The Tusculum College softball team slipped one spot to ninth in the latest NCAA Division II Southeast Region poll, the NCAA announced Thursday. The rankings are through games of Sunday, April 3.

The Pioneers entered the week with a 24-11 overall record against NCAA schools and 19-10 against regional opponents. They are one of four South Atlantic Conference schools in the rankings, joining Lenoir-Rhyne (27-7, 27-6 region), ranked second, Carson-Newman (30-11-1, 25-11-1 region), ranked eighth, and Wingate (23-12, 23-12 region), ranked 10th.

North Georgia remains first in the region with a 36-8 overall record (29-8 region), followed by Lenoir-Rhyne, Armstrong Atlantic (19-7, 16-7 region), Columbus State (31-9, 31-8 region), USC Aiken (23-11, 23-11 region), Augusta State (25-11, 19-10 region), Flagler (28-12, 27-11 region), Carson-Newman, Tusculum and Wingate.

Tusculum is 3-3 so far against regionally-ranked opponents, including a 1-1 mark against North Georgia and a 2-0 record against Wingate.

The Pioneers travel to Carson-Newman for a conference doubleheader on Thursday, then go to Catawba for a SAC twinbill on Saturday at 1 p.m.