MIAC Softball Playoff History

 All-Time Softball Playoff Standings    
 School Win Loss Pct. Games Championships Appearances
 St. Thomas 51 6 .895 57 15 (2004-05-06-07-08-09-10-11-12-13-14-16-18-19-21) 17 (2004-05-06-07-08-09-10-11-12-13-14-15-16-17-18-19-21)
 Bethel 14 14 .500 28 2 (2022-23) 10 (2009-10-13-14-15-21-22-23-24-25)
 Saint Mary's 9 13 .409 22 2 (2024-25) 9 (2005-06-07-11-12-13-23-24-25)
 Gustavus 20 27 .426 47 1 (2015) 16 (2004-05-06-07-08-09-10-11-12-13-14-15-16-22-23-24)
 St. Catherine 10 11 .476 21 1 (2017) 9 (2013-16-17-18-19-21-22-23-25)
 Hamline 9 22 .290 31 -- 12 (2004-05-07-08-09-11-13-15-16-17-19-22)
 Saint Benedict 7 16 .304 23 -- 12 (2004-06-13-14-16-17-18-21-22-23-24-25)
 St. Olaf 9 14 .391 23 -- 9 (2010-13-18-19-21-22-23-24-25)
 Augsburg 1 7 .125 8 -- 4 (2008-12-13-18)
 Macalester 1 4 .200 5 -- 3 (2013-24-25)
 Carleton 1 2 .333 4 -- 2 (2013-18)
 Concordia 1 4 .200 5 -- 2 (2013-21)
 2025
 Game 1 No. 4 Macalester 10 No. 5 Bethel 2 5 innings
 Game 2 No. 3 St. Olaf 5 No. 6 St. Catherine 5 7 innings
 Game 3 No. 1 Saint Mary's 9 No. 4 Macalester 1 7 innings
 Game 4 No. 2 Saint Benedict 3 No. 3 St. Olaf 2 7 innings
 Game 5 No. 1 Saint Mary's 5 No. 2 Saint Benedict 3 7 innings
Saint Mary's earned the MIAC's automatic qualifier to the NCAA Tournament. The Cardinals earned a trip to the College World Series. SMU topped Husson, 5-2, in the first game of the Tournament and added a win over Simpson, 3-1, in eight innings before splitting with the Storm, 2-3 and 10-2, to win their home regional. Saint Mary's then rallied back from a 5-3 loss to UW-Whitewater in the opening game of the Super Regional to win the elimination games, 4-0 and 7-1, and earn a trip to the College World Series. The Cardinals fell to Linfield (11-3) and Randolph-Macon (6-3) in the CWS.
 2024
 Game 1 No. 5 Gustavus 7 No. 4 St. Olaf  3 7 innings
 Game 2 No. 3 Bethel 7 No. 6 Macalester 2 7 innings
 Game 3 No. 1 Saint Mary's 3 No. 5 Gustavus 3 7 innings
 Game 4 No. 3 Bethel 5 No. 2 Saint Benedict 3 7 innings
 Game 5 No. 1 Saint Mary's 6 No. 3 Bethel 5 7 innings
Saint Mary's earned the MIAC's automatic qualifier to the NCAA Tournament while Bethel and Saint Benedict received at-large berths. Saint Mary's defeated DePauw, 7-3, before falling to Coe (6-3) and DePauw (16-8) in the regional bracket. Bethel lost to UW-Whitewater to open the Tournament before defeating UW-Superior (10-3), UW-Whitewater (3-1), and Central (9-6) in elimination games. The Royals fell to Central, 9-3, in the regional championship. Saint Benedict lost to UW-Oshkosh, 4-1, before defeating Wartburg (5-3) and Illinois Wesleyan (8-3) in elimination games. The Bennies were eliminated by UW-Oshkosh, 8-3, in the regional championship.
