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Long Beach State Softball Makes NCAA Postseason

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The Long Beach State softball team is an at-large selection into the 2018 NCAA postseason as one of four teams headed to the Tempe Regional that starts Friday. The opener against Ole Miss will be broadcast live at 4 p.m. on ESPN.

This is the 24th postseason appearance for LBSU.  Host Arizona State and New Mexico State are the other two teams playing the double elimination weekend in Tempe.

No. 20 LBSU (42-12, 16-5) is making its seventh postseason appearance under coach Kim Sowder, and is trying to reach the sixth Women’s College World Series in program history.

JJ Fiddler
JJ Fiddler is an award-winning sportswriter and videographer who has been covering Southern California sports for multiple newspapers and websites since 2004. After attending Long Beach State and creating the first full sports page at the Union Weekly Newspaper, he has been exclusively covering Long Beach prep sports since 2007.
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