Game times for the NCAA Amherst Regional have been announced. Lehigh found out Sunday evening that it would open up play against overall No. 12 seed Stanford. The Mountain Hawks and Cardinal will open up the regional playing Friday’s first game with first pitch scheduled for 2:30 p.m. from the UMass Softball Complex. Friday’s second game between host UMass and Princeton is slated for 5 p.m.

Hours after defeating rival Lafayette to claim its fourth Patriot League tournament title in five years, Lehigh learned its NCAA tournament fate on Sunday night. For the second time in three years, the Mountain Hawks are headed to Amherst, Massachusetts to play Stanford on Friday afternoon. Rounding out the four team regional are a pair of familiar northeast region foes in host Massachusetts and Princeton.

For the fourth time in five years, Lehigh is headed to the NCAA Regionals as the Mountain Hawks captured their ninth Patriot League tournament title with a 10-3 victory over arch rival Lafayette in the seventh and final game of the tournament, Sunday at Kaufman Field. The top three hitters in the Lehigh lineup, senior Kate Marvel and freshmen Carly Potock and Alex Cueva, combined to go 9-for-14 at the plate with six RBI while junior Lisa Sweeney dealt seven innings of three-run ball to pick up her 25th win of the season.

Juniors Alisha Gonzales and Whitney Lowe combined to drive in seven runs, as Lehigh advanced to the championship round of the Patriot League tournament for the fifth straight year with a 9-5 victory over Bucknell Saturday at Kaufman Field. The Mountain Hawks erased a pair of one-run deficits with a big six-run fifth inning, and are now just one win away from a fourth Patriot League tournament title in five years.

As Lehigh attempts to capture its fourth Patriot League tournament championship in five years, three Mountain Hawks were honored for their work in the classroom, as seniors Megan Conrad and Kate Marvel and junior Lisa Sweeney have been named to the ESPN the Magazine Academic All-District II first team; it was announced on Thursday.  The honor is voted on by members of the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) whose schools are in the region.