Britney Lewinski was on a roll in 2022 when she was getting her start in college softball.<\/p>\n
Lewinski was pitching for Seminole State at the junior college level and took on Oklahoma in a fall game, long before the season began and the games counted.<\/p>\n
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\u201cThey were my first Division I team I faced when I was in JUCO,\u201d Lewinski recalled Monday. \u201cI did pretty well. It was 2-1 through the fifth, then I threw two down the middle, gave up two home runs and got pulled.\u201d<\/p>\n
The chance to face a national power like the Sooners is memorable for players like Lewinski, who could get another shot at the Sooners on Tuesday when North Texas hosts the No. 6 team in the country. The 6 p.m. game at Lovelace Stadium will be one of the highlights of UNT\u2019s home schedule in its first season under new coach Cody White.<\/p>\n
The game sold out in a matter of minutes.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are extremely excited about playing them at home,\u201d White said. \u201cMy first home game here was amazing because of the atmosphere. I can only imagine what this one is going to be like.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s going to be loud.\u201d<\/p>\n
That has been the case when Oklahoma has played UNT at Lovelace Stadium in the past. The Sooners beat the Mean Green 10-0 in six innings in the teams\u2019 last meeting in Denton in 2022.<\/p>\n
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UNT (10-12) has already faced national powers Texas Tech and Mississippi State. The Mean Green fell to Texas Tech 10-2 in their opener that lasted just five innings.<\/p>\n UNT fared much better over the weekend and lost 7-2.<\/p>\n The Mean Green are hoping that trend of improvement continues when they host the Sooners. Oklahoma is 19-2 on the season and has won eight straight games.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have grown from playing teams like Tech,\u201d Lewinski said. \u201cThe first time, I wouldn\u2019t say that we were scared. We got thrown into the fire right away. The last time we played them, we were ready to go.\u201d<\/p>\n UNT\u2019s performance bodes well for a game that will be played in what is expected to be an electric environment.<\/p>\n \u201cI am excited about the atmosphere,\u201d UNT third baseman Riley McNemar said. \u201cThere will be a lot of people here.\u201d<\/p>\n UNT will lean on a handful of veterans to lead the way against the Sooners, including Lewinski, who allowed four runs on eight hits and two walks in 4 1\/3 innings against the Sooners when she pitched for Seminole State.<\/p>\n Catcher Elizabeth Moffitt and outfielder Madison Conley are both off to hot starts for UNT and give the Mean Green a veteran presence. Moffitt is hitting .460, while Conley is sitting at .379. The juniors have long been mainstays in UNT\u2019s lineup.<\/p>\n \u201cWe know it\u2019s going to be a tough challenge,\u201d White said. \u201cThey\u2019re obviously a talented ball club that has won championships. It\u2019s an opportunity for us to continue to learn about ourselves and push to be prepared for conference play.\u201d<\/p>\n BRETT VITO can be reached at 940-566-6870 and bvito@dentonrc.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n For more than 120 years, the Denton Record-Chronicle has been Denton County’s source for locally produced, fact-based journalism. Your support through a tax-deductible donation<\/a> or low-cost subscription<\/a> is vital to our ability to deliver credible, relevant, unique coverage of our community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Britney Lewinski was on a roll in 2022 when she was getting her start in college softball. Lewinski…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":603326,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2288],"tags":[2315,2309,5,2316,2314,2317,2313,2325,19,2310,2328,2304,2318,2308,2319,4,2305,2303,56366,2307,2327,2321,185,2311,2312,78459,1039],"class_list":{"0":"post-603325","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb-postseason","8":"tag-athletic-sports","9":"tag-ball-and-bat-games","10":"tag-baseball","11":"tag-baseball-competitions","12":"tag-baseball-finals","13":"tag-baseball-games","14":"tag-baseball-playoffs-and-champions","15":"tag-baseball-teams","16":"tag-major-league-baseball","17":"tag-major-league-baseball-competitions","18":"tag-major-league-baseball-playoffs","19":"tag-major-league-baseball-postseason","20":"tag-major-league-baseball-seasons","21":"tag-major-league-baseball-teams","22":"tag-major-league-baseball-teams-seasons","23":"tag-mlb","24":"tag-mlb-playoffs","25":"tag-mlb-postseason","26":"tag-north-texas-mean-green","27":"tag-outdoor-sports","28":"tag-seasons-in-american-sport","29":"tag-seasons-in-baseball","30":"tag-sports","31":"tag-team-sports","32":"tag-turf-sports","33":"tag-university-of-north-texas","34":"tag-world-series"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=603325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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