The Tusculum College softball team appears throughout the latest NCAA Division II statistics report, through games of Sunday, April 10. The Pioneers are ranked in the top 50 in four of the 11 team categories, while four players account for 10 top-50 appearances on the individual leaderboards.

As a team, the Pioneers remain eighth in fielding percentage (.974) while ranking 28th in triples per game (0.34), 32nd in earned run average (1.94) and 34th in double plays per game (0.39) among the 300 programs included in the rankings report.

Pioneer senior Erin Searcy (Coolidge, Ga.) and sophomore Elizabeth Johnson (Greenville, Wisc.) are both ranked among the pitching leaders. Johnson is 17th in earned run average (1.10), 21st in shutouts (six), 24th in victories (15), 27th in saves (two) and 41st in fewest hits allowed per seven innings (5.07), while Searcy ranks 38th in shutouts (five) and 50th in strikeouts (122).

Also ranked are junior outfielder Ashley Burke (North Augusta, S.C.) and sophomore shortstop Lindsey Umberger (Madison, Wisc.). Umberger is third in triples (six) and 18th in triples per game (0.15) and Burke is 23rd in sacrifice flies (three).

The Pioneers (28-13 overall, 9-5 SAC) are on the road at Mars Hill for a South Atlantic Conference doubleheader Wednesday at 2 p.m.