{"id":258832,"date":"2026-04-09T05:40:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T05:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/258832\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T05:40:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T05:40:17","slug":"oakland-scores-late-spartans-fall-to-grizzlies-5-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/258832\/","title":{"rendered":"Oakland Scores Late, Spartans Fall to Grizzlies 5-2"},"content":{"rendered":"

East Lansing, Mich. \u2013 Michigan State softball dropped a tightly-contested battle on the road at Oakland on Wednesday, 5-2. The Grizzlies improve to 16-14, while MSU falls to 14-23 on the season.
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\nThe Golden Grizzlies put a pair of runs on the board in the first, and MSU came back with a run in the top of the second fueled by a\u00a0triple by Sophie Holverstott<\/a>.\u00a0 The home team executed a double steal to go up 3-1 in the fourth, and after MSU scored on a sac fly by Kirsten Caravaca<\/a> in the top of the sixth to make it a one-run game, Oakland countered with a pair of runs in the bottom of the frame on an RBI single by Taylor Carraway.\u00a0
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\nThe Spartan offense was led by Britain Beshears<\/a>, who went 2-for-3 with a double.\u00a0 Caravaca had an RBI single in the second after a triple by Sophie Holverstott<\/a>, and then had the sixth-inning sac fly to account for her two RBI. \u00a0\u00a0Jacey Schuler<\/a> threw her second consecutive complete game, striking out three and scattering seven hits.\u00a0
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\nKenna Bommarito earned the win in the circle for Oakland, also allowing seven hits in a complete-game effort.\u00a0 Kamryn Troyer had a pair of base hits.\u00a0
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\nMichigan State returns to action with a three-game set at Rutgers, which begins Friday.\u00a0
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\nTOP PERFORMANCES<\/p>\n


\n\t\u00a0Britain Beshears<\/a> went 2-for-3 with a double.\u00a0 She recorded her third straight two-hit game, and fifth consecutive game with a hit.\u00a0 It was her fifth double of the season, and matched her career best, originally set as a sophomore.\u00a0
\n\tJacey Schuler<\/a> delivered a second straight complete game and her fourth of the season.\u00a0
\n\tKirsten Caravaca<\/a> went 1-for-2 with two RBI.
\n\tSophie Hovlerstott smacked her first career triple in the second inning.\u00a0 She finished 1-for-3 with a run scored.
\n\tHannah Hawley<\/a> had a base hit, and was 1-for-2 with a walk.\u00a0
\n\tAva Coffinger<\/a> came on as a pinch runner and had a stolen base. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"East Lansing, Mich. \u2013 Michigan State softball dropped a tightly-contested battle on the road at Oakland on Wednesday,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258833,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-258832","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\/258832","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=258832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}