2017 Big South Conference softball tournament
 The semifinal between Longwood and Liberty. | |
| Teams | 6 |
|---|---|
| Format | Double-elimination tournament |
| Finals site |
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| Champions | Longwood (4th title) |
| Winning coach | Kathy Riley (4th title) |
| MVP | Elizabeth McCarthy (Longwood) |
| Television | Big South Network, ESPN3 |
The 2017 Big South Conference softball tournament was held at Longwood University's Lancer Field from May 10 through May 14, 2017. Following the departure of Coastal Carolina for the Sun Belt Conference, the Big South reconfigured the tournament to a six-team event. Longwood won their third straight tournament, and fourth of their five seasons in the conference, becoming the first tournament host to win since Radford in 2008.
Seeds
[edit]The top two seeds had byes to the second round. Teams were seeded by record within the conference, with a tiebreaker system to seed teams with identical conference records.
| Seed | School | Conference | Overall | Tiebreaker |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Liberty‡ | 16–5 | 35–20 | |
| 2 | Campbell | 13–8 | 29–25 | 2–1 vs. Longwood |
| 3 | Longwood | 13–8 | 24–26 | 1–2 vs. Campbell |
| 4 | Charleston Southern | 10–11 | 25–34 | |
| 5 | Winthrop | 9–12 | 24–29 | |
| 6 | Radford | 8–13 | 27–26 | |
| ‡ – Big South regular season champions. Overall records are as of the end of the regular season. | ||||
Tournament
[edit]| First Round May 10th Big South Network | Second Round May 11th Big South Network | Semifinals May 13th ESPN3 | Championship May 13th and 14th ESPN3 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Liberty | 11 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Charleston Southern | 5 | 4 | Charleston Southern | 3 (5) | |||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | Winthrop | 4 | 1 | Liberty | 4 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Longwood | 7 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Campbell | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Longwood | 6 | 3 | Longwood | 8 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 6 | Radford | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Liberty | 9 | 2 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Longwood | 3 | 4 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Lower round 1 | Lower round 2 | Lower round 3 | Lower final | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 1 | Liberty | 9 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Campbell | 5 | 5 | Winthrop | 3 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Charleston Southern | 0 | 5 | Winthrop | 13 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 5 | Winthrop | 5 | 5 | Winthrop | 8 | |||||||||||||||||||
| 6 | Radford | 0 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
- All times listed are Eastern Daylight Time.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ "Big South Announces Seedings for 2017 Softball Championship" (Press release). Big South Conference. May 7, 2017. Retrieved May 7, 2017.
- ^ "2017 Big South Softball Championship" (PDF). bigsouthsports.com. Retrieved May 10, 2017.