{"id":8533,"date":"2016-05-11T23:05:14","date_gmt":"2016-05-12T03:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=8533"},"modified":"2016-05-12T09:48:48","modified_gmt":"2016-05-12T13:48:48","slug":"spring-tourneys-daily-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=8533","title":{"rendered":"Spring Tourneys Daily Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No guarantees here, but we&#8217;re gonna try and give you a daily update (at least on gamedays) for as long as these rare, late post-graduation runs from Lacrosse and Softball last. We&#8217;re starting now because our high hopes for softball in particular will be greatly enhanced if the Dukes handle their business in the CAA tourney (and conversely will suffer a bit of a blow if they get knocked out of the top 8 and potentially hosting a Super Regional by falling to any of these also-rans in the conference tournament in the &#8216;Burg these next few days). So stay tuned to this ambitious plan (and be ready to more disappointed than you&#8217;ve ever been in Benioff and Weiss when we miss out on something big of course).<\/p>\n<p>Today Lacrosse flew cross-country to get ready for their first-round matchup with Stanford coming up on Friday. So cool they&#8217;re playing in the LA Coliseum, home of a few moments you may have heard of like two Olympic Games, Super Bowl I, USC football in all its forms, NWA-era Raiders, more WideWorldofSports motocross events than you can count (what? we&#8217;re old), and of course the new Rams just to name a few.<\/p>\n<p><img data-attachment-id=\"8381\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?attachment_id=8381\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/JMUsoftball655x3772.jpg?fit=800%2C460&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"800,460\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"softball\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/JMUsoftball655x3772.jpg?fit=300%2C173&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/JMUsoftball655x3772.jpg?fit=800%2C460&amp;ssl=1\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-8381\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/JMUsoftball655x3772.jpg?resize=542%2C312\" alt=\"softball\" width=\"542\" height=\"312\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/JMUsoftball655x3772.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/JMUsoftball655x3772.jpg?resize=300%2C173&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/jmusportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/JMUsoftball655x3772.jpg?resize=768%2C442&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 542px) 100vw, 542px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/>Softball on the other hand got their postseason run off to a solid start with a 2-0 win over the Delaware Blue Chickens after working around two rain delays. Senior Pitcher Jailyn Ford (winner of the fan-voting portion of the Senior Class Award nationally though we know what happens when a JMU\/CAA rep does well in that &#8220;portion&#8221;) threw a Scherzer-esque one hitter to put the Dukes into the winners&#8217; bracket where they&#8217;ll play possible the key game of the tournament against #2 Towson at noon on Thursday. Go Dukes! (and warm up those bats though it was good to see Hannah Hayes and Jess Mrozek involved in the offense outside of the usual suspects!)<\/p>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fjmusportsblog.com%2F%3Fp%3D8533&amp;layout=standard&amp;show_faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;height=80\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:80px;\" allowTransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No guarantees here, but we&#8217;re gonna try and give you a daily update (at least on gamedays) for as long as these rare, late post-graduation runs from Lacrosse and Softball last. We&#8217;re starting now because our high hopes for softball in particular will be greatly enhanced if the Dukes handle their business in the CAA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9294,"url":"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=9294","url_meta":{"origin":8533,"position":0},"title":"JMU Softball Win Highlights Big Sports Weekend","date":"February 26, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Yes, we're leading with JMU softball, despite the fact that the men's basketball team played its regular season finale over the weekend. The softball team split a pair on the road against the #2 nationally ranked Auburn Tigers. 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