{"id":275941,"date":"2026-05-02T12:12:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T12:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/275941\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T12:12:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T12:12:19","slug":"softball-suffers-walk-off-loss-university-of-north-texas-athletics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/275941\/","title":{"rendered":"Softball Suffers Walk-Off Loss &#8211; University of North Texas Athletics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA, Fla. \u2013\u00a0UNT softball suffered a 2-1 loss against South Florida at USF Softball Stadium on Friday.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nAfter consecutive walk-off losses to USF (39-15, 20-6), the Mean Green (27-26) dropped to 14-12 in American Conference play and into fourth place in the league as it trails ECU (14-11) by a 1\/2 game.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nStarting pitcher <a href=\"https:\/\/meangreensports.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/britney-lewinski\/7613\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7613\" target=\"_blank\">Britney Lewinski<\/a> (L, 14-14) was charged with the hard-luck loss as she held the Bulls to two runs on six hits and two hits with three strikeouts over 6 2\/3 innings and 90 pitches. Seven of the previous 10 North Texas games have been decided by two or fewer runs, including three one-run losses.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/meangreensports.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/riley-mcnemar\/7372\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7372\" target=\"_blank\">Riley McNemar<\/a> shined as she posted a lineout double play from third base in the first inning and tied the game with a leadoff home run in the seventh. The solo blast was her fifth of the season and 13th of her career.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nThe Mean Green outhit USF 7-6 to mark only its fourth loss of the season when it collects more hits than its opponent.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nLeadoff hitter <a href=\"https:\/\/meangreensports.com\/sports\/softball\/roster\/kaycee-slovak\/7619\" rel=\"smarttag nofollow noopener\" rev=\"7619\" target=\"_blank\">Kaycee Slovak<\/a> joined McNemar as the only UNT players who finished with multiple hits in the game. Slovak&#8217;s two hits included her 10th double of the season which tied for third place in UNT freshman history, matching first-year marks from Lindsay Gregory (2017) and Harley Parella (2016).<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nIn total, North Texas stranded seven runners on base including two in the first, fourth and seventh innings while USF only left two on base for the day.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nUNT closes the regular season with a Saturday matchup against the Bulls with first pitch scheduled for 11:05 a.m. CT from USF Softball Stadium with streaming coverage on ESPN+.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. \u2013\u00a0UNT softball suffered a 2-1 loss against South Florida at USF Softball Stadium on Friday. \u00a0&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":275942,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-275941","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\/275941","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=275941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}