Eastern Michigan Athletics
NCAA Championship Brackets Revealed
5/13/2007 5:01:46 PM | Softball
Eagles face No. 9 Michigan in opening game of regional round
Complete tournament bracket
YPSILANTI, Mich. — The Mid-American Conference champion Eastern Michigan University softball team will face No. 9 University of Michigan in the opening game of the regional round of the NCAA Tournament, in Ann Arbor, May 18, at 7 p.m.. The University of Louisville and Oregon State University join the Eagles and host Wolverines to make up the four team region. EMU earned an automatic bid into the NCAA Tournament with a 6-5 extra-innings decision over Central Michigan University in the MAC Tournament finals, May 12. EMU has faced two teams in its region this season, splitting a doubleheader with Louisville, March 17, and falling to Michigan, 3-0, May 1.
The Eagles rolled to their first MAC Tournament championship in the school’s 25-year history posting a perfect 4-0 record. Senior Lindsay Schmid was named the tournament MVP and two-time MAC Player of the Year Lauren Clark, senior Michelle Lloyd and junior Lindsay Ritz were named to the All-Tournament team.
Fifth-year head coach Karen Baird led the Eagles to a 27-20 overall record this season and 13-5 mark in league play. She was named the 2007 MAC Coach of the Year, the first coach in school history to garner the honor.
EMU was one of twenty-nine teams that were awarded automatic qualification, and the remaining 35 slots were filled with at-large selections to complete the bracket. The top-16 teams were seeded nationally and will play at campus sites this weekend, May 18-20. Team pairings were determined by geographical proximity, with the exception that teams from the same conference were not paired during regional competition, when possible.
The NCAA tournament will be three weekends of competition. Four teams will participate at each of 16 regional sites in a double-elimination tournament. Sixteen teams were seeded and placed at one of the regional sites. The regional winners will advance to super regional competition for a best-of-three series, May 25-26, at eight campus sites. The remaining eight teams will advance to the Women’s College World Series, an eight-team, double-elimination tournament. The championship final will be a best-of-three-series. The WCWS will be conducted May 31 -June 6 at the ASA Hall of Fame Stadium in Oklahoma City, Okla.
YPSILANTI, Mich. — The Mid-American Conference champion Eastern Michigan University softball team will face No. 9 University of Michigan in the opening game of the regional round of the NCAA Tournament, in Ann Arbor, May 18, at 7 p.m.. The University of Louisville and Oregon State University join the Eagles and host Wolverines to make up the four team region. EMU earned an automatic bid into the NCAA Tournament with a 6-5 extra-innings decision over Central Michigan University in the MAC Tournament finals, May 12. EMU has faced two teams in its region this season, splitting a doubleheader with Louisville, March 17, and falling to Michigan, 3-0, May 1.
The Eagles rolled to their first MAC Tournament championship in the school’s 25-year history posting a perfect 4-0 record. Senior Lindsay Schmid was named the tournament MVP and two-time MAC Player of the Year Lauren Clark, senior Michelle Lloyd and junior Lindsay Ritz were named to the All-Tournament team.
Fifth-year head coach Karen Baird led the Eagles to a 27-20 overall record this season and 13-5 mark in league play. She was named the 2007 MAC Coach of the Year, the first coach in school history to garner the honor.
EMU was one of twenty-nine teams that were awarded automatic qualification, and the remaining 35 slots were filled with at-large selections to complete the bracket. The top-16 teams were seeded nationally and will play at campus sites this weekend, May 18-20. Team pairings were determined by geographical proximity, with the exception that teams from the same conference were not paired during regional competition, when possible.
The NCAA tournament will be three weekends of competition. Four teams will participate at each of 16 regional sites in a double-elimination tournament. Sixteen teams were seeded and placed at one of the regional sites. The regional winners will advance to super regional competition for a best-of-three series, May 25-26, at eight campus sites. The remaining eight teams will advance to the Women’s College World Series, an eight-team, double-elimination tournament. The championship final will be a best-of-three-series. The WCWS will be conducted May 31 -June 6 at the ASA Hall of Fame Stadium in Oklahoma City, Okla.
REGIONAL SCHEDULE
Friday, May 18
Game 1 -- #2 seedOregon State vs. #3 seed Louisville
Game 2 -- #1 seedMichigan vs. #4 seed Eastern Michigan , 7 p.m.
Saturday, May 19
Game 3 -- Game 1 winner vs. Game 2 winner, Noon
Game 4 -- Game 1 loser vs. Game 2 loser, 2:30 p.m.
Game 5 -- Game 3 loser vs. Game 4 winner, 5 p.m.
Sunday, May 20
Game 6 -- Game 3 winner vs. Game 5 winner, 1 p.m.
Game 7 (if necessary) -- Game 6 winner vs. Game 6 loser, 3:30 p.m.
Game 1 -- #2 seed
Game 2 -- #1 seed
Saturday, May 19
Game 3 -- Game 1 winner vs. Game 2 winner, Noon
Game 4 -- Game 1 loser vs. Game 2 loser, 2:30 p.m.
Game 5 -- Game 3 loser vs. Game 4 winner, 5 p.m.
Sunday, May 20
Game 6 -- Game 3 winner vs. Game 5 winner, 1 p.m.
Game 7 (if necessary) -- Game 6 winner vs. Game 6 loser, 3:30 p.m.
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