The battle for the Sunshine State crown takes on a new format for 2021, there’s a Big 12 vs. SEC matchup down on the Bayou, and Arizona makes a Southern swing. Week 4 has a lot of promise and some great softball could be in store. HEADLINERS Florida vs. Florida State – Friday & Saturday – Gainesville and Tallahassee >>> The Gators and Seminoles will face off in a weekend home-and-home series that will begin in Gainesville and end in Tallahassee on back-to-back days. In a normal year, the series is a pair of midweeks at various points in the…
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Penn standout Emma Nedley has entered the NCAA’s transfer portal, sources told JWOS on Thursday. Nedley entered the portal in the last week of February, per sources. Nedley is the first high-profile Ivy League softball player to enter the transfer portal following the conference’s decision to do away with conference play for the second consecutive season in 2021. Reached by JWOS on Thursday, Nedley said that she intends to graduate from Penn in spring of 2022 and will transfer and play following that time. “I want to finish what I started here,” Nedley said. The conference Rookie of the Year…
NEWS AND NOTES Eastern Illinois senior Haley Mitchell hit her 13th career home run on Saturday to take sole possession of first place in that category in the Panthers’ record book. Utah State head coach Steve Johnson earned his 300th career win. South Alabama head coach Becky Clark earned her 600th career win. Nebraska Hall of Fame head coach Rhonda Revelle earned her 1,000th career win. Arkansas head coach Courtney Deifel earned win #150 as the Razorbacks’ head coach. Deifel is in her 6th season as the Hogs’ program leader. Southeast Missouri head coach Mark Redburn earned his own 150th win as the…
Receiving Votes: Southern Illinois, Illinois, Georgia, Troy, Baylor, Mississippi State New to Poll: Auburn, Northwestern, Clemson, Texas State, Tennessee Dropped Out: Oregon State, Mississippi State, Baylor
Iowa State “super senior” Sami Williams has been named the JWOS Player of the Week for Week 3 of the regular season. Williams batted .611 across five games during week three, helping lead her team to a 4-1 record on the road in Tempe, Arizona. She recorded multi-hit games in each matchup during the week’s slate. During the weekend’s opener, Williams went 2-4 at the plate against Portland State. Both of her hits went over the fence for home runs and she collected five RBIs against the Vikings. She hit her third home run on the calendar day in the…
South Alabama head coach Becky Clark won her 600th career game on Sunday afternoon. While Clark celebrates her milestone victory, here are five fast facts about her that you should know. 1. Clark is the only coach that South Alabama has ever known. Since the program began play in the 2007 season, Clark is the only head coach to ever lead the Jaguars’ program. 2. Nearly 450 of her wins have come at South Alabama. Clark has been a head coach for eighteen years, with fifteen of them coming at USA. Since she began the Jaguars’ program, Clark owns 444…
The JWOS Top 25 poll for Week 3 will be released early Tuesday morning. Here’s how the teams ranked in last week’s poll fared in this week’s games. (Editor’s note: Some PAC-12 teams play games on Monday; this list will be updated with the results of those games prior to the release of our media poll.) 1. UCLA W 14-0 vs. San Diego State L 3-1 vs. Oregon MON vs. Oregon MON vs. Utah 2. Oklahoma W 8-0 vs. New Mexico W 5-3 vs. Arizona State W 33-4 vs. New Mexico W 14-0 vs. Grand Canyon W 8-0 vs. Portland…
Sunday’s scheduled Santa Clara vs. Cal matchup has been cancelled due to COVID-19 contact tracing protocols. In what could be a first-of-its-kind incident to be reported this softball season, the game was called off due to contact tracing from an umpire in Santa Clara’s previous game on Friday. Santa Clara lost to Cal Baptist 7-5 in a faceoff on Friday at noon; that was the Broncos’ most recent matchup prior to Sunday’s scheduled game. All three umpires who officiated the game in question did work further games in the tournament, including on Friday night and on Saturday. Cal Baptist’s weekend…
A van carrying members of the University of Southern Indiana softball team was involved in a crash on Saturday night. The Screaming Eagles played a pair of games in Owensboro, Kentucky on Saturday and were traveling home when the accident occurred. Owensboro is less than fifty miles from USI’s campus in Evansville, Indiana. Southern Indiana athletic director Jon Mark Hall released the following statement to WFIE in Owensboro: “University of Southern Indiana Softball was involved in a traffic accident in Owensboro, Kentucky, while traveling back from a pair of games in the Blue Bridge Battle at Kentucky Legends Field. The…
As Week 3 of the Division 1 regular season gets fully underway, the injury bug has reared its ugly head yet again. Midweek action was dangerous this week, and nearly a half-dozen players across the nation have suffered unfortunate injuries that will keep them out of their respective lineups for potentially-lengthy periods of time. Keep reading for updates on players from Arizona; Alabama; Illinois; and the Ragin’ Cajuns.