{"id":6117,"date":"2014-04-14T09:43:12","date_gmt":"2014-04-14T14:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/?p=6117"},"modified":"2014-04-15T09:07:59","modified_gmt":"2014-04-15T14:07:59","slug":"mustangs-extend-streak-to-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/archives\/6117","title":{"rendered":"Mustangs Extend Streak to 15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-6118\" style=\"margin-left: 7px;margin-right: 7px\" alt=\"softball\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/files\/2014\/04\/softball-200x157.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"157\" \/><strong>By Darius Hicks&#8211;<\/strong>The Morningside softball team extend ed its winning streak to 15 with a dominating weekend performance against Concordia, making them the front-runner in the race for the GPAC Conference Title.<\/p>\n<p>The Mustangs remain the only undefeated team in the conference with a 10-0 record and an overall record of 20-6. Concordia is currently second in the conference and three games behind the Mustangs after losing the doubleheader this weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Senior pitcher Jordan Johnson led the Mustangs to their first victory after pitching a seven-inning shut out that resulted in extra innings. She would eventually score the winning run after a homerun in the top of the ninth. The Mustangs would force three outs in the bottom of the ninth, winning 1-0.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a senior leader I was doing my best to put my team in a position to win. During extra innings I caught the rhythm of their pitcher and took advantage of the inside pitch,\u201d said Johnson.<\/p>\n<p>The second game wouldn\u2019t be as dramatic as the Mustangs forced an eight-run rule for an easy 10-2 win.<\/p>\n<p>Morningside will travel to Mitchell South Dakota, for a double header against GPAC opponent Dakota Wesleyan Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Darius Hicks&#8211;The Morningside softball team extend ed its winning streak to 15 with a dominating weekend performance against Concordia, making them the front-runner in the race for the GPAC Conference Title. The Mustangs remain the only undefeated team in the conference with a 10-0 record and an overall record of 20-6. Concordia is currently&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[170],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6117"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6121,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6117\/revisions\/6121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/thecr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}