{"id":166054,"date":"2026-02-15T21:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T21:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/166054\/"},"modified":"2026-02-15T21:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T21:55:08","slug":"utep-and-nmsu-host-early-season-softball-tournament-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/166054\/","title":{"rendered":"UTEP and NMSU host early season softball tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Texas (KFOX 14, CBS 4) \u2014 College softball season is officially here and on President&#8217;s Day Weekend both UTEP and New Mexico State hosted softball tournaments, featuring some of top teams from around the country. <\/p>\n<p>UTEP is hosting the Dr. Diana Natalicio Memorial Tournament at the Helen of Troy Softball Complex. On Friday, the Miners faced off against Minnesota and Idaho State in a double header. The Miners would drop both ball games, falling 8-6 to Minnesota in their opener. Later in the afternoon, UTEP saw an early lead vanish as Idaho State came back to win 5-3. <\/p>\n<p>Over in Las Cruces in the Troy Cox Classic, NMSU kicked off the day against #3 Oklahoma. The Sooners, who are only two years removed from a national title, proved to be too much for the Aggies taking them down 18-6. However, NMSU would bounce back in their second game of the day getting the best of Montana 8-3. <\/p>\n<p>Both tournaments will roll on through Sunday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KFOX 14, CBS 4) \u2014 College softball season is officially here and on President&#8217;s Day&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":165255,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-166054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/165255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}