{"id":804108,"date":"2026-05-18T02:18:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T02:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/804108\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T02:18:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T02:18:13","slug":"ucla-softball-pummels-south-carolina-advances-to-super-regional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/804108\/","title":{"rendered":"UCLA softball pummels South Carolina, advances to super regional"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Four <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/ucla\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UCLA<\/a> players hit home runs, helping the Bruins defeat South Carolina <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ncaa.com\/game\/6599808\/boxscore\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">15-1<\/a> on Sunday to win the Los Angeles NCAA regional at Easton Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>UCLA advances to the NCAA super regional round and will host Central Florida, which upset favored Florida State at the Seminoles\u2019 home stadium in Tallahassee, Fla. <\/p>\n<p>Bruins senior <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/ucla\/newsletter\/2026-05-04\/bruins-softball-megan-grant-jordan-woolery\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Megan Grant<\/a> hit a grand slam during the rout of South Carolina, extending her NCAA-record single season tally to 40 home runs.<\/p>\n<p>Grant is working to stay ahead of Oklahoma freshman Kendall Wells, who has 37 home runs, and retain the NCAA record she broke during the Big Ten conference title game.<\/p>\n<p>UCLA senior <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/ucla\/story\/2025-02-14\/taylor-tinsley-kaitlyn-terry-ucla-softball\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Taylor Tinsley<\/a> gave up one run in six innings. <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/ucla\/story\/2026-05-16\/ucla-softball-ncaa-regional-california-baptist-recap\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">After surrendering 10 runs<\/a> in the regional opener, Tinsley bounced back with back-to-back victories to help extend UCLA\u2019s season.<\/p>\n<p>Check back soon for postgame updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Four UCLA players hit home runs, helping the Bruins defeat South Carolina 15-1 on Sunday to win the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":804109,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,326050,45983,23166,5949,327324,2961,224,327326,5337,1317,327327,327325,236596,18128,3036,36573,285525,327323],"class_list":["post-804108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-easton-stadium","tag-florida-state","tag-grand-slam","tag-home-run","tag-home-stadium","tag-la","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-ncaa-regional","tag-losangeles","tag-ncaa","tag-regional-opener","tag-regional-round","tag-rout","tag-seminoles","tag-south-carolina","tag-tallahassee","tag-ucla-advance","tag-ucla-softball"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116593184163397163","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/804109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}