For the first time since 2015, the Central softball team closed the season in the top 10 of the National Fastpitch Coaches Association rankings. The Dutch are ranked No. 8 in the season’s final NFCA top 25. Central finished 6-1 on the shortened season, after sharing second place at the NFCA Division III Leadoff Classic in Tucson, Arizona March 6-8.

No other American Rivers schools were ranked. Central is the highest-ranked team in its region. It’s Central’s sixth top-10 ranking since 2009.