D 3 softball

WLCALUM83 · March 13, 2022, 11:50:27 AM

NESCAC squad Hamilton begins its' season by beating Geneseo State 4-1.
(Kiyana Arcayena - 2 for 4 with 2 RBI's -- Natalie Beebe got potential tying run Tara Brochu to strike out
to end this one.)

Region 2 Final: Fitchburg State 9, Suffolk 6 (The CCC squad put up a 6th inning 4-spot to pull to within 1 but Fitchburg State answered with 2 runs in the 7th and held on. Encouraging opener for Suffolk.)

justafan12 · March 14, 2022, 10:10:15 AM

I am guessing the NCAA will go back to a full 62 or 63 team NCAA playoff bracket for D3 this year. I tried to find it in writing from the NCAA but could not. Also will they go back to the regional and super regional format?

If anyone knows I would appreciate an update.

Nevermind; just found it on Linfield's schedule:

Regionals: May 13-15
SR: May 20-21
WS: May 26-30

WLCALUM83 · March 14, 2022, 06:35:03 PM

Regions 4 & 5 "Under the Radar" good starts:

Region 4:
MAC Freedom: Arcadia and Misericordia both have 6-3 records (King's slipped to 4-3-I must have jinxed that squad--)

United East: PSU-Berks is 4-1

Region 5:
MAC Commonwealth: Messiah has started off 8-4, Lebanon Valley 5-2
Atlantic East: Cabrini is 7-3.

WLCALUM83 · March 15, 2022, 02:49:50 PM

Key ODAC Top 25 DH 3/20: #3 VA Wesleyan vs. #13 Roanoke.

WLCALUM83 · March 16, 2022, 05:32:09 PM

Undefeated Teams: (order by total games played).

1. # 4 CNU 15-0 (Region 6)
2. #16 Moravian 10-0 (Region 5)
3. Eastern Mennonite 8-0 (Region 6)
4. Loras 8-0 (Region 9)
5. UW-Superior 7-0 (Region 9)
6. Aurora 6-0 (Region 8)
7. Baruch 6-0 (Region 4)
8. J&W-RI 5-0 (Region 1)
9. Ramapo 5-0 (Region 4)
10. Albertus Magnus 4-0 (Region 1)
11. Carleton 4-0 (Region 9)
12. Hamilton 4-0 (Region 1)
13 Keene State 4-0 (Region 2)
14. Westminster-PA 4-0 (Region 7)
15. St. Vincent 2-0 (Region 7)
16. U of Chicago 2-0 (Region 8)
17. Wooster 2-0 (Region 7)
18. Salve Regina 1-0 (Region 2)

Highest individual BA for player on Top 25 squad: Tie -Gabby Spencer T-22 St. Benedict-MN and Julia
Kinnally #14 TCNJ --both batting .600.
Most RBI: Tie, Kaitlyn Hasty-CNU and Bailey Hudgeons #1 TLU 23 each.
Most HRs: Hasty (7)
Highest Team BA for Top 25 squad: #4 CNU (.409 team BA)
CNU also leads ranked teams in Avg runs/game (more than 9)
Lowest Individual ERA: Gina Followell (.000) #22 Concordia-WI
Lowest Team ERA: #22 Concordia-WI (0.40)
#4 CNU, #16 Moravian and #17 MSOE rank 6-8 in Team ERA, respectively
St. Benedict is 10th, #1 TLU is 16th (1.47).
#13 Roanoke, #2 Salisbury, #5 Belhaven and #24 Muskingum are also in the Top 30 in
that category.

Best Top 25 Team Fielding Pct. Moravian (.989) Muskingum next best (.986):

It'll be interesting to see how these stats shift around as the season continues.

Caz Bombers · March 17, 2022, 12:13:50 PM

Quote from: justafan12 on March 14, 2022, 10:10:15 AM
I am guessing the NCAA will go back to a full 62 or 63 team NCAA playoff bracket for D3 this year. I tried to find it in writing from the NCAA but could not. Also will they go back to the regional and super regional format?

