Three SAC Softball Teams Begin NCAA Play Thursday
May 8, 2006

Courtesy Wingate University Sports Information Office

Indianapolis, Ind.----The NCAA Division II Softball Committee has selected the 64 teams that will participate in the 2006 NCAA Division II Softball Regional Championships, which includes three teams from the South Atlantic Conference. Eight teams will participate at each of eight regional sites in double-elimination tournaments to determine the final eight championship participants.

Regional competition will be held May 11-15. Winners will advance to the finals to be held May 18-22, at the James I. Moyer Softball Complex in Salem, Virginia.

Wingate, Lenoir-Rhyne, and Carson-Newman will travel to Columbus, Georgia to participate in the South Atlantic Regional Thursday through Monday. Number nine Columbus State University will host the 2006 NCAA Division II South Atlantic Regional as the number one seed.

The Bulldogs received the number three seed and will face number six seed Carson-Newman College (40-13 overall) Thursday at 11 a.m. SAC regular-season champion Lenoir-Rhyne is the fourth seed and will face fifth seed USC-Upstate in the first round.

The entire NCAA Division II South Atlantic Regional will be played at the former Olympic Stadium in Columbus, GA, site of the 1996 Olympic softball venue.

SITES/PAIRINGS: *Host Institution

South Atlantic Regional at Columbus, Georgia

1. -*Columbus State-38-13-0
2. - GC&SU-40-11-0
3. - Wingate-45-9-0
4. - Lenoir-Rhyne-49-10-1
5. - South Carolina Upstate-41-16-1
6. - Carson-Newman-40-13-0
7. - Armstrong Atlantic State-37-25-0
8. - Queens (North Carolina)-33-22-0

Great Lakes Regional at Edwardsville, Illinois

1. -*Southern Illinois Edwardsville-46-8-0
2. - Gannon-39-16-0
3. - Southern Indiana-37-16-0
4. - Lewis-39-13-0
5. - Northern Kentucky -38-19-0
6. - Wayne State (Michigan)-32-24-0
7. - West Virginia Wesleyan-43-22-0
8. - Grand Valley State-34-19-0

Mid-Atlantic Regional at Shippensburg, Pennsylvania

1. - Lock Haven-46-3-0
2. -*Shippensburg-40-18-0
3. - Kutztown-32-17-0
4. - Bloomsburg-35-17-0
5. - California (Pennsylvania)-24-15-0
6. - East Stroudsburg-26-25-0
7. - Millersville-29-19-0
8. - North Carolina Central-34-14-0

North Central Regional at Emporia, Kansas

1. -*Emporia State-54-4-0
2. - Southwest Minnesota State-41-10-0
3. - Nebraska-Omaha-45-11-0
4. - Northwest Missouri State-39-13-0
5. - Concordia-St. Paul-39-15-0
6. - Missouri Western State-39-18-0
7. - Augustana (South Dakota)-29-19-0
8. - Washburn-36-19-0

Northeast Regional at Smithfield, Rhode Island

1. - C.W. Post-42-10-0
2. - Adelphi-31-16-0
3. -*Bryant-29-16-0
4. - Caldwell-36-15-0
5. - Massachusetts-Lowell-31-20-0
6. - Queens (New York)-27-20-0
7. - Le Moyne-29-19-0
8. - Southern New Hampshire-21-21-0

South Regional at Lakeland, Florida

1. -*Florida Southern-49-5-0
2. - Barry-37-11-0
3. - Alabama-Huntsville-48-15-0
4. - North Alabama-39-18-0
5. - Florida Gulf Coast-57-7-0
6. - Saint Leo-37-18-0
7. - Valdosta State-38-22-0
8. - Kentucky State-26-8-0

South Central Regional at Wichita Falls, Texas

1. -*Midwestern State-44-13-0
2. - Abilene Christian-41-17-0
3. - Regis (Colorado)-48-13-0
4. - Southeastern Oklahoma State-41-12-0
5. - St. Mary's (Texas)-46-23-0
6. - St. Edward's-43-20-0
7. - Central Oklahoma-26-15-0
8. - Incarnate Word-43-17-0

West Regional at Bakersfield, California

1. - Humboldt State-52-4-0
2. -*Cal State Bakersfield-46-10-0
3. - San Francisco State-40-14-0
4. - Cal State Dominguez Hills-42-9-0
5. - Cal State Stanislaus-32-21-0
6. - Hawaii-Hilo-29-17-0
7. - Seattle-33-20-0
8. - Hawaii Pacific-27-18-0