{"id":191070,"date":"2026-03-14T03:35:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T03:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/191070\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T03:35:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T03:35:10","slug":"pirates-fall-to-florida-atlantic-in-series-opener-10-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/191070\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates Fall To Florida Atlantic In Series Opener, 10-1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boca Raton, Fla. \u2013\u00a0The East Carolina softball team fell in its series opener to Florida Atlantic, losing 10-1 in six innings to the Owls on Friday night at Joan Joyce Field at FAU Softball Stadium.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ecupirates.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/kanisha-anderson\/14080\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14080\" target=\"_blank\">Kanisha Anderson<\/a> led the Pirates (17-10, 2-2 American) with two hits.<\/p>\n<p>Florida Atlantic struck first in the bottom of the first with an RBI single from Kiley Shelton but the Pirates evened up things in the top of the third after <a href=\"https:\/\/ecupirates.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/jenna-krol\/14085\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14085\" target=\"_blank\">Jenna Krol&#8217;s<\/a> sacrifice fly scored Anderson.<\/p>\n<p>The Owls quickly responded on Lily Holtje&#8217;s solo shot in the bottom of the third to go back in front 2-1 and ECU would have a chance to tie or take the lead with two runners in scoring position in the top of the fifth but back-to-back strikeouts ended the Pirates&#8217; bid in the inning.<\/p>\n<p>FAU loaded the bases and drew a walk to extend its lead to 3-1 in the bottom of the fifth and added seven runs in the bottom of the sixth to end the game.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ecupirates.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/sydney-rainford\/14100\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14100\" target=\"_blank\">Sydney Rainford<\/a> (5-3) took the loss while Autumn Courtney (9-4) picked up the win and Ainsley Lambert earned her sixth save of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Up Next<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nEast Carolina will look to come back and win the series in tomorrow&#8217;s doubleheader against the Owls at 11 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Boca Raton, Fla. \u2013\u00a0The East Carolina softball team fell in its series opener to Florida Atlantic, losing 10-1&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-191070","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\/191070","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=191070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}