{"id":35885,"date":"2026-06-11T00:55:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T07:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/?p=35885"},"modified":"2026-06-05T11:25:46","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T18:25:46","slug":"sou-softball-ends-5-or-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/2026\/06\/sou-softball-ends-5-or-2\/","title":{"rendered":"SOU softball ends @ #5 (or #2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_35889\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/265_7099-RAW-sou-softball-Kierstin-Grotewiel-low-light.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35889\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/265_7099-RAW-sou-softball-Kierstin-Grotewiel-low-light.jpg\" alt=\"Kierstin Grotewiel\" width=\"1024\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-35889\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kierstin Grotewiel<\/p><\/div>\n<p>While the coaches leaned heavily on when teams were eliminated at the 2026 NAIA Softball World Series, giving Southern Oregon a final rating at <a href=\"https:\/\/souraiders.com\/news\/2026\/6\/4\/softball-raiders-land-at-no-5-in-final-naia-rankings.aspx\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">#5<\/a>, Massey Ratings, which does a much better job of considering strength of schedule and other factors, has the Raiders at #2.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_35886\" style=\"width: 821px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/softball-sou-massey.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35886\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/softball-sou-massey.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"811\" height=\"958\" class=\"size-full wp-image-35886\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-35886\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Final 2026 NAIA softball rankings according to Massey<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the coaches leaned heavily on when teams were eliminated at the 2026 NAIA Softball World Series, giving Southern Oregon a final rating at #5, Massey Ratings, which does a much better job of considering strength of schedule and other factors, has the Raiders at #2.<\/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":[1319,1507,1506,245,149],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35885"}],"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=35885"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35890,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35885\/revisions\/35890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveljapanblog.com\/ashland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}