{"id":238112,"date":"2026-04-19T19:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T19:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/238112\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T19:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T19:22:09","slug":"no-12-softball-completes-senior-weekend-sweep-against-unc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/238112\/","title":{"rendered":"No. 12 Softball Completes Senior Weekend Sweep Against UNC"},"content":{"rendered":"

TALLAHASSEE \u2014 The No. 12 Florida State softball team (39-7, 15-3 ACC) closed out its Senior Weekend in dominant fashion Sunday, defeating North Carolina (31-14, 9-12 ACC), 10-2, in five innings to secure the series sweep. The Seminoles improved to 81-27 all-time against the Tar Heels.
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\nJazzy Francik<\/a> (17-2) earned the win, striking out three over 3.1 innings while allowing four hits and three walks. Ashtyn Danley<\/a> and Makenna Reid<\/a> combined in relief to keep North Carolina in check, with Danley delivering a key strikeout to halt a Tar Heels rally and Reid allowing just one hit in 1.1 innings.
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\nAt the plate, the Seminoles strung together timely hits throughout the afternoon. Isa Torres<\/a> continued her standout season with another multi-hit performance, while Bella Ruggiero<\/a> drove in an early run to extend her recent surge. Danley provided the biggest moment of the game. The junior went 2-for-4 with a career-high five RBIs, including a three-run home run during the fourth inning that broke the game open.
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\nFlorida State struck first in the opening inning when Torres singled, reached second on a passed ball and scored on Ruggiero’s RBI single.
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\nNorth Carolina answered in the third on a Lexie Roberts RBI single, but Francik limited the damage with a strikeout with the bases loaded to keep the game tied at 1-1. The Seminoles seized control in the fourth. Consecutive hits from Ruggiero and Kennedy Harp<\/a> set the stage for a two-run single from Hayley Griggs<\/a>. Jaysoni Beachum<\/a> followed with an RBI single before Danley’s three-run home run pushed the lead to 7-1.
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\nNorth Carolina added a run in the fifth on a home run by Emily LeGette, but Florida State quickly responded. A Harp double, a single from Griggs, and a Torres walk left the bases loaded, and a Beachum walk scored Angelee Bueno<\/a>. With the bases still loaded Danley smashed a single to left field running in Griggs and Torres, ending the game 10-2.
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\nFlorida State returns to JoAnne Graf Field on Wednesday at 6 p.m. to face No. 7 Florida in its final home game of the regular season.
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\nSCORING SUMMARY:
\nB1 | FSU 1, UNC 0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ruggiero single, Torres scored
\nT3 | FSU 1, UNC 1 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Roberts single, Jennings scored
\nB4 | FSU 3, UNC 1 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Griggs single, Ruggiero and Harp scored
\nB4 | FSU 4, UNC 1 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Beachum single, Griggs scored
\nB4 | FSU 7, UNC 1 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Danley homered, Torres and Beachum scored
\nT5 | FSU 7, UNC 2 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 LeGette homered
\nB5 | FSU 8, UNC 2 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Beachum walked, Bueno scored
\nB5 | FSU 10, UNC 2 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Danley single, Griggs and Torres scored
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\nOf Note <\/p>\n


\n\tAshtyn Danley<\/a> hit a three-run home run for the second consecutive game in the bottom of the fourth inning. Danley had a career-high five RBI.
\n\tIn her last 10 games, Danley has three home runs with 16 RBI while hitting .472.
\n\tIsa Torres<\/a><\/a> went 2-for-2 for her 24th multi-hit game of the season. Torres still leads the country with a .589 batting average.\u00a0
\n\tJaysoni Beachum<\/a><\/a> hit a RBI single in the fourth inning and has now reached base safely in 34 consecutive games which is the fifth-longest streak in FSU history.
\n\tBeachum picked up two more RBI to push her career RBI total to 164 which ranks eighth all-time in FSU history.
\n\tBella Ruggiero<\/a><\/a> drove in a run in the bottom of the first to put the Noles up 1-0 and has now recorded a RBI in her last six games.
\n\tJazzy Francik<\/a> picked up her 16th win of the season after going 3.1 innings and allowing just one earned run on four hits.\u00a0
\n\tUNC came into the series averaging 8.57 runs per game which was first in the ACC and sixth in the entire country. FSU’s pitching staff held the Tar Heels to just seven runs combined in the series.\u00a0
\n\tFSU scored one run in the first inning and has now outscored its opponents 63-19 in the first inning. FSU improved to 23-2 when it scores in the first inning.
\n\tFSU has won 25 out of the last 28 meetings against the Tar Heels.\u00a0
\n\tFSU has won 41 out of its last 44 regular season games at JoAnne Graf Field. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TALLAHASSEE \u2014 The No. 12 Florida State softball team (39-7, 15-3 ACC) closed out its Senior Weekend in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238113,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-238112","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\/238112","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=238112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}