1983 NCAA Division I softball season

1983 NCAA Division I softball season
1983 NCAA Division I softball season
Defending Champions	UCLA
Tournament
Women's College World Series
Champions	Texas A&M (1st NCAA WCWS title)
Runners-up	Cal State Fullerton (2nd WCWS Appearance)
Winning Coach	Bob Brock (1st NCAA WCWS title)
Seasons
	← 1982 1984 →

The 1983 NCAA Division I softball season, play of college softball in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) at the Division I level, began in February 1983. The season progressed through the regular season, many conference tournaments and championship series, and concluded with the 1983 NCAA Division I softball tournament and 1983 Women's College World Series. The Women's College World Series, consisting of the eight remaining teams in the NCAA Tournament and held in Omaha, Nebraska at Seymour Smith Park, ended on May 29, 1983.

Conference standings

1983 Big Ten Conference softball standings
v t e	Conf						Overall
Team	W		L		T	PCT	W		L		T	PCT
Indiana ‍†‍‍^y	14	–	5	–	1	.725	45	–	20	–	1	.689
Northwestern ‍‍‍	13	–	7	–	0	.650	34	–	16	–	0	.680
Minnesota ‍‍‍	13	–	9	–	0	.591	32	–	18	–	0	.640
Iowa ‍‍‍	8	–	7	–	0	.533	20	–	18	–	0	.526
Michigan State ‍‍‍	9	–	11	–	0	.450	16	–	22	–	1	.423
Michigan ‍‍‍	9	–	15	–	0	.375	32	–	27	–	0	.542
Ohio State ‍‍‍	4	–	14	–	1	.237	19	–	28	–	1	.406

† – Conference champion y – Invited to the NCAA tournament ^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]^[7]^[8] Rankings from Coaches' Poll

1983 Southland Conference softball standings
v t e	Conf						Overall
Team	W		L		T	PCT	W		L		T	PCT
North Zone
Texas–Arlington ^x‍‍‍	5	–	1	–	0	.833	39	–	19	–	0	.672
Northeast Louisiana ‍‍‍	3	–	1	–	0	.750	9	–	18	–	0	.333
Arkansas State ‍‍‍	0	–	6	–	0	.000	5	–	9	–	0	.357
South Zone
Southwestern Louisiana ^x‍‍‍	6	–	2	–	0	.750	22	–	13	–	0	.629
McNeese State ‍‍‡‍	5	–	3	–	0	.625	19	–	18	–	0	.514
Lamar ‍‍‍	1	–	7	–	0	.125	5	–	40	–	0	.111

x – Division champion ‡ – Tournament champion As of May 20, 1983^[9] Rankings from Coaches' Poll

Women's College World Series

The 1983 NCAA Women's College World Series took place from May 25 to May 29, 1983 in Omaha, Nebraska.^[10]

Upper round 1

Upper round 2

Upper final

Semifinals

Preliminary final

Final

Cal State Fullerton

3

Indiana

2

Cal State Fullerton

2

South Carolina

0

South Carolina

2

Texas A&M

0

Cal State Fullerton

6

UCLA

1

UCLA

1

Cal State Fullerton

0

Missouri

0

UCLA

8

Texas A&M

1

Louisiana Tech

0

Louisiana Tech

7

Pacific

0

Cal State Fullerton

0

Texas A&M

1¹⁴

Texas A&M

2¹²

Lower round 1

Lower round 2

UCLA

0

Louisiana Tech

0

Indiana

0

Texas A&M

2

UCLA

2¹⁷

Texas A&M

1

South Carolina

1

South Carolina

2

Missouri

0

Pacific

1

Pacific

1¹²

Season leaders

Batting

Batting average: .516 – Mitzi Davis, East Carolina Pirates
RBIs: 46 – Mitzi Davis, East Carolina Pirates
Home runs: 9 – Cindy Mosteller, Baylor Lady Bears

Pitching

Wins: 30-7 – Lori Stoll, Texas A&M Aggies
ERA: 0.04 (1 ER/168.0 IP) – Tracy Compton, UCLA Bruins
Strikeouts: 340 – Lori Stoll, Texas A&M Aggies

Records

NCAA Division I season ERA:0.04 (1 ER/168.0 IP) – Tracy Compton, UCLA Bruins^[11]

NCAA Division I single game assists:12 – Wende Ward, Fresno State Bulldogs; February 23, 1983

Freshman class ERA:0.09 (3 ER/219.0 IP) – Darlene Lowery, South Carolina Gamecocks

Awards

Honda Sports Award Softball:

Lori Stoll, Texas A&M Aggies^[12]^[13]

YEAR	W	L	GP	GS	CG	SHO	SV	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	ERA	WHIP
1983	30	7	45	35	34	24	3	297.1	99	26	14	60	340	0.33	0.53

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