{"id":266426,"date":"2026-04-26T00:03:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T00:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/266426\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T00:03:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T00:03:12","slug":"softball-drops-final-home-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/266426\/","title":{"rendered":"Softball Drops Final Home Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DENTON \u2013\u00a0Despite holding a three-run lead entering the sixth inning, Mean Green softball fell 6-4 to Wichita State at Lovelace Stadium on Saturday.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nUNT (27-23, 14-9) built its lead with a pair of two-run innings in the second and third frames before the Shockers (31-15, 17-6) responded with four runs in the sixth and an additional run in the seventh.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/meangreensports.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/britney-lewinski\/7613\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7613\" target=\"_blank\">Britney Lewinski<\/a> (L, 14-11) was tagged with the decision after she held Wichita State to two hits, three walks and one run with six strikeouts prior to the sixth inning. <a href=\"https:\/\/meangreensports.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/kayleigh-smith\/7377\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7377\" target=\"_blank\">Kayleigh Smith<\/a> entered in relief for the second-consecutive day as she threw 1 2\/3 innings and gave up one run on two hits and no walks with one strikeout.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nIn her first career start as the leadoff hitter, freshman <a href=\"https:\/\/meangreensports.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/kaycee-slovak\/7619\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7619\" target=\"_blank\">Kaycee Slovak<\/a> tallied her second two-hit game of the weekend as she gave UNT a 2-1 lead with an RBI double in the second inning.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nSophomore <a href=\"https:\/\/meangreensports.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/ariah-mitchell\/7614\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7614\" target=\"_blank\">Ariah Mitchell<\/a> collected her 12th multi-hit game of the season as she scored the first run of the game for the Mean Green in the second before she dropped an RBI single in the third.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nNorth Texas closes the home schedule against Wichita State on Sunday at noon with streaming coverage on ESPN+. Lewinski, Smith and <a href=\"https:\/\/meangreensports.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/riley-mcnemar\/7372\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7372\" target=\"_blank\">Riley McNemar<\/a> will be recognized in a postgame Senior Day ceremony. Standing room only tickets for Sunday will be available at the Lovelace Stadium ticket office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DENTON \u2013\u00a0Despite holding a three-run lead entering the sixth inning, Mean Green softball fell 6-4 to Wichita State&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":{"0":"post-266426","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\/266426","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=266426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}