{"id":303445,"date":"2026-05-07T00:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T00:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/303445\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T00:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T00:32:10","slug":"softball-falls-to-rmu-in-elimination-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/303445\/","title":{"rendered":"Softball Falls to RMU in Elimination Game"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n                             &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                    YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio -The Golden Grizzlies fell to Robert Morris in what would ultimately be their final game of the season, by a final score of 7\u20133. The Golden Grizzlies tallied an impressive 11 hits, surpassing their season average of 8.67, including a home run, but was unable to overcome RMU&#8217;s four home runs in the matchup.<\/p>\n<p>RMU struck fast as Eloise Facher&#8217;s solo home run put RMU on the board in the first inning giving RMU a 1\u20130 at the end of the first.<\/p>\n<p>In the third inning, RMU extended its lead as Facher hit another solo home run, and Mary Brant followed with a two-run shot. Sequoia Dunlap added an RBI double, pushing the score to 5-0 after three innings.<\/p>\n<p>Brant hit another home run in the fourth inning, a two-run shot that increased RMU&#8217;s advantage. Oakland trailed 7\u20130 at the end of the fourth.<\/p>\n<p>Oakland responded in the fifth inning as <a href=\"https:\/\/goldengrizzlies.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/brooklyn-plitz\/12679\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"12679\" target=\"_blank\">Brooklyn Plitz<\/a> doubled and scored on an error, and <a href=\"https:\/\/goldengrizzlies.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/maggie-murphy\/12676\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"12676\" target=\"_blank\">Maggie Murphy<\/a> hit a two-run home run, narrowing the gap. After five innings, the score was 7-3 in favor of RMU.<\/p>\n<p>The score remained unchanged in the final two innings, concluding the game with RMU defeating the Golden Grizzlies 7-3.<\/p>\n<p>Murphy led the offensive effort, recording two RBIs and hitting a home run. Plitz contributed with two doubles in her two-hit performance. <a href=\"https:\/\/goldengrizzlies.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/addison-caldwell\/12689\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"12689\" target=\"_blank\">Addison Caldwell<\/a> added two hits and drew a walk, scoring once. <a href=\"https:\/\/goldengrizzlies.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/taylor-carraway\/12672\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"12672\" target=\"_blank\">Taylor Carraway<\/a> also finished with two hits, bolstering the team&#8217;s hitting lineup.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio -The Golden Grizzlies fell to Robert Morris in what would ultimately be&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303446,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-303445","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\/303445","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=303445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303445\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}