Month: June 2019

Continuing its longstanding support of women’s softball, ESPN will televise five games across four days (July 4-7) from this year’s USA Softball International Cup in Columbus, Ga., including the Championship Game on Sunday, July 7, at noon ET on ESPN. The first four games on the television schedule will feature the No. 1 ranked USA…

TOKYO – Before a crowd of 20,331 fans, Japan walked off with a 1-0 eight-inning win over team USA in the finale of the Japan All-Star Series at the Tokyo Dome. With the game scoreless through regulation play, the winning run crossed the plate on an executed squeeze bunt in the bottom of the eighth…

Click:公共api接口 LOS ANGELES – UCLA redshirt junior Rachel Garcia was named the winner of the 2019 Collegiate Woman Athlete of the Year Award and the prestigious Honda Cup, as announced during a live television ceremony at USC’s Galen Center. Garcia, the back-to-back winner of the Honda Sport Award for Softball, is the third Bruin softball player to be…

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Louisville Male completed just the second perfect season in Kentucky state history, and the Bulldogs ascended to No. 1 in Thursday’s final USA TODAY Sports/NFCA High School Super 25 poll. Male (39-0), which outscored its opponents 338-39 this year, leapfrogged both Neshoba Central and Norco in the last ranking of the season….

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Following UCLA’s run to its 12thNCAA Division I national championship, head coach Kelly Inouye-Perez and her staff have been voted by their peers as the NFCA Division I National Coaching Staff of the Year, the Association announced Thursday afternoon. Inouye-Perez, along with assistant coaches Lisa Fernandez and Kirk Walker, Volunteer Assistant Kylee…

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Guiding their programs to state championships, Bella Willsey of Edison High School (Elmira Heights, N.Y.), Emma Crisswell of Williams Valley High School (Tower City, Pa.) and Kelsie Houchens of Male High School (Louisville, Ky.) were selected MaxPreps / NFCA National High School Players of the Week for their outstanding play during the week…

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Guiding their programs to state championships, Bella Willsey of Edison High School (Elmira Heights, N.Y.), Emma Crisswell of Williams Valley High School (Tower City, Pa.) and Kelsie Houchens of Male High School (Louisville, Ky.) were selected MaxPreps / NFCA National High School Players of the Week for their outstanding play during the week…

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – First-time national champion Texas Lutheran University was voted the winner of the 2019 NFCA Division III National Coaching Staff of the Year award, the Association revealed on Monday.   Led by head coach Wade Wilson and assistants Olivia Van Hook, Dennis Moe and Ed Zarzabal, Texas Lutheran (40-8) advanced to its first…

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The NFCA is pleased to announce that Brookdale Community College freshman third baseman Shakyra Moore has been chosen as the 2019 Schutt Sports/NFCA NJCAA Division III National Player of the Year. Moore was a force at the plate this season for the Jersey Blues, earning NFCA All-America honors in her first collegiate…

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Oklahoma City University’s Jaci Smith has been named the 2019 Schutt Sports / NFCA NAIA National Player of the Year, the Association announced on Monday.  A three-time first-team NFCA All-American, Smith registered one of the most productive offensive seasons in NAIA history. She posted NAIA single-season records with 119 RBI and 114 runs…