NASHVILLE, Tenn. - The top seeded Trevecca Nazarene University softball team (38-8, 20-1) came from behind to defeat second seeded Cedarville University (32-22), 5-3, in game one in the 2015 Great Midwest Athletic Conference Championship round. Trevecca needed just one win while the Yellow Jackets would have needed to wins to earn the title.

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Trevecca is the 2015 Great Midwest Athletic Conference Regular Season Champions and tournament champion for the third year in a row. The G-MAC, in its third season of existence, has only known Trevecca as its regular season and tournament champion.

Trevecca won its first two games on Thursday, defeating Salem International University in the morning and then eliminating Kentucky Wesleyan College in the afternoon. Trevecca advanced to Saturday's championship round with an extra-inning win over Davis & Elkins College.

Trevecca now awaits word on a possible at large bid to the NCAA regional round. It would be the first time for a Trevecca team to advance based on a set criteria or voting. The cross country teams represented Trevecca at their regionals in the fall, but all teams qualified for regionals.  

The 2015 G-MAC Championships were held at the Athletes in Action Sports Complex in Xenia, Ohio.
 
In regular season G-MAC play, only games that counted toward the regular season conference standings, the Trojans are now 46-5 all-time against their G-MAC opponents.
 
If you include the 11-0 record TNU has in the G-MAC conference postseason tournament games, they are 57-5 versus G-MAC opponents in official G-MAC games. Trevecca finished 20-1 this season in G-MAC regular season games. The Trojans were 14-4 in 2014 and were 12-0 in the inaugural G-MAC season in 2013.
 
If you add in non-conference meetings, the Trojans are 60-10 all-time against the current G-MAC members.
 
Most of the conference teams play a pair of double headers with each other. The conference chose to only count the first three games in the G-MAC standings. Therefore Trevecca has played several games against G-MAC members that were non-conference games.
 
Trevecca has a head-to-head winning record against everyone in the conference Counting regular season conference counting games, non-conference regular season games, and postseason tournament meetings, Trevecca leads the all-time series with conference members 61-9.
 
Breaking it down by team. Trevecca is: 10-7 vs Kentucky Wesleyan College, 15-1 vs Cedarville, 11-0 vs Ursuline, 6-1 vs Alderson Broaddus, 6-0 vs Ohio Valley, 6-0 vs Davis & Elkins, and 7-0 vs Salem International.
 
Trevecca coach Ben Tyree, in his seventh season as the head coach, is 254-86-1. His teams are 46-5 in G-MAC play and are 115-25-1 all-time in conference play. He has led Trevecca to a 30-10 postseason record.  

Tyree is a six-time coach of the year selection, all in the last six seasons. Twice, beginning in 2010, he was the TranSouth Athletic Conference coach of the year, was named the NCCAA MidEast Regional coach of the year in 2012, and has been selected as the G-MAC coach of the year in each of the last three  seasons.
 
The 38 wins for the 2015 team makes the sixth time Tyree has led the team to at least 30 wins. It is the 11th time, all in the last 14 years, that TNU softball has surpassed the 30 win mark. Two of those seasons, 2013 and 2004, the team had 29 wins.
 
This is the 24th season of Trevecca softball. All-time, Trevecca softball is 702-442-2. In conference play, Trevecca is 275-174 in conference play all-time.
 
Notes:
Ben Tyree is the winningest coach in Trevecca softball history
Ben Tyree now has 254 career wins at Trevecca
The program now has 702 all-time wins
Trevecca has 14 consecutive winning seasons
Trevecca has a total of 15 winning seasons