{"id":3973,"date":"2009-05-07T09:09:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-07T09:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/sports\/long-beach-state-softball-looks-to-finish-strong-against-pacific\/"},"modified":"2009-05-07T09:09:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-07T09:09:00","slug":"long-beach-state-softball-looks-to-finish-strong-against-pacific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/long-beach-state-softball-looks-to-finish-strong-against-pacific","title":{"rendered":"Long Beach State Softball Looks To Finish Strong Against Pacific"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style='float:left;padding-right:10px;padding-bottom:5px;'><img src='images\/archive\/sports\/photo8012986.jpg' align='left' \/><\/div>\n<p>     <!--StartFragment-->         <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-style: italic;\">Report by LBSU<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The Long Beach State softball team (31-19, 12-6 BWC) closes  out the regular season this week as it heads to Pacific for a three-game Big  West series, May 8-9. The 49ers tangle with the Tigers in a doubleheader  beginning at 1 p.m. on Friday, before meeting once more in the finale on  Saturday (noon).<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">In her third season at the helm of the Long Beach State  softball program, Kim Sowder has posted an impressive 99-61 (.619) overall  record, putting her just one victory away from the 100-win milestone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Pacific enters the weekend with an 18-31 overall record and  a 3-15 mark in Big West action. Nicole Matson has paced the Tigers with a  team-high .345 batting average, 31 RBI, 11 doubles and five home runs. Gabby  McDaniel<span style=\"\">&nbsp; <\/span>has posted a team-best  2.81 earned run average, while Chelsea Engle leads the squad with seven wins  and 109 strikeouts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p>         <!--EndFragment-->                           <\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"> body { \tbackground: #FFF; } <\/style><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 49ers have one series left in the regular season as they travel to play the Tigers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","inline_featured_image":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":"","_":"","_author_alias":"","cap-aim":"","cap-description":"","cap-display_name":"","cap-first_name":"","cap-jabber":"","cap-last_name":"","cap-linked_account":"","cap-newspack_employer":"","cap-newspack_job_title":"","cap-newspack_phone_number":"","cap-newspack_role":"","cap-user_email":"","cap-user_login":"","cap-website":"","cap-yahooim":"","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_email_html":"","newspack_email_type":"","newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_hide_page_title":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_show_share_buttons":"","newspack_sponsor_byline_prefix":"","newspack_sponsor_disclaimer_override":"","newspack_sponsor_flag_override":"","newspack_sponsor_only_direct":"","newspack_sponsor_url":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-3973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3973"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=3973"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}