{"id":3036,"date":"2019-03-20T19:53:38","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T00:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler360\/?p=3036"},"modified":"2019-03-20T19:53:38","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T00:53:38","slug":"despite-their-record-butler-softball-is-staying-positive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler360\/2019\/03\/20\/despite-their-record-butler-softball-is-staying-positive\/","title":{"rendered":"Despite Their Record, Butler Softball is Staying Positive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By Peyton Thompson<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Butler softball team took part in the 2019 U-S-F Series in Tampa, Florida last week going 1-4 in the series. The Bulldogs beat La Salle, but fell to Minnesota, USF, Princeton and North Florida.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Although the outcome is not exactly what they had hoped for, the Bulldogs are continuing to look up. Junior outfielder Alyssa Garcia stays optimistic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u201cI think that although our record on the week says otherwise, our team is really improving,\u201d Garcia said. \u201cWe are a very hard-working team and this past week has been a learning experience for what else we still need to work on.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There is always room for improvement. Butler fell to Princeton, allowing 4 unearned runs and Minnesota\u2019s winning run came on a throwing error. Sammy Andersen and Claire Gilliland are the only players who have multiple home runs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Despite their early struggles, the team\u2019s confidence grows.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI think it is very important to take all of the lessons that we learned from Tampa and use them to fine-tune everything this week at practice before we start conference play Saturday,\u201d junior infielder Madi Christiansen said. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Bulldogs are now 9-16 on the season, and will travel to Miami (Ohio) today for a 5 p.m. first pitch. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Bulldogs will open BIG EAST play with a doubleheader against DePaul on Saturday, March 23. First pitch is set for noon. The battle between conference foes will also serve as Butler\u2019s home opener. <\/span><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Peyton Thompson The Butler softball team took part in the 2019 U-S-F Series in Tampa, Florida last week going 1-4 in the series. The Bulldogs beat La Salle, but fell to Minnesota, USF, Princeton and North Florida. Although the outcome is not exactly what they had hoped for, the Bulldogs are continuing to look [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9194410,"featured_media":2440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11891],"tags":[15612,255610,380330],"class_list":["post-3036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-featured","tag-softball","tag-spring-sports"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler360\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler360\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler360\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler360\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9194410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler360\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3036"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler360\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3043,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler360\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3036\/revisions\/3043"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler360\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler360\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler360\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler360\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}