{"id":182355,"date":"2026-03-07T19:15:19","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T19:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/182355\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T19:15:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T19:15:19","slug":"florida-am-never-trails-in-4-3-win-against-jackson-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/182355\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida A&#038;M never trails in 4-3 win against Jackson State"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/m18.png\" alt=\"Mississippi Valley State\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Next Game:<\/p>\n<p> Mississippi Valley State<\/p>\n<p>3\/13\/2026 | 6:00 PM EST<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                    Mar. 13 (Fri) \/ 6:00 PM EST&#13;\n                <\/p>\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-opponent-logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/m18.png\" alt=\"Mississippi Valley State\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                        \u00a0Mississippi Valley State&#13;\n                    <\/p>\n<p>                    <a class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-details-history\" href=\"https:\/\/famuathletics.com\/sports\/softball\/opponent-history\/mississippi-valley-state\/252\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">History <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                             &#13;<\/p>\n<p>JACKSON, Miss.\u00a0&#8211;The Florida A&amp;M Rattlers\u00a0took a 1-0 lead in the first inning and never surrendered the advantage on the way to a 4-3 victory over the Jackson State Tigers on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/famuathletics.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/zoryana-hughes\/5130\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"5130\" target=\"_blank\">Zoryana Hughes<\/a> (5-3) got the win for Florida A&amp;M (10-12, 2-1). The southpaw went seven innings, giving up three runs, zero earned, on five hits.<\/p>\n<p>Offensively, the Rattlers\u00a0were paced by <a href=\"https:\/\/famuathletics.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/aniya-canty\/5126\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"5126\" target=\"_blank\">Aniya Canty<\/a>, who went 1-for-2 on the day with a home run, a walk and three RBIs. <a href=\"https:\/\/famuathletics.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/keeleigh-spooner\/5136\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"5136\" target=\"_blank\">Keeleigh Spooner<\/a> furnished a noteworthy day at the dish as well, going 1-for-4 with an RBI.<\/p>\n<p>HOW IT HAPPENED<\/p>\n<p>The Rattlers\u00a0got the scoring started early, putting one run on the board in the top of the first inning. Florida A&amp;M got an RBI single from Spooner, scoring N. Lee from third base.<\/p>\n<p>The Tigers then tied the ballgame at one before the Rattlers\u00a0came back to reclaim their advantage in the fourth inning. Florida A&amp;M scored three runs, all of them coming on a three-run homer off the bat of Canty, scoring <a href=\"https:\/\/famuathletics.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/michaela-fernandez\/5146\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"5146\" target=\"_blank\">Michaela Fernandez<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/famuathletics.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/amya-ramos\/5145\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"5145\" target=\"_blank\">Amya Ramos<\/a>, which brought the score to 4-1 in favor of the Rattlers. Jackson State put two runs on the scoreboard before the game was over, but Florida A&amp;M still held on for the 4-3 win.<\/p>\n<p>GAME NOTES<\/p>\n<p>\u00bb Florida A&amp;M&#8217;s highest scoring inning was the fourth, when it pushed three runs across.<br \/>\u00bb Florida A&amp;M took a 1-0 lead in the top half of the first and didn&#8217;t surrender that lead for the remainder of the game.<br \/>\u00bb The Rattlers\u00a0out-hit the Tigers at an 8-5 clip.<br \/>\u00bb Florida A&amp;M went 3-for-6 (.500) with runners in scoring position.<br \/>\u00bb Florida A&amp;M pitchers faced 29 Jackson State hitters in the game, allowing 13 ground balls and seven fly balls.<br \/>\u00bb Canty led the Rattlers\u00a0at the plate, going 1 for 2 with a home run and three RBIs.<br \/>\u00bb Jackson State was led offensively by Kristina Carlson, who went 1 for 2 with two RBIs.<br \/>\u00bb Jorgina Gant led the Tigers pitching staff, throwing seven innings of four-run ball.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; Next Game: Mississippi Valley State 3\/13\/2026 | 6:00 PM EST &#13; Mar. 13 (Fri) \/&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182356,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-182355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}