2024 Pac-12 Conference softball tournament explained

Year:2024
Conference:Pac-12 Conference
Shortconference:Pac-12
Division:I
Gender:Women's
Teams:9
Format:Single-elimination tournament
Ballpark:Boyd & Jill Smith Family Stadium
City:Stanford, California
Champions:UCLA
Titlecount:1st
Coach:Kelly Inouye-Perez
Coachcount:1st
Runnerup:Utah
Runnerupgamecount:2nd
Mvp:Sharlize Palacios
Mvpteam:UCLA
Television:Pac-12 Network
ESPN2
ESPNU

The 2024 Pac-12 Conference softball tournament was held from May 8 through May 11, 2024 at Boyd & Jill Smith Family Stadium in Stanford, California. This was the second and final postseason championship event sponsored by the Pac-12 Conference since 1978. As the tournament winner, UCLA earned the conference's automatic bid to the 2024 NCAA Division I softball tournament.

Seeds

The tournament featured nine teams in this conference (Colorado, USC & Washington State do not field teams). Teams will play once per day at the 2024 Pac-12 Softball Championship. The four-day event began with a play-in game between the eighth and ninth-place teams in the regular-season standings. That winner advanced to an eight-team, single-elimination bracket with the quarterfinals, semifinals and championship being contested on the following three days. The winner of the Pac-12 Softball Championship received the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. The seedings were determined upon completion of regular season play. The winning percentage of the teams in conference play determined tournament seedings. There were tiebreakers in place to seed teams with identical conference records.[1]

SeedSchoolConf.Over.Tiebreaker
  1. 1
UCLA17−434−10―
  1. 2
Stanford17−742−12―
  1. 3
Oregon13−1028−182−1 vs Washington
  1. 4
Washington13−1031−121−2 vs Oregon
  1. 5
Arizona13−1133−15−1―
  1. 6
Utah10−1332−19―
  1. 7
California9−1336−16―
  1. 8
Oregon State9−1521−28―
  1. 9
Arizona State3−2119−30―

Schedule

GameTime*Matchup#ScoreTelevisionAttendance
Play-in Game – Wednesday, May 8
16:00 p.m.No. 8 Oregon State vs. No. 9 Arizona State1−3Pac-12 Network930
Quarterfinals – Thursday, May 9
210:00 a.m.No. 3 Oregon vs. No. 6 Utah4−7 Pac-12 Network1,245
312:30 p.m.No. 2 Stanford vs. No. 7 California4−2
44:00 p.m.No. 1 UCLA vs. No. 9 Arizona State6−01,167
56:30 p.m.No. 4 Washington vs. No. 5 Arizona3−11
Semifinals – Friday, May 10
64:30 p.m.No. 6 Utah vs. No. 2 Stanford2−1ESPNUTBD
77:30 p.m.No. 1 UCLA vs. No. 5 Arizona6−5ESPN2
Championship – Saturday, May 11
87:00 p.m.No. 6 Utah vs. No. 1 UCLA1−2ESPN2TBD
  • Game times in MST. # – Rankings denote tournament seed.[2]

Team and tournament leaders

Hitting minimums - 75% of Games 2.5 TPA/Game Pitching minimums - 1.0 IP/GameSource:[3]

Team Avg.RBIHome Runs Stolen Bases ERAWinsStrikeoutsSaves
style= width=125ArizonaOlivia DiNardo.714Olivia DiNardo6Olivia DiNardo2Tayler Biehl2Miranda Stoddard0.00Brooke Mannon1Brooke Mannon4Aissa Silva1
style= width=75Arizona StateLibby Walsh.500Tied1None0Audrey LeClair2Deborah Jones3.77Deborah Jones1Deborah Jones7None0
style= width=75CaliforniaTied.333Acacia Anders1None0Tied1Ryann Orange0.00None0Haylei Archer3None
style= width=75OregonAriel Carlson1.000Tied1None0Tied1Elise Sokolsky1.66None0Tied1None0
style= width=75Oregon StateKiki Escobar.500Lici Campbell1None0None0Logan Hulon3.00None0Logan Hulon5None0
style= width=75StanfordTaryn Kern.500Taryn Kern2None0Aly Kaneshiro1NiJaree Canady0.00NiJaree Canady1NiJaree Canady13None0
style= width=75UCLAJanelle Meono.500Tied3Sharlize Palacios 1Tied1Kaitlyn Terry3.11Tied1Kaitlyn Terry8None0
style= width=75UtahKaylah Nelsen.667Kaylah Nelsen4Shonty Passi1Tied1Mariah Lopez2.91Tied1Mariah Lopez8Mariah Lopez1
style= width=75WashingtonGiselle Alvarez0.666Alana Johnson2Tied2Brooklyn Carter1Sidne Peters9.03None0Sidne Peters3None0

All-tournament Team

The following players will be members of the 2024 Pac-12 Softball All-Tournament Team. Player in Bold selected as Tournament MVP.

Position Player School
OF Jadelyn Allchin style= width=75UCLA
P NiJaree Canady style= width=75Stanford
1B Olivia DiNardo style= width=125Arizona
INF Taryn Kernstyle= width=75Stanford
P Sarah Laddstyle= width=75Utah
P Mariah Lopezstyle= width=75Utah
OF Kaylah Nelsen style= width=75Utah
CSharlize Palaciosstyle= width=75UCLA
INFCarlie Scupinstyle= width=125Arizona
P/OF Kaitlyn Terry style= width=75UCLA
INFJordan Woolery style= width=75UCLA

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Arizona to host inaugural Pac-12 Softball Tournament in 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220613180819/https://pac-12.com/article/2022/06/13/arizona-host-inaugural-pac-12-softball-championship-2023 . dead . June 13, 2022 . June 13, 2022 . May 7, 2023.
  2. Web site: Bracket set for inaugural Pac-12 Softball Tournament . May 7, 2023 . May 7, 2023.
  3. Web site: 2023 Pac-12 Softball Tournament Pac-12 Pitching Leaders .

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