{"id":107233,"date":"2021-06-01T12:32:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T16:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=107233"},"modified":"2021-06-01T12:32:10","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T16:32:10","slug":"raiders-headed-to-knoxville-regional-opening-ncaa-baseball-championship-against-tennessee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2021\/06\/01\/raiders-headed-to-knoxville-regional-opening-ncaa-baseball-championship-against-tennessee\/","title":{"rendered":"Raiders headed to Knoxville Regional, opening NCAA baseball championship against Tennessee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2021\/06\/01\/raiders-headed-to-knoxville-regional-opening-ncaa-baseball-championship-against-tennessee\/bsb_tn\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-107237\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-107237\" src=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2021\/06\/BSB_TN-508x286.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"259\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fresh off its fourth Horizon League Championship in the last six seasons, the Wright State baseball team is headed to the Knoxville Regional as the No. 4 seed and will take on Tennessee in its opening game.<\/p>\n<p>The Raiders will take on the No. 1-seeded Volunteers at 6 p.m. on Friday, June 4, in their first game of the regional. Joining Wright State and Tennessee in the regional bracket is No. 2 seed Duke and No. 3 seed Liberty.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncaa.com\/brackets\/baseball\/d1\/2021\">View the NCAA Championship bracket<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Wright State clinched its ninth NCAA Division I appearance on Saturday afternoon with a 21-3 victory over Milwaukee in the 2021 Horizon League Championship at Nischwitz Stadium. The Raiders rolled through the three games in the tournament, outscoring their opponents 40-10 in the wins.<\/p>\n<p>The Raiders&#8217; last NCAA appearance came in the 2018 Stanford Regional, and they also appeared in the 2016 Louisville Regional final before falling to the host Cardinals.<\/p>\n<p>Entering the regionals, Wright State leads the country in six national categories: Batting Average (.342), On-Base Percentage (.451), Slugging Percentage (.578), Doubles per Game (2.74), Scoring (10.6 per) and Total Runs (488). The Raiders&#8217; 126 total doubles is No. 2 in the country, while their 207 total drawn walks are No. 7 nationally and the pitching staff&#8217;s strikeout-to-walk ratio is 3.29, which is No. 8 nationally.<\/p>\n<p>Wright State enters the NCAA Championship with a 35-11 overall record, while Tennessee holds a 45-16 mark and is the No. 3 overall seed in the championship. Duke enters the weekend 32-30 and Liberty is 39-14.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wright State baseball team will play Tennessee in the opening game of the Knoxville Regional at 6 p.m. on Friday, June 4. <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2021\/06\/01\/raiders-headed-to-knoxville-regional-opening-ncaa-baseball-championship-against-tennessee\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":107237,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2798,725,715],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","category-home-news-sidebar","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107233"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107253,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107233\/revisions\/107253"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}