Tulsa and USF Meet for The American Softball Championship Saturday
5/14/2016 10:56:00 AM | Softball
The Tulsa Golden Hurricane and USF Bulls will battle for the American Athletic Conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Softball Championship today at Tulsa's Collins Family Softball Complex.
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The first pitch will be at 11:00 a.m. (CT)as the game will be aired on ESPN.
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The #3-seed Hurricane comes into the game with a 34-19 record after having defeated East Carolina 2-0 in the quarterfinals and knocking off #2 -seed UCF, 4-0, Friday in the semifinals.Â
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The #1-seed USF Bulls had a first round bye before beating #4-seed Houston in yesterday's semifinal by a 4-1 score. The Bulls are ranked 24th nationally and come into today's game with an overall 44-13 record.
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Tulsa is playing in its second straight American Athletic Conference Championship final and its seventh conference tournament final overall. Tulsa fell 1-0 to UCF in last year's championship game.
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The Hurricane has won four previous conference tournament titles, including Conference USA Championships in 2006, 2009, 2012 and 2014.
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Fans can get live stats at: http://sidearmstats.com/theamerican/softball/
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