{"id":291767,"date":"2015-11-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-27T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdnews.com\/sea-lions-earn-no-7-seed-in-ncaa-west-regional\/"},"modified":"2015-11-27T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-11-27T08:00:00","slug":"sea-lions-earn-no-7-seed-in-ncaa-west-regional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/sea-lions-earn-no-7-seed-in-ncaa-west-regional\/","title":{"rendered":"Sea Lions earn No. 7 seed in NCAA West Regional"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time in program history the Point Loma volleyball team is heading to the NCAA Championships. The Sea Lions received the No. 7 seed in the eight-team NCAA West Regional and will face No. 2 seeded Western Washington in the first round on Thursday, Dec. 3.<br \/>\nPoint Loma (20-9) earned its way into the tournament as an at-large bid after winning 12 of its final 13 matches and finishing tied for second in the PacWest standings with a 14-6 record. Western Washington (23-5) also received an at-large bid after placing second in the Great Northwest Athletic Conference.<br \/>\nThis will be the second meeting of the season between the two teams. The two teams faced off earlier this season at the GNAC\/PacWest Crossover Challenge where Western Washington won in three sets.<br \/>\nThe rest of the West Region will be comprised of No. 1 seed and tournament host, Alaska Anchorage (26-2), along with No. 3 seed Sonoma State (26-3), No. 4 Cal State San Bernardino (26-5), No. 5 Central Washington (20-7), No. 6 UC San Diego (19-11) and No. 8 Dixie State (19-10).<br \/>\nThe winner of the eight-team regional will then head to Tampa, Fla., on Dec. 10-12 to play for the NCAA Championship.<br \/>\nThe PLNU volleyball team became the third Sea Lion squad out of four fall teams to earn a trip to the NCAA playoffs by way of the NCAA West Regional.\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time in program history the Point Loma volleyball team is heading to the NCAA Championships. The Sea Lions received the No. 7 seed in the eight-team NCAA West Regional and will face No. 2 seeded Western Washington in the first round on Thursday, Dec. 3. Point Loma (20-9) earned its way into [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":726,"featured_media":291768,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11561","_seopress_titles_title":"Sea Lions earn No. 7 seed in NCAA West Regional","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11561,11553],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-291767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-peninsula-beacon","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/726"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/291768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}