Titans to face champs

INDIANAPOLIS — The Westminster College softball team will travel to Angola, Ind. to open its run at the NCAA Division III tournament Thursday in regional round action against No. 5 Trine University.

The Division III softball committee announced the 62 teams competing in the Division III softball tournament Monday morning.

Trine (39-3), last year’s Division III champion, captured its third-straight Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association tournament title this past weekend. The additional two teams, both at-large selections, traveling to Angola this weekend are the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point (32-7) out of the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference and the University of Mount Union (32-8), members of the Ohio Athletic Conference.

Westminster and Trine will get things going Thursday at noon from SportONE/Parkview Softball Field. UWSP and Mount Union will follow at 2:30 p.m.

Westminster (25-11) won its first Presidents’ Athletic Conference title in 19 years after knocking off No. 6 Waynesburg University 1-0 in the championship tournament’s title game on May 4. Freshman shortstop Ava Karpa delivered the game-winning base hit in the bottom of the seventh inning. As the winner of this year’s PAC tournament title, Westminster secured the league’s automatic qualifying bid to the Division III tournament.