{"id":183573,"date":"2026-03-08T23:31:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T23:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/183573\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T23:31:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T23:31:08","slug":"softball-tops-bemidji-state-9-3-for-first-florida-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/183573\/","title":{"rendered":"Softball tops Bemidji State 9-3 for first Florida win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                &#13;<br \/>\n                    Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/bentleyfalcons.com\/sports\/softball\/stats\/2026\/west-chester-university-of-pennsylvania\/boxscore\/8616\" style=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Box Score 1<\/a> Melbourne, Fla. \u2013 On its second day in Florida, Bentley defeated Bemidji State 9-3 for its first win of the trip. Earlier in the day they dropped a close one to West Chester, 7-6.<\/p>\n<p>The Falcons had a balanced attack in the win over Bemidji as six different players drove in a run. Sophomore catcher <a href=\"https:\/\/bentleyfalcons.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/alexa-gross\/11803\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"11803\" target=\"_blank\">Alexa Gross<\/a> drove in two.<\/p>\n<p>Starting pitcher <a href=\"https:\/\/bentleyfalcons.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/maddie-pickett\/11809\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"11809\" target=\"_blank\">Maddie Pickett<\/a> went four innings and earned the win. Freshman <a href=\"https:\/\/bentleyfalcons.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/vittoria-cuscia\/11982\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"11982\" target=\"_blank\">Vittoria Cuscia<\/a> was strong in relief. She went three innings and allowed just one base runner to close out the game.<\/p>\n<p>The Falcons jumped on Bemidji early with seven runs in the second inning. 11 batters came to the plate in the inning.<\/p>\n<p>The first game of the day saw the Falcons drop a tough one to West Chester, 7-6.<\/p>\n<p>Trailing 7-3 in the top of the seventh they mounted a three-run rally but could not complete the comeback.<\/p>\n<p>With two runners on and no outs, an RBI ground out by <a href=\"https:\/\/bentleyfalcons.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/ella-bunovsky\/11798\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"11798\" target=\"_blank\">Ella Bunovsky<\/a> made it 7-4. The next batter Carly Di Mento doubled to center to score <a href=\"https:\/\/bentleyfalcons.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/emma-callahan\/11985\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"11985\" target=\"_blank\">Emma Callahan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The next batter <a href=\"https:\/\/bentleyfalcons.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/michelle-diaz\/11800\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"11800\" target=\"_blank\">Michelle Diaz<\/a> singled to score DiMento to make it a 7-5 game, but West Chester was able to escape the jam and record the final two outs.<\/p>\n<p>Bentley (2-8) continues its trip on Monday with a doubleheader against Goldey-Beacom.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; &#13; Box Score 1 Melbourne, Fla. \u2013 On its second day in Florida, Bentley&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183574,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-183573","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\/183573","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=183573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}