Softball Defends SEC Tournament Championship, 1-0

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CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. -- Britni Sneed struck out 14 Georgia Bulldogs and got help from an unearned run in the top of the second inning as the LSU softball team won its third Southeastern Conference Tournament Championship in school history, 1-0, on Sunday. Check back for the story, box score and all-tournament team.

 

Selection show live at 8PM on Sunday at NCAAChampionships.com.

Also, check here for the women's regional pairings in the Women's College World Series.

 

LSU gets #1 seed in Region 3 in Lafayette, La.

Other schools:
2- Arizona St
3-UL-Lafayette
4-U Mass
5-Miss.St
6-Northwestern (La.) St.

Story

Softball Sent Packing For NCAA Regional
05/12/02




BATON ROUGE -- After winning the Southeastern Conference regular season and tournament championships, being ranked third in the nation for the better half of the season and in the top five throughout, the LSU softball team will travel to Lafayette, La., to face Northwestern State in the first game of the NCAA Regional Championship on Thursday.

According to the pairings released on www.ncaachampionships.com, none of the nation's top eight seeds will play host to a regional.

LSU (53-9), the third seed in the 48-team tournament and the top seed in the Lafayette region, is paired with Arizona State, UL-Lafayette, Massachusetts, Mississippi State and Northwestern State.

Top-seeded UCLA travels to Columbia, S.C., No. 2 seed Arizona heads to Minneapolis, Minn., No. 4 seed Cal State Fullerton goes to Fresno State, No. 5 seed Texas plays in conference-rival Oklahoma's hometown, No. 6 Washington travels to Ann Arbor, Mich., No. 7 Nebraska moves on to Iowa City, Iowa, and No. 8 Florida Atlantic has to cross the state to Tallahassee, Fla.

According to the NCAA website: "Seeded teams were placed in the bracket, and the remaining selected teams were placed in their most proximate geographic regions. The committee maintained the ability to balance the bracket and/or avoid first-round (defined as the first three games of the regional tournament) conference match-ups by moving a team to another region when necessary, but flights could not be created in doing so.

"Top-seeded teams were not guaranteed to host a regional because site selection was based on geographic location."

Teams advancing to the Women's College World Series (WCWS), May 23-27 at the Amateur Sports Association's (ASA) Hall of Fame Stadium in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, will be advanced into the WCWS bracket according to the overall regional seeding (i.e., regional No. 1 winner will be seed No.1).

Please check back later for the complete story.

May 12, 2002 - DATES/SITES/PAIRINGS:
* Indicates host institution

Seed No. 1 - May 16-19 at Columbia, South Carolina
No. 1 seed UCLA (50-6)
No. 2 seed Georgia (57-15)
No. 3 seed *South Carolina (43-18)
No. 4 seed Eastern Kentucky (36-12)
No. 5 seed UMBC (46-19)
No. 6 seed Liberty (28-31)

Seed No. 2 - May 16-19 at Minneapolis, Minnesota
No. 1 seed Arizona (48-10)
No. 2 seed DePaul (46-9)
No. 3 seed *Minnesota (35-19)
No. 4 seed Princeton (34-16)
No. 5 seed Penn State (32-24)
No. 6 seed Boston U. (28-21)

Seed No. 3 - May 16-19 at Lafayette, Louisiana
No. 1 seed LSU (53-9)
No. 2 seed Arizona St. (40-18)
No. 3 seed *Louisiana-Lafayette (49-11)
No. 4 seed Massachusetts (52-11)
No. 5 seed Mississippi State (35-29)
No. 6 seed Northwestern State (45-23)

Seed No. 4 - May 16-19 at Fresno, California
No. 1 seed Cal St. Fullerton (50-11)
No. 2 seed Stanford (43-18)
No. 3 seed California (48-19)
No. 4 seed *Fresno St. (49-18)
No. 5 seed Pacific (Cal.) (42-15)
No. 6 seed Evansville (34-25)

Seed No. 5 - May 16-19 at Norman, Oklahoma
No. 1 seed Texas (46-11)
No. 2 seed *Oklahoma (44-14)
No. 3 seed Texas A&M (38-16)
No. 4 seed Arkansas (32-26)
No. 5 seed Utah (30-34)
No. 6 seed Army (30-17-1)

Seed No. 6 - May 16-19 at Ann Arbor, Michigan
No. 1 seed Washington (43-16)
No. 2 seed *Michigan (46-9)
No. 3 seed Ohio State (53-12)
No. 4 seed Central Michigan (38-14)
No. 5 seed Canisius (33-14)
No. 6 seed Oakland (24-35-1)

Seed No. 7 - May 16-19 at Iowa City, Iowa
No. 1 seed Nebraska (45-12)
No. 2 seed Oregon State (38-23)
No. 3 seed Notre Dame (41-15)
No. 4 seed *Iowa (35-18)
No. 5 seed Wisconsin (31-20)
No. 6 seed Illinois-Chicago (42-20)

Seed No. 8 - May 16-19 at Tallahassee, Florida
No. 1 seed Florida Atlantic (59-11)
No. 2 seed Alabama (46-19)
No. 3 seed *Florida State (49-17)
No. 4 seed Auburn (38-25)
No. 5 seed Georgia Tech (47-16)
No. 6 seed Chattanooga (40-13)

 

What's with none of the #1 seeds hosting regionals?

 

Yeah, all top seeds were punished. But, fortunately for LSU, they are geographically closest to home of all the top seeds.

Florida Atlantic is also very close, as is Cal St.-Fullerton (I think-- not really sure where Fullerton is).

So, of all the top seeds, at least LSU will be able to retain its fan base in the regionals, which will give them a lot of momentum to get back to the Women's College World Series this year. Also, they will be one of the favorites to win it all when they do. Hopefully some of those Pac-10 teams fall in the regionals. They kicked LSU's butts in the WCWS last year.

 

go softball!

good job softball! as if any ppl didnt know they lost out in regionals to arizona! but o well they need to keep their heads up and let this loss make the achieve better next year!!!!!!!!!!!! geaux tiger softball!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #1...#1...#1...#1...#1-----I luv you tigers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

I luv tiger softball....lets go tigers win these games! i luv you !!!!!!! GeAuX Go TiGeRs GeAuX!!!!!!! #1 sOfTbALL fan