{"id":364021,"date":"2026-07-07T14:28:26","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T14:28:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/364021\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T14:28:26","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T14:28:26","slug":"ausl-texas-volts-lose-road-series-on-chicago-bandits-over-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/364021\/","title":{"rendered":"AUSL: Texas Volts lose road series on Chicago Bandits over weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Texas Volts<\/a> had chances to win a road series over the weekend, but late runs and plays by the Chicago Bandits stole their fire and extended the Volts’ losing streak to seven.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Volts pitching combined for five strikeouts and their bats provided 10 hits\u00a0during the 3-2<\/a> and 2-1<\/a> losses Friday and Saturday. Texas’\u00a0Michaela Edenfield<\/a> and Rylie Boone had two hits each during Saturday’s 2-1 loss. Chicago is now 2\u00bd games behind the first-place Utah Talons<\/a> while the Volts are trying to salvage a season that is quickly coming to a close.\u00a0<\/p>\n

On Friday, the Bandits struck early on an RBI single from former Texas A&M<\/a> power hitter Mac Barbara<\/a>. Rookie Jackie Lis responded and continued to make the most of her first year with an RBI single to tie the game 1-1.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Pitcher Ally Carda got the Friday start for the Volts and allowed three runs through 4\u2153 innings. Lexi Kilfoyl threw a complete game and had four strikeouts and allowed two runs. Volts reliever Aliyah Binford<\/a> pitched three innings and struck out two.\u00a0<\/p>\n

For three scoreless frames, it was tied 1-1. In the top of the eighth Dejah Mulipola’s RBI double put the Volts ahead 2-1. However, Texas’ pitching was its undoing when Sami Williams<\/a>, one of two Bandits hitting above .500, walked it off with a two-run homer in the bottom of the inning after Carda had returned to the game. \u00a0<\/p>\n

The Volts had a chance to even the series Saturday and it was scoreless through the first two innings. But former Texas player Bella Dayton<\/a> scored on a Barbara fielder’s choice in the bottom of the third for the 1-0 lead. Edenfield evened it in the fifth with an RBI single, but Wallace struck again later with an RBI triple for the 2-1 win.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Volts had a chance to tie the game in the bottom of the seventh and send it to extra innings again because outfielder Jessica Clements bobbled<\/a> the catch. The initial call of “out” was upheld after a Texas challenge.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Volts will look to avoid the sweep Monday night before they come for its final five home games against the Carolina Blaze and OKC Spark.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Texas Volts had chances to win a road series over the weekend, but late runs and plays…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":364022,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[56518,132,134,133,6385,53535],"class_list":["post-364021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-ausl","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-chicago-bulls","tag-texas-volts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364021","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=364021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}