With a win over Yavapai College on Tuesday, May 25, the Lady Raiders softball team advances another step at the NJCAA Division 1 National Softball Championship tournament being held this week in Yuma, Ariz.
The Lady Raiders (43-4) will face second-seeded Butler (Kan.) in the second round of the double-elimination tournament at 6 p.m. (CDT) Wednesday.
A win will advance Three Rivers to the semifinals of the winner’s bracket at 2 p.m. (CDT) Thursday. A loss will set up the Lady Raiders to play at 10 p.m. (CDT) Wednesday against 16th-seeded Georgia Military or ninth-seeded Chattanooga State.
Links to the tournament bracket and other tournament information can be found at the official NJCAA D1 softball national tournament website. Note that times in the bracket are Mountain Time (add two hours for Central Daylight Time).
Fans can listen without charge to all the Lady Raiders tournament games except the championship game at raidersathletics.com/live_audio. Play-by-play of the games will be available through Iscore at raidersathletics.com, click Webcasting, then click Iscore.
Live video of tournament games is available at njcaa.org/network. There is a fee to watch.
Follow the Lady Raiders’ journey at the national tournament at facebook.com/ThreeRiversRaidersAthletics/, where there will be links to coverage of the games, photos, and more, and at twitter.com/3rsports.
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