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Mickey Dean will step down as head coach at Auburn at the end of season the university announced Tuesday. Dean is in his seventh season leading the Tigers and the program is currently 15-9-1 and 2-7 in the SEC. During his time on the plains Dean led Auburn to five NCAA Regional appearances and three 40-win seasons. Auburn’s second winningest coach in program history will continue as a special assistant to the athletic director through the remainder of his contract.

Rank	School	Record	Last Week’s Record	Last Week’s Ranking

1	Oklahoma	31-1	4-0	1
2	Texas	28-3	4-0	4
3	Georgia	27-4	4-0	5
4	Duke	26-3	4-1	2
5	Stanford	25-5	3-0	6
6	Tennessee	25-4	3-0	8
7	Oklahoma State	26-5	2-2	7
8	Washington	22-5	2-1	9
9	Florida	29-4	4-0	11
10	Virginia Tech	25-5-1	4-1	10
11	Texas A&M	28-4	3-1	12
12	Missouri	25-7	3-1	16
13	LSU	25-4	1-3	2
14	Alabama	25-6	3-1	15
15	Mississippi State	24-7	3-1	18
16	UCLA	18-8	1-2	14
17	Texas State	26-7	4-0	19
18	Kansas	22-8-1	3-1	20
19	California	24-8	3-1	21
20	Arkansas	24-8	2-2	17
21	Clemson	22-9	1-3	13
22	Penn State	23-6	3-0	NR
23	Louisiana	21-13	3-1	23
24	Northwestern	16-7	5-0	NR
25	FAU	27-7	4-0	NR

Dropped out of Rankings: Baylor, Arizona, South Carolina

Received Votes: South Carolina, Arizona, Florida State

Sources have confirmed to RTS that longtime William Peace University Head Coach Charlie Dobbins will retire at the conclusion of the 2024 season.

Dobbins is in his 25th season leading WPU and has amassed 515 wins during his tenure. He has served on numerous national softball committees shaping the sport, including the NCAA Division III National Softball Committee.

Dobbins could be best known as a top player nationally touring with the World famous King and His Court. He helped retire the “Court” in 2011, ending a 65-year run of touring that covered over 4 million miles, 14,000 games, and over 100 countries. Working behind the plate for the King and His Court, he caught the last pitch in the last game ever played by the group.

Rank	School	Record	Last Week’s Record	Last Week’s Ranking

1	Oklahoma	27-1	5-0	1
2	LSU	24-1	2-1	2
3	Duke	22-2	3-1	3
4	Texas	24-3	3-1	4
5	Georgia	23-4	3-1	6
6	Stanford	22-5	4-1	5
7	Oklahoma State	24-3	4-0	7
8	Tennessee	22-4	4-0	9
9	Washington	20-4	2-1	8
10	Virgina Tech	21-4-1	3-1	10
11	Florida	25-4	4-1	12
12	Texas A&M	25-3	2-1	13
13	Clemson	21-6	4-0	16
14	UCLA	17-6	3-0	15
15	Alabama	22-5	3-2	17
16	Missouri	22-6	2-3	11
17	Arkansas	22-6	2-1	20
18	Mississippi State	21-6	2-2	18
19	Texas State	22-7	2-1	24
20	Kansas	19-7-1	5-0	NR
21	California	21-7	0-3	19
22	Baylor	16-8	2-3	14
23	Louisiana	18-12	4-0	NR
24	Arizona	20-7-1	1-2	21
25	South Carolina	21-7	3-2	22

Dropped out of Rankings: Boston, Georgia Tech

Received Votes: Boston, Florida State

Long Island University Coach Roy Kortmann picked up his 800th career coaching victory on Saturday with a 4-0 shutout of Stonehill. Kortmann has coached at LIU for 31 years winning 12 Northeast Conference Championships and making 11 NCAA Postseason appearances.

Veteran international coach Craig Montvidas has been named to lead the Minot Honeybees of the new Northwoods Collegiate League. Montvidas most notable coaching stops include leading the Netherlands National Team. He also coached on the professional level with the Pennsylvania Rebellion. Stops with the Greek and British softball national teams also highlight his career.

The University of Oklahoma Board of Regents approved a vote today to erect a statue of Coach Patty Gasso outside the Sooners’ brand new Love’s Field. Nationally known sculptor Brian Hanlon of Toms River, NJ received the contract. Hanlon is the same sculptor who created like type sculptures of legendary OU Athletes Baker Mayfield and Kyler Murray.

Gasso is in her 29th season leading the Sooners. She has won seven National Championships in her time in Norman.

RTS heads to Tampa tomorrow for a doubleheader between South Florida (18-8) and Colgate (8-10). Action between the Bulls and Raiders starts at 5 pm EST. Game 2 will follow at 7:30 pm EST. Check back here and on all RTS Social Media platforms for live in-game updates.

RTS is saddened to report the passing of longtime collegiate coaching assistant and pitching coach Bo Reid. Reid coached on the collegiate level for parts of three decades.

With early successes at Spartanburg Methodist and Furman, that led Reid to join the first coaching staff at the University of Georgia in what was the infancy of softball in the SEC in the 1990s. He would later join the staff at Mississippi Staff working under Hall of Fame Coaches Kathy Arendsen and then Jay Miller.

Reid was a well-accomplished pitcher himself competing at the Men’s Major Levels from 1959 to his retirement in 1995.

Oklahoma still tops this week’s Softball America DI Top 25 followed by LSU and Duke.

Rank	School	Record	Last Week’s Record	Last Week’s Ranking

1	Oklahoma	22-1	4-0	1
2	LSU	22-0	3-0	4
3	Duke	19-1	3-0	3
4	Texas	21-2	4-1	2
5	Stanford	18-4	5-0	5
6	Georgia	20-3	5-0	6
7	Oklahoma State	20-3	3-1	7
8	Washington	18-3	2-1	8
9	Tennessee	18-4	5-0	12
10	Virginia Tech	18-3-1	3-0	11
11	Missouri	20-3	3-1	14
12	Florida	21-3	2-0	16
13	Texas A&M	23-2	4-0	19
14	Baylor	14-5	3-2	13
15	UCLA	14-6	3-0	22
16	Clemson	17-6	4-2	10
17	Alabama	19-3	0-2	9
18	Mississippi St	19-4	2-1	18
19	California	21-4	2-2	15
20	Arkansas	20-5	3-1	21
21	Arizona	19-5-1	2-2	17
22	South Carolina	18-5	0-3	22
23	Boston	17-1	4-0	23
24	Texas State	20-6	3-0	NR
25	Georgia Tech	18-7	4-0	NR

Dropped out of Rankings: Auburn, Kentucky

Received Votes: Auburn, Louisiana, North Carolina