SUWANEE, Ga. -- The 2023 SCAC Softball Championship is set to begin on Friday, May 5 and will run through Sunday, May 7 in San Antonio, Texas on the campus of Trinity University. Official Website l Printable Bracket | Week 12 Softball Release
For the ninth consecutive conference tournament, Texas Lutheran (19-2 SCAC; 35-4 overall) will be the overall top seed. The Bulldogs are currently ranked fifth in the nation and head into the tournament having clinched its ninth-straight SCAC regular season title after a three game sweep of Dallas over the weekend, which included the seventh perfect game in program history when Ashlyn Strother needed just 63 pitches to blank the Crusaders, 9-0, on Friday.
On the other side of the bracket will be St. Thomas (16-3 SCAC; 28-8 overall), which will be the No. 2 seed for the second consecutive year. In just its third season as a varsity program, the Celts, along with Texas Lutheran, will receive a first-round bye into Friday's winner's bracket contest. Among this year's highlights, St. Thomas defeated TLU for the first time in program history, snapping the Bulldogs' 88-game home conference regular season winning streak.
Battling in first round match-ups on Friday, fourth-seeded Centenary (12-9 SCAC; 17-22) will take on fifth-seeded and the host school Trinity (10-10 SCAC; 13-26) at 11 a.m. and that will be followed by third-seeded Southwestern (13-8 SCAC; 20-20) taking on the sixth-seed Schreiner (9-12 SCAC; 16-22) in the 1:30 p.m. game. All times are Central.
Since the inception of the SCAC Softball Tournament in the 1999 season, Texas Lutheran (2014-19, 2021-22) has claimed a league-record eight tournament titles and Trinity (1999, 2000-02, 2005-07) follows closely with seven. DePauw University won three (2008-09, '11), Southwestern two (2010, '13) and Millsaps College (2003), Sewanee-University of the South (2004) and Birmingham-Southern College (2012) have one title apiece.
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