{"id":237284,"date":"2026-04-18T21:21:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T21:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/237284\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T21:21:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T21:21:10","slug":"pirates-take-series-over-south-florida-on-parkers-walk-off-home-run-2-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/237284\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates Take Series Over South Florida On Parker&#8217;s Walk-Off Home Run, 2-1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GREENVILLE, N.C. \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ecupirates.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/erin-parker\/14095\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14095\" target=\"_blank\">Erin Parker<\/a> hit a walk-off solo home run as East Carolina outlasted South Florida, 2-1, to take the series over the Bulls on Saturday afternoon at Max R. Joyner Family Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Parker&#8217;s game-winning hit marked back-to-back games that the Pirates (27-21, 11-9 American) won on a walk-off home run after <a href=\"https:\/\/ecupirates.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/gabby-fowler\/14083\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14083\" target=\"_blank\">Gabby Fowler&#8217;s<\/a> in yesterday&#8217;s game.<\/p>\n<p>Fowler got ECU on the board first with an RBI double to score <a href=\"https:\/\/ecupirates.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/kanisha-anderson\/14080\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14080\" target=\"_blank\">Kanisha Anderson<\/a> in the bottom of the first and both teams&#8217; defenses held serve until a Pirate error allowed USF to tie the game in the top of the fifth.<\/p>\n<p>Neither team could score the go-ahead run until Parker stepped up to the plate to pinch hit\u00a0with two outs and sent the first pitch over the outfield wall.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ecupirates.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/taylor-apple\/14081\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14081\" target=\"_blank\">Taylor Apple<\/a> (5-3) picked up the win in relief of <a href=\"https:\/\/ecupirates.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/sydney-rainford\/14100\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14100\" target=\"_blank\">Sydney Rainford<\/a> while Belle Sardja (6-5) took the loss.<\/p>\n<p>Up Next<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nEast Carolina will go for the series sweep tomorrow morning at 10 a.m. on ESPN+. The game was moved up an hour due to the potential for inclement weather.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GREENVILLE, N.C. \u2013\u00a0Erin Parker hit a walk-off solo home run as East Carolina outlasted South Florida, 2-1, to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237285,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-237284","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\/237284","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=237284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}