Monday, May 8th, 2006

Piedmont College Softball Earns NCAA Division-III Regional Bid

Regional Website | Bracket

The Piedmont College softball team as earned an invitation to the 2006 NCAA Division-III National Tournament as announced this afternoon from the NCAA office. The bid is the first-ever for the PC softball program as the Lady Lions will now travel to Salem, VA for an eight-team regional May 11-14 hosted by Roanoke College at Moyer Sports Complex.

The Lady Lions will enter the regional as the fifth seed and will open against fourth- seeded Transylvania University at noon with the winner advancing to play top-seeded Muskingum College.

PC went 31-9 overall this season including a perfect 14-0 in Great South Athletic Conference competition. The Lady Lions also went 24-5 against NCAA Division-III South Region opponents.


Piedmont was selected as a Pool B participant and is one of 59 teams playing in the National Tournament. 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 finals, hosted by Peace College, will be held May 19-23 at the Walnut Creek Softball Complex in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Thirty-five conferences were granted automatic qualification and six independents (Pool B) were selected for the 2006 championship. The 18 remaining teams were selected on an at-large basis from automatic qualifying conferences and the remaining independent institutions.

Salem, VA Regional
Hosted by Roanoke College
1. Muskingum (39-4)
2. Roanoke (35-5)
3. Emory (33-9)
4. Transylvania (31-10)
5. Piedmont (31-9)
6. Thomas More (25-13)
7. Denison (32-11)
8. Hood (23-13)