{"id":251031,"date":"2026-04-04T03:25:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T03:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/251031\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T03:25:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T03:25:13","slug":"bears-fall-to-louisville-set-up-rubber-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/251031\/","title":{"rendered":"Bears Fall To Louisville, Set Up Rubber Match"},"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\/2025\/10\/Louisville.png\" alt=\"Louisville\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Next Game:<\/p>\n<p> Louisville<\/p>\n<p>4\/4\/2026 | 12:00 PM PT<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                        ESPN+  &#13;\n                    <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                    Apr. 04 (Sat) \/ 12:00 PM PT&#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\/2025\/10\/Louisville.png\" alt=\"Louisville\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                        \u00a0Louisville&#13;\n                    <\/p>\n<p>                             &#13;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\">SARATOGA\u00a0\u2013 The California softball team fell to Louisville, 6-3, on Friday afternoon at Viking Field. The loss sets up a rubber match in the series on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\">Louisville jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the first inning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\">The Bears responded in the second with back-to-back home runs to even the score at 2-2. <a href=\"https:\/\/calbears.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/carly-raven\/26753\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"26753\" target=\"_blank\">Carly Raven<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/calbears.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/anaya-togia\/26942\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"26942\" target=\"_blank\">Anaya Togia<\/a> launched their eighth and sixth homers of the season, respectively, to get Cal on the board.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\">The Cardinals regained the lead in the third and added three more runs in the fourth to stretch the advantage to 6-2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\">Cal scored once in the bottom of the seventh to bring the final score to 6-3.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\">With the loss, the Bears fall to 13-26 overall and 3-11 in ACC play. Cal and Louisville return to action Saturday to decide the series.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\">STAY POSTED<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\">For complete coverage of Cal softball, please follow the Bears on X (<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CalSB\" style=\"color: rgb(17, 85, 204);\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">CalSB<\/a>), Instagram (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/calsb\/\" style=\"color: rgb(17, 85, 204);\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CalSB<\/a>) and Facebook (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CalSoftball\/\" style=\"color: rgb(17, 85, 204);\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CalSoftball<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>                <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; Next Game: Louisville 4\/4\/2026 | 12:00 PM PT &#13; ESPN+ &#13; &#13; Apr. 04 (Sat)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251032,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-251031","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-california","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-california-headlines","10":"tag-california-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251031","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=251031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}