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The Big West has released the conference softball schedule for the 2025 season.A ten-member league, the Big West received multiple bids to the NCAA tournament in 2023 and were represented in the postseason by Cal State Fullerton in 2024.For the first time, the Big West is sponsoring a conference tournament this season. The top six teams in the regular-season standings will participate in the double-elimination […]

Ashlee Io is a utility player from San Juan Bautista, California. She plays all over the field for her club organization, the LTG Lions, and at Hollister High School.Io began her career on the diamond playing Little League baseball and made the switch over to softball in 14U. She started playing softball at age 13 and says she “[hasn’t] looked back”. A member of the […]

1. Perfect Penta on the Plains. Starting in the circle in a Thursday night clash against Georgia State, Maddie Penta was good. So good, you might say she was perfect. The All-American threw just the third perfect game in Auburn program history, tossing six immaculate frames en route to an 8-0 victory. Facing eighteen hitters in total, Penta struck out thirteen of them, including a stretch […]

On the strength of quality non-conference schedules, the Big West earned multiple bids to the NCAA tournament a season ago. Long Beach State and Cal State Fullerton are the favorites, but don’t look past some of their conference mates.

The Mary Nutter Collegiate Classic field for the 2024 event in February includes three-time defending NCAA champion Oklahoma and Nebraska’s Jordy Bahl.

A matchup between Oklahoma and UCLA highlights the schedule for the 2023 Mary Nutter College Classic, which runs Feb. 23-26 in Cathedral City, Calif.