Three hundred and sixty nine. That’s not a stat. Well, maybe it is. In 2010, the North Georgia softball team made one of the most impressive runs in the history of college softball. Three hundred and sixty nine is the number of days the program went without knowing what it felt like to lose a game on the field of play. For three hundred and sixty nine days, the North Georgia softball team was, in one word, perfect.
From the 2009 NCAA Division II Championship (the division’s equal to the Women’s College World Series) to the same event in 2010, North Georgia never lost a game. A 13-0 February led to a 20-0 March. April would be perfect as well. The brooms got a lot of work that season as North Georgia swept its way through every single Peach Belt series, even a series against long-time rival Alabama-Huntsville, another perennial power in DII softball.
Mike Davenport’s team finished the regular season at 41-0 and just for good measure, went 4-0 at the Peach Belt’s conference tournament. The NCAA Dahlonega Regional? Three more wins there. A Super Regional against Lenoir-Rhyne would provide two more wins without a loss.
Like the saying goes though, “all good things must come to an end.” This streak would be no exception. After an opening round win against Molloy College in the NCAA Division II Championship, one year and four days since the last time the team didn’t win a softball game, the team’s run of perfection would end. The next day the season was over, but the accomplishment of that team, which etched its name in college softball lore, will never be forgotten.
Fifty-one consecutive wins. The second longest streak in the history of NCAA softball.
