Indianapolis - East Coast Conference members LIU Post and Molloy College will compete for a National Championship after earning a spot in the NCAA Division II Softball Championship field released on Monday morning. The two schools will open up the tournament against each other in a rematch of the final of the ECC Softball Championship.
Molloy earned the conference's automatic bid after earning their fourth ECC title in the past six years on Saturday afternoon. The Lions earned the No. 7 seed in the East Region with an overall record of 33-22 on the season.
LIU Post earned an at-large bid to extend their NCAA Tournament streak to 15 straight seasons and 16 of the past 17. The Pioneers with a 36-13-1 mark on the year, earned the No. 2 seed in the East Region to set up another matchup with Molloy.
The two rivals have met six times so far this year with LIU Post holding a 4-2 advantage. Molloy won the most important of the six matchups however, with both of their wins over the Pioneers coming in last weekend's ECC Championship.
LIU Post and Molloy will compete in the East 2 Regional hosted by Adelphi University in Garden City, N.Y. The other two teams in the bracket will be the host school and No. 3 seed, Adelphi, and No. 6 seed, Pace University, champions of the Northeast 10 conference.
The other half of the bracket, competing in the East 1 Regional, will be No. 1 Caldwell University, No. 4 Southern New Hampshire University, No. 5 LeMoyne College, and No. 8 Wilmington University.
Both sides of the East Region bracket will begin play on Thursday, May 5th and will conclude on Saturday, May 7th. The winner of each bracket will advance to play each other on May 11th in a best-of-three East Region Super Regional with a spot in the NCAA Division II World Series on the line.
To view the full NCAA Division II Softball Championship bracket, click here.
