RED HAWKS 2008 SCHEDULE RELEASED

Montclair, NJ (1/22/08) – Coming off its most successful season in a decade, the Montclair State softball team will open its 2008 schedule on Saturday, March 15 as the Red Hawks face Simpson and Emerson at the Rebel Spring Games in Orlando, FL. The two games on the 15th are just two of 40 games on the MSU slate.

Montclair will play 10 games in Florida, including eight at the Rebel Spring Games as it returns to the site for the first time since 2001. The Red Hawks spent the past six years at the Gene Cusic Classic in Fort Myers. MSU will also play a pair of games away from the Rebel Games as it takes on Messiah College and FDU-Florham at the National Training Center in Clermont on March 18.

Following its 10-game trip to Florida, Montclair State will return home to the MSU Softball Stadium on Tuesday, March 25 with a twinbill against John Jay College. Four days later, MSU opens its New Jersey Athletic Conference slate with a home contest against Richard Stockton.

The New Jersey Athletic Conference Tournament begins on Tuesday, April 29 with three games at the site of the Top three seeds. The scene then shifts to the site of the No. 1 seed for the remainder of the six-team, double-elimination tournament from May 2-4.

The NCAA Division III Regional Tournament gets underway on Thursday, May 8 and concludes on Sunday May 11 with the eight regional winners advancing to the NCAA Division III Softball Championship in Salem, VA from May 16-20.

Last season, MSU went 38-8 and captured the NJAC regular-season title going 16-2, while also reaching the championship round of the NCAA Division III Regional Tournament. The Red Hawks were ranked No. 16 in the final National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) Top 25.