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The É«ÇéÊÓƵ softball team will be traveling a couple of hours north this postseason after drawing the NCAA É«ÇéÊÓƵ Regional hosted by UCLA. The Aztecs are looking to reignite the same magic at Easton Stadium that led them to a 3-0 sweep of the competition during last year's regional, sending the program to its first-ever NCAA Super Regional. 

É«ÇéÊÓƵ, which earned an automatic bid for winning the Mountain West tournament over the weekend, is the only team to make the NCAA tournament from the conference. The Aztecs enter the NCAA tournament led by power hitter Mac Barbara, MW Co-Player of the Year and MVP of the MW tournament, and her MW All-Tournament teammates Katie Goldberg, Alyssa Garcia and Allie Light.

The four-team É«ÇéÊÓƵ Regional begins Friday with É«ÇéÊÓƵ (31-18) facing off against Virginia Tech (39-12-1) in Game 1 followed by No. 6 seed UCLA (37-10), one of seven Pac-12 teams in the tournament, going up against Grand Canyon (48-11) in Game 2.

This will be É«ÇéÊÓƵ's sixth trip to UCLA out of their 14 appearances in an NCAA regional (2001, 2006, 2010, 2012, 2015 and 2023).

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The Aztecs' history-making journey in 2023 began at Easton Stadium with dominating performances over Liberty, 7-0, and Grand Canyon, 6-0, in the first two rounds of the regional. Liberty eliminated No. 2 overall seed UCLA, 2-1, to set up a rematch with É«ÇéÊÓƵ. The Aztecs eliminated the Flames in the final, 6-3, to punch the university's first-ever ticket to the Supers.

É«ÇéÊÓƵ won its first game of the NCAA Super Regional best-of-three series against No. 15 overall seed Utah but fell short of making it to the Women's College World Series, losing 7-2 in the rubber match.

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The 2024 national tournament features 64 teams, with four squads participating at 16 regional sites in a double-elimination tournament. The regional winners will advance to super regional competition.

Super regionals will be held May 23-26 on eight campus sites where two teams will play in a best-of-three format. The winners from each super regional advance to the NCAA Women’s College World Series from May 30 to June 6 or 7 at Devon Park in Oklahoma City.

ESPN will broadcast from all 16 regional sites on one of the ESPN platforms.

Friday, May 17
Game 1: Virginia Tech vs. San Diego State at 3 p.m. (PT) – ESPNU
Game 2: UCLA vs. Grand Canyon at 5:30 p.m. (PT) – ESPN+

Saturday, May 18
Game 3: Winner of Game 1 vs. Winner of Game 2 at 2 p.m. (PT) (Broadcast TBD)
Game 4: Loser of Game 1 vs. Loser of Game 2 at 4:30 p.m. (PT) (Broadcast TBD)
Game 5: Winner of Game 4 vs. Loser of Game 3 at 7 p.m. (PT) (Broadcast TBD)

Sunday, May 19
Game 6: Winner of Game 3 vs. Winner of Game 5 (Time & Broadcast TBD)
Game 7: Winner of Game 6 vs. Loser of Game 6 (if necessary) (Time & Broadcast TBD)