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TEMPE, Ariz. -- The world has waited two long years to see postseason softball. After arguably the longest road in sports history, the Women's College World Series is finally on the horizon. The No. 15 seed Sun Devil Softball begins the postseason trek to Oklahoma City and Championship glory as host of the NCAA's Tempe Regional starting this Thursday, May 20, at 7 p.m. on ESPN3. 

May 16, 2021 SAN FRANCISCO — The Pac-12 announced the Conferences 2021 softball award winners on Sunday, including yearly award recipients and All-Pac-12, All-Defensive and All-Freshman teams, as voted on by the leagues coaches. UCLA’s Rachel Garcia captured her third Pac-12 Player of the Year award, while Bruins head coach Kelly Inouye-Perez earned her second Coach of the Year honor. WASHINGTON’s Gabbie Plain was tabbed Pac-12 Pitcher of the Year and fellow Husky Sis Bates was select...

ASU Softball: No. 14 Sun Devils run-rule Utah in series opener Share this story Brady Vernon It was the Halle Harger, Kindra and Maddi Hackbarth show in Salt Lake City on Thursday. No. 14 Arizona State (20-8, 3-4 Pac-12) run-ruled Utah (11-14, 0-7) 9-1 behind the trio’s efforts offensively. Harger belted a pair of doubles to get the bats rolling. She drove in the first run of the game in the second inning with her first double. Another ball flew over the head of Utah’s Haley Denning off ...

Mar 14, 2021 TEMPE, Ariz. --  In the final matchup of a two-game series against Baylor University, the Arizona State softball team fell, 7-2, on a rare cold morning and cold bat day at Alberta B. Farrington Softball Stadium. The Sun Devils (17-2) led the majority of the game until the sixth inning when the Bears (15-4) picked up two bunt singles in a row and ran with the momentum to take the lead.  From there on the Sun Devils failed to mount any momentum. The bats went cold today as the Sun...

Lobos Fall to Sooners and Sun Devils Friday

ASU Softball: Sun Devils homer four times in win over Utah Working the long ball Share this story Brady Vernon/House of Sparky Every other swing in the third inning felt like a home run for Arizona State (4-0). The powerful Sun Devil lineup sent out four home runs against Utah (4-1) on their way to a 9-4 win on Saturday night. Third baseman Bella Loomis collected her first hit of the season by sending a ball out to the light pole in right field for a solo home run to start the bottom of the th...

Feb. 9, 2021 Arizona State’s Kindra Hackbarth (right) was having a monster season before the pandemic ended it. She led the Pac-12 with 39 hits. (Photo by Marlee Smith/Cronkite News) TEMPE – The last time Arizona State’s softball team was prepared to take the field, the Sun Devils were on a bus traveling to Los Angeles to face UCLA at the Bruins’ Easton Stadium in a Pac-12 Conference opener. They never got there. En route, the 22-7 Sun Devils, who were ranked 15th nationally in a Marc...

RPI: 15. Ballpark: Carolina Softball Stadium at Beckham Field (1,277) Postseason history: 22 NCAA Regional appearances, 2 Super Regional appearances, 3 World Series appearances. Ace of the staff: Kelsey Oh. The senior right-hander had the 2020 season cut short with a foot injury. Oh finished 4-2 with a 2.14 ERA, 51 strikeouts and 16 walks in 32.2 IP. Impact player: Kenzi Maguire. The graduate senior will be in her sixth season of college softball. Maguire started all 23 games at shortstop ...