Friday, March 31 vs. Holy Names	9 a.m.	Live Stats
Friday, March 31 vs. UC San Diego	11:30 a.m.	Live Stats
Saturday, April 1 vs. Academy of Art	9 a.m.	Live Stats
Saturday, April 1 vs. Cal State Dominguez Hills	3 p.m.	Live Stats
Sunday, April 2 vs. San Francisco State	12:30 p.m.	Live Stats
Sunday, April 2 vs. Sonoma State	3 p.m.	Live Stats

 
MONMOUTH, Ore. – The annual Tournament of Championship, hosted by Stanislaus State, begins Friday and the Western Oregon softball heads down to Turlock to take on teams from the CCAA and the PacWest. The Wolves will play six in-region games over three days beginning Friday, March 31.
 
ABOUT WESTERN OREGON:

• The Wolves are 37 wins away from 750 as a program (since 1985).
• Offensively, the Wolves have shined over the first 21 games of the season averaging 6.17 runs per game, ranked 31^st in Division II.
• Kelsie Gardner has hit safely in 19 straight games before not swatting a hit in the final game of a doubleheader against Central Washington. She is the team's leader hitting .442 with 34 hits and nine stolen bases.
• Destiny Kuehl is hitting .418 and leads Western Oregon with 22 runs batted in. Zoe Clark is the Wolves' home-run leader with five and is tied with Chandler Bishop with the team's longest hitting streak at four games.
• In total, seven Western Oregon players are hitting above .300 on the season.
• Three Wolves have earned GNAC Player of the Week honors thus far – Destiny Kuehl (Player, Feb. 20), Ashlee Lynch (Player, Feb. 27) and Sammi Cadwallader (Pitcher, Feb. 27).

  
ROAD WARRIORS, PART TWO:

• Play in the Tournament of Champions will bring the season-opening stretch of road games to an end. WOU's first 26 games will be away from Monmouth.
• Western Oregon went 9-6 during its 15-game stretch on the road to start the season. The Wolves went 2-3 in the Las Vegas Desert Stinger Classic. After dropping two to Hawaii Pacific, WOU has won six of their last seven with doubleheader sweeps of Chaminade and BYU-Hawaii while taking three out of four games in a non-league tilt at the College of Idaho.

 ABOUT THE OPPONENTS:

• Holy Names dropped two games on Tuesday to Hawaii-Hilo in league play to fall to 3-25 on the season. One win came against a GNAC team, Saint Martin's, on March 22.
• UC San Diego has lost eight of their last nine overall games and lost a series at Sonoma State last weekend to enter the TOC with a break-even 15-15 record for the season. The Tritons have been ranked as high as No. 14 in the NFCA Division II rankings.
• Academy of Art has earned PacWest splits in each of their last two series against Hawaii-Hilo and Hawaii Pacific. The Urban Knights are 15-17 overall on the year and will play five GNAC teams in the TOC playing Simon Fraser and Western Washington before tangling with the Wolves.
• Cal State Dominguez Hills enters the TOC with a little bit of momentum. The Toros took three out of four games against San Francisco State last weekend to improve their record to 5-28 overall. They broke a 22-game skid on March 18 with a 6-5 win at home against Cal State East Bay.
• San Francisco State will face six GNAC schools at the TOC with the Wolves being the final matchup. The Gators are 12-20 on the year, but did pick up a signature win against a top-10 school on March 14 with a 4-1 win over Chico State.
• Sonoma State is on a roll coming into the TOC winning 14 of their last 15 games. The Seawolves sit at 23-8 on the year and will face Western Washington on Thursday before opening the TOC with Concordia on Friday.