Sarah Diuxon prepares to throw the ball across the diamond. Photo by Jimmy Lafakis.
JIMMY LAFAKIS | STAFF REPORTER | jlafakis@butler.edu
The Butler University softball team will face the University of Illinois tonight in Champaign, Illinois.
The Bulldogs won their first Big East Conference title and made their first NCAA tournament appearance last year.
In their second game of the tournament, Butler played Big Ten Conference foe Illinois, who knocked Butler out of the NCAA tournament on a walk-off single in eight innings. The Fighting Illini won 2-1 in the elimination round.