Wednesday, March 31, 2010

MORAVIAN SOFTBALL SQUAD MOVES TO 25TH IN LATEST NFCA DIVISION III TOP 25 POLL     

STARKVILLE, MS --- The Moravian College softball team moved into 25th in the nation in the fifth 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 31 points to move into the poll after three weeks of receiving votes.

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.  Seven 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 #3 East Texas Baptist University and two losses to #23 Mount Union College, 4-0 and 4-1.

Moravian is one of three teams from the East Region ranked with the Greyhounds being joined by fourth ranked Messiah College and eighth ranked The College of New Jersey, which split a doubleheader with the Greyhounds, each team winning by a score of 1-0.

The complete poll can be found at http://nfca.org/top25/index.php?cat_id=3.