INDIANAPOLIS--The NCAA Division III Softball Committee has announced the 59 teams that will compete in the Division III Softball Championship.
Seven teams will compete at five first-round sites and eight teams will compete at three first-round sites for a total of eight first-round sites. All first-rounds will use a double-elimination format.
The seven-team first rounds will be held May 10-13 on the campuses of competing institutions. The eight-team first rounds will be held May 10-14 on the campuses of competing institutions. The finals, hosted by the City of Salem, Virginia and Old Dominion Athletic Conference, will be held May 18-22 at the James I. Moyer Sports Complex in Salem, Virginia.
Thirty-six conferences have been granted automatic qualification and six independents were selected for the 2007 championship. The 17 remaining teams were selected on an at-large basis from automatic qualifying conferences and the remaining independent institutions.
The conferences and teams that received automatic qualification were:
Allegheny Mountain CC – Pittsburgh-Bradford
American Southwest – Hardin-Simmons
AWCC – Hood
Centennial – Gettysburg
CUNYAC – Staten Island
CCIW – Augustana (Illinois)
Commonwealth – Moravian
Commonwealth Coast – Endicott
Empire 8 – Ithaca
Freedom – King’s (Pennsylvania)
Great Northeast – Emerson
Great South – LaGrange
Heartland Collegiate – Anderson (Indiana)
Iowa Intercollegiate – Wartburg
Little East – Rhode Island College
MASCAC – Framingham State
Michigan Intercol. – Alma
Midwest – St. Norbert
Minnesota Intercol. – St. Thomas (Minnesota)
NEAC – Keuka
NESCAC – Tufts
NEWMAC – Wellesley
NJAC – Rutgers-Camden
North Atlantic – Elms
North Coast – Allegheny
Northwest – Linfield
OAC – Muskingum
Old Dominion – Lynchburg
Pennsylvania AC – Misericordia
Skyline – Manhattanville
SCIAC – Redlands
SLIAC – Webster
Southern Collegiate – Trinity (Texas)
SUNYAC –Cortland State
USA South – Methodist
Wisconsin Intercollegiate – Wisconsin-Eau Claire
SITES:
Seed No. 1 - Winner of first round at Pineville, Louisiana.
*Indicates host institution
1. *Louisiana College (33-9)
2. Linfield (35-5)
3. Mississippi College (36-8)
4. Trinity (Texas) (25-10)
5. Chapman (28-11)
6. Redlands (27-10)
7. Hardin-Simmons (29-14)
Seed No. 2 - Winner of first round at Decorah, Iowa.
1. St. Thomas (Minnesota) (41-2)
2. Washington U. in St. Louis (28-5)
3. *Luther (34-5)
4. Wartburg (27-6)
5. Wisconsin-Stevens Point (32-8)
6. Gustavus Adolphus (31-8)
7. Webster (24-16)
Seed No. 3 - Winner of first round at Eau Claire, Wisconsin
1. Wisconsin-Oshkosh (34-9)
2. Illinois Wesleyan (31-12)
3. Augustana (Illinois) (30-12)
4. Chicago (25-9)
5. Coe (27-12)
6. *Wisconsin-Eau Claire (31-12)
7. St. Norbert (20-12)
Seed No. 4 - Winner of first round at New Concord, Ohio.
1. *Muskingum (34-9)
2. DePauw (32-5)
3. Alma (29-11)
4. Anderson (Indiana) (23-12)
5. Bridgewater (Virginia) (37-6)
6. Maryville (Tennessee) (23-11)
7. Allegheny (18-17)
8. Hood (14-19)
Seed No. 5 - Winner of first round at Montclair, New Jersey.
1. Moravian (32-5)
2. *Montclair State (35-6)
3. King’s Pennsylvania (33-7)
4. Ramapo (30-8)
5. Gettysburg (24-13)
6. Staten Island (27-11)
7. Manhattanville (27-8)
Seed No. 6 - Winner of first round at Providence, Rhode Island.
1. *Rhode Island College (37-5)
2. Tufts (29-10)
3. Wellesley (22-12)
4. Keene State (27-8)
5. Endicott (30-10)
6. Misericordia (29-18)
7. Emerson (22-16)
8. Framingham (21-19)
Seed No. 7 - Winner of first round at Cortland, New York.
1. Rochester (26-5)
2. *Cortland (35-8)
3. Ithaca (33-7)
4. Plattsburgh State (31-11)
5. Keuka (24-4)
6. Pittsburgh-Bradford (20-16)
7. Elms (18-11)
Seed No. 8 - Winner of first round at Fayetteville, North Carolina.
1. *Methodist (32-8)
2. Marietta (32-10)
3. Rutgers-Camden (31-13)
4. Salisbury (36-7)
5. Emory (28-6)
6. Christopher Newport (33-8)
7. Lynchburg (33-11)
8. LaGrange (26-18)
Rutgers-Camden won the 2006 NCAA Division III Softball Championship by defeating St. Thomas (Minnesota) 3-2 in last year’s championship game. The championship was the first for Rutgers-Camden in the history of the school.
For more information about the Division III Softball Championship, log on to www.ncaasports.com.
-Courtesy NCAA