RPI: 15.
Ballpark: Carolina Softball Stadium at Beckham Field (1,277)
Postseason history: 22 NCAA Regional appearances, 2 Super Regional appearances, 3 World Series appearances.
Ace of the staff: Kelsey Oh. The senior right-hander had the 2020 season cut short with a foot injury. Oh finished 4-2 with a 2.14 ERA, 51 strikeouts and 16 walks in 32.2 IP.
Impact player: Kenzi Maguire. The graduate senior will be in her sixth season of college softball. Maguire started all 23 games at shortstop in 2020 for the Gamecocks, batting .328 with five doubles, nine RBIs, 14 walks, nine hit by pitches and 22 runs scored.
DII softball: Kutztown head coach Judy Lawes wins game No. 1,000 of her career
Tuesday, January 26, 2021, 09:00 GMT+7
A banner welcoming Vietnam’s 13th National Party Congress at 30-4 Park in downtown Ho Chi Minh City. Photo: Ngoc Phuong / Tuoi Tre
Here are today’s leading news stories:
Politics The 13th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam officially opened in Hanoi on Tuesday morning, with the participation of 1,587 delegates. It is slated to conclude on February 2.
Society The Ministry of Health on Monday evening recorded one imported COVID-19 patient – a 47-year-old Vietnamese woman returning from Indonesia, raising the country’s tally to 1,549, with 1,425 recoveries and 35 deaths. One fisherman was killed while seven others have been brought to safety after their boat was allegedly hit and sunk by a cargo ship amid bad and foggy weather off Vietnam s north-central province of Nghe An early on Monday morning.
Louisiana Softball Ranked in Top 10 of Coaches Poll
Gerry Glasco s squad will start the 2021 campaign ranked 9th in the Coaches Poll.
The NCAA Top 25 Coaches Poll was released this morning.
1. UCLA
25. Duke
It s not the first preseason poll to give the Ragin Cajuns a top 10 ranking. Last week, D1softball ranked Louisiana at number seven in its 2021 preseason top 25 poll.
Typically ranked each year at the start of the season, a number nine ranking in the coaches poll (and number 7 in D1softball) is not a surprise.
The Cajuns first weekend of softball is set for Friday, February 12-Saturday, February 13, when they host Baylor and Missouri State in the 25th Annual Louisiana Classics at Lamson Park.
The Louisiana Ragin Cajuns softball program unveiled their schedule for the upcoming 2021 season on Monday, highlighted by matchups with nationally ranked foes Baylor, Louisiana State, Oklahoma State and Texas at Lamson Park, plus a weekend series at Alabama.
Should disruptions or modifications to the 2021 season occur due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Department of Athletics will quickly communicate the adjustments. Additionally, the department will communicate specific entry and attendance protocols for home games ahead of the season opener.
Armed with five seniors utilizing an extra year of eligibility granted by last season’s COVID-19 stoppage of play, along with several key Division I transfers, Louisiana (18-6, 2-1 SBC in 2020) officially kicks off the 2021 season Feb. 12-13 welcoming Baylor and Missouri State to Lamson Park for the 35th Annual Louisiana Classics.