If anyone knows I would appreciate an update.

Nevermind; just found it on Linfield's schedule:

Regionals: May 13-15
SR: May 20-21
WS: May 26-30

I read the pre-championship manual on NCAA.org but it is jacked up. It says 42-1-19 for bid distribution (62 teams), then puts Coast 2 Coast schools in both Pool A and Pool B. The UAA is in Pool B but Rochester is listed in both Liberty League and Pool B for Region 3. They also have Southern Virginia still in the C2C when they are now USA South.

The thing about the C2C is this: under the existing 7-team minimum for AQ, the league would have exhausted its 2-year grace period (carried over from the Capital Athletic Conference) during the wiped out 2020 season (5 teams) and the scotchtaped together 2021 season (6 teams).

Now that the minimum is only 6 teams, weren't they retroactively OK as soon as they got back to 6 teams last year and their grace period for only having 5 softball teams in the league starts this season, right? Pool B in 2024?

Looks like the 7 UAA schools plus Trinity DC is enough for 1 Pool B berth. Thing is, Trinity isn't playing this season. Maranatha Baptist is listed also - they definitely were on restricted membership and ineligible due to past violations, not sure if they are OK now. So the Pool B berth isn't really Pool B, it's a de facto A berth for the UAA - it's just the committee gets to decide the winner, not the players. Terrific.

WLCALUM83 · March 21, 2022, 11:02:28 AM

Region 1 Final: Hamilton 9, #10 Tufts 7 (Hamilton raced out to an 8-1 lead after 3 innings, then the Jumbos put up a 6th inning 5-spot to turn this one into an interesting ending. Hamilto's Natalie Beebe struck out the Jumbo's M. Adelman with the tying runs on base and 2 out in the 7th, preserving this mild upset).

WLCALUM83 · March 21, 2022, 05:40:02 PM

Undefeated Teams:

3 Left (barring St. Vincent losses or split vs. PSU-DuBois later today.)

# 4 CNU (21-0)
#16 Moravian (12-0)
St. Vincent (6-0 going into previously mentioned DH)
UPDATE: St. Vincent swept PSU-DuBois (coming back from an early 6-1 deficit in Game 2) to remain unbeaten at 8-0

Best hitter on Top 25 squad: #18 UW-Oshkosh-Hannah Ritter .538
Best Top 25 team BA: #4 CNU (.405)
Best Top 25 team ERA: CNU (1.13)*
*-technically, #10 Tufts was better going into today's action, but after 2 Jumbo losses today, that may change)

Best individual Top 25 ERA: #22 Concordia-WI Gina Followell (0.30)

WLCALUM83 · March 22, 2022, 04:41:30 PM

Now it's down to 2 unbeaten teams:

#15 Moravian just lost to Lebanon Valley, 5-3 (In the 6th, Kylie Balthaser doubled and drove in Morgan Comfort, and then Anna Marie Hockmann drove in an insurance run, and the lead held up.)

W - Jordan Walter, L- M Hummel

WLCALUM83 · March 25, 2022, 04:59:17 PM

3/24/22 NACC Finals:

Dominican sweeps St. Norbert 9-1 and 5-4. (Stars' Emma Woodhouse tossed a 4-hit complete game in the opener; Kailey Kirkwood singled in the game-winning run in the 7th in the night-cap for the Chicago area squad.)

