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The University of Central Arkansas honored the founder of their softball program Tuesday night, Natalie Shock, by naming their softball stadium in her honor in front of 2,100 fans in a game against Arkansas. Shock coached the Bears for 11 seasons starting with the squads first in 1996. She compiled a record of 207-296. Shock has since served as an Associate Athletic Director at UCA after her retirement from coaching.

Texas, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas A&M, Oklahoma State are the top 5 in this week’s Softball America DI Top 25.

Rank	School	Record	Last Week’s Record	Last Week’s Rank
1	Texas	42-6	4-0	1
2	Oklahoma	45-4	3-0	2
3	Tennessee	37-9	3-1	3
4	Texas A&M	39-9	2-0	4
5	Oklahoma State	42-8	3-0	5
6	Duke	44-6	5-0	6
7	UCLA	30-10	3-1	7
8	Arkansas	34-13	2-1	8
9	Stanford	39-11	3-1	9
10	Missouri	37-13	2-0	14
11	Florida State	40-10	4-0	16
12	Florida	39-12	2-2	14
13	Georgia	37-13	1-2	10
14	Washington	31-10	1-2	12
15	Louisiana	38-15	5-0	19
16	LSU	36-13	1-3	11
17	Texas State	39-13	2-1	20
18	Virginia Tech	38-11-1	3-2	15
19	Alabama	32-14	1-2	18
20	Northwestern	31-9	2-0	22
21	Miami	40-7	4-0	25
22	Arizona	32-15-1	1-2	21
23	Mississippi State	30-17	0-3	17
24	Boston	45-4-1	5-0-1	24
25	Michigan	37-14	4-0	NR

Received Votes: Virginia, Charlotte

Dropped out of Rankings: Kentucky

Baker University has removed the interim tag from Tony Austin permanently naming him head coach. Austin had recently taken over for former head coach Sam White. The new leader of the Wildcats joined the program last fall as an assistant coach. He helped guide BU to a 32-12 regular season record this season. Before joining Baker he worked on the coaching staff at Park University.

RTS heads to Cookeville, Tennessee this weekend for the OVC Series between Tennessee Tech (19-21, 9-12) and Southern Illinois Edwardsville (15-30, 7-14). Game 1 of the series is set for Noon CST Saturday, with Game 2 following at 2 pm CST. Game 3 will be at Noon CST Sunday. Check-in here and on all RTS Social Media Platforms for live in-game updates throughout the weekend.

The University of Saint Katherine in San Marcos, California ceased all operations as an institute today. RTS has obtained an email sent to all employees terminating them saying the institute could “no longer meet their financial obligations” and would be filing for bankruptcy.

No warning was given to coaches and athletes within the athletic department before the email was sent out. USK fielded 13 athletic teams and were members of the California Pacific Conference in the NAIA. The Firebirds Softball Squad just completed their season on Sunday with a 9-30 record.

Reinhardt University has clinched the Appalachian Athletic Conference Regular-Season Championship with a double header sweep of Johnson University. The first place Eagles led the second place Royals by three games with four to play for each squad in conference entering today. No. 22 nationally ranked Reinhardt dominated Johnson on their home turf in Knoxville, winning both games in shutout fashion 5-0 and 7-0 to push their record to 25-1 in AAC play and clinch the championship.

Texas, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas A&M, and Oklahoma State in the Top 5 positions.

Rank	School	Record	Last Week’s Record	Last Week’s Rank
1	Texas	38-6	3-0	1
2	Oklahoma	42-4	4-0	2
3	Tennessee	34-8	2-1	4
4	Texas A&M	37-9	5-0	7
5	Oklahoma State	39-8	4-0	6
6	Duke	39-6	2-2	3
7	UCLA	27-9	3-0	16
8	Arkansas	32-12	2-1	8
9	Stanford	36-10	2-3	5
10	Georgia	36-11	3-1	11
11	LSU	35-10	2-2	10
12	Washington	30-8	2-1	14
13	Missouri	35-13	2-2	9
14	Florida	37-10	2-1	15
15	Virginia Tech	35-9-1	4-0	18
16	Florida State	36-10	5-0	19
17	Mississippi State	30-13	1-1	13
18	Alabama	31-12	1-3	12
19	Louisiana	33-15	4-1	17
20	Texas State	37-12	4-0	21
21	Arizona	31-13-1	3-0	22
22	Northwestern	29-9	3-1	20
23	Kentucky	29-15	3-0	25
24	Boston	40-4	5-0	NR
25	Miami	36-7	4-1	24

Gordon State College Head Coach Ally Hatterman picked up her 600th career coaching win today in a 7-2 victory over East Georgia State. Hatterman is in her 25th season leading the Highlanders and has guided the program to multiple GCAA regular season and tournament championships, and numerous NJCAA district and region championships. GSC has also made NJCAA Division I National Tournament appearances, most recently in 2023.

After 30 seasons leading the program at Seminole State College, Courtney Miller is retiring at the conclusion of this season. The longtime leader of the Raiders arrived in Florida in 1994. Miller led SSC to an FCSAA State Championship in 2012, advancing to the NJCAA World Series. In 2017 the program racked up a school record 53 wins on the way to a conference title. During her tenure Miller coached 53 All-State selections and 14 All-Americans.