The Southwestern University Pirates softball team moved up the rankings to No. 22 in the latest National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) poll.
Southwestern is one of two ranked Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference (SCAC) teams ranked in the top 25 with Texas Lutheran University tied for No. 13 with Luther, moving up from the No. 15 spot. The Pirates were previously ranked No. 23 and ended the regular season with a 33-4 record.
The Pirates enter the SCAC Tournament as the No. 2 seed. Southwestern will play the winner of Centenary and Dallas on Friday, April 26 at 6:30 p.m. in Shreveport, La.
Through Games APR. 24, 2019
|
RANK |
TEAM |
2019 RECORD |
POINTS |
PREVIOUS RANK |
|
1 |
Virginia Wesleyan (8) |
34-3 |
200 |
1 |
|
2 |
St. Thomas (Minn.) |
33-5 |
192 |
4 |
|
3 |
Williams |
26-4 |
184 |
3 |
|
4 |
East Texas Baptist |
33-4 |
176 |
2 |
|
5 |
Linfield |
32-5-1 |
168 |
8 |
|
T-6 |
Illinois Wesleyan |
27-6 |
149 |
6 |
|
T-6 |
Trine |
26-4 |
149 |
10 |
|
8 |
Birmingham-Southern |
31-5 |
132 |
12 |
|
9 |
Christopher Newport |
28-6 |
130 |
5 |
|
10 |
Ithaca |
22-6-1 |
126 |
14 |
|
11 |
Claremont-Mudd-Scripps |
30-7 |
125 |
7 |
|
12 |
Moravian |
29-5 |
105 |
11 |
|
T-13 |
Luther |
28-5 |
102 |
T16 |
|
T-13 |
Texas Lutheran |
27-7 |
102 |
15 |
|
15 |
The College of New Jersey |
26-6 |
74 |
T16 |
|
T-16 |
Kean |
32-5 |
67 |
19 |
|
T-16 |
Manhattanville |
33-2 |
67 |
18 |
|
T-16 |
Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
22-7-1 |
67 |
13 |
|
19 |
Coe |
30-7 |
65 |
9 |
|
T-20 |
Brandeis |
27-2-1 |
48 |
20 |
|
T-20 |
Lynchburg |
30-10 |
48 |
22 |
|
22 |
Southwestern |
33-4 |
40 |
23 |
|
23 |
Rowan |
24-10 |
20 |
24 |
|
24 |
Thomas More |
27-9 |
18 |
25 |
|
25 |
DePauw |
22-10 |
12 |
NR |
Others receiving votes: Piedmont 7, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 6, Wisconsin-Eau Claire 6, Mount Saint Joseph 5, Geneseo 4, St. Catherine 3, Wisconsin-Whitewater 2, and Endicott 1.
Dropped out: Millikin, New Paltz, Pomona-Pitzer, Wartburg and Whitworth.