{"id":11032,"date":"2014-11-08T23:13:40","date_gmt":"2014-11-09T06:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/?p=11032"},"modified":"2014-11-08T23:16:38","modified_gmt":"2014-11-09T06:16:38","slug":"taylor-albertson-leads-st-helens-to-state-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/2014\/11\/taylor-albertson-leads-st-helens-to-state-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor Albertson leads St. Helens to state title"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11033\" style=\"width: 729px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/14N_3754-st-helens-volleyball-Taylor-Albertson-middle.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11033\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/14N_3754-st-helens-volleyball-Taylor-Albertson-middle-719x800.jpg\" alt=\"st helens volleyball Taylor Albertson middle\" width=\"719\" height=\"800\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11033\" srcset=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/14N_3754-st-helens-volleyball-Taylor-Albertson-middle-719x800.jpg 719w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/14N_3754-st-helens-volleyball-Taylor-Albertson-middle-224x250.jpg 224w, https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/14N_3754-st-helens-volleyball-Taylor-Albertson-middle.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 719px) 100vw, 719px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11033\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">St. Helens High School volleyball &#8211; Taylor Albertson<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Congratulations to St. Helens High School for winning the 2014 5A Oregon State Volleyball Title today. <a href=https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/2014\/11\/2014-class-5a-midwestern-league-girls-volleyball-all-league-selections\/>Ashland High School<\/a> lost to St. Helens just last week when I took this photo. Taylor Albertson was the star on that night for St. Helens, and the same was true today. She had 26 kills and 8 blocks in just four sets today. Her stats were probably similar against Ashland.<\/p>\n<p>Some things to consider&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>What if all of Ashland&#8217;s wins in tournaments had counted instead of just all of their losses? What if the state rankings were done based on complete data? What if Ashland&#8217;s wins against higher ranked teams meant something in the rankings? Instead, Ashland was stuck with a poor seed which meant the Grizzlies had to play the eventual state champion on the road in the single-elimination round of 16.<\/p>\n<p>Ashland beat (on the road) teams that eventually came in 3rd, 4th, and 6th in the state. Ashland also beat Crater at home (and Crater will end up with a Top 8 ranking). Ashland never played the teams that came in 2nd and 5th.<\/p>\n<p>So maybe Ashland would have finished near the top had they been given a fairer chance. Oh well; there&#8217;s always next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations to St. Helens High School for winning the 2014 5A Oregon State Volleyball Title today. Ashland High School lost to St. Helens just last week when I took this photo. Taylor Albertson was the star on that night for St. Helens, and the same was true today. She had 26 kills and 8 blocks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[87,11],"tags":[266,326,198,96],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11032"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11032"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11037,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11032\/revisions\/11037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}