2024 University of Redlands Softball Schedule

REDLANDS, Calif. – University of Redlands Softball Head Coach Jose Ortega released his 2024 schedule Monday, which begins at The Field of Dreams on Tuesday, February 6 at 2:00 p.m. when the Bulldogs host La Sierra University.

This season the Bulldogs will play a total of 40 games, which are distributed across 19 non-conference contests and 21 Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC) games. They will play at home for all 19 of their non-conference games and 11 of their 21 SCIAC match-ups.  

After hosting La Sierra, the Bulldogs will continue with non-conference action when they host Chapman University and Claremont-Mudd-Scripps (CMS) on Saturday, February 10 at 9:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. for a pair of non-conference match-ups.

A week later the Bulldogs return to traditional non-conference games as they host Whitworth University for a doubleheader on February 17 with first pitch slated for 11:00 a.m. The Pirates went 23-19 in 2023 and 8-4 against SCIAC opponents.  

On Friday, February 23 Pacific Lutheran University comes down for a doubleheader with first pitch set for noon. The Lutes finished 2023 27-16 and were 5-1 against SCIAC, winning their final five.  

The Bulldogs will host York College of Pennsylvania for a mid-week doubleheader on Wednesday, February 28 with first pitch at 11:00 a.m. The Spartans finished their 2023 season 23-21.

Carnegie Mellon University is in Redlands on Monday, March 4 with the first pitch of the doubleheader at noon. The Tartans went 15-23 in 2023.

The Yellow Jackets of Baldwin Wallace University will play the Bulldogs on Wednesday, March 6 at noon in another doubleheader. The Yellow Jackets finished 2023 28-16 and started their season 1-3 against the Bulldogs and the University of La Verne.

Saturday, March 9 at 11:00 a.m. the Bulldogs will host John Carroll University in a doubleheader. The Blue Streaks were a .500 team last season at 17-17.

SCIAC will then start with a three-game series with the Leopards on Friday, March 15 at 3:00 p.m. before the Bulldogs' first road contests of the season on March 16 at 12:00pm and 2:00 p.m. ULV went 21-17 overall and finished fifth at 9-12 in SCIAC.

Williams College will play Redlands in a doubleheader on Thursday, March 21. The Ephs were a 24-17 team in 2023 and went 4-8 to start the season against SCIAC teams. They made the NCAA Tournament where they went 2-2.

On the weekend of March 22-23, the Bulldogs will head to Claremont for a single game at Pomona-Pitzer on the 22^nd beginning at 3:00 p.m. before hosting the Sagehens for two on the 23^rd. The Sagehens went 23-18 overall and 13-8 in SCIAC, good for fourth place, but they were only one game behind the three teams that tied for first.

In the midweek the Bulldogs will play host to familiar foe in Linfield University on Wednesday, March 27 with first pitch of the doubleheader set for noon. The Wildcats were 46-6 in 2023 and made it to the eight-team Super Regional in Texas.

Over the next weekend the Bulldogs play fellow Co-SCIAC Regular Season Champion Chapman University on March 29-30. The Bulldogs host the Panthers on the 29^th at 3:00 p.m. and then head to Orange for a pair beginning at noon. Chapman finished 27-16 overall and 14-7 in SCIAC.

On April 5-6 Redlands will take on Whittier College in a three-game series traveling to Whittier for a single game before hosting the Poets for a doubleheader. The Poets were in a tie with La Verne for sixth at 19-16, 9-12 SCIAC.  

Then on April 12-13 Redlands will play the third Co-SCIAC Champion and the SCIAC Tournament hosts last season Claremont-Mudd-Scripps (CMS). The Athenas will come to Redlands for a single game before hosting the Bulldogs for a doubleheader. CMS went 26-14, 14-7 SCIAC.  

The Bulldogs will be in Los Angeles for a single game with Occidental College on April 19 at 3:00 p.m. before hosting the Tigers on Sunday, April 21 at noon. The Tigers were last in the final conference standings at 9-27, 4-17 SCIAC.  

To round out the regular season Redlands will make the long trip to Thousand Oaks for a game on Friday, May 3 and will then host the California Lutheran University (CLU) Regals at noon for the first of a doubleheader on Saturday, May 4. CLU finished eighth at 14-20, 7-14 SCIAC.  

Previous Meetings

(All-time H-2-H record)

• La Sierra (6-0): The Bulldogs are undefeated against the Eagles but have not played them since 2014.
• Chapman (42-22): The series has been dominated by Redlands all-time, but the last 10 meetings have been split with each program winning five times. The Bulldogs have won three of the last four and were 3-3 in 2023.
• Claremont-Mudd-Scripps (35-42): The Bulldogs went 2-1 in 2023 and are 4-6 in their last 10 matchups with the Athenas.
• Whitworth (8-13): The two sides spit their 2023 games and the Bulldogs dropped both to the Pirates in 2022. Redlands is 3-7 across the last 10 games.
• Pacific Lutheran (5 7): The Lutes have won the last four meetings including an 8-6 win over the Bulldogs last season. The last Bulldog victory was in 2011.
• York College of Pennsylvania (0-0): No prior meetings.
• Carnegie Mellon (0-0): No prior meetings.
• Baldwin Wallace (2-0): The only two meetings came last season when the Bulldogs won both at home.
• John Carroll (0-0): No prior meetings.
• La Verne (45-31): The last two and six of the last seven have gone to the Bulldogs. Redlands is 7-3 over the last 10 and have not lost back-to-back games since the end of 2019/beginning of 2022.
• Williams (6-4): After losing two-straight and four of five, the Bulldogs got a 7-0 home win last March.
• Pomona-Pitzer (55-16): Redlands has absolutely dominated this series and are 7-3 in their last 10. The Bulldogs have not lost consecutive games since 2018-2019 when they lost six in-a-row, their longest such streak.
• Linfield (7-25): One of the few teams the Bulldogs have played quite a bit and have struggled against. The Wildcats have been the best program on the west coast and beat the Bulldogs in four of five games in 2023, which included a 1-1 mark in Redlands and then they swept the Bulldogs In McMinnville, OR during the NCAA Regionals.
• Whittier (46-22): The Poets had gone 5-1 against the Bulldogs from 2019-22, but Redlands won all three meetings in 2023 and are now 5-5 in their last 10.
• Occidental (53-9): With the exception of a four-game losing streak right before COVID in 2018-19, the Bulldogs are 7-3 in their last 10 against the Tigers, though, a 4-1 loss to end the season at home last year cost the Bulldogs an outright SCIAC title. Redlands also won the first 36 games from 2006-2014.
• California Lutheran (55-14): The Regals lost their last 13 to the Bulldogs with their last win coming in 2019. The last winless streak for Redlands was from 2016-17 when they dropped six-straight, the longest such streak.