\nLoula-Rae McNamara<\/a> (5-1) retired all five batters she faced in relief, including three via strikeout, to earn the victory.
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\nNOTES<\/p>\n


\n\tBoise State won a conference game it trailed by at least three runs in the fifth inning or later for the first time since March 18, 2022 (against Fresno State in game two of a doubleheader).
\n\tFreshman Loula-Rae McNamara<\/a> is 1-0 with two saves and no hits allowed over 7 2\/3 innings in her last three relief outings\u2026leads the NCAA with 27 appearances.
\n\tKate Penberthy<\/a> leads the team with three go-ahead home runs this season.
\n\tThe game drew a season-high attendance of 821. <\/p>\n

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\nWHAT’S NEXT<\/p>\n


\n\tBoise State and Fresno State continue their three-game Mountain West series, Saturday at 2 p.m. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BOISE, Idaho \u2013 Kate Penberthy’s two-run home run in the fifth inning provided the winning margin in Boise…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230108,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-230107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230107","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=230107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230107\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}