{"id":273866,"date":"2026-05-17T00:15:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T00:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/273866\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T00:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T00:15:08","slug":"danleys-career-day-lifts-no-9-softball-to-regional-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/273866\/","title":{"rendered":"Danley’s Career Day Lifts No. 9 Softball to Regional Final"},"content":{"rendered":"

TALLAHASSEE\u00a0– The No. 9 Florida State softball team defeated Stetson by a final score of 11-3 on Saturday afternoon at the Seminole Softball Complex. The Seminoles (51-9) advance to the regional final with the victory while the Hatters’ (37-21) postseason run comes to an end.
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\nFlorida State extends its all-time record over Stetson to 18-2 with a 12-1 mark in Tallahassee after falling in the regional opener yesterday.\u00a0
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\nThe Garnet and Gold offense showed no signs of slowing down after the previous win over Jacksonville State. Florida State managed 11 runs on 16 hits and drew two walks. Nine Seminoles recorded a hit in the win.\u00a0
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\nJunior Ashtyn Danley<\/a> put together one of the best games of her college career thus far, shining as a two-way player against the Hatters. Danley bested her career high at the plate with four hits, three of which were home runs. It is her first multi-home run game of her career, and she is the first Nole to hit three home runs in a single game since Sydney Sherrill did so on May 7, 2022 against NC State. She also plated a career-best four runs and tied her career-high with five RBI.\u00a0
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\nJunior Jaysoni Beachum<\/a> hit a major milestone in her college career after hammering her first career grand slam in the second inning, breaking open the game for the Seminoles. Other notable performances included junior Isa Torres<\/a> who went 3-for-5 at the plate with a double; Anna Hinde<\/a>, who went 2-for-2 with a run driven in; and senior Madi Frey<\/a>, who singled twice and pulled off two thrilling catches in foul territory while at catcher.\u00a0
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\nDanley (13-1) and freshman pitcher Bella Dimitrijevic<\/a> held down the circle for Florida State, contributing three and four innings respectively to hold Stetson to three runs on six hits while striking out four.\u00a0
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\nThe momentum from the win over Jacksonville State rolled over into the second game as the Seminoles struck in the top of the first. Torres doubled into left field and moved to third as Danley ripped a single to the pitcher. An RBI single into shallow left from Hinde pushed Torres home to open the scoring, and Danley plated the second run after beating the throw home on a fielder’s choice by Ruggiero.\u00a0
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\nThe Seminole bats erupted in the second inning with six consecutive hits. Griggs, Sturgis and Torres each singled to load the basepath, setting the table for Beachum to crush the first grand slam of her career over right field. Two pitches later, Danley broke into double-digit home runs with a solo shot over right field to extend the lead to 7-0.
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\nThe Hatters responded in the bottom of the third with two runs, and added another on in the bottom of the fourth. Florida State punched back in the top of the fifth after Danley hammered her second home run over center, scoring junior Angelee Bueno<\/a> to cushion the lead at 9-3. Two innings later, Danley would pound her third home run of the game narrowly over left field, scoring Bueno and putting an exclamation mark on the win.
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\nFlorida State will meet unbeaten UCF in the regional final tomorrow at noon, followed by a game at 2:30 p.m. if necessary.\u00a0 The full schedule for the Tallahassee Regional, as well as team information, can be found here<\/a>. \u00a0
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\nSCORING SUMMARY
\nT1 | FSU 1, STET 0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Hinde singled, Torres scored\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0
\nT1 | FSU 2, STET 0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Ruggiero reached on a fielder’s choice, Danley scored
\nT2 | FSU 6, STET 0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Beachum hit a grand slam; Griggs, Sturgis and Torres scored
\nT2 | FSU 7, STET 0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Danley homered
\nB3 | FSU 7, STET 1 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Edmiaston homered
\nB3 | FSU 7, STET 2 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Garcia doubled, McClerren scored
\nB4 | FSU 7, STET 3 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Napoli walked, Forman scored
\nT5 | FSU 9, STET 3 Danley homered, Bueno scored
\nT7 | FSU 11, STET 3 Danley homered, Bueno scored
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\nOf Note<\/p>\n


\n\tFSU eclipsed the 50-win mark for the eighth time in Coach Alameda’s career at FSU and the 23rd time in school history.
\n\tFSU has now reached the NCAA Regional Final in 13-consecutive seasons.\u00a0
\n\tAshtyn Danley<\/a> had three home runs today. Danley joins Sydney Sherrill as the only two Seminoles to hit three home runs in a game. Sherrill had three home runs against NC State on May 7, 2022.
\n\tIsa Torres<\/a> has reached 97 hits this season after her three-hit performance against Stetson. Torres is just three hits away from breaking Danielle Cox’s single-season record of 99 hits.
\n\tTorres’ double pushes her career total to 49, ranking sixth all-time in FSU history.
\n\tTorres’ double against Stetson marks her 21st double of the season which ranks third all time for a single season.
\n\tTorres extended her FSU\u00a0record run\u00a0total to 78.
\n\tJaysoni Beachum’s<\/a> grand slam served as her 37th career home run, ranking seventh in FSU history. It was Beachum’s first career grand slam.
\n\tBeachum<\/a>\u00a0has now reached base safely in 48-consecutive games which is the second-longest streak in FSU history behind Maddie O’Brien’s 50-game streak.\u00a0
\n\tJaysoni Beachum’s<\/a> 4 RBI performance puts her at 69 total RBI for the season, ranking fourth in FSU history. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TALLAHASSEE\u00a0– The No. 9 Florida State softball team defeated Stetson by a final score of 11-3 on Saturday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273867,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-273866","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\/273866","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=273866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}