{"id":33850,"date":"2025-05-14T20:03:23","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T03:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/?p=33850"},"modified":"2025-05-14T20:04:30","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T03:04:30","slug":"one-game-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/2025\/05\/one-game-away\/","title":{"rendered":"One game away&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_33851\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/255_6187-RAW-sou-softball-Kierstin-Grotewiel-clear.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33851\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/255_6187-RAW-sou-softball-Kierstin-Grotewiel-clear.jpg\" alt=\"sou softball Kierstin Grotewiel\" width=\"1024\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-33851\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kierstin Grotewiel receiving one of Ayla Davies 14 strikeouts (in 7 innings) earlier this week<\/p><\/div>\n<p>#1 seed SOU needs just one win tomorrow to be one of the 10 teams to advance to the 2025 NAIA Softball World Series in Georgia. Many of the other #1 seeds will not be there. <\/p>\n<p>The NAIA screwed up and made Eastern Oregon University a #2 seed. Massey Ratings (below) had Eastern as #7 in the country so they should have been a #1 seed. They got through to the World Series. Northwestern was a #1 seed according to the NAIA even though Massey didn&#8217;t have them in the top 15. Needless to say, they aren&#8217;t going to Georgia. There are some other examples of Massey being more accurate than the biased coaches.<\/p>\n<p>Several games are still to play tomorrow so a couple more teams will be Xed out on the list below. <\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_33852\" style=\"width: 828px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/massey-softball-ratings-2025.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-33852\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/massey-softball-ratings-2025.jpg\" alt=\"massey softball ratings 2025\" width=\"818\" height=\"967\" class=\"size-full wp-image-33852\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-33852\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">2025 Massey Ratings NAIA Softball<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>#1 seed SOU needs just one win tomorrow to be one of the 10 teams to advance to the 2025 NAIA Softball World Series in Georgia. Many of the other #1 seeds will not be there. The NAIA screwed up and made Eastern Oregon University a #2 seed. Massey Ratings (below) had Eastern as #7 [&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":[1427,1319,245,149],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33850"}],"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=33850"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33854,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33850\/revisions\/33854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}