{"id":267865,"date":"2026-04-27T05:33:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T05:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/267865\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T05:33:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T05:33:18","slug":"softball-closes-home-schedule-with-senior-day-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/267865\/","title":{"rendered":"Softball Closes Home Schedule with Senior Day Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DENTON \u2013\u00a0UNT softball suffered its first American Conference series sweep of the season as it fell 8-2 against Wichita State on Sunday at Lovelace Stadium.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n&#8220;We&#8217;ve got to take ownership of [our performance] and that&#8217;s the next step,&#8221; head coach <a href=\"https:\/\/meangreensports.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/coaches\/cody-white\/963\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"963\" target=\"_blank\">Cody White<\/a> said. &#8220;It didn&#8217;t play out the way we envisioned it obviously, but Wichita State has a really good team. We&#8217;ve got to be able to set up better and we&#8217;ve got to be able to keep the ball in the yard a little bit more. But all credit to them because they came ready to play.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Mean Green (27-24, 14-10) had not been swept in a conference series since May 3, 2025, before Sunday&#8217;s loss to the first-placed Shockers (32-15, 18-6) with three regular season games remaining on the league schedule.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nNorth Texas will enter the final weekend with a one-game lead for third place over East Carolina as finishing in third or fourth place holds automatic advancement into the American Conference Championship Quarterfinals.<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> helped UNT take an early one-run lead with a solo home run in the bottom of the first. The home run marked her 16th of the season which moved her into a three-way tie for fourth place on the single-season leaderboard with a pair of seasons from former teammate Kailey Gamble.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nShe would later score the only additional run for the Mean Green on a wild inning-ending double play in the fourth inning.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nIn the third, the Shockers responded with a four-run inning which featured a pair of home runs before doubling the lead over the next three frames.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Mean Green visit championship contender South Florida for its final American Conference series of the season, beginning Thursday at 5:05 p.m. CT from USF Softball Stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DENTON \u2013\u00a0UNT softball suffered its first American Conference series sweep of the season as it fell 8-2 against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-267865","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\/267865","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=267865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}