{"id":244597,"date":"2026-04-11T03:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T03:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/244597\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T03:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T03:34:08","slug":"softball-wins-series-opener-over-ecu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/244597\/","title":{"rendered":"Softball Wins Series Opener Over ECU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DENTON \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/meangreensports.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/anneca-anderson\/7363\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7363\" target=\"_blank\">Anneca Anderson<\/a> tossed a seven-inning complete game as Mean Green softball captured a 5-1 win over ECU at Lovelace Stadium on Friday night.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nAnderson (W, 11-4) led UNT (23-18, 12-4) to its fifth American Conference series opening win of the season as she struck out five East Carolina (24-19, 8-8) batters including inning-ending strikeouts in the fifth and sixth.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nShe collected career win No. 25 in a Mean Green uniform as she tied for 10th place on the program&#8217;s all-time career leaderboard with current pitching coach McKenzie (Wagoner) Onyango. Anderson sits at 33 victories in her collegiate career after she tallied eight as a freshman at Tulsa in 2024.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nNorth Texas opened the scoring in the first inning after a sacrifice fly from <a href=\"https:\/\/meangreensports.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/elizabeth-moffitt\/7373\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7373\" target=\"_blank\">Elizabeth Moffitt<\/a> scored freshman <a href=\"https:\/\/meangreensports.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/eva-daniels\/7618\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7618\" target=\"_blank\">Eva Daniels<\/a>. The Mean Green improved to 11-4 when scoring in the first inning, including a 7-1 mark during conference play.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe two teams traded scoreless frames for the next three and a half innings before <a href=\"https:\/\/meangreensports.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/madison-conley\/7367\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7367\" target=\"_blank\">Madison Conley<\/a> posted an RBI double followed by Moffitt driving in pinch runner <a href=\"https:\/\/meangreensports.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/lianna-hull\/7617\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7617\" target=\"_blank\">Lianna Hull<\/a> on a first-pitch RBI single down the left field line.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nAfter a pitching change from the Pirates, <a href=\"https:\/\/meangreensports.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/bradi-harman\/7615\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7615\" target=\"_blank\">Bradi Harman<\/a> drove a two-run home run over the left field wall to give UNT a 5-0 lead. The home run marked the first for Harman at Lovelace Stadium and third overall of the season.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nCenterfielder <a href=\"https:\/\/meangreensports.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/taylor-platt\/7375\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7375\" target=\"_blank\">Taylor Platt<\/a> dazzled the home crowd with a running putout in the sixth after ECU broke up the shutout with a leadoff home run. With two outs in the frame, the Pirates loaded the bases before Anderson notched her fourth strikeout of the game to end the threat.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Mean Green finish the series with a Saturday doubleheader beginning at 11 a.m. with game three to follow approximately 30 minutes after the conclusion of game two. The game will be streamed on ESPN+ while fans can purchase tickets\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/northtex.as\/SBtix26\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DENTON \u2013\u00a0Anneca Anderson tossed a seven-inning complete game as Mean Green softball captured a 5-1 win over ECU&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-244597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244597","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=244597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}