 2023
 Game 1 No. 4 Gustavus 4 No. 5 St. Catherine 1 7 innings
 Game 2 No. 3 St. Olaf 3 No. 6 Saint Mary's 2 7 innings
 Game 3 No. 1 Bethel 1 No. 4 Gustavus 0 7 innings
 Game 4 No. 2 Saint Benedict 8 No. 3 St. Olaf 1 7 innings
 Game 5 No. 1 Bethel 1 No. 2 Saint Benedict 0 7 innings
Bethel earned the MIAC's automatic qualifer to the NCAA Tournament. The Royals defeated UW-La Crosse, 2-0, and won two games against host Central (4-3, 1-0) to claim the regional championship before dropping two straight 1-0 decisions at Linfield in the Super Regionals.
 2022
 Game 1 No. 4 St. Catherine 6 No. 5 Hamline 1 7 innings
 Game 2 No. 3 Saint Benedict 6 No. 6 Gustavus 5 7 innings
 Game 3 No. 1 Bethel 5 No. 4 St. Catherine 2 7 innings
 Game 4 No. 2 St. Olaf 7 No. 3 Saint Benedict 4 7 innings
 Game 5 No. 1 Bethel 5 No. 2 St. Olaf 0 7 innings
Bethel earned the MIAC's automatic qualifer to the NCAA Tournament while Saint Benedict received an at-large bid. Both institutions were selected as NCAA Regional hosts. Saint Benedict lost to Nebraska Wesleyan, 4-0, in the opening game of the tournament and bounced back with 8-0 victories over Illinois Wesleyan and Nebraska Wesleyan before falling to Wartburg, 6-5, in the regional final. Bethel defeated Bethany Lutheran, 5-1, in the Royals' first game. Bethel then lost to Washington-St. Louis, 2-1, and defeated Buena Vista, 3-2, to advance on to the regional championship series where the Royals outlasted Washington-St. Louis, 4-3 in 15 innings and then won 6-5 in the second game to advance on to Super Regionals. Berry defeated Bethel, 2-0 and 3-1, in the Super Regionals.
 2021 
 Game 1 No. 4 St. Thomas 5 No. 5 St. Catherine 1 7 innings
 Game 2 No. 6 Concordia 2 No. 3 Saint Benedict 0 7 innings
 Game 3 No. 1 St. Olaf 2 No. 6 Concordia 1 8 innings
 Game 4 No. 4 St. Thomas 9 No. 2 Bethel 1 7 innings
 Game 5 No. 4 St. Thomas 5 No. 1 St. Olaf 0 7 innings
 Game 6 No. 2 Bethel 5 No. 6 Concordia 1 7 innings
 Game 7 No. 1 St. Olaf 5 No. 2 Bethel 1 7 innings
 Game 8 No. 4 St. Thomas 4 No. 1 St. Olaf 0 7 innings
St. Thomas received the MIAC's automatic qualifier to the NCAA Tournament, while St. Olaf landed an at-large berth. The regular-season MIAC champion Oles went 2-2 in the Tournament, defeating UW-Superior (11-3) and Coe (2-0), while losing to MSOE (3-1) and St. Thomas (3-0). The Tommies went 4-0 in the Waverly, Iowa Regional to advance to the College World Series. St. Thomas defeated Webster (5-1), Coe (8-1), MSOE (4-3), and St. Olaf (3-0) to move on to the championship round where the Toms lost to Virginia Wesleyan (3-0), defeated Rochester (2-1), and lost to DePauw (3-2).
 2020 
The 2020 softball season and NCAA Tournament were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
 2019 
 Game 1 No. 1 St. Thomas 1 No. 4 St. Olaf 0 7 innings
 Game 2 No. 3 Hamline 7 No. 2 St. Catherine 0 7 innings
 Game 3 No. 1 St. Thomas 3 No. 3 Hamline 0 7 innings
 Game 4 No. 4 St. Olaf 4 No. 2 St. Catherine 1 7 innings
 Game 5 No. 3 Hamline 5 No. 4 St. Olaf 0 7 innings
 Game 6 No. 1 St. Thomas 1 (11 inn.) No. 3 Hamline 0 11 innings
St. Thomas earned the MIAC's automatic qualifier to the NCAA Tournament and Saint Benedict received an at-large berth. CSB fell to UW-LaCrosse and Central in the Pella, Iowa regional. St. Thomas defeated Northwestern-St. Paul, UW-Eau Claire twice and UW-La Crosse to advance to the World Series in Tyler, Texas. The Tommies were eliminated following one-run losses to Eastern Connecticut State (2-1) and Williams (3-2).
