{"id":25551,"date":"2021-05-20T07:06:11","date_gmt":"2021-05-20T14:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/?p=25551"},"modified":"2021-05-20T07:41:16","modified_gmt":"2021-05-20T14:41:16","slug":"2021-naia-softball-world-series-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/2021\/05\/2021-naia-softball-world-series-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"2021 NAIA Softball World Series Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_25553\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/215_5822-RAW-sou-softball-tayler-walker.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25553\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/215_5822-RAW-sou-softball-tayler-walker.jpg\" alt=\"sou softball tayler walker\" width=\"1024\"><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-25553\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tayler Walker<\/p><\/div>\n<p>@naiasoftball_ @CCCSports #ThisIsTheCCC @SOURaiders @SOU_Softball @CoyoteAthletics @OregonTechOwls @taylerrwalkerr<\/p>\n<p>With many of the highly-ranked teams eliminated during the opening round, the final-10 teams include many surprises, mostly surprises really. The <a href=https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/2021\/05\/cascade-conference-looking-strong-in-softball\/>CCC<\/a> has the #1, #2, and #4 rankings. What other conference has achieved such a feat in any sport?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/masseyratings.com\/csoft\/naia\/ratings\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Massey<\/a> has the CCC teams at #1, #2, and #5 (with the #3 and #4 teams already eliminated).<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s look at the first-round matchups according to Massey&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>College of Idaho gets Ottawa, who Massey has at #21 and gives C of I a 70% chance of winning.<br \/>\nOregon Tech gets the winner of Mount Mercy and Houston-Victoria, who Massey has at #47 and #57 respectively. Oregon Tech will win over 80% of the time against either team according to Massey.<br \/>\nSOU gets the winner of Milligan and Bethany, who Massey has at #30 and #86 respectively. The Raiders will win over 85% of the time against either team according to Massey.<\/p>\n<p>The only non-CCC team in Massey&#8217;s top twenty that made the final 10 is Olivet, the #3 seed.<\/p>\n<p>Games begin a week from today.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_25554\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/E1zRLoLVoAY6M2H.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-25554\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/E1zRLoLVoAY6M2H.jpg\" alt=\" 2021 NAIA Softball World Series Bracket\" width=\"1024\"><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-25554\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">2021 NAIA Softball World Series Bracket<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>@naiasoftball_ @CCCSports #ThisIsTheCCC @SOURaiders @SOU_Softball @CoyoteAthletics @OregonTechOwls @taylerrwalkerr With many of the highly-ranked teams eliminated during the opening round, the final-10 teams include many surprises, mostly surprises really. The CCC has the #1, #2, and #4 rankings. What other conference has achieved such a feat in any sport? Massey has the CCC teams at #1, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[974,875,245,149,733],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25551"}],"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=25551"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25557,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25551\/revisions\/25557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}