{"id":243745,"date":"2026-03-30T19:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T19:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/243745\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T19:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T19:09:08","slug":"softball-begins-road-stretch-with-trip-to-ann-arbor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/243745\/","title":{"rendered":"Softball Begins Road Stretch with Trip to Ann Arbor"},"content":{"rendered":"


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ROCHESTER, Mich. – The Golden Grizzlies look to continue their hot streak as they travel to Ann Arbor to take on the Michigan Wolverines.<\/p>\n

Oakland is coming off one of its most impressive series of the season, beating the Horizon League-leading Robert Morris Colonials two games to one. In the series, Oakland hit three home runs and outscored RMU 17-10 in its two wins.<\/p>\n

Autumn Liebhauser<\/a>, Addison Caldwell<\/a>, Maggie Murphy<\/a>, and Brooklyn Plitz<\/a> all recorded hits in every game of the series, helping the Golden Grizzlies improve to 10-1 at home.<\/p>\n

As Oakland continues to play impressive softball, ranking third in the conference in hitting and first in pitching, Golden Grizzlies players are scattered across the top 10 in hitting statistics. Maggie Murphy<\/a> ranks fourth in batting average (.443), third in slugging percentage (.902), third in OPS (1.395), and 10th in RBI (21).<\/p>\n

Michigan (21-13) also comes into the game fresh off a 2-1 series win, beating Purdue at home for its first home victories of the season. With just a 2-4 record at home, the Wolverines have not been as strong on their home field.<\/p>\n

The Wolverines are in the middle of the Big Ten pack at the plate, ranking eighth in batting average (.311), 11th in on-base percentage (.394), and seventh in hits (282).<\/p>\n

Michigan is led at the plate by sophomore Lauren Putz, who has a .462 batting average, 46 RBI, and 12 home runs. Gabby Ellis is U-M’s ace in the circle, boasting a 2.90 ERA and eight wins. Erin Hoehn leads the team in strikeouts (70) and innings pitched (68.1).<\/p>\n

The in-state matchup is set for Tuesday, Mar. 31 at 4 p.m. in Ann Arbor and will be streamed on ESPN+. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Story Links ROCHESTER, Mich. – The Golden Grizzlies look to continue their hot streak as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243746,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-243745","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\/243745","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=243745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}