Observations from Week Seven of the School Softball Season

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Week seven of the school softball season offered loads of pleasure and highlights, together with Texas A&M sweeping Auburn to mark the perfect begin in SEC play in class historical past.

The Aggies fast begin in SEC play has them sitting on the high of the league standings with an 8-1 file. In the meantime, the Tennessee Woman Vols, the house owners of the longest profitable streak within the nation, sit in second place with an ideal 5-0 file. The Woman Vols will likely be after a sweep of South Carolina when the 2 end off the three-game sequence tonight (March 25) on the SEC Community.

Florida and Georgia are each proper behind the Aggies and the Woman Vols with 5-1 information in SEC play.

Prime-ranked Oklahoma remained in first place within the Large 12 standings because the Sooners swept a three-game sequence from Baylor. The primary recreation of the sequence was performed at USA Softball Corridor of Fame Stadium and drew 8,798 followers to observe the Sooners draw back late for the win. The sequence resumed in Norman and the Sooners accomplished the sweep with a doubleheader sweep on Saturday. Attendance for the three-game sequence was 17,469 which marked the highest-attended weekend sequence in program historical past.

The Sooners have loads of firm on the high of the Large 12 standings as Texas, Oklahoma State and Kansas are proper behind OU. The Longhorns are second within the Large 12 with an 8-1 file after a three-game sweep of UCF, whereas the Cowgirls and the Jayhawks are 7-2 in convention play.

Whereas Virginia Tech was splitting a weekend sequence in opposition to Alabama, the Hokies obtained some assist in the standings from Louisville and Virginia. The Cardinals defeated Duke in recreation two of their sequence, whereas the Cavaliers received the sequence in opposition to Clemson by taking two of the three video games.

The Hokies are at the moment 9-0 within the ACC, whereas Duke is 7-2 and Clemson is 6-3. Florida State is fourth within the ACC standings with a 4-2 mark.

Large Ten play obtained underway final weekend and Penn State made an announcement proper out of the gate. The Nittany Lions swept Indiana to open league play and stretched their win streak to eight video games and improved to 23-6 on the season.

Defending Large Ten champion Northwestern additionally opened convention play with a 3-0 file because the Wildcats swept Michigan State.

Stanford remained undefeated, and in first place, within the Pac-12 Convention because the Cardinal swept Utah in a three-game sequence. The Cardinal improved to 6-0 within the Pac-12 with the sweep.

Oregon is at the moment in second place within the convention standings after defending The Jane with a three-game sweep of Arizona State. The Geese improved to 7-2 with the sweep.

Washington improved to 6-3 within the Pac-12 by taking two of three video games in opposition to UCLA. The sequence win for the Huskies was their first in opposition to UCLA since 2016.

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And New Residence Run Champion at Southern Miss

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Graduate pupil catcher Hannah Borden launched a grand slam on the primary pitch of her at-bat within the second inning, setting the all-time program file for many profession residence runs and making the distinction in an 8-5 win versus Marshall Sunday on the Southern Miss Softball Complicated. With the victory, Southern Miss (14-16, 3-3 Solar Belt) earned its first residence convention sequence win within the Solar Belt and the primary sequence win in opposition to Marshall since 2010. Having tied Megan Hill’s file of 41 residence runs Saturday in opposition to the Thundering Herd, Borden moved atop the leaderboards along with her tenth residence run shot of the season and in dramatic trend on a grand slam.

“It feels actually good and it was actually particular figuring out it was a house recreation and that it was a grand slam,” Borden mentioned. “We actually wanted to win this sequence. We didn’t have the perfect turnout final weekend in opposition to ULM and this sequence was actually vital, so it felt good to get my crew on high.”