 2018    
 Game 1 No. 3 St. Catherine 1 No. 6 Carleton 0 7 innings
 Game 2 No. 5 St. Olaf 1 No. 4 Augsburg 0 7 innings
 Game 3 No. 1 St. Thomas 6 No. 5 St. Olaf 0 7 innings
 Game 4 No. 3 St. Catherine 4 No. 2 Saint Benedict 2 7 innings
 Game 5 No. 1 St. Thomas 3 No. 3 St. Catherine 1 7 innings
 Game 6 No. 2 Saint Benedict 5 No. 5 St. Olaf 4 9 innings
 Game 7 No. 2 Saint Benedict 8 No. 3 St. Catherine 2 7 innings
 Game 8 No. 1 St. Thomas 15 No. 2 Saint Benedict 6 6 innings
St. Thomas earned the MIAC's automatic qualifier to the NCAA Tournament, while Saint Benedict received an at-large bid. St. Thomas went on to defeat Northwestern-St. Paul (9-1), UW-Oshkosh (7-3), and Central (1-0) before losing a best of three series with Luther in the Super Regional. Saint Benedict topped Lake Forest (7-0) and Cornell (6-1) before falling to Luther in the regional championship.
 2017    
 Game 1 No. 1 St. Thomas 3 No. 4 Saint Benedict 2 7 innings
 Game 2 No. 2 St. Catherine 3 No. 3 Hamline 1 7 innings
 Game 3 No. 2 St. Catherine 10 No. 1 St. Thomas 2 6 innings
 Game 4 No. 3 Hamline 10 No. 4 Saint Benedict 2 6 innings
 Game 5 No. 3 Hamline 6 No. 1 St. Thomas 4 7 innings
 Game 6 No. 2 St. Catherine 6 No. 3 Hamline 2 7 innings
St. Catherine earned the MIAC's automatic qualifier to the NCAA Tournament while St. Thomas received an at-large bid. St. Kate's reached the NCAA Division III World Series, bouncing back from a 1-0 loss to Chicago in the tournament opener to record victories over St. Scholastica (7-0), Chicago (5-2), Luther (2-1, 6-5), and St. Thomas (1-0, 8-4). The Wildcats then lost to Illinois Wesleyan (7-0) and Williams (6-5) in Oklahoma City, Okla. The Tommies topped Central (10-2) and Coe (3-0, 12-8) before falling to St. Catherine twice in the Super Regional.
 2016    
 Game 1 No. 1 St. Thomas 3 No. 4 Hamline 2 10 innings
 Game 2 No. 3 St. Catherine 4 No. 2 Gustavus 2 7 innings
 Game 3 No. 1 St. Thomas 3 No. 3 St. Catherine 3 7 innings
 Game 4 No. 4 Hamline 5 No. 2 Gustavus 3 7 innings
 Game 5 No. 3 St. Catherine 3 No. 4 Hamline 0 7 innings
 Game 6 No. 3 St. Catherine 5 No. 1 St. Thomas 4 7 innings
 Game 7 No. 1 St. Thomas 6 No. 3 St. Catherine 0 7 innings
St. Thomas received the MIAC's automatic qualifier to the NCAA Tournament and went on to beat Trine in back-to-back games, 9-5 and 2-1, before falling to Emory, 3-2, and St. John Fisher, 2-0.
