{"id":278415,"date":"2026-05-04T17:43:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T17:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/278415\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T17:43:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T17:43:12","slug":"hallsvilles-matt-houston-hits-9th-home-run-in-louisiana-tech-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/278415\/","title":{"rendered":"Hallsville\u2019s Matt Houston hits 9th home run in Louisiana Tech loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">DALLAS (KLTV) &#8211; Former Hallsville Bobcat Matt Houston hit his ninth home run of the season in Louisiana Tech\u2019s 9-7 loss to Dallas Baptist on Sunday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The senior is hitting .329 this season with 15 RBI and 16 runs. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Houston started at first base and batted sixth. He went 2-for-3 with a walk, two RBI and three runs. In the eighth inning, Houston hit a solo home run over the left field wall that traveled 385 feet. In the ninth inning, Houston added an RBI with a sacrifice fly to left field, scoring Eli Berch. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Louisiana Tech (28-21, 15-9) plays Northwestern State at home on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KLTV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DALLAS (KLTV) &#8211; Former Hallsville Bobcat Matt Houston hit his ninth home run of the season in Louisiana&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278416,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1816,20831,34026,66316,56,58,57,25288,67737,1771],"class_list":["post-278415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-baseball","tag-beastexas","tag-dallas-baptist","tag-hallsville","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-louisiana-tech","tag-matt-houston","tag-ncaa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278415","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=278415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}