{"id":262164,"date":"2026-04-23T03:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T03:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/262164\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T03:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T03:47:08","slug":"softball-secures-win-in-final-midweek-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/262164\/","title":{"rendered":"Softball Secures Win in Final Midweek Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DENTON \u2013\u00a0Mean Green softball collected an 8-2 victory over Tarleton State in its final midweek contest of the season on Wednesday night at Lovelace Stadium.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nHead coach <a href=\"https:\/\/meangreensports.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/coaches\/cody-white\/963\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"963\" target=\"_blank\">Cody White<\/a> spoke to the importance of a bounce-back win after dropping an American Conference series at Memphis on Sunday.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n&#8220;Being able to get back on the winning track and get back to who we are,&#8221; White said. &#8220;So this was a big game, and we knew it was a big game coming in. We valued [this win] very highly.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nUNT (27-21) improved to 13-0 when scoring eight or more runs this season as it exploded for three home runs against the Texans (31-18) in the first home midweek game since March 25.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/meangreensports.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/madison-conley\/7367\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7367\" target=\"_blank\">Madison Conley<\/a> opened the scoring in the bottom of the first inning with her 15th home run of the season to mark the highest single-season total for the Mean Green since 2022 when Kailey Gamble finished with 16. Conley tied for second in program history as she reached the 15-home run mark in 48 games, trailing only Gamble (2022) at 46 games.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nTarleton State leveled the score in the top half of the second before <a href=\"https:\/\/meangreensports.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/elizabeth-moffitt\/7373\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7373\" target=\"_blank\">Elizabeth Moffitt<\/a> dropped a two-run home run for her 12th of the season which gave North Texas a 3-1 advantage. The Texans pulled back one run in the fifth but stranded its fourth of six runners on base to end the frame.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Mean Green took advantage as <a href=\"https:\/\/meangreensports.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/ariah-mitchell\/7614\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7614\" target=\"_blank\">Ariah Mitchell<\/a> drove in <a href=\"https:\/\/meangreensports.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/blayze-mcnemar\/7371\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7371\" target=\"_blank\">Blayze McNemar<\/a> with an RBI single in the fifth before Conley collected a two-out RBI double to push the lead to 5-2.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/meangreensports.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/bradi-harman\/7615\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7615\" target=\"_blank\">Bradi Harman<\/a> put the game out of reach with a three-run home run in the fifth which marked her fourth of the season and second at Lovelace Stadium.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nStarting pitcher <a href=\"https:\/\/meangreensports.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/anneca-anderson\/7363\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7363\" target=\"_blank\">Anneca Anderson<\/a> (W, 12-6) struck out seven batters over six innings pitched to match her third-highest total of the season and sixth-best mark of her career. Senior <a href=\"https:\/\/meangreensports.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/britney-lewinski\/7613\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7613\" target=\"_blank\">Britney Lewinski<\/a> recorded a perfect seventh inning as she struck out the side in order and locked down the victory.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nNorth Texas opens its final home series of the season against American Conference rivals Wichita State (27-15, 15-6) beginning on Friday at 6 p.m. 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\u00a0Mean Green softball collected an 8-2 victory over Tarleton State in its final midweek contest of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":{"0":"post-262164","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-texas","9":"tag-texas-headlines","10":"tag-texas-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262164","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=262164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}