The Portland Cascade softball team wrapped up a three-game sweep over the Texas Volts with a 5-2 road win Sunday.<\/p>\n
The Cascade secured the win with a four-run burst in the fourth inning, moving into the lead when a Volts wild pitch allowed both Kendra Falby and Sis Bates to race home. Two batters later, Megan Grant skied a two-run homer to center field that glanced off a glove and bounced over the fence.<\/p>\n
She leads the AUSL with eight home runs. Grant homered in her first at-bat, as well, to give the Cascade an early 1-0 lead. <\/p>\n
Portland pitcher Carley Hoover came to the circle in the third inning and finished out the game, striking out five along the way.<\/p>\n
The Cascade (8-4) heads into the week in second place in the league — 1 game behind the Utah Talons.<\/p>\n
Portland travels to Chicago for a pair of games Tuesday and Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Portland Cascade softball team wrapped up a three-game sweep over the Texas Volts with a 5-2 road…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355416,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-355415","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\/355415","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=355415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}