A golden rule in postseason play is to never assume that any game is a gimme.

In a 2023 Colonial Athletic Association Softball Championship marked by drama for champion Hofstra, the Pride concluded their run with the most thrilling theatrics of the week.

Two of the most intriguing stories of the 2023 Colonial Athletic Association Softball Championship reach the final destination, as host Hofstra and recently red-hot Towson earned their way into the conference finale.

Riding the arm of Mia Haynes, seventh-seeded Stony Brook won its third straight elimination game of the 2023 CAA Softball Championship, this time defeating top-seeded Delaware 1-0 in Game 10 at Bill Edwards Stadium on Friday afternoon.

Maddie Gardner recorded her third complete game of the tournament, leading fifth-seeded Towson to its first CAA Softball Championship title game appearance since 2016.

Seventh-seeded Stony Brook scored nine runs over the final three innings, including a three-run seventh, to erase a five-run deficit and defeat second-seeded UNCW on Thursday, 11-9, in Game 8 of the 2023 CAA Softball Championship.

Addie Ferguson provided the heroics for the second time in three days, delivering the game-winning two-run single in the top of the eighth inning Thursday to lift fifth-seeded Towson over top-seeded Delaware in Game 6 of the 2023 CAA Softball Championship, 4-2.

Madison McKevitt sent a roar through the Pride faithful with the eventual game-winning grand slam in the top of the ninth inning, lifting third-seeded Hofstra over No. 2 UNCW, 9-5, in Game 7 of the 2023 CAA Softball Championship on Thursday.

UNCW graduate utility player Janel Gamache was named CAA Player of the Year, and Delaware senior Emily Winburn was selected as the CAA Pitcher of the Year to headline the 2023 CAA Softball year-end honors, as voted on by the league’s 11 head coaches.

Elon softball sophomore Chloe Hatzopoulos has been selected as the Louisville Slugger National Player of the Week by the National Fastpitch Coaches Association.

Freshman Addie Ferguson recorded the game-winning RBI single in the bottom of the seventh inning to lift fifth-seeded Towson over eighth-seeded North Carolina A&T on Tuesday, 3-2, in the first game of the CAA Softball Championship at Bill Edwards Stadium in Hempstead, New York.

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After three months of long travel hauls, two-game days and quarreling in the Colonial Athletic Association softball standings, the league’s season has come down to just a few days.

Regular-season champion Delaware leads the first eight-team field converging on Hofstra for the 2023 CAA Softball Championship.

The 2023 CAA Softball Championship begins Tuesday and and will continue through Saturday at Bill Edwards Stadium in Hempstead, New York, on the campus of Hofstra University.