{"id":7091,"date":"2014-05-12T12:11:54","date_gmt":"2014-05-12T16:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=7091"},"modified":"2014-05-12T12:11:54","modified_gmt":"2014-05-12T16:11:54","slug":"nc-state-earns-ncaa-softball-tourney-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=7091","title":{"rendered":"NC State earns NCAA softball tourney bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/ncstatesoftball.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/ncstatesoftball.jpg\" alt=\"ncstatesoftball\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7092\" srcset=\"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/ncstatesoftball.jpg 300w, https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/ncstatesoftball-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/ncstatesoftball-36x36.jpg 36w, https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/ncstatesoftball-115x115.jpg 115w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Despite losing in the first round of the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament to rival North Carolina, NC State&#8217;s softball team has made the 64-team field of the 2014 NCAA Division I Softball Championship, which gets underway on May 15 and runs through June 4.Three other ACC teams made the tournament: Notre Dame, Virginia Tech and Florida State, which earned the league\u2019s automatic bid.<\/p>\n<p>Eighth-seeded Florida State (50-6), competing in the NCAA Championship for the 15th consecutive season, will take on Fordham (36-18). The winner will then advance to take on either South Carolina (35-20) or South Florida (41-15). The Seminoles claimed their 12th overall league title last Saturday afternoon, as they were able to defeat Notre Dame, 3-1.<\/p>\n<p>NC State (34-16) will be in the Athens Regional and will face UAB (31-25) in its first game. The Wolfpack is making its fourth appearance in the tournament. Joining NC State in the Athens regional is Chattanooga (34-19) and fourth-seeded Georgia (45-12).<\/p>\n<p>Virginia Tech (35-21) is making its seventh appearance in the tournament and third in a row. The Hokies will face Lipscomb (39-13) in the first game of the Knoxville Regional and will be joined by Charleston Southern (27-31-1) and 10th-seeded Tennessee (42-10) in the region.<\/p>\n<p>Notre Dame (39-11), the ACC Championship runner-up, will travel to Los Angeles to compete against Long Beach State (38-17) in its first game. Joining the Fighting Irish in the Los Angeles Regional is third-seeded UCLA (48-6) and Southern Utah (23-29). The Fighting Irish are making their 16th straight appearance in the NCAA Championship.<\/p>\n<p>The ACC has had at least four teams earn tournament bids in eight of the last 10 years.<\/p>\n<p>Regionals for the NCAA Division I Softball Championship will be held May 15-18 on 16 campus sites. At each campus site, a four-team, double-elimination tournament will be conducted and the 16 winning teams advance to the Super Regionals.<\/p>\n<p>Super Regionals for the championship will be held May 22-25 on eight campus sites. At each site, two teams play in a best-of-three tournament format. The winners from each site advance to the NCAA Women\u2019s College World Series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite losing in the first round of the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament to rival North Carolina, NC State&#8217;s softball team has made the 64-team field&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,81],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured-stories","category-n-c-state-wolfpack","wpcat-79-id","wpcat-81-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7091"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7093,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7091\/revisions\/7093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}