ALVA, OKLAHOMA - Northwestern Oklahoma State Softball season is set to begin in little less than a month. The Great American Conference has announced their yearly annual coaches poll for the projected conference standings voted on the conference coaches.
The Rangers check in ranked 10th in the conference projected by the coaches in the preseason poll.
The leader of the conference was Oklahoma Baptist earning 117 points from eight of the 11 first place votes followed by Southern Arkansas and Harding each receiving the other two first place votes.
Southeastern Oklahoma State checks in at four in the poll with 95 points as Arkansas Tech rounds out the top five with 73 in total.
Arkansas Monticello and Southern Nazarene follow in the poll in 6th and 7th with 70 and 64 points in the poll just ahead of East Central with 50 in eighth.
Outside the top eight is Henderson State at ninth with 41 total points, just a head of the Rangers with 27 in ninth. Southwestern and Ouachita Baptist round out the conference in 11th and 12th at 23 and 20 total points from the coaches.
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