WLCALUM83 · March 26, 2022, 06:29:52 PM

3/25-26/22 Finals:

Region 10:
#4 Belhaven takes 2 of 3 from #25 Mary Hardin-Baylor
3/25: Split--Cru opened up with 8-2 win (breaking open a tie game by plating 7 runs in its' last 2 at bats)
Blazers 10, Cru 3 in Game 2 (Ellie Jones-2 HRs, 5 RBI; Allie Gordon 1 HR)- W-Gracey Baucom (5-2);
L - Rachel Williams (9-2)

3/26: Blazers 9, Cru 1 (Jones and Marlee Blackwell 3 RBI each, W - Kennedy Carruth 12-1 L - Bayleigh
Grogan (7-4)

Sul Ross State upsets #6 ETBU 5-2 (Lobos put up a 4-spot in the 2nd inning and held on) W - Jodie
Vaughan (6-6) L -Kathryn Reed (7-2)

Region 6 ODAC Final: Ferrum 5, #3 VA Wesleyan 4 (Ferrum's Arielle Eurie knocked in 2 runs in the 6th, then with 2 runners on and 1 out, Lyndsey Sears induced a strike-out and a ground-out to preserve this upset win.)

WLCALUM83 · March 28, 2022, 09:31:23 AM

American Rivers Conference Finals: Dubuque split a DH with #22 Wartburg, 8-14, and 9-8)

Game 1: Wartburg put up 10 runs in the 2nd inning, including an Ella Link grand slam and Carly Salutrig got the win.

Game 2: Spartans salvage split in a back-and-forth game when in the 7th, with the Knights' potential lead run on base, Kalya Breunig comes on and induces a groundout to shortstop. Dubuque hit 5 HRs in this game (including back-to-back-to-back solo shots).

WLCALUM83 · March 29, 2022, 12:06:31 PM

St. Vincent is the only D3 softball squad that is still undefeated:

Highest Individual BA on Top 25 squad: Brianna Davis, #15 UW-Oshkosh (.543)
Highest Top 25 Team BA: #1 CNU (.399)
Best Top 25 Team ERA: #16 Concordia-WI (0.50); #23 Loras and #14 Tufts are 2 and 3 (0.62 and 0.93, respectively.)

Best Top 25 Individual ERA: Ashlyn Hemm, #23 Loras (0.21)

WLCALUM83 · March 30, 2022, 09:57:27 AM

Squads on hot runs:

Region 1: GNAC South: J&W-RI (W 9)
North Atlantic: Cazenovia (W 4)
NESCAC: Tufts (W 8

Region 2: CCC: Endicott, WNE and Gordon (all W 4 each)
NEWMAC: MIT (W 7)

Region 3: E8: Houghton, Nazareth (W 3 each)
Liberty League: Union-NY (W 6)i Skidmore (W 5)
Skyline: Farmingdale State (W 3)
SUNYAC: Geneseo State (W 4)

Region 4: MAC Freedom: King's & Misericordia (W 4 each)
NJAC: NJCU (W 7,) TCNJ (W 5)
Unted East: PSU-Abington (W 6)

Region 5: Atlantic East: Marywood (W 4)
Centennial: Swarthmore (W 8)
CSAC: Valley Forge (W 4)
Landmark: Susquehanna (W 4)
MAC Commonwealth: Lebanon Valley (W 13)

WLCALUM83 · March 30, 2022, 10:23:02 AM

Squads on hot runs:

Region 6: ODAC: Ferrum (W 4)
SAA: BSC (W 11)
USA South: Piedmont (W 7), Pfeiffer (W 5)
C2C: Salisbury (W 11)

Region 7: AMCC: PSU-Behrend (W 3)
MIAA: Alma (W 7)
NCAC: DePauw (W 9)
OAC: Wilmington-OH (W 6)
PAC: St. Vincent (W 11)

Region 8: CCIW: Millikin (W 9)
HCAC: Bluffton (W 3)
NACC: Dominican (W 9) CUW (W 6)
SLIAC: Eureka (W 3)
WIAC: Eau Claire & Whitewater (both W 3)

Region 9: ARC: Coe (W 8), NE Wes (W 5)
MIAC: Bethel-MN (W 9)
MWC: Grinnell (W 3)
UMAC: North Central-MN (W 6)

Region 10: NWC: Whitworth (W 8) George Fox (W 5)
SCIAC: CLU & Redlands (both W 3)
SCAC: TLU (W 6), Centenary LA (W 5)

(Mainly giving some unranked "under the radar" squads some positive attention)