{"id":4213,"date":"2009-04-09T07:04:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-09T07:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/sports\/lbsu-softball-has-crucial-series-against-cal-poly-this-weekend\/"},"modified":"2009-04-09T07:04:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-09T07:04:00","slug":"lbsu-softball-has-crucial-series-against-cal-poly-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/lbsu-softball-has-crucial-series-against-cal-poly-this-weekend","title":{"rendered":"LBSU Softball Has Crucial Series Against Cal Poly This Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style='float:left;padding-right:10px;padding-bottom:5px;'><img src='images\/archive\/sports\/photo7593147.jpg' align='left' \/><\/div>\n<p>   <!--StartFragment-->       <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"\">After a strong 5-1 opening to Big  West play at home in the 49er Softball Complex, the 49ers are sitting at the  top of the Big West standings&mdash;just below them, at 4-2, are the Cal Poly  Mustangs, who the &lsquo;Niners travel to face this weekend on April 10-11. <span style=\"\">&nbsp;<\/span>The two teams are set to square off in a  doubleheader beginning at noon on Friday, before closing out the weekend with a  single game on Saturday (Noon).<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"\">The task for the 49ers is huge&mdash;they&rsquo;re  .500 on the road so far this season, and 13-3 at home.<span style=\"\">&nbsp; <\/span>The fact that it&rsquo;s on the road would be  enough to overcome, but the Mustangs also have a home winning streak of 15  games after last weekend&rsquo;s sweep of UC Santa Barbara.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"\">Long Beach State leads in its  all-time series with Cal Poly by a 31-12 count. The 49ers went 2-1 against the  Mustangs last year, winning the opener (3-1) and the finale (3-0), but dropping  the second game by a narrow 4-3 margin. The Beach is 12-7 when playing in San  Luis Obispo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"\"><i>From LBSU reports<\/i><\/p>\n<p>       <!--EndFragment-->                     <\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\"> body { \tbackground: #FFF; } <\/style><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a strong start at home, the first-place &#8216;Niners travel to face second-place Cal Poly.<\/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-4213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4213","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=4213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4213"},{"taxonomy":"newspack_spnsrs_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newspack_spnsrs_tax?post=4213"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}