{"id":237604,"date":"2026-04-19T04:54:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T04:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/237604\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T04:54:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T04:54:26","slug":"softball-drops-series-finale-at-miami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/237604\/","title":{"rendered":"Softball Drops Series Finale at Miami"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OXFORD, Ohio &#8211; &#8211; Sophomore shortstop\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ballstatesports.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/addison-zimpleman\/12889\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"12889\" target=\"_blank\">Addison Zimpleman<\/a>\u00a0blasted her third home run of the season to tie the score at 1-1 in the top of the second in Ball State softball&#8217;s series finale at Miami.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nUnfortunately, the RedHawks (33-14, 14-7 Mid-American Conference) responded with eight runs over the final three innings to secure a 9-1 (5) victory over the Cardinals (17-25; 4-17 MAC).<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nZimpleman provided two of Ball State&#8217;s four hits in Saturday&#8217;s series finale at the Miami Softball Stadium, adding a single through the left side to open the fourth.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nBSU&#8217;s other two hits were a third inning double from senior right fielder\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ballstatesports.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/hayley-urban\/12878\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"12878\" target=\"_blank\">Hayley Urban<\/a>\u00a0and a fifth-inning single from sophomore left fielder\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ballstatesports.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/jordyn-thurman\/12885\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"12885\" target=\"_blank\">Jordyn Thurman<\/a>.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Ball State softball team closes the home portion of its 2026 slate next weekend with a three-game series versus Kent State. The teams are currently scheduled to play a 3 p.m. game Friday and a 1 p.m. doubleheader Saturday at the Ball State Softball Stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OXFORD, Ohio &#8211; &#8211; Sophomore shortstop\u00a0Addison Zimpleman\u00a0blasted her third home run of the season to tie the score&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":237605,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-237604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237604","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=237604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}