Arizona State Results DATE OPPONENT (rank) RESULT Feb. 4 Texas-San Antonio W, 8-0 (6) Feb. 5 Texas-San Antonio W, 4-2 Feb. 6 Texas-San Antonio W, 5-4 (8) Feb. 11 Buffalo# rained out FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Feb. 11 Massachusetts# rained out Feb. 12 Sacramento State# rained out Wednesday, February 23, 2005 Feb. 12 Tennessee-Chattanooga# rained out Feb. 13 Sacramento State# W, 3-2 SUN DEVIL SOFTBALL Feb. 13 Utah State# W, 11-2 Feb. 16 Hawai’i L, 6-8 ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY TRAVELS Feb. 16 Hawai’i W, 2-0 Feb. 18 Illinois State% W, 3-0 TO THE PALM SPRINGS CLASSIC Feb. 18 Iowa% L, 0-2 Feb. 19 Iowa% rained out ON TAP: After rain cancelled three more games in Tempe, the Feb. 19 Long Island% rained out Feb. 20 Long Island% rained out Arizona State University softball team (7-2) will try another part Feb. 25 vs. Long Island^ 10:30 a.m. of the country as they head out on the road for the first time this Feb. 25 vs. Bethune-Cookman^ 1:00 p.m. season, travelling to Palm Springs, California to compete in the Feb. 26 vs. Northwestern^ 5:30 p.m. Palm Springs Classic (Feb. 25-27). Feb. 26 vs. Notre Dame^ 8:00 p.m. Feb. 27 vs. Kansas^ 11:30 a.m. Friday, Feb. 25 March 2 Eastern Michigan 5:00 p.m. 10:30 a.m. Arizona State vs. Long Island (Finley Field) March 2 Eastern Michigan 7:00 p.m. 1:00 p.m. Arizona State vs. Bethune-Cookman (Finley Field) March 4 San Diego State! 5:00 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 26 March 4 Southern Utah! 7:00 p.m. 5:30 p.m. Arizona State vs. Northwestern (DesMoines Field) March 5 San Diego State! 3:00 p.m. March 5 Southern Utah! 5:00 p.m. 8:00 p.m. Arizona State vs. Notre Dame (Yankee Field) March 6 Southern Utah! 12:00 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 27 March 11 vs. Rhode Island$ 2:00 p.m. 11:30 a.m. Arizona State vs. Kansas (DesMoines Field) March 11 vs. San Jose State$ 6:00 p.m. March 12 vs. TBD$ TBD PALM SPRINGS NOTES: This is the first time ASU will play in March 12 vs. TBD$ TBD March 13 vs. TBD$ TBD the classic ... Oregon State is the host ... 24 teams, including March 14 @ Loyola Marymount 12:00 p.m. five Pac-10 teams will compete in the round robin format ... the March 14 @ Loyola Marymount 2:00 p.m. classic will take place at the Big League Dreams Sports Park March 17 vs. Syracuse+ 4:30 p.m. in Cathedral City, Calif. ... the playing fields are built as scaled- March 18 vs. Oklahoma+ 1:30 p.m. down replicas of famous major league stadiums. March 19 vs. Louisiana-Lafayette+ 1:30 p.m. March 19 vs. TBD+ TBD TOUGH SCHEDULE/TOUGHER CONFERENCE: As in any March 20 vs. TBD+ TBD season, Arizona State will face many of the nation’s top teams April 1 California* 7:00 p.m. and traditionally holds a high RPI. Last year, ASU played 29 April 2 Stanford* 7:00 p.m. games (nearly half of all their games) against top-25 teams, April 3 Stanford* 1:00 p.m. while 16 games were against top-10 competition. This year is April 6 Arizona* 7:00 p.m. April 8 Oregon* 7:00 p.m. no different as ASU will play several non-conference/Pac-10 April 9 Oregon State* 7:00 p.m. regular-season games against nationally-ranked teams. Within April 10 Oregon State* 1:00 p.m. the toughest conference in the nation, the Pac-10, ASU will April 15 @ UCLA* 1:00 p.m. face a nationally-ranked team every time out. All seven Pac-10 April 16 @ Washington* 2:30 p.m. opponents are ranked in the top-22, including the No. 1, 2, 3 April 17 @ Washington* 1:00 p.m. and 4 ranked teams and five of the nation’s top-12. Addition- April 22 @ Arizona* 7:00 p.m. ally, The Pac-10 placed seven of its eight squads in the NCAA April 23 @ Arizona* 7:00 p.m. Tournament last season, with three teams advancing to the April 29 @ Oregon State* 3:00 p.m. WCWS. For the fourth consecutive year (11th time overall), April 30 @ Oregon* 3:00 p.m. May 1 @ Oregon* 1:00 p.m. two Pac-10 teams squared off in the National Championship May 6 Washington* 7:00 p.m. game, giving the conference its 17th title and fourth straight. May 7 UCLA* 7:00 p.m. PAC-10 CONFERENCE/OVERALL