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Sports News: Spring 2010

Thursday, May 13, 2010

MORAVIAN SOFTBALL SQUAD MOVES INTO TIE FOR 24TH IN LATEST NFCA DIVISION III TOP 25 POLL

            STARKVILLE, MS --- The Moravian College softball team returned to the national rankings in a tie for 24th in the nation in the 11th poll National Fastpitch Coaches Association NCAA Division III Top 25 Poll of the 2010 regular season released Wednesday. 
            Louisiana College is first in the poll with all eight first place votes and 200 points while the Greyhounds received 17 points to move up from receiving votes.  Moravian, which was ranked as high as 22nd earlier this season, is tied with Ithaca College for 24th place.
            Moravian, under the direction of 17th-year head coach John Byrne, opened the season with a 6-4 record at the 2010 NFCA Division III Leadoff Classic in Panama City Beach, Florida.  Eight of the Greyhounds ten games on the trip were against teams that are or have been ranked this season including a 15-3 loss to #13 East Texas Baptist University and a 13-6 victory over receiving votesTransylvania (KY) University.
            Moravian is one of four teams from the East Region ranked with the Greyhounds being joined by seventh ranked Messiah College, ninth ranked The College of New Jersey, which split a doubleheader with the Greyhounds, each team winning by scores of 1-0 and 21st ranked Lebanon Valley, which swept Moravian, 4-1 and 1-0.
            The complete poll can be found at http://nfca.org/top25/index.php?cat_id=3.