{"id":238064,"date":"2026-04-19T18:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T18:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/238064\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T18:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T18:08:08","slug":"pirates-fall-in-eight-innings-to-south-florida-3-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/238064\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates Fall In Eight Innings To South Florida, 3-1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GREENVILLE, N.C. \u2013\u00a0The East Carolina softball team dropped its series finale with South Florida on Sunday afternoon, falling 3-1 in eight innings at Max R. Joyner Family 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 (27-22, 11-10 American) with a hit and an RBI but South Florida&#8217;s two runs in the top of the eighth inning proved to be too much for ECU to overcome.<\/p>\n<p>After USF scored first in the top of the first inning, ECU tied the game at 1-1 on Anderson&#8217;s RBI single that score <a href=\"https:\/\/ecupirates.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/mary-kathryn-scott\/14088\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"14088\" target=\"_blank\">Mary-Kathryn Scott<\/a> in the bottom of the third.<\/p>\n<p>Like most of the series had gone, the next four innings were a pitchers&#8217; duel until the Bulls struck with an RBI double and capitalized on an ECU error that eventually scored USF&#8217;s third run of the game.<\/p>\n<p>Three of ECU&#8217;s four batters were retired in the bottom of the eighth to end the game.<\/p>\n<p>Up Next<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nEast Carolina visits Tulsa next weekend for a three-game series beginning on Friday at 6 p.m. on ESPN+.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GREENVILLE, N.C. \u2013\u00a0The East Carolina softball team dropped its series finale with South Florida on Sunday afternoon, falling&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238065,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-238064","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\/238064","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=238064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}