{"id":166931,"date":"2026-02-16T18:15:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T18:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/166931\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T18:15:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T18:15:12","slug":"hallsvilles-matt-houston-homers-twice-in-louisiana-tech-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/166931\/","title":{"rendered":"Hallsville\u2019s Matt Houston homers twice in Louisiana Tech win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">RUSTON, La. (KLTV) &#8211; Former Hallsville Bobcat Matt Houston hit two home runs in his season debut on Sunday in Louisiana Tech\u2019s 11-0 win over Houston Christian. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Bulldogs swept the Huskies in a four-game series. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Houston started at catcher and batted eighth. He was 4-for-4 with three RBI and two runs. In the second inning, Houston took the second pitch he saw over the right-field wall for a 371-foot home run to put the Bulldogs up 4-0. In the sixth inning, Houston hit his second homer of the game over the center-field wall. His second home run went 455 feet with an exit velocity of 105 mph. This blast put the Bulldogs up 6-0. In the seventh inning, Houston singled through the left side to bring in Hayden Gustavson to make it 9-0 Bulldogs. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Louisiana Tech hosts McNeese on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KLTV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RUSTON, La. (KLTV) &#8211; Former Hallsville Bobcat Matt Houston hit two home runs in his season debut on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166932,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1816,20831,66316,56,47269,58,57,25288,67737,1771],"class_list":["post-166931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-baseball","tag-beastexas","tag-hallsville","tag-houston","tag-houston-christian","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-louisiana-tech","tag-matt-houston","tag-ncaa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166931","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=166931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}