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UWEC To Host WIAC SB Tournament

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By Bob Bradovich - bio | email

Eau Claire (WQOW) -- UW-Eau Claire will host this weekend's WIAC Softball Tournament.

Plenty of teams talk about peaking at the right time, but only a few teams are actually able to do that.  UWEC started the season by going 8-6, but the Blugolds have put together a 14-game winning streak.


That streak included a pair of doubleheader sweeps this past weekend. Sunday's wins over UW-Whitewater gave Eau Claire the regular season title in the WIAC, and the number one seed for the conference tourney.

You'd figure playing at Gelein Field is a huge advantage for the Blugolds, who are 10-0 at home this season.

"We always talk about defending our home turf," says UWEC head coach Leslie Huntington, "and that was one of the goals we had set early in the season before we'd even played a game, was that we wanted to go undefeated at home. This group just set out. It's a group of young women who are so determined, and they have so much fun with each other too, and I think that's what makes it easy."

The double-elimination tournament gets underway Friday.  UWEC will play UW-Oshkosh, the #6 seed, at 10:00 A.M.  UW-Whitewater is the #2 seed, and will play 5th-seeded UW-Platteville at 12:00 noon.  UW-Stout gets the #4 seed; the Blue Devils will battle 5th-seeded UW-River Falls at 4:00 P.M.

 

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