{"id":218162,"date":"2026-04-04T00:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T00:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/218162\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T00:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T00:54:09","slug":"dolphins-drop-opener-to-fgcu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/218162\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolphins Drop Opener To FGCU"},"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\/10\/Florida-Gulf-Coast.png\" alt=\"Florida Gulf Coast University\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Next Game:<\/p>\n<p> Florida Gulf Coast University<\/p>\n<p>4\/4\/2026 | 2:00 PM<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                    Apr. 04 (Sat) \/ 2:00 PM&#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\/10\/Florida-Gulf-Coast.png\" alt=\"Florida Gulf Coast University\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                        \u00a0Florida Gulf Coast University&#13;\n                    <\/p>\n<p>                             &#13;<\/p>\n<p>                    JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2013 In the first of three meetings with visiting FGCU, the Jacksonville Dolphins fell 8-3.<\/p>\n<p>The loss moved JU to 21-15 and 6-4 in conference play, snapping a four-game conference win streak.<\/p>\n<p>Florida Gulf Coast jumped ahead early, taking a 6-0 lead after three innings. As per usual, graduate catcher <a href=\"https:\/\/judolphins.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/sarah-beth-brake\/8624\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"8624\" target=\"_blank\">Sarah Beth Brake<\/a> got the &#8216;Phins on the board with an RBI-single in the bottom of the same frame. FGCU tacked on a pair more in the sixth before it was Brake&#8217;s turn again to score runners, this time behind a 2-RBI double to center.<\/p>\n<p>Brake&#8217;s two hits led the team, part of a seven-hit night for the Dolphins that tied the output by the visitors. She also tied the game-high in RBIs with three. Brake now has hits in eight straight conference games, including four multi-hit affairs. The graduate has 10 RBIs and three triples in those games.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/judolphins.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/jaida-thomas\/8618\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"8618\" target=\"_blank\">Jaida Thomas<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/judolphins.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/emma-mansfield\/8625\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"8625\" target=\"_blank\">Emma Mansfield<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/judolphins.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/vic-brunette\/8622\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"8622\" target=\"_blank\">Vic Brunette<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/judolphins.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/kate-linkletter\/8621\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"8621\" target=\"_blank\">Kate Linkletter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/judolphins.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/reese-wells\/7192\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7192\" target=\"_blank\">Reese Wells<\/a> all added hits of their own. Six strikeouts and eight runners left on base stalled much of the momentum JU tried to build through the course of the game.<\/p>\n<p>The Dolphins used four arms in the circle, seeing 3 1\/3 innings from <a href=\"https:\/\/judolphins.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/margaret-jenkins\/8619\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"8619\" target=\"_blank\">Margaret Jenkins<\/a>. Jenkins, Wells and <a href=\"https:\/\/judolphins.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/karson-johnson\/7666\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7666\" target=\"_blank\">Karson Johnson<\/a> all picked up a strikeout during Friday night&#8217;s contest.<\/p>\n<p>Jacksonville and Florida Gulf Coast close the series Saturday, April 4, starting with a first pitch at 2 p.m. Saturday&#8217;s games also serve as Military Appreciation Day.<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; Next Game: Florida Gulf Coast University 4\/4\/2026 | 2:00 PM &#13; Apr. 04 (Sat) \/&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218163,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-218162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218162","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=218162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}