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Oklahoma State softball earns No. 13 seed in NCAA Tournament, will host Stillwater Regional

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Oklahoma State softball earned a No. 4 seed and will host the Stillwater Regional in the NCAA tournament, starting Friday.

STILLWATER — Coach Kenny Gajewski said he felt confident that his Oklahoma State Cowgirls had done enough to earn a regional host berth in the NCAA softball tournament and he was and the selection committee proved him right. The Cowgirls are a No. 4 seed in their quadrant (No.

13 overall) as the host of the Stillwater Regional that will include No. 5 seed Stanford, Princeton and Eastern Illinois. The four-team, double-elimination bracket will begin play Friday at Cowgirl Stadium.

Princeton faces Stanford at 1 p. m. Friday in the regional opener, with OSU and Eastern Illinois finishing the first round at 3:30 p.

m. OSU and Stanford met in the season opener in Palo Alto, California, with Stanford winning 4-2. OSU (38-15) finished second in the Big 12 behind last year’s NCAA runner-up, Texas Tech.