{"id":35731,"date":"2026-05-06T16:12:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T23:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/?p=35731"},"modified":"2026-05-06T16:22:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T23:22:00","slug":"2026-naia-softball-opening-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/2026\/05\/2026-naia-softball-opening-round\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 NAIA Softball Opening Round"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_35732\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/264_5241-RAW-sou-softball-Brianna-McCoy-low-light.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35732\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/264_5241-RAW-sou-softball-Brianna-McCoy-low-light.jpg\" alt=\"sou softball Brianna McCoy\" width=\"1024\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-35732\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brianna McCoy steals second<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Look who is coming to Ashland.<\/p>\n<p>#1 Southern Oregon<br \/>\n#2 Texas A&#038;M -Texarkana<br \/>\n#3 Saint Francis (Ind.)<br \/>\n#4 Dordt (Iowa)<br \/>\n#5 OUAZ (Ariz.)<\/p>\n<p>The Raiders first game will be against the winner of Dordt vs. OUAZ. More details <a href=\"https:\/\/souraiders.com\/sports\/softball\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Massey Ratings has SOU at #2, Texas A&#038;M at #19, Saint Francis (Ind.) at #18, Dordt (Iowa) at #33, and OUAZ (Ariz.) at #34.<\/p>\n<p>For comparison, Massey has Oregon Tech at #3 and Eastern Oregon at #8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Look who is coming to Ashland. #1 Southern Oregon #2 Texas A&#038;M -Texarkana #3 Saint Francis (Ind.) #4 Dordt (Iowa) #5 OUAZ (Ariz.) The Raiders first game will be against the winner of Dordt vs. OUAZ. More details here. Massey Ratings has SOU at #2, Texas A&#038;M at #19, Saint Francis (Ind.) at #18, Dordt [&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":[1563,1261,1506,245,149],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35731"}],"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=35731"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35737,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35731\/revisions\/35737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}