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Posted on: Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Rainbow Wahine remain No. 23 in coaches' softball poll


Advertiser Staff

USA TODAY/NFCA TOP 25

The USA Today/NFCA Division I Top 25 poll is voted on by NCAA Division I head coaches, one representing each conference. Records as of May 2 are shown, first-place votes are in parentheses.

Rank Team Record Pts Pvs

1 Washington (30) 40-5 750 1

2 Michigan 40-6 713 2

3 Arizona 40-8 673 3

4 Alabama 42-9 667 4

5 UCLA 36-9 634 5

6 Florida 37-7 606 6

7 Arizona St. 39-11 564 7

8 Georgia Tech 46-9 521 9

9 Missouri 41-9 480 10

10 Georgia 41-10 464 8

11 Oklahoma St. 43-11 428 11

12 Oklahoma 39-10 406 12

13 California 36-15 399 13

14 Texas 40-10 362 15

15 Stanford 32-14 336 14

16 LSU 41-11 324 17

17 Illinois 37-5 257 18

18 Tennessee 39-11 243 16

19 Ohio St. 33-12 215 19

20 Massachusetts 32-7-1 160 21

21 Texas A&M 39-13 153 22

22 Oregon 31-13 145 20

23 Hawaii 41-12 98 23

24 Notre Dame 41-9 68 25

25 Florida St. 41-15 45 24

Others receiving votes:

DePaul 14, Fordham 8, Lipscomb 6, Hofstra 2, BYU 2, Radford 2, South Florida 2, La.-Lafayette 2, San Diego State 1

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The University of Hawai'i softball team remained No. 23 in the USA Today/National Fastpitch Coaches Association Division I Top 25 released today.

The Rainbow Wahine's 18-game winning streak came to an end Saturday as they won a Western Athletic Conference series, 2 games to 1, against Fresno State. Hawai'i (41-12, 19-1 WAC) clinched the WAC regular season title Friday.

The top five remained the same with Washington at No. 1, followed by Michigan, Arizona, Alabama and UCLA.

The Rainbows have this week off before starting the WAC Tournament, May 12 at Las Cruces, N.M.