{"id":2056,"date":"2017-03-01T22:35:18","date_gmt":"2017-03-01T22:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.obumagazine.com\/?p=2056"},"modified":"2017-05-04T19:02:58","modified_gmt":"2017-05-04T19:02:58","slug":"baseball-earns-second-straight-trip-to-college-world-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.okbu.edu\/obumagazine\/baseball-earns-second-straight-trip-to-college-world-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Baseball Earns Second Straight Trip to College World Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">OBU won the Shawnee Bracket of the 2015 NAIA Baseball National Championship Opening Round, defeating LSU-Shreveport in a comeback 17-12 win May 15. The victory earned the Bison their second consecutive trip to the Avista-NAIA Baseball World Series, played May 22-29 in Lewiston, Idaho. Results were unavailable at press time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The Bison entered the World Series as the top seed for the second year in a row. The team finished fourth in the tournament last year. They were one of only three No. 1 bracket seeds to advance to the World Series, entering with a 52-6 record.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The Bison rank No. 1 in the NAIA in scoring (9.1 runs per game), RBI (8.3), batting (.368) and slugging (.559). The team began the 2015 season 30-0, setting records for the longest winning streak and best start to a season in program history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OBU won the Shawnee Bracket of the 2015 NAIA Baseball National Championship Opening Round, defeating LSU-Shreveport in a comeback 17-12 win May 15. The victory earned the Bison their second consecutive trip to the Avista-NAIA Baseball World Series, played May 22-29 in Lewiston, Idaho. Results were unavailable at press time. The Bison entered the World [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2580,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":""},"categories":[142,86],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.okbu.edu\/obumagazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Base-Kelvin-rivas.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7BMz3-xa","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.okbu.edu\/obumagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2056"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.okbu.edu\/obumagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.okbu.edu\/obumagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.okbu.edu\/obumagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.okbu.edu\/obumagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.okbu.edu\/obumagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2057,"href":"https:\/\/www.okbu.edu\/obumagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2056\/revisions\/2057"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.okbu.edu\/obumagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.okbu.edu\/obumagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.okbu.edu\/obumagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.okbu.edu\/obumagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}