2024 Pac-12 Conference softball tournament

The 2024 Pac-12 Conference softball tournament was held from May 8 through May 11, 2024 at Boyd & Jill Smith Family Stadium in Stanford, California. This was the second and final postseason championship event sponsored by the Pac-12 Conference since 1978. As the tournament winner, UCLA earned the conference's automatic bid to the 2024 NCAA Division I softball tournament.

2024 Pac-12 Conference
softball tournament
Teams9
FormatSingle-elimination tournament
Finals site
ChampionsUCLA (1st title)
Runner-upUtah (2nd title game)
Winning coachKelly Inouye-Perez (1st title)
MVPSharlize Palacios (UCLA)
TelevisionPac-12 Network
ESPN2
ESPNU
2024 Pac-12 Conference softball standings
Conf Overall
Team W   L   T   PCT W   L   T   PCT
No. 6 UCLA  ‍y 17 4 0   .810 43 12 0   .782
No. 7 Stanford ‍‍‍y 17 7 0   .708 50 16 0   .758
No. 12 Washington ‍‍‍y 13 10 0   .565 32 15 0   .681
No. 24 Oregon ‍‍‍y 13 10 0   .565 30 21 0   .588
No. 18 Arizona ‍‍‍y 13 11 0   .542 37 18 1   .670
Utah ‍‍‍y 10 13 0   .435 35 22 0   .614
No. 19 California ‍‍‍y 9 13 0   .409 37 19 0   .661
Oregon State ‍‍‍ 9 15 0   .375 21 29 0   .420
Arizona State ‍‍‍ 3 21 0   .125 20 31 0   .392
† – Conference champion
‡ – Tournament champion
y – Invited to the NCAA Tournament
As of June 2, 2024[1]
Rankings from NFCA/USA Today

Seeds

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The tournament featured nine teams in this conference (Colorado, USC & Washington State do not field teams). Teams will play once per day at the 2024 Pac-12 Softball Championship. The four-day event began with a play-in game between the eighth and ninth-place teams in the regular-season standings. That winner advanced to an eight-team, single-elimination bracket with the quarterfinals, semifinals and championship being contested on the following three days. The winner of the Pac-12 Softball Championship received the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. The seedings were determined upon completion of regular season play. The winning percentage of the teams in conference play determined tournament seedings. There were tiebreakers in place to seed teams with identical conference records.[2]

Seed School Conf. Over. Tiebreaker
#1 UCLA 17−4 34−10
#2 Stanford 17−7 42−12
#3 Oregon 13−10 28−18 2−1 vs Washington
#4 Washington 13−10 31−12 1−2 vs Oregon
#5 Arizona 13−11 33−15−1
#6 Utah 10−13 32−19
#7 California 9−13 36−16
#8 Oregon State 9−15 21−28
#9 Arizona State 3−21 19−30

Bracket

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Play-in Game
May 8
Quarterfinals
May 9
Semifinals
May 10
Finals
May 11
1 UCLA 6
8 Oregon State 1 9 Arizona State 0
9 Arizona State 3 1 UCLA 6
5 Arizona 5
4 Washington 3
5 Arizona 11
1 UCLA 2
6 Utah 1
2 Stanford 4
7 California 2
2 Stanford 1
6 Utah 2
3 Oregon 4
6 Utah 7

Schedule

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Game Time* Matchup# Score Television Attendance
Play-in Game – Wednesday, May 8
1 6:00 p.m. No. 8 Oregon State vs. No. 9 Arizona State 1−3 Pac-12 Network 930
Quarterfinals – Thursday, May 9
2 10:00 a.m. No. 3 Oregon vs. No. 6 Utah 4−7 Pac-12 Network 1,245
3 12:30 p.m. No. 2 Stanford vs. No. 7 California 4−2
4 4:00 p.m. No. 1 UCLA vs. No. 9 Arizona State 6−0 1,167
5 6:30 p.m. No. 4 Washington vs. No. 5 Arizona 3−11
Semifinals – Friday, May 10
6 4:30 p.m. No. 6 Utah vs. No. 2 Stanford 2−1 ESPNU TBD
7 7:30 p.m. No. 1 UCLA vs. No. 5 Arizona 6−5 ESPN2
Championship – Saturday, May 11
8 7:00 p.m. No. 6 Utah vs. No. 1 UCLA 1−2 ESPN2 TBD
*Game times in MST. # – Rankings denote tournament seed.[3]

Team and tournament leaders

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Hitting minimums - 75% of Games 2.5 TPA/Game Pitching minimums - 1.0 IP/Game Source:[4]

Team Avg. RBI Home Runs Stolen Bases ERA Wins Strikeouts Saves
Arizona Olivia DiNardo .714 Olivia DiNardo 6 Olivia DiNardo 2 Tayler Biehl 2 Miranda Stoddard 0.00 Brooke Mannon 1 Brooke Mannon 4 Aissa Silva 1
Arizona State Libby Walsh .500 Tied 1 None 0 Audrey LeClair 2 Deborah Jones 3.77 Deborah Jones 1 Deborah Jones 7 None 0
California Tied .333 Acacia Anders 1 None 0 Tied 1 Ryann Orange 0.00 None 0 Haylei Archer 3 None
Oregon Ariel Carlson 1.000 Tied 1 None 0 Tied 1 Elise Sokolsky 1.66 None 0 Tied 1 None 0
Oregon State Kiki Escobar .500 Lici Campbell 1 None 0 None 0 Logan Hulon 3.00 None 0 Logan Hulon 5 None 0
Stanford Taryn Kern .500 Taryn Kern 2 None 0 Aly Kaneshiro 1 NiJaree Canady 0.00 NiJaree Canady 1 NiJaree Canady 13 None 0
UCLA Janelle Meono .500 Tied 3 Sharlize Palacios 1 Tied 1 Kaitlyn Terry 3.11 Tied 1 Kaitlyn Terry 8 None 0
Utah Kaylah Nelsen .667 Kaylah Nelsen 4 Shonty Passi 1 Tied 1 Mariah Lopez 2.91 Tied 1 Mariah Lopez 8 Mariah Lopez 1
Washington Giselle Alvarez 0.666 Alana Johnson 2 Tied 2 Brooklyn Carter 1 Sidne Peters 9.03 None 0 Sidne Peters 3 None 0


All-tournament Team

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The following players will be members of the 2024 Pac-12 Softball All-Tournament Team. Player in Bold selected as Tournament MVP.

Position Player School
OF Jadelyn Allchin UCLA
P NiJaree Canady Stanford
1B Olivia DiNardo Arizona
INF Taryn Kern Stanford
P Sarah Ladd Utah
P Mariah Lopez Utah
OF Kaylah Nelsen Utah
C Sharlize Palacios UCLA
INF Carlie Scupin Arizona
P/OF Kaitlyn Terry UCLA
INF Jordan Woolery UCLA


References

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  1. ^ "Softball Standings". Pac-12.com. Pac-12 Conference. Retrieved June 2, 2024.
  2. ^ "Arizona to host inaugural Pac-12 Softball Tournament in 2023". June 13, 2022. Archived from the original on June 13, 2022. Retrieved May 7, 2023.
  3. ^ "Bracket set for inaugural Pac-12 Softball Tournament". May 7, 2023. Retrieved May 7, 2023.
  4. ^ "2023 Pac-12 Softball Tournament Pac-12 Pitching Leaders" (PDF).