{"id":265515,"date":"2026-04-25T05:57:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-25T05:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/265515\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T05:57:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T05:57:12","slug":"softball-falls-to-wichita-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/265515\/","title":{"rendered":"Softball Falls to Wichita State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DENTON \u2013\u00a0UNT softball lost 9-2 in game one of its American Conference series against Wichita State on Friday night at Lovelace Stadium.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nNorth Texas (27-22, 14-8) salvaged a pair of solo home runs from freshmen <a href=\"https:\/\/meangreensports.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/eva-daniels\/7618\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7618\" target=\"_blank\">Eva Daniels<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/meangreensports.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/kaycee-slovak\/7619\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7619\" target=\"_blank\">Kaycee Slovak<\/a> while the Shockers (30-15, 16-6) dropped three long balls.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nBoth Daniels and Slovak connected for their first career home runs at Lovelace Stadium as Daniels posted her fourth of the season in the third inning while Slovak staved off a run-rule loss with her third of the season in the sixth.<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> (L, 12-7) was charged with the decision as <a href=\"https:\/\/meangreensports.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/kayleigh-smith\/7377\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7377\" target=\"_blank\">Kayleigh Smith<\/a> spun her second-longest outing of the season with three innings pitched and posted two strikeouts.<\/p>\n<p>The Mean Green meet Wichita State for game two on Saturday at 2 p.m. with streaming coverage on ESPN+. Standing room only tickets for Saturday&#8217;s game are available\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/northtex.as\/SBtix26\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DENTON \u2013\u00a0UNT softball lost 9-2 in game one of its American Conference series against Wichita State on Friday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":{"0":"post-265515","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\/265515","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=265515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}