{"id":320684,"date":"2026-05-18T02:42:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T02:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/320684\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T02:42:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T02:42:07","slug":"ucla-softball-pummels-south-carolina-advances-to-super-regional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/320684\/","title":{"rendered":"UCLA softball pummels South Carolina, advances to super regional"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Four UCLA<\/a> players hit home runs, helping the Bruins defeat South Carolina 15-1<\/a> on Sunday to win the Los Angeles Regional at Easton Stadium.<\/p>\n

UCLA advances to the NCAA super regional round and will host Central Florida, which upset favored Florida State at the Seminoles\u2019 home stadium in Tallahassee, Fla. <\/p>\n

Bruins senior Megan Grant<\/a> hit a grand slam during the rout of South Carolina, extending her NCAA-record single season tally to 40 home runs.<\/p>\n

Grant is working to stay ahead of Oklahoma freshman Kendall Wells, who has 37 home runs, and retain the NCAA record she broke during the Big Ten conference title game.<\/p>\n

UCLA senior Taylor Tinsley<\/a> gave up one run in six innings. After surrendering 10 runs<\/a> in the regional opener, Tinsley bounced back with back-to-back victories to help extend UCLA\u2019s season.<\/p>\n

Check back soon for postgame updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four UCLA players hit home runs, helping the Bruins defeat South Carolina 15-1 on Sunday to win the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[133091,133756,96337,9251,133751,48,52,51,47,50,133754,49,9591,133755,133753,61679,133752,18891,9175,105896,133750],"class_list":["post-320684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-easton-stadium","tag-florida-state","tag-grand-slam","tag-home-run","tag-home-stadium","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-ncaa-regional","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-ncaa","tag-regional-opener","tag-regional-round","tag-rout","tag-seminoles","tag-south-carolina","tag-tallahassee","tag-ucla-advance","tag-ucla-softball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320684","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=320684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}