INDIANAPOLIS - On Monday morning, the NCAA announced the 64-team field among the eight regional brackets for the 2024 NCAA Division II Softball Championship. For the first time as a member of the CCAA, Cal State East Bay Softball was awarded an at-large bid to play in the NCAA Division II West Regional. The Regionals begin this coming Thursday as the Pioneers take on CCAA Tournament Champion Cal State San Marcos in Bellingham, Washington. The Regionals wrap up on Saturday, May 11.
The Pioneers take on CSUSM at Viking Field on the campus of Western Washington University with a first pitch set for 2:30 p.m. PDT.
The West Region is broken into two separate sites with four teams set to play at each site. In West Region 1 with the Pioneers are the top seed Western Washington, Cal State San Marcos and Azusa Pacific. The format for each Regional is double elimination. The team to win the Regional advances to a Super Regional best-of-three series next week against the winner of West Region 2.
West Region 2, played in Nampa, Idaho, includes Northwest Nazarene, Concordia University Irvine, Cal State Dominguez Hills and Saint Martin's.
The entire 64-team field broken down by Regionals can be found here.
Cal State East Bay is coming off a run in the CCAA Softball Tournament to Championship Saturday. Facing elimination last Saturday, the Pioneers defeated CSUSM to force a winner-take-all game. However, CSUSM won the second game for the CCAA Tournament Championship. The two teams will meet for an eighth time this season on Thursday as they played a four-game regular season series in April and met three times in the CCAA Tournament last week.
The last appearance in an NCAA Division II postseason for the Pioneers was in 1992 when they reached the National Championship game. The Pioneers lost 1-0 to Missouri Southern State in the championship game.
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