Softball | 5/9/2014 1:43:00 AM

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SEASIDE, Calif. -- After falling to the top-seed and host Cal State-Monterey Bay, the Western Oregon University softball team faces a must-win situation in the first elimination game at the NCAA Div. II West Region 1 tournament. The eighth-seeded Wolves square off against Sonoma State, the fifth-seed, in the four-team sub-region field. Western Oregon finds itself in the loser bracket in the double-elimination tournament that runs through Saturday in Seaside, Calif.

LAST TIME OUT
• Western Oregon managed just three hits off Cal State Monterey Bay pitcher Cori Reinhardt in losing 3-1 to the Otters in their opening game of the NCAA West Regionals at Otter Sports Complex Thursday.
• Melanie Pfeiffer went 2-for-3 at the plate, including a game-opening ground-rule double.
• Kelli Demianew was credited with the loss on the mound.

BACK TO THE POSTSEASON
• Western Oregon returns to the NCAA regional field for the first time since 2008, when it dropped two games at Humboldt State.
• The Wolves all-time NCAA regional record is 0-3.
• WOU is 24-28 all-time in the postseason, but this is only the third time since 2001 that its has advanced to the postseason.
• Western Oregon is 6-6 in the postseason since it has joined the NCAA. • Until this year, WOU had not won a postseason game since 2008.

CHAMPION CHATTER
• Western Oregon won the Great Northwest Athletic Conference regular season title for the second time in program history.
• The Wolves won the GNAC Tournament for the first time ever.
• The Wolves also claimed the conference crown in 2008 when it went 33-18 overall and advanced to the NCAA West Region Championships.
• This year's WOU squad matched the 2008 team's 33 wins for most in a single season. This season's team also matched 2008's 18-6 conference finish, the best in GNAC records in program history.

STATISTICALLY SPEAKING
• The Wolves are eighth in NCAA Div. II averaging 0.52 double plays.
• Kelli Demianew leads the GNAC with a 1.88 ERA. Her four shutouts also top the conference.
• In the GNAC, Amanda Evola is third with a .408 batting average. Melanie Pfeiffer and Kelsie Gardner are fifth and eighth.
• Those three are first, second, and third in total hits; Evola (80), Pfeiffer (76), and Gardner (71). They also lead the conference in runs scored; Gardner (56), Evola (53), and Pfeiffer (49).
• Evola's 16 doubles, 53 RBI, and 120 total bases pace the GNAC as well.

REWRITING THE RECORD BOOK
• Western Oregon has turned 26 double plays this season, breaking the previous program record for the most in a single season set in 2012.
• Amanda Evola is currently first in highest career batting average in program history at .398. She broke the RBI in a season this year.
• Evola has the most hits a single season with 80 this year.
• Kelsie Gardner is currently first in the program's most runs scored in a single season at 56. Evola and Melanie Pfeiffer are right behind.
• Melanie Pfeiffer's 198 at-bats broke the record for most in a year. Evola is in second at 196.