WIAC places four in softball tournament

Rose Tusa helped lift UW-River Falls to the NCAA Tournament with a 19-6 record and a 1.49 ERA.
UW-River Falls athletics photo

INDIANAPOLIS -- The NCAA Division III Softball Committee has announced the 60 teams that will compete in the Division III Softball Championship.

Six teams will compete at two regional sites and eight teams will compete at six regional sites for a total of eight regional sites. All sites will use a double-elimination format.

The six-team regional rounds will be held May 13-16 on the campuses of competing institutions. The eight-team regional rounds will be held May 12-16 on the campuses of competing institutions. The finals, hosted by the City of Salem and the Old Dominion Athletic Conference, will be held May 20-24 at the Moyer Complex in Salem, Va.

Forty-one conferences received automatic qualification. Two institutions were selected from Pool B, which includes independent institutions and institutions from conferences not among those 41. The 17 remaining teams were selected on an at-large basis from remaining teams.

Four teams were selected from the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference and American Southwest Conference, three from the Iowa Conference, Little East and New Jersey Athletic Conference.

Conferences and Teams Receiving Automatic Qualification (41)
Conference School
Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference D’Youville
American Southwest Conference East Texas Baptist
Capital Athletic Conference Salisbury
Centennial Conference Muhlenberg
City University of New York Athletic Conference Staten Island
College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin North Central
Colonial States Athletic Conference Centenary (N.J.)
Commonwealth Coast Conference Endicott
Commonwealth Conference Messiah
Empire 8 St. John Fisher
Freedom Conference King’s
Great Northeast Athletic Conference St. Joseph’s (Maine)
Great South Athletic Conference Piedmont
Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference Anderson 
Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Luther
Landmark Conference Moravian
Little East Conference Eastern Connecticut
Massachusetts State College Athletic Conference Worcester State
Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association Trine
Midwest Conference Ripon
Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference St. Thomas
New England Collegiate Conference Lesley
New England Small College Athletic Conference Middlebury
New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference U.S. Coast Guard
New Jersey Athletic Conference Kean
North Atlantic Conference Husson
North Coast Athletic Conference Hiram
North Eastern Athletic Conference Keuka
Northern Athletics Conference Benedictine 
Northwest Conference Linfield
Ohio Athletic Conference Ohio Northern
Old Dominion Athletic Conference Virginia Wesleyan
Presidents’ Athletic Conference Bethany
Skyline Conference Farmingdale State
Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Redlands
Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference DePauw
St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Fontbonne
State University of New York Athletic Conference Cortland State
Upper Midwest Athletic Conference St. Scholastica
USA South Athletic Conference Shenandoah
Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference UW-River Falls
Pool B (2)
School
Emory
Washington U.
Pool C
School
Alma
Baldwin-Wallace
Central
Christopher Newport
Claremont-Mudd-Scripps
Coe
Ithaca
Louisiana College
Mississippi College
Montclair State
Rhode Island College
Rowan
Texas-Tyler
Western Connecticut
UW-Eau Claire
UW-La Crosse
UW-Whitewater
Sites
Regional/School Location/Record
Regional at Adrian, Mich.  
Alma (33-6)
Baldwin-Wallace (27-9)
Bethany (29-14)
D’Youville (21-8)
DePauw (27-8-1)
Hiram (25-12)
Ohio Northern (26-12)
Trine (27-11)
   
Regional at Cortland, N.Y.  
King’s (18-11)
Montclair State (27-10)
Moravian (35-7)
Piedmont (27-13)
Staten Island (26-11)
SUNY-Cortland (36-3-1)
   
Regional at Eau Claire, Wis.  
Luther (37-4)
North Central (Ill.) (26-12)
Ripon (24-8)
St. Scholastica (28-13)
St. Thomas (39-4)
UW-Eau Claire (29-14)
UW-La Crosse (27-14)
UW-River Falls (26-13)
   
Regional at Ithaca, N.Y.
Centenary (29-11)
Ithaca (27-12)
Keuka (20-3-1)
Messiah (35-5)
Middlebury (29-6)
Muhlenberg (25-15)
St. John Fisher (28-12-1)
Western Connecticu (27-12)
   
Regional at Pella, Iowa
Anderson  (28-13)
Benedictine (37-6)
Central (35-7)
Coe (34-9)
Fontbonne (29-8)
Linfield (41-2)
Washington U. (30-9-1)
UW-Whitewater (26-10)
   
Regional at Providence, R.I.
Coast Guard (36-2)
Eastern Connecticut (30-4)
Endicott (35-6)
Husson (25-17)
Lesley (29-6)
Rhode Island College (33-11)
St. Joseph’s (Maine) (35-8)
Worcester State (28-9)
   
Regional at Salisbury, Md.
Christopher Newport (31-10)
Emory (40-2-1)
Farmingdale State (32-5)
Kean (16-25)
Rowan (28-11)
Salisbury (33-4)
Shenandoah (30-15)
Virginia Wesleyan (29-9)
   
Regional at Tyler, Texas
Claremont-Mudd Scripps (34-10)
East Texas Baptist (36-7)
Louisiana College (28-10)
Mississippi College (32-13)
Redlands (34-9)
Texas-Tyler (34-11)