Kentucky Softball Receives At-Large Bid to NCAA Championship
LEXINGTON, Ky. – For the 13th-straight year, the Kentucky Softball program was selected to the NCAA Tournament, as the Wildcats have been slotted into the Blacksburg Regional, hosted by No. 3 overall seed Virginia Tech.
The other participants in the Blacksburg Regional are Miami (OH), automatic qualifiers out of the Mid-American Conference, and St. Francis (PA), automatic qualifiers out of the Northeast Conference.
(3) Virginia Tech will play St. Francis on Friday at 2 p.m. ET with the game airing on ACC Network. The Wildcats will play Miami (OH) at 4:30 p.m. ET on ESPN+ or 35 minutes following the conclusion of the VT/SFU game.
Saturday and Sunday’s schedule will be released in conjunction with ESPN and its family of networks at a later date.
Tickets to the NCAA regional games played at Tech Softball Park will be made available on Monday, May 16, while supplies last. Fans can purchase either an all-session pass that includes every game in the Blacksburg Regional or on a single-session basis. Both reserved seating and general admission seating will be offered, with reserved seats limited to all-session passes.
The on-sale timeline for NCAA regional tickets is as follows, with quantities limited to four (4) tickets per account:
- 10 a.m. ET – Current Hokie Ambassador, Hokie Scholar and Hokie Stone donors
- Noon ET – Remaining current Hokie Scholarship Fund donors
- 2 p.m. ET – General public
Kentucky lost to Virginia Tech, 6-1 on opening weekend at the Northern Lights/Southern Nights Tournament, and fell to Miami (OH) in Oxford earlier in the season. UK and SFU have not played this season.
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