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HILLSBORO, KS - The brackets have been released for the Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference 2010 nine-team double-elimination post-season Softball Tournament, to be held this Thursday and Friday, April 29 - 30, in Hillsboro, Kansas, at Tabor College.
The Swedes will first face sixth-seeded Sterling College Thursday, April 29 at Noon on field two.
Bracket
The rainout date for postponed tournament games is Saturday, May 1, according to KCAC Softball Chair Mike McCormick and Commissioner Scott Crawford.
Ottawa University is the softball regular-season champion.
Tournament seedings are based on regular-season records and standings, with tie-breakers.
All nine teams will compete in the Conference post-season tournament at Hillsboro, but only the tournament champion will receive an automatic berth to the national 32-team pool-play 30th annual softball tournament of National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics - to be played May 20-26 in Decatur, Alabama, at the Wilson Morgan Softball Complex. The NAIA national tournament will consist of 25 automatic berths from affiliated conferences and unaffiliated groups plus 7 to 8 at-large berths.
Each year the host site of the KCAC Conference softball tournament rotates among the nine institutions which field softball teams, according to a pre-arranged schedule. In 2011 the host institution for the 2011 KCAC Softball Post-season Tournament will be Friends University in Wichita.
