March 4, 2009
Northwestern's Preview Presented by Worth Notes (PDF Format) 
EVANSTON, Ill. -- The Amateur Softball Association and ASA Hall of Fame Stadium in Oklahoma City, Okla., will play host to The Preview presented by Worth this Saturday and Sunday, March 7-8. This premier collegiate softball event features three of the sport's top programs -- No. 6 Oklahoma, No. 8 Tennessee and No. 16 Northwestern -- in the sport's most prestigious venue.
Each team will play a pair of games against each other, with NU contesting two double headers in The Preview. The Wildcats will play the Volunteers at 11 a.m. CT and the Sooners at 1:30 p.m. CT on Saturday before taking on Tennessee at 10 a.m. CT Sunday followed by Oklahoma at 1:30 p.m. CT. Note, the 10 a.m. Sunday game is an hour earlier than the 11 a.m. game originally publicized. ASA Hall of Fame Stadium is located at 2801 NE 50th St., Oklahoma City, OK, 73111.
Except for the Atlanta Olympics year of 1996, ASA Hall of Fame Stadium in Oklahoma City has been the home of the Women's College World Series since 1990, and all three of The Preview's participants have extensive recent WCWS resumes. Oklahoma won the national title in 2000 to kick start a string of five-straight appearances, although it never advanced to the semifinals after that first year. Tennessee made the semifinals three-straight seasons from 2005-07, playing in the championship game in 2007. Northwestern is the only private school in NCAA Division I history to make back-to-back WCWS semifinals, a feat it accomplished in 2006-07. The Wildcats were in the national title game in 2006.
Northwestern enjoys playing at ASA Hall of Fame stadium. In their last two World Series appearances, the Wildcats have compiled a 5-4 record and broken several offensive records. Northwestern's 2006 team holds the WCWS record for most home runs in a single Series with six, while the Wildcats have twice matched the WCWS single-game mark with three blasts.
Senior Tammy Williams (Roscoe, Mo./Osceola), who currently leads the Big Ten with a .482 batting average, was named to the WCWS All-Tournament team as a freshman and as a sophomore in 2006-07. Senior Erin Dyer (Homer Glen, Ill./Lockport) hit the biggest of her 34-career home runs on the field, a two-out, two-strike, bottom of the seventh game-tying shot against Alabama in the opening round of the 2006 World Series. Junior Nicole Pauly (Palatine, Ill./Palatine) also owns a WCWS homer on the ASA field.
For Northwestern's complete Preview Presented by Worth notes package, download the .pdf at the top of this page.