{"id":265328,"date":"2026-04-25T03:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T03:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/265328\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T03:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T03:04:10","slug":"sb-cowgirls-win-opening-game-of-slc-series-at-east-texas-a-game-2-postponed-to-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/265328\/","title":{"rendered":"SB: Cowgirls Win Opening Game Of SLC Series at East Texas A&#038;M; Game 2 Postponed to Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/corpus_christi.png\" alt=\"Texas A&amp;M - Corpus Christi\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                Next Game:<\/p>\n<p>at Texas A&amp;M &#8211; Corpus Christi<\/p>\n<p>4\/11\/2026 | 12 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                        ESPN+  &#13;\n                    <\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                    Apr. 11 (Sat) \/ 12 p.m.&#13;\n                <\/p>\n<p>                    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-opponent-logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/corpus_christi.png\" alt=\"Texas A&amp;M - Corpus Christi\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                        at\u00a0Texas A&amp;M &#8211; Corpus Christi&#13;\n                    <\/p>\n<p>                    <a class=\"sidearm-story-template-next-game-details-history\" href=\"https:\/\/mcneesesports.com\/sports\/softball\/opponent-history\/texas-am-corpus-christi\/20\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">History <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                             &#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n                    COMMERCE, Texas&#8211;\u00a0 McNeese softball opened its series at East Texas A&amp;M with a 13-5 rune-rule win and held a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the fourth inning of the nightcap before the \u00a0game was postponed due to lightning delays.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Friday&#8217;s second game will resume at 11 a.m. Saturday morning with the series finale set to start 30 minutes following.<\/p>\n<p>McNeese (33-18, 16-9 SLC) scored 13 runs on 13 in the opening game.\u00a0 The loss drops East Texas A&amp;M to 6-44 overall and 1-24 in the SLC.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nTen Cowgirls picked up at least one hit in the game.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/mcneesesports.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/kassidy-chance\/11082\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"11082\" target=\"_blank\">Kassidy Chance<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/mcneesesports.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/maddie-weeks\/11143\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"11143\" target=\"_blank\">Maddie Weeks<\/a>, and Alana Daigle all led the Cowgirls with two hits apiece.\u00a0 Of the 13 hits eight were extra base hits including <a href=\"https:\/\/mcneesesports.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/jada-mu-ntilde-oz\/11062\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"11062\" target=\"_blank\">Jada Mu\u00f1oz&#8217;s<\/a> seventh homerun of the season.<\/p>\n<p>McNeese scored at least one run in each of the five inning and blew the game open with six runs in the fourth inning to lead 10-0 the added three more runs in the fifth.<\/p>\n<p>The Lions scored all five of their runs in the bottom of the fifth inning following a few Cowgirl pitching changes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mcneesesports.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/maddie-taylor\/11094\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"11094\" target=\"_blank\">Maddie Taylor<\/a> improved to 13-4 overall with the win.\u00a0 Taylor tossed four shutout innings and allowed four hits with one walk, and five strikeouts. \u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\nMcNeese took a 2-0 lead in the nightcap by scoring a single run in the second and one in the fourth before the game was postponed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mcneesesports.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/jada-mu-ntilde-oz\/11062\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"11062\" target=\"_blank\">Jada Mu\u00f1oz<\/a> reached base with a one out walk, stole second then went to third on a fly out by <a href=\"https:\/\/mcneesesports.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/corine-poncho\/11096\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"11096\" target=\"_blank\">Corine Poncho<\/a>.\u00a0 A wild pitch allowed Mu\u00f1oz to score for the 1-0 lead.<\/p>\n<p>McNeese got its second run of the game from a few Lion errors in the fourth inning that allowed <a href=\"https:\/\/mcneesesports.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/rylee-cloud\/11144\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"11144\" target=\"_blank\">Rylee Cloud<\/a> to score.<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>&#13;<br \/>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; 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