{"id":168285,"date":"2019-03-26T16:57:16","date_gmt":"2019-03-26T21:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=168285"},"modified":"2019-03-26T16:57:16","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T21:57:16","slug":"vcsu-softball-no-9-in-naia-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=168285","title":{"rendered":"VCSU Softball No.9 in NAIA Poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Valley City\u00a0 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vcsuvikings.com\/article\/3348\">VCSU<\/a>) The Valley City State softball team moved up two spots to No. 9 in this week&#8217;s NAIA Top 25 Coaches&#8217; Poll released Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Vikings moved inside the Top 10 for the first time in program history, improving upon their program-best No. 11 ranking from two weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>Valley City State has a 24-1 overall record so far this season after sweeping a four-game series with Dakota State on Sunday and Monday. The Vikings have won their last nine games and have the third-best winning percentage in the nation behind No. 1 Science &amp; Arts (26-0) and No. 5 Marian (16-0).<\/p>\n<p>Through 25 games, VCSU is\u00a0allowing less than two runs per game and has\u00a0outscored opponents 186-44.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.naia.org\/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=27900&amp;ATCLID=211797328\">Complete Top 25 Poll<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Up next:<\/strong> Valley City State is scheduled play Dickinson State this weekend. The exact date, time and location of the games are still being determined based on weather forecasts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valley City\u00a0 (VCSU) The Valley City State softball team moved up two spots to No. 9 in this week&#8217;s NAIA Top 25 Coaches&#8217; Poll released Tuesday. The Vikings moved inside the Top 10 for the first time in program history, improving upon their program-best No. 11 ranking from two weeks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":98365,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=168285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":168286,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168285\/revisions\/168286"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/98365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=168285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=168285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=168285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}