{"id":169426,"date":"2019-04-10T11:16:46","date_gmt":"2019-04-10T16:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=169426"},"modified":"2019-04-10T12:58:34","modified_gmt":"2019-04-10T17:58:34","slug":"viking-softball-rises-to-no-8-in-naia-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=169426","title":{"rendered":"Viking Softball rises to No. 8 in NAIA Poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-169428\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/vcsu-softball-No.8-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/vcsu-softball-No.8-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/vcsu-softball-No.8-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/vcsu-softball-No.8-311x175.jpg 311w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/vcsu-softball-No.8.jpg 850w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vcsuvikings.com\/article\/3365\">VCSUVikings.com<\/a>)- Valley City State University moved up one spot to No. 8 in this week\u2019s NAIA Softball Top 25 Coaches\u2019 Poll, announced Tuesday by the national office.<\/p>\n<p>The No. 8 national ranking is the highest in program history, topping the Vikings\u2019 No. 9 ranking back on March 26.<\/p>\n<p>The Vikings are coming off a 3-1 weekend against Bellevue University, which is receiving votes in the Top 25 Poll. Valley City State\u2019s record currently stands at 31-2 overall and 11-1 in conference play. The Vikings have winning streaks of 15 games and 14 games so far this season.<\/p>\n<p>VCSU has the fourth-best winning percentage in the nation, trailing only three teams ranked ahead of them in the poll: No. 1 Science &amp; Arts (39-0), No. 3 Marian (32-0) and No. 6 Lindsey Wilson (27-1).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.naia.org\/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=27900&amp;ATCLID=211799107\">NAIA Softball Top 25 Coaches\u2019 Poll \u2013 April 9<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Valley City State is set to host Viterbo University for a four-game series this weekend in Valley City. Saturday\u2019s doubleheader starts at 1 p.m. and will be Senior Day as the Vikings recognize their three seniors:\u00a0Tatum Lundin,\u00a0Kadie Anderson\u00a0and\u00a0Voni Culp. Sunday\u2019s doubleheader begins at 11 a.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(VCSUVikings.com)- Valley City State University moved up one spot to No. 8 in this week\u2019s NAIA Softball Top 25 Coaches\u2019 Poll, announced Tuesday by the national office. The No. 8 national ranking is the highest in program history, topping the Vikings\u2019 No. 9 ranking back on March 26. The Vikings [&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-169426","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\/169426","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=169426"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169432,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169426\/revisions\/169432"}],"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=169426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=169426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=169426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}