Lombardi Announces 2020 Softball Schedule

EUGENE, Ore. – The Oregon softball team will play 24 games at Jane Sanders Stadium as part of its 2020 regular season schedule, head coach Melyssa Lombardi announced on Thursday.

Oregon's home schedule is headlined by a March 18 exhibition game against former Duck Janie (Takeda) Reed and the USA Women's National Team, as well as a three-game series against defending NCAA champion UCLA to close out the regular season.

In total, the Ducks' 2020 schedule features 18 teams that reached the NCAA Tournament in 2019, five that advanced to Super Regionals and four that competed at the Women's College World Series in Oklahoma City. Oregon will have 16 total games televised on Pac-12 Network.

"This is a challenging schedule," said Lombardi. "We are really going to be tested early on during nonconference play, and that will help get us prepared for our loaded Pac-12 schedule. I'm thrilled that we get to play 24 games in front of the best fans in the nation at The Jane, and hosting Team USA will be an unforgettable experience for everyone involved."

A limited number of reserved season tickets are available for $150, and outfield general admission season tickets are on sale for $100. Single game tickets will go on sale at a later date in early 2020.

Full 2020 Schedule: https://goducks.com/sports/softball/schedule

Buy Season Tickets: https://oss.ticketmaster.com/aps/oregonducks/EN/link/buy/details/20SBS

Team USA Tickets: https://oss.ticketmaster.com/aps/oregonducks/EN/link/buy/details/20SBUSA

The Ducks will open the 2020 season in Mexico at the Puerto Vallarta College Challenge (Feb. 6-9), where they will take on Utah Valley, BYU, George Washington, Nevada and Long Beach State. Oregon will then head to the Houston Tournament (Feb. 14-16) to play two games each against Houston and Dayton. BYU and Houston each reached the NCAA Tournament last season.

Oregon will return to the Mary Nutter Collegiate Classic in Cathedral City, Calif., on Feb. 20-22. The Ducks' tournament slate will feature four NCAA Tournament teams in Bethune Cookman, Mississippi State, Notre Dame and Northwestern, as well as a game against Idaho State.

The Ducks will face four more postseason teams the following week – Drake, Tulsa, Louisville and Oklahoma State – at the Tulsa/OSU Invitational (Feb. 29 – March 1) in Oklahoma, where they will also play Illinois-Chicago. Oklahoma State reached the WCWS in 2019.

The 2020 home slate will begin with the Oregon Tournament on March 6-8, when the Ducks will welcome Seattle, Loyola Marymount and Portland State to Jane Sanders Stadium. Oregon will play both Seattle, a 2019 NCAA Tournament team, and Portland State twice, and LMU once.

Oregon will kick off its Pac-12 Conference schedule on March 13-15 at California, following a midweek game at Saint Mary's (March 11). The Ducks will then return home for the highly-anticipated exhibition game against the USA WNT on March 18; Team USA will also play Southern Oregon at The Jane in the front end of the doubleheader.

The Ducks will continue with their conference schedule at home against Stanford on March 21-23, before traveling to Seattle on March 27-29 to play Washington, a WCWS team from a year ago. Oregon will host Utah on April 3-5, and then will head to Tempe, Ariz., for three games against another NCAA Tournament team in Arizona State (April 9-11).

Arizona, coming off a WCWS appearance, will come to Jane Sanders Stadium on April 17-19. The Ducks will face a tough Boise State team in a nonconference home doubleheader a few days later (April 22), before heading up I-5 to take on Oregon State in the Civil War series in Corvallis (April 25-27).

Oregon will take one final break from Pac-12 play with two games each against Texas Tech, an NCAA Tournament squad, and Grand Canyon at JSS on May 2-3. The Ducks will then welcome UCLA, the defending NCAA champions, to Eugene to close out the regular season on May 7-9.

The NCAA Regionals round will begin on May 15, with the NCAA Super Regionals the following weekend. The Women's College World Series in Oklahoma City will kick off on May 28.

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