STANDINGS (FEB. 23) May 8 UCLA* 1:00 p.m. May 12 @ Stanford* 7:00 p.m. Pac-10 Overall May 13 @ California* 1:00 p.m. Team W-L GB W-L PCT Streak May 14 @ California* 1:00 p.m. Arizona 0-0 0.0 9-0 1.000 Won 9 May 18-22 NCAA Regionals TBD California 0-0 0.0 5-0 1.000 Won 5 May 25-29 NCAA Super Regionals TBD Stanford 0-0 0.0 11-1 .917 Won 8 June 6-12 College World Series TBD UCLA 0-0 0.0 8-2 .800 Won 1 Ranking are by USAToday/NFCA & ESPN/USA Softball. Arizona State 0-0 0.0 7-2 .778 Lost 1 Washington 0-0 0.0 7-3 .700 Won 3 * Pacific-10 Conference game. Oregon 0-0 0.0 6-4 .600 Lost 1 # Kajikawa Classic, Tempe, Ariz. Oregon State 0-0 0.0 6-5 .545 Lost 2 % Littlewood Classic, Tempe, Ariz. ^ Palm Springs Classic, Palm Springs, Calif. Will Phillips, Softball Contact ! Louisville Slugger Triangular, Tempe, Ariz. Carson Center/Media Relations Office, Room 131 Tempe, Arizona 85287-2505 $ National Invitational Tournament, San Jose, Calif. (480) 965-6592 • Fax: (480) 965-5408 + KIA Klassic Tournament, Fullerton, Calif. [email protected] • www.thesundevils.com 2005 Sun Devil Softball — 2•2•2 February 23 USA Today/NFCA Top-25 SOFTBALL HISTORY: One of the nation’s founding programs, the Sun Devils are in their 39th season on the diamond in Tempe. ASU holds a Team (first place) Record Pts. LR 1,025-558-1 (.648) all-time record since the 1967 team posted a 5-1 1. California (24) 5-0 696 1 record. ASU has recorded 23 season of at least 30 wins and six with 40 or 2. Arizona (4) 9-0 676 2 more victories, including an all-time high of 46 in 2002. The Sun Devils 3. UCLA 8-2 628 3 have earned 16 postseason bids, fourth all-time in the Pac-10 Confer- 4. Stanford 10-1 616 4 ence, and has made four trips to the College World Series. Prior to the 5. Tennessee 13-0 563 7 current NCAA format, ASU went to seven WCWS, claiming back-to-back 6. Louisiana-Lafayette 12-1 553 5 national tiles in 1972 and 1973. 7. Alabama 15-1 528 6 8. Michigan 8-1 504 8 9. Texas 5-0 479 10 HEAD COACH LINDA WELLS: Just nine wins shy of 900 career victo- 10. LSU 6-1 459 9 ries, Arizona State’s storied tradition of softball excellence continues to 11. Baylor 17-2 430 11 flourish under the tutelage of 16th-year head coach Linda Wells, one of 12. Washington 7-3 372 12 the most prominent and successful coaches in NCAA history. Wells, who 13. Oklahoma 10-4 328 14 is currently the 7th-most successful active coach in NCAA Division I his- 14. Florida 13-2 319 16 tory with 891 victories (9th all-time), has led the Sun Devils to 11 (seven 15. Georgia Tech 13-0 304 17 consecutive 1997-03) NCAA Regional appearances in 15 seasons, in- 16. Georgia 6-6 251 13 cluding two trips in the past six years to the College World Series (1999/ 17. Nebraska 7-1 235 19 2002). While at ASU, Wells has compiled a record of 540-391 and has 18. Oregon 6-4 178 15 had seven players earn a total of 12 All-American awards. Her 540 wins 19. Texas A&M 11-1 160 23 are the most victories all-time in ASU’s storied 39-year history, surpass- 20. Florida International 12-3 130 24 ing coaching legend Mary Littlewood’s 536. Wells earned the victory with 21. Florida State 7-5 123 18 a 3-2 win over Sacramento State (2/13/05). Wells' vast coaching experi- 22. Oregon State 6-5 117 20 ence and tireless work ethic has not gone unnoticed by the country or by 23. Long Beach State 7-3 101 22 the world as she was named the head coach of the Greek Olympic Na- 24. Missouri 8-1 76 NR tional Team that competed in the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. Wells 25. Fresno State 1-1 61 21 has coached 35 career .300 hitters at ASU in her 15 seasons, averaging a combined .335 — not an easy accomplishment in the pitching-rich Pac- Dropped Out: No. 24 Illinois. 10 where games are traditionally low scoring, and with the addition of three more All-Pac-10 selections in 2004, Wells has now coached 75 all- Receiving Votes: Pacific (42), Auburn (28), North- conference players during her tenure at Arizona State, averaging five All- western (27), BYU (23), Texas A&M-CC (22), Ari- Pac-10 selections every season.