 2015    
 Game 1 No. 4 St. Thomas 7 No. 1 Bethel 0 7 innings
 Game 2 No. 3 Gustavus 6 No. 2 Hamline 0 7 innings
 Game 3 No. 1 Bethel 12 No. 2 Hamline 4 5 innings
 Game 4 No. 3 Gustavus 6 No. 4 St. Thomas 0 7 innings
 Game 5 No. 4 St. Thomas 5 No. 1 Bethel 0 7 innings
 Game 6 No. 3 Gustavus 4 No. 4 St. Thomas 3 7 innings
Gustavus earned the MIAC's automatic qualifier and St. Thomas received an at-large bid. Gustavus defeated Central, 3-2, before falling to Aurora, 3-2, and Central, 7-4, in regional action. St. Thomas bested Linfield, 2-1, in the opener before coming up short against Luther, 3-2, and Linfield, 6-0. 
 2014    
 Game 1 No. 1 St. Thomas 11 No. 4 Bethel 0 5 innings
 Game 2 No. 2 Gustavus 2 No. 3 Saint Benedict 0 7 innings
 Game 3 No. 1 St. Thomas 4 No. 2 Gustavus 1 7 innings
 Game 4 No. 4 Bethel 10 No. 3 Saint Benedict 6 7 innings
 Game 5 No. 4 Bethel 7 No. 2 Gustavus 5 7 innings
 Game 6 No. 1 St. Thomas 7 No. 4 Bethel 2 7 innings
St. Thomas received the MIAC's automatic qualifier to the NCAA Tournament. After dropping a 7-1 decision to Augustana in the Coe Regional, the Tommies rallied for four straight wins against St. Scholastica (7-4), Coe (7-3), and Augustana (5-4, 10-7) to advance to the Super Regional in Naperville, Ill. UST got the better of North Central in a three-game series to move on to the World Series in Tyler, Tex. St. Thomas lost to Salisbury, 1-0, in the first game before defeating Rochester, 9-1, and Montclair State, 4-3. The Tommies' season came to an end the following day in a 3-2 loss to Salisbury.
 2013    
 Pool A No. 1 St. Thomas 11 No. 10 Macalester 0 5 innings
 Pool A No. 8 St. Catherine 13 No. 10 Macalester 12 7 innings
 Pool A No. 1 St. Thomas 6 No. 8 St. Catherine 2 7 innings
 Pool B No. 2 Bethel 11 No. 11 Augsburg 2 6 innings
 Pool B No. 7 Saint Benedict 8 No. 11 Augsburg 5 7 innings
 Pool B No. 2 Bethel 7 No. 7 Saint Benedict 5 7 innings
 Pool C No. 3 St. Olaf 10 No. 12 Concordia 3 7 innings
 Pool C No. 6 Hamline 11 No. 12 Concordia 3 5 innings
 Pool C No. 3 St. Olaf 10 No. 6 Hamline 9 7 innings
 Pool D No. 9 Carleton 11 No. 4 Saint Mary's 2 5 innings
 Pool D No. 5 Gustavus 7 No. 9 Carleton 6 7 innings
 Pool D No. 5 Gustavus 8 No. 4 Saint Mary's 4 7 innings
 Game 1 No. 1 St. Thomas 8 No. 5 Gustavus 0 6 innings
 Game 2 No. 2 Bethel 10 No. 3 St. Olaf 2 7 innings
 Game 3 No. 1 St. Thomas 3 No. 2 Bethel 2 8 innings
 Game 4 No. 5 Gustavus 11 No. 3 St. Olaf 2 7 innings
 Game 5 No. 2 Bethel 5 No. 5 Gustavus 2 7 innings
 Game 6 No. 1 St. Thomas 8 No. 2 Bethel 1 7 innings
St. Thomas received the MIAC's automatic qualifier to the NCAA Tournament and went on to defeat Bethany Lutheran (9-1), Washington-St. Louis (5-0), and Augustana (5-4). Central defeated St. Thomas 9-1 and 2-1 in the regional.
