Saluki Softball clinches MVC regular season title for second straight year

Saluki Softball clinches MVC regular season title for second straight year

EVANSVILLE, Ind. — The Southern Illinois University softball team (31-19, 21-5) clinched the Missouri Valley Conference regular season title on Sunday after defeating Evansville, 11-1.

Softball finishes regular season on top, repeats as MVC Champs

Two months ago, Saluki softball was seemingly dead in the water.   A brutal stretch of non conference games to open the season left many fans concerned about the chances of SIU’s most successful sport over the past two seasons and how they were going to fare for the rest of the season.   Suffice to say, those concerns were put to rest during the conference portion of the schedule.   After entering conference play at 8-14, including a 1-12 start …