{"id":253364,"date":"2026-05-01T03:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T03:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/253364\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T03:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T03:05:08","slug":"softball-loses-series-opener-at-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/253364\/","title":{"rendered":"Softball Loses Series Opener at South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"

TAMPA, Fla. \u2013\u00a0Mean Green softball lost its series opener 5-4 to South Florida on Thursday night at USF Softball Stadium.
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\nNorth Texas (27-25, 14-11) held a 4-1 lead entering the bottom of the sixth inning before the Bulls (38-15, 19-6) tied the game with a trio of runs in the frame. In the seventh, USF collected a leadoff double before an errant throw on a sacrifice bunt scored the game-winning run.
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\nStarting pitcher Anneca Anderson<\/a> (ND) gave up four runs on eight hits and three walks with one strikeout before Britney Lewinski<\/a> (L, 14-13) was saddled with the decision on one unearned run.
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\nThe Mean Green overcame an early one-run deficit with a parade of hits in the second inning as Ariah Mitchell<\/a> tied the game at 1-1 with an RBI double before Riley McNemar<\/a> ripped an RBI single into left-center field to take the lead.
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\nAnderson held the Bulls scoreless for the subsequent four innings before UNT doubled its lead in the sixth when a pair of throwing errors led to Eva Daniels<\/a> and Madison Conley<\/a> scoring a pair of unearned runs.
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\nBoth Bradi Harman<\/a> and Blayze McNemar<\/a> collected multi-hit games as Harman dropped her 12th double of the season. She is tied for the 10th most doubles in single-season program history as she chases Conley, who is tied for third at 14.
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\nUNT meets South Florida for game two Friday at 3:05 p.m. CT on ESPN+ from USF Softball Stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. \u2013\u00a0Mean Green softball lost its series opener 5-4 to South Florida on Thursday night at USF…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253365,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-253364","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\/253364","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=253364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}