 2012
 Game 1 No. 1 St. Thomas 8 No. 4 Saint Mary's 7 7 innings
 Game 2 No. 2 Gustavus 7 No. 3 Augsburg 2 7 innings
 Game 3 No. 1 St. Thomas 9 No. 2 Gustavus 0 5 innings
 Game 4 No. 4 Saint Mary's 6 No. 3 Augsburg 2 7 innings
 Game 5 No. 2 Gustavus 7 No. 4 Saint Mary's 1 7 innings
 Game 6 No. 2 Gustavus 5 No. 1 St. Thomas 2 8 innings
 Game 7 No. 1 St. Thomas 8 No. 2 Gustavus 0 5 innings
St. Thomas received the MIAC's automatic qualifier to the NCAA Tournament. UST suffered losses to Coe and Luther in the Pella, Iowa regional.
 2011    
 Game 1 No. 1 St. Thomas 7 No. 4 Hamline 0 7 innings
 Game 2 No. 2 Gustavus 3 No. 3 Saint Mary's 0 7 innings
 Game 3 No. St. Thomas 3 No. 2 Gustavus 1 7 innings
 Game 4 No. 3 Saint Mary's 7 No. 4 Hamline 4 7 innings
 Game 5 No. 2 Gustavus 11 No. 3 Saint Mary's 3 7 innings
 Game 6 No. 1 St. Thomas 10 No. 2 Gustavus 2 6 innings
St. Thomas earned the MIAC's automatic qualifier to the NCAA Tournament, defeating UW-Eau Claire (9-3) and Ripon (19-3, 7-0) while losing to Luther (11-2, 4-3) in the Eau Claire Regional.
 2010    
 Game 1 No. 1 St. Thomas 9 No. 4 St. Olaf 2 7 innings
 Game 2 No. 3 Bethel 4 No. 2 Gustavus 2 7 innings
 Game 3 No. 1 St. Thomas 5 No. 3 Bethel 1 7 innings
 Game 4 No. 2 Gustavus 5 No. 4 St. Olaf 2 7 innings
 Game 5 No. 2 Gustavus 8 No. 3 Bethel 0 7 innings
 Game 6 No. 1 St. Thomas 4 No. 2 Gustavus 0 8 innings
St. Thomas received the MIAC's automatic qualifier to the NCAA Tournament. The Tommies headed to Indianola, Iowa and defeated Simpson (4-1) and Illinois Wesleyan (3-2, 6-1). Linfield topped St. Thomas twice by margins of 9-1 and 3-1 in the regional.
 2009    
 Game 1 No. 1 Gustavus 5 No. 4 Bethel 1 7 innings
 Game 2 No. 2 St. Thomas 7 No. 3 Hamline 4 7 innings
 Game 3 No. 2 St. Thomas 4 No. 1 Gustavus 1 7 innings
 Game 4 No. 3 Hamline 4 No. 4 Bethel 3 7 innings
 Game 5 No. 1 Gustavus 5 No. 3 Hamline 4 7 innings
 Game 6 No. 2 St. Thomas 4 No. 1 Gustavus 3 7 innings
St. Thomas earned the MIAC's automatic qualifier to the NCAA Tournament with Gustavus landing an at-large bid. St. Thomas scored a 5-3 victory over UW-La Crosse in the Simpson Regional but was eliminated following losses to Webster (3-1) and Luther (2-1). Gustavus went undefeated in the Simpson Regional, defeating Central (11-4), Luther (5-3), and Webster (14-6, 11-1) to move on to the World Series in Montclair, N.J. The Gusties earned victories over Texas-Tyler (5-1), Salisbury (10-4), and Tufts (5-0) with losses to Messiah (2-0) and Coe (4-2).
 2008    
 Game 1 No. 1 St. Thomas 8 No. 4 Augsburg 0 7 innings
 Game 2 No. 3 Hamline 3 No. 2 Gustavus 0 7 innings
 Game 3 No. 1 St. Thomas 10 No. 3 Hamline 2 7 innings
 Game 4 No. 4 Augsburg 7 No. 2 Gustavus 6 7 innings
 Game 5 No. 3 Hamline 5 No. 4 Augsburg 0 7 innings
 Game 6 No. 1 St. Thomas 1 No. 3 Hamline 0 7 innings
St. Thomas received the MIAC's automatic qualifier to the NCAA Tournament, recording wins against Ripon (8-0) and Simpson (4-1) before losing to UW-Eau Claire (5-4) and UW-Oshkosh (4-0).
