SIUE (18-33, 9-19 Ohio Valley)
vs. Austin Peay (30-22, 17-11 Ohio Valley)

Wednesday - 12:30 p.m.
Oxford, Ala. (Choccolocco Park)

• The winner of the SIUE-Austin Peay game moves on to play Southeast Missouri at 5:30 p.m.
• This is SIUE's first Ohio Valley Conference softball Tournament since the 2019 season.
• The Cougars are 17-13 in OVC Tournament games in eight appearances. This is the first time SIUE and Austin Peay have met in the postseason tournament.
• Lexi King was named first team All-Ohio Valley Conference as utility player. She plays center field and pitches for the Cougars.
• Infielder Bailley Concatto and outfielder Lauryn Yslava were named to the All-OVC second team. Yslava also earned All-Newcomer team honors.
• King finished the regular season with a team-leading .382 batting average with 65 hits. That is the second-most hits by a Cougar in the Division I era. Haley Chambers-Book had 69 in 2015.
• Concatto hit her third home run of the season against SEMO, a grand slam on Senior Day.
• Yslava broke the SIUE freshman record for home runs with eight. She is second on the team with a .309 batting average.
• Grace Lueke set an SIUE softball Division I-only record with 12 home runs this season. Lueke is tied for second all-time in home runs in a season with Sarah Sollberger (1998), Erin Newman (2000) and Jenny Esker (2002).
• Mia Haynes leads the SIUE pitching staff with eight victories. She needs six more strikeouts for 100 this season.