{"id":250971,"date":"2026-04-04T02:39:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T02:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/250971\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T02:39:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T02:39:09","slug":"mustangs-open-cal-state-bakersfield-series-with-8-5-friday-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/250971\/","title":{"rendered":"Mustangs Open Cal State Bakersfield Series with 8-5 Friday Victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">BAKERSFIELD \u2013 Freshman first baseman Myleigh Cooper\u2019s two-run homer in the top of the seventh placed the Cal Poly softball program in front during Friday afternoon\u2019s series opener at Cal State Bakersfield as the Mustangs produced an 8-5 victory at Roadrunner Softball Complex.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">With Cal Poly trailing Cal State Bakersfield heading into the seventh, 5-4, Mustang freshman designated player Karina Choi singled to lead off before reaching second through a throwing error from Roadrunners shortstop Alexia Castro. Sophomore catcher Maya Venegas followed with a game-tying double to right center field.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">Cooper then launched her second career home run to right center, handing Cal Poly the 7-5 advantage. Another error by Castro later in the inning led to Cal Poly\u2019s final run and eventual 8-5 margin of victory.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\">Taking over for Cal Poly starter Kaylee Davis with one down in the bottom half of the second and with the Mustangs trailing, 3-1, righthander Bree Brennan (6-6) conceded just two runs the remainder of the game while striking out three.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD \u2013 Freshman first baseman Myleigh Cooper\u2019s two-run homer in the top of the seventh placed the Cal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-250971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250971","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=250971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}