 2007    
 Game 1 No. 1 St. Thomas 8 No. 4 Hamline 0 6 innings
 Game 2 No. 2 Gustavus 10 No. 3 Saint Mary's 7 7 innings
 Game 3 No. 1 St. Thomas 3 No. 2 Gustavus 1 7 innings
 Game 4 No. 3 Saint Mary's 7 No. 4 Hamline 1 7 innings
 Game 5 No. 3 Saint Mary's 8 No. 2 Gustavus 4 7 innings
 Game 6 No. 1 St. Thomas 8 No. 3 Saint Mary's 3 7 innings
St. Thomas earned the MIAC's automatic qualifier to the NCAA Tournament with Gustavus receiving an at-large bid. The Tommies defeated UW-Stevens Point, 6-2, before coming up short against Washington-St. Louis (4-1) and Wartburg (3-2). The Gusties also defeated UW-Stevens Point (5-3) with losses against Luther (2-1) and Wartburg (8-1) in the regional.
 2006    
 Game 1 No. 1 St. Thomas 4 No. 4 Saint Benedict 0 7 innings
 Game 2 No. 2 Gustavus 2 No. 3 Saint Mary's 1 8 innings
 Game 3 No. 1 St. Thomas 6 No. 2 Gustavus 2 7 innings
 Game 4 No. 3 Saint Mary's 7 No. 4 Saint Benedict 0 7 innings
 Game 5 No. 2 Gustavus 3 No. 3 Saint Mary's 0 7 innings
 Game 6 No. 1 St. Thomas 2 No. 2 Gustavus 0 7 innings
St. Thomas received the MIAC's automatic qualifier to the NCAA Tournament and advanced to the World Series after sweeping through the Simpson Regional in Indianola, Iowa. The Tommies defeated Concordia (Wis.), St. Scholastica, Louisiana, and Wartburg. The Toms had a trio of victories in Raleigh, N.C. before losing a pair to Rutgers-Camden.
 2005    
 Game 1 No. 1 St. Thomas 2 No. 4 Hamline 1 7 innings
 Game 2 No. 2 Saint Mary's 3 No. 3 Gustavus 0 7 innings
 Game 3 No. 1 St. Thomas 6 No. 2 Saint Mary's 1 7 innings
 Game 4 No. 3 Gustavus 3 No. 4 Hamline 1 7 innings
 Game 5 No. 2 Saint Mary's 1 No. 3 Gustavus 0 7 innings
 Game 6 No. 1 St. Thomas 3 No. 2 Saint Mary's 0 7 innings
St. Thomas earned the MIAC's automatic qualifier to the NCAA Tournament and went on to win the NCAA Division III Softball National Championship for the second consecutive season, sweeping through Coe and Washington-St. Louis (twice) at the Cedar Rapids Regional before heading to Raleigh, N.C. for four straight wins against Williams, Salisbury, Chapman, and Salisbury again to win the World Series. Saint Mary's received an at-large bid to the Tournament, recording a pair of wins against Fontbonne and a victory against UW-Stout in Cedar Rapids before losing to Washington-St. Louis twice.
 2004    
 Game 1 St. Thomas 4 Gustavus 2 7 innings
 Game 2 Saint Benedict 4 Hamline 1 7 innings
 Game 3 St. Thomas 4 Saint Benedict 0 7 innings
 Game 4 Hamline 5 Gustavus 4 8 innings
 Game 5 Saint Benedict 2 Hamline 1 7 innings
 Game 6 St. Thomas 3 Saint Benedict 2 9 innings
St. Thomas received the MIAC's automatic qualifier to the NCAA Tournament and went on to win the NCAA Division III Softball National Championship with seven straight wins, defeating UW-Superior, Central (twice), SUNY Cortland, Muskingum, and Moravian (twice) to win the national title.