2006 MWC Softball Championship Begins Thursday

This year's championship will be held May 11-13 at Eller Media Stadium on the campus of UNLV.

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May 9, 2006

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - UNLV will host the 2006 Mountain West Conference Softball Championship May 11-13 at Eller Media Stadium in Las Vegas. This marks the first time in the six-year history of the championship that the event will be held in Las Vegas. Eller Media Stadium at Jim Rogers Field opened in the spring of 2002 and accomodates nearly 770 fans. The winner of the Mountain West Conference Tournament receives the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.

San Diego State earned the top seed in the tournament after capturing the regular-season crown for the third time in school history with a 15-3 conference slate. BYU earned the second seed with a 15-5-0 record in MWC play. Utah finished third in the league with a 10-8-0 mark, while UNLV claimed the fourth seed, posting an 8-12-0 league record. The fifth and sixth seeds will be Colorado State and New Mexico, respectively. The Rams finished MWC play with a 6-14-0 record, while the Lobos finished 4-16-0 in league competition.

The opening game will see third-seeded Utah taking on the No. 6 seed New Mexico at 11:30 a.m. PST on Thursday, May 11. No. 4 UNLV and No. 5 Colorado State will be the other opening round match on Thursday at 2 p.m. San Diego State and BYU 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 Aztecs will go against the winner of UNLV and Colorado State Thursday at 7 p.m.

The Mountain West Conference Softball Championship game will be on Saturday, May 13, at 5:30 p.m. PST with the winner receiving an automatic bid into the 2006 NCAA Softball Championship. The game will be televised live on CSTV and can be heard on the Mountain West Conference website. Listen to all the Mountain West Softball Tournament games live on the conference website.

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