In what could be one of the closest Big West races in recent memory, defending champion Cal Poly was named the favorite to claim the conference softball title in a tight vote of the league's eight head coaches.

The Top 50 Watch List for the 2010 USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year includes two Big West players as Cal Poly's Anna Cahn and Long Beach State's Brooke Turner were included in the 9th annual preseason list released by the Amateur Softball Association (ASA).

LSU pushed across a tie-breaking run in the bottom of the sixth inning and then got a game-ending double play to quell a Cal State Fullerton rally in the top of the seventh for a 3-2 win Friday that sends the Tigers into the championship bracket of the NCAA Softball Regional Tournament at Arizona State.

Junior lefthander Helen PeÐa faced only five Nevada hitters above the minimum and surrendered just four hits as the Big West Conference-champion Cal Poly softball team, which entered play at the Stanford-hosted Palo Alto Regional Saturday afternoon without an NCAA Division I Tournament victory, completed a two-game stampede through the...

Another year of highs and accomplishments is in the books for Big West softball, a solid campaign that will go down as one of the more exciting seasons in conference history.