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SEC Tournament Seeding
#1 Vanderbilt (.897)
#2 LSU (.767)
#3 Arkansas (.621)
#4 South Carolina (.586)
#5 Mississippi State (.533)
#6 Ole Miss (.500)
#7 Alabama (.483)
#8 Florida (.467)
#9 Texas A&M (.448)
#10 Auburn (.433)
#11 Kentucky (.367)
#12 Missouri (.333)
Hofstra went off for five runs, all on home runs, in the top of the 10th inning to record an 8-4 win over Oregon State in game five of the NCAA Columbia Regional Saturday at University Field. Mizzou (37-11) will face Hofstra in the championship on today at 1 p.m. A Hofstra win in the first game would force a second game at 3:30 p.m. in a winner-take-all contest.
Mizzou’s Chelsea Thomas out-pitched Hofstra’s Olivia Galati, the nation’s leader in wins and strikeouts, to advance the sixth-seeded Mizzou softball team to the NCAA Columbia Regional championship game with a 1-0 victory over the Pride on Saturday at University Field.
Thomas scattered eight hits and walked two, but struck out seven to improve to 23-4 on the year. The win was also her sixth complete game shutout of the season.
Hofstra used the long ball against Oregon State in the top of the 10th inning to advance. With the game tied at 3-3 in the top of the 10th, Hofstra first baseman Maggie Hawkins led off the inning with a homer to left center to put the Pride up 4-3. Two batters later, Pride pitcher Olivia Galati smacked her first home run of the season to give Hofstra a 5-3 advantage.
A walk and a single then put two runners on for center fielder Tessa Ziemba, who cranked her team-leading 14th home run to break the game open for an 8-3 Hofstra lead. OSU added a run in the bottom of the 10th.
Mizzou softball is hosting NCAA Regionals. (Photo/courtesy Mizzou Athletics)
8th ranked Mizzou softball plays host to the Columbia Regional for the fifth-straight season as it begins its quest for an NCAA Division I Softball Championship. The sixth-seeded Tigers are joined in the regional by Hofstra (43-11), Oregon State (33-22) and Stony Brook (35-23).
SCOUTING STONY BROOK
Stony Brook enters the NCAA postseason with a 35-23 overall record and 10-8 mark in the American East Conference. The Seawolves are led offensively by sophomore infielder Bria Green, who has batted .355 this season with 18 doubles and seven home runs. The team leader in RBI is sophomore Shayla Giosia, who has driven in 35. Green trails her with 32 RBI. Stony Brook has three pitchers who have logged at least 100.0 innings in the circle, with sophomore Allison Cukrov leading the staff with 186.2 innings pitched for a 15-14 record and 2.74 ERA. For the year, Cukrov has struck out 147 batters and issued 82 walks. Junior Christine Lucido (117.0 IP) has compiled a 2.08 ERA with a 12-2 record, while freshman Jane Salen (100.0 IP) has pitched to an 8-7 record with a 3.08 ERA.
The Mizzou baseball team (17-30, 9-19) moved closer to earning a spot at the SEC Tournament after picking up a 4-2 victory over the Kentucky Wildcats at Taylor Stadium. Keaton Steele, Logan Pearson, Shane Segovia and Dane Opel drove in runs.
Brett Graves picked up his second win of the season, allowing just three hits and one earned run over five innings of work, striking out three along the way. Relievers Jake Walsh and Steele finished off the game with four scoreless inning, finishing off a big win. Steele earned his first save of the season after pitching the final two innings, allowing just one hit and striking out three.
The Southeastern Conference announced matchups for the inaugural Big 12/SEC Challenge and the Mizzou Tigers will host West Virginia at Mizzou Arena on Dec. 5. Game times and television assignments for the challenge will be announced at a later date. ESPN will provide exclusive coverage of all 10 games across it networks.
The Mizzou-WVU matchup is one of 10 games scheduled to be played between the two conferences. The series begins Nov. 14 when Alabama hosts Texas Tech in Tuscaloosa, Ala.
Missouri and West Virginia have met twice on the hardwood, most recently on March 21, 2010, when the Tigers fell to the Final Four-bound Mountaineers in the Second Round of the NCAA Tournament in Buffalo, N.Y. The first meeting between the two programs also came in NCAA Tournament play with Mizzou earning an 89-78 win in Greensboro, N.C., in the first round.
