The JWOS Top 25 poll for Week 6 will be released early Tuesday morning. Here’s how the teams who were ranked in last week’s poll fared in this week’s games. (Editor’s note: The series finale of LSU/Texas A&M will be played on Monday night in Baton Rouge.) #1 Oklahoma 22-0 DNP – exhibitions vs. Team Mexico #2 UCLA 19-1 W 2-1 vs. Arizona State W 6-1 vs. Arizona State W 4-0 vs. Arizona State W 9-0 vs. Arizona State #3 Alabama 24-2 L 4-3 vs. Tennessee W 7-1 vs. Tennessee W 3-0 vs. Tennessee #4 Oregon 20-1 W 5-2 vs.…
Author: jmcleod
Grand Canyon head coach Ann Pierson earned her 500th career victory on Friday night, in a 13-5 run-rule victory over Idaho State. As the Lopes’ veteran head coach celebrates her milestone win, here are Five Fast Facts to know about her. 1. She is the only head coach in GCU program history. Pierson has led the Lopes for nearly two decades, after debuting the program in 2004. A former assistant coach, the GCU position is also the only head coaching position of her career. 2. She is a two-time WAC Coach of the Year. Pierson led the Lopes through the…
All thirteen SEC softball teams will honor the legacy of Alex Wilcox and spotlight ovarian cancer awareness during league games on Saturday, March 20th. “The SEC softball community will be united on March 20,” read a release from GeauxTeal, an ovarian cancer awareness effort piloted by some members of LSU softball’s staff. https://twitter.com/HailStateSB/status/1372558946465054728 Wilcox was a member of the Mississippi State softball team in 2018, and played the college softball season even while receiving treatment for ovarian cancer. Wilcox’s courageous fight and spirit inspired the nation, and continued to do so after cancer took her life in the summer of…
Alabama ‘super senior’ slugger Bailey Hemphill recorded her 200th career RBI on Friday night in the Crimson Tide’s SEC opener against Auburn. Hemphill is in her fifth season in Tuscaloosa, after taking advantage of the NCAA’s eligibility waiver and returning for the 2021 campaign. As the Tide standout celebrates her milestone achievement, let’s break down her achievement by the numbers. 1 The number of at-bats that it took Hemphill to record her first career RBI. As a true freshman in 2017, she hit a 3-run home run in the first at-bat of her career against Towson. 2 The number of…
Texas State head coach Ricci Woodard recorded her 700th career win in her Bobcats’ victory over Texas A&M-Corpus Christi on Tuesday night. Here are Five Fast Facts about the longtime Bobcats leader as she celebrates her milestone win. 1. She has spent more than two decades at Texas State. Woodard is in her twenty-first season as the Bobcats’ leader. She took the helm of the program ahead of the 2001 season. 2. Under Woodard, Texas State has won championships in two different conferences. Prior to joining the Sun Belt Conference in 2013, Texas State competed in the Southland Conference for…
Arguments will continue until the end of time about which conference is the nation’s best in the sport of softball, but there are few arguments that the SEC is the deepest and most loaded league in these United States. Ten of the league’s thirteen teams kicked off conference play in Week 5; Alabama, Arkansas, and Ole Miss all recorded series sweeps, while Florida and LSU each took hard-fought series wins. The remaining three teams – Georgia, Texas A&M, and Missouri – will debut their conference slates in Week 6. Here are our top takeaways from the opening weekend of SEC…
Click here to see how last week’s Top 25 fared in Week 5. Receiving Votes: Michigan, Georgia, Texas A&M, Wichita State Dropped Out: #19 Southern Illinois, #20 South Carolina, #21 Auburn New to Poll: #24 Northwestern
Drexel senior Linda Rush has been named the JWOS Player of the Week for her achievements during Week 5 of the season. Rush batted .700 during her team’s opening weekend, helping lead her team to a 4-0 start to their season with four victories over Coppin State. With seven hits in ten at-bats, Rush was put-out just three times on the entire weekend. In the season opener, Rush went 2-3, knocking a double and a home run and recording a pair of RBIs with three runs scored. Game two saw Rush go just 1-2 at the plate, though she added…
UPDATE 04/07/21: Linnay Wilson’s name appeared in the NCAA’s transfer portal on April 5th; she carries a graduate transfer designation. Lauryn Garcia, a former teammate of Wilson’s at LMU, also entered the portal on April 5th, and carries a similar graduate transfer designation. ORIGINAL STORY: Loyola Marymount is down a star pitcher and has recently had two other players enter the NCAA’s transfer portal, sources confirmed to JWOS on Monday. Starting pitcher Linnay Wilson, who was the team’s ace in the circle in 2020, departed the program in early March. A program spokesperson confirmed Wilson’s departure, but the COVID-junior pitcher had…
The JWOS Top 25 poll for Week 5 will be released early Tuesday morning. Here’s how the teams who were ranked in last week’s poll fared in this week’s games. #1 Oklahoma 21-0 W 14-0 vs. UT Arlington W 9-1 vs. Houston W 6-2 vs. Kansas City W 5-4 vs. Liberty W 16-0 vs. Liberty #2 UCLA 15-1 W 7-1 vs. UC San Diego W 8-0 vs. UC Santa Barbara W 8-0 vs. UC Santa Barbara W 10-0 vs. UNLV W 8-0 vs. UNLV #3 Arizona 14-3 W 8-0 vs. Florida A&M L 4-2 vs. Florida State W 1-0 vs.…