{"id":229727,"date":"2026-04-01T05:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T05:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/229727\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T05:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T05:04:09","slug":"houston-leads-early-islanders-fall-in-non-conference-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/229727\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston leads early, Islanders fall in non-conference game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 The Corpus Christi Islanders hosted Houston for a non-conference softball game on Tuesday. The Cougars scored 6 runs in the top of the first. The Islanders responded in the bottom from scoring 1 run, but that would be the final 6-1.<\/p>\n<p>Makenna Mitchell led Houston. She went 2-for-3 at the plate, scoring 1 run and 2 RBI. Islanders&#8217; Skyler Hager brought in the lone RBI for Corpus Christi. Veterans Memorial grad Jada Zepeda sprinted from second home.<\/p>\n<p>Islanders pitcher Josie Whitehead entered the game in the top of the first in relief. She only allowed 4 hits and 4 walks, while striking out 3 batters through 6.1 innings.<\/p>\n<p>The Islanders go to Lamar University in Beaumont for a 3-game Southland Conference series, starting with a double-header on Friday at noon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 The Corpus Christi Islanders hosted Houston for a non-conference softball game on Tuesday. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229728,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[13723,155,157,156,56,18827,88830,26793],"class_list":["post-229727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-13723","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news","tag-houston","tag-islanders","tag-jada-zepeda","tag-softball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229727","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=229727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}