[Eoscstudents] Softball news

[Bobb Johnston]

Attached  is the first national poll for this season in softball. The
Lady Mountaineers are ranked 16th at this time. NEO is ranked 10th,
having beaten Eastern twice at home before losing the last time they
played as Eastern defeated NEO 4-0 to win the Midwest JUCO Classic the
weekend before spring break. The Lady Mountaineers won the Eastern
Spring Classic at McAlester and were undefeated in the Cowtown Classic
in Fort Worth before it was cancelled due to weather. Eastern has also
beaten Colby, KS 8-0, ranked 17th, and Bossier Parrish 2-1, ranked 20th.

The Lady Mountaineers travel to Midwest City Saturday to take on Rose
State in Conference play, home on Sunday against Connors in a make-up
game, then to Altus on Tuesday to play Western before hosting Seminole
next Thursday. All these games will be conference games.

Eastern has ouscored it's opponents 139-26 this season and hit 29
homeruns in 25 games. Both pitchers have an ERA below 1 and are
currently ranked in the top ten in strikeouts, with Marge Johnson
leading the nation. Karla Pittman is 8th. Johnson is also ranked third
in homeruns hit with 9 and Ashley Graham is 31 with 5 homers. The team
is 7th in team batting average.

If you would like to follow these ladies in the national stat ranking go
to www.njcaa.org, then select a women's sport, softball 1, go to the
stats link and you can select a category to view. The national poll is
also located on a link at this site under softball 1.


NJCAA Service Bureau
March 21, 2006
Place College                              Location             Record
1       Central Arizona College     Coolidge, AZ      40-3
2       Santa Fe Comm Coll.        Gainesville, FL     23-2
3       Manatee Comm. Coll.        Bradenton, FL    30-3
4       Dixie State                         St. George UT    18-5
5       Arizona Western                Yuma, AZ           24-11
6       Volunteer State                  Gallatin, TN        15-3
7       Temple                              Temple, TX         32-2
8       Pima                                  Tucson, AZ         31-6
9       Indian River                       Ft. Pierce, FL      32-6
10     NEO                                 Miami, OK          14-1
11     Chipola                             Marianna, FL        33-4
12     Chattanooga State             Chattanooga, TN  20-7
13     Gulf Coast                         Panama City, FL  30-6
14     Otero                                La Junta, CO        25-4
15     Wabash Valley                  Mt. Carmel, IL     15-3
16     Eastern                             Wilburton, OK      22-3
17     Colby                               Colby, KS            18-8
18     Blinn                                 Brenham, TX        21-13
19     Motlow State                    Lynchburg, TN     17-4
20     Bossier Parish                   Bossier City, LA   18-8


Other schools receiving votes
College                        Location                   Record
Carl Albert                  Poteau, OK              20-4
Georgia Perimeter        Decatur, GA            13-5
Seminole State             Seminole, OK          29-8
Young Harris               Young Harris, GA    13-9