{"id":31760,"date":"2024-05-09T14:29:48","date_gmt":"2024-05-09T21:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/?p=31760"},"modified":"2024-05-16T14:31:39","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T21:31:39","slug":"naia-softball-championships-opening-round-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/2024\/05\/naia-softball-championships-opening-round-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"NAIA Softball Championships Opening Round Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/massey-softball.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/massey-softball.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"939\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-31761\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>@SOURaiders @SOU_Softball<\/p>\n<p>The Raiders are headed to Indiana next week to likely face their decade-long, post-season rival Marian (2014 football, 2015 football, 2016 women&#8217;s basketball, 2018 softball, 2019 volleyball) in the opening round of the 2024 NAIA Softball World Series. Although the coaches have Marian at #8, SOU at #17, and Middle Georgia State at #24, Massey Ratings (an unbiased computer that considers things like strength of schedule) disagrees. Massey has Southern Oregon as the top team in this group at #9, Marian at #13, and Middle Georgia State at #21.<\/p>\n<p>Marian has a better record than SOU, but they have yet to face <strong>any<\/strong> team in Massey&#8217;s Top 20. (Notice the SoS column in the above graphic.) The Raiders, on the other hand, are 7-15 against Massey&#8217;s Top 20. Take those games away and SOU is 30-2, much better than Marian&#8217;s 44-10. <\/p>\n<p>Massey gives SOU a 58% chance of beating Marian @ Marian and a 74% chance against Middle Georgia State (who the Raiders must beat in order face Marian).<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_31765\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/244_4317-RAW-sou-softball-kennedy-kila-clear.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31765\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/244_4317-RAW-sou-softball-kennedy-kila-clear.jpg\" alt=\"sou softball kennedy kila\" width=\"1024\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-31765\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kennedy Kila leads the Raiders in slugging percentage @ .720<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>@SOURaiders @SOU_Softball The Raiders are headed to Indiana next week to likely face their decade-long, post-season rival Marian (2014 football, 2015 football, 2016 women&#8217;s basketball, 2018 softball, 2019 volleyball) in the opening round of the 2024 NAIA Softball World Series. Although the coaches have Marian at #8, SOU at #17, and Middle Georgia State at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,11],"tags":[1347,245,149],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31760"}],"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=31760"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31842,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31760\/revisions\/31842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}