Indianapolis, Ind. – The NCAA announced the host sites for the DII Regional Tournament on Monday morning, and for the seventh time in program history the Southern Arkansas University softball team earned a bid as the No. 7 seed and will head to Edmond, Oklahoma to compete in a four-team DII Central Regional. This is the sixth straight season that head coach Jason Anderson's team has advanced to the NCAA DII Central Regional Tournament.

SAU will open up with the No. 2 seed and host school Central Oklahoma University in their first round match up on Thursday afternoon at 1:00 p.m. Augustana University and Arkansas Tech University will be the other two schools competing at the three-day event that spans from Thursday to Saturday. Augustana comes into the tournament as the No. 3 seed, while ATU enters as the No. 6 seed.

The winner of SAU's first round matchup against UCO will take on the winner of AUGIE and ATU on Friday at 1:00 p.m., while the loser of the first-round matchup will play an elimination game on Friday at 3:30 p.m.
The Muleriders who won the Great American Conference regular season Championship enter this weekend's tournament with a 37-16 record. UCO enters the tournament as the No. 5 team in the nation, while AUGIE comes in as the No. 11 team in the NCAA DII ranks.