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MWC Announces Softball Championship Pairings
BYU receives No. 1 seed in next week's championship
May 8, 2005
Complete Release in PDF Format
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - The BYU Cougars claimed their second regular-season Mountain West Conference softball crown after sweeping Utah on Wednesday in Provo. The victories over the Utes earned the Cougars (41-12-0 overall, 16-2-0 MWC) the No. 1 seed in this week's MWC Softball Championship in San Diego, Calif. UNLV earned the second seed with a 17-3-0 record in MWC play and finished the regular-season with a 41-16-0 overall record. Colorado State finished third in the league with an 8-8-0 mark (29-20-0 overall), while Utah claimed the fourth seed, posting a 6-12-0 league record (20-27-0 overall). The fifth and sixth seeds will be New Mexico and San Diego State, respectively. The Lobos finished MWC play with a 5-15-0 record (15-32-0 overall), while the Aztecs finished 4-16-0 in league competition and 26-28-0 overall. The conference tournament will take place May 12-14 at SDSU Softball Stadium on the campus of San Diego State University. The opening game will see fourth-seeded Utah taking on the No. 5 seed New Mexico at 11:30 a.m. on Thursday, May 12. No. 3 Colorado State and No. 6 San Diego State will be the other opening round match on Thursday at 2 p.m. BYU and UNLV will receive opening round byes. The Cougars will play the winner of Utah and New Mexico at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, while the Rebels will go against the winner of Colorado State and San Diego State Thursday at 7 p.m. The Mountain West Conference Softball Championship game will be on Saturday, May 14, at 4:30 p.m. PST with the winner receiving an automatic bid into the 2005 NCAA Softball Championship.
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