The Sacramento State Softball team is scheduled to play 50 games in 2025. Photo by Sacramento State Athletics

SACRAMENTO REGION, CA (MPG) - Sacramento State Softball’s 12th-year head coach Lori Perez announced the team's 2025 schedule, which is comprised of 50 games, including 27 at Shea Stadium.

This year's regular season schedule, which also includes 17 road games and six at neutral sites, runs from Feb. 6 until May 9. The Hornets will play in three preseason tournaments, including a pair of annual home events, NorCal Kickoff (Feb. 6-9) and Capital Classic (Feb. 28-March 2).

The Big Sky Tournament will take place in Greeley, Colo., May 6-9, and should the Hornets win the title, they would compete at NCAA Regionals beginning May 16.

Sacramento State is coming off a 2024 season in which the team finished with a 28-20 overall record and 7-4 in the Big Sky Conference. The Hornets went 2-2 at the Big Sky Tournament and fell one victory shy of reaching the tourney title game.

Sacramento State returns just 12 players from a year ago, as the team welcomes 14 new players to the program. The Hornets graduated 11 seniors from last season's team.

Of the Hornets' 35 non-conference games, 26 will be played in the state of California. The Hornets will travel to Hawaii for the Spring Fling (Feb. 13-15) and play a three-game set at Oregon State (March 15-16). Sacramento State will play 18 non-league games at home, including the two tournaments, and home dates with UC Davis, BYU, Fresno State, Cal, Stanford, Pacific, Loyola Marymount and Columbia. The LMU games are a three-game set the weekend before conference play begins.

Sacramento State will play 15 Big Sky games featuring the usual three-game series format with doubleheaders on Fridays and single games on Saturday between March 28 and April 26.

In conference play, the Hornets will host three-game series vs. Idaho State (March 28-29), Northern Colorado (April 11-12) and Weber State (April 18-19). Road series will take place at Portland State (April 4-5) and Montana (April 25-26).

Sacramento State's coaching staff has two new additions, first-year assistant coach Marina Demore, and first-year student assistant Lewa Day. Demore will serve as the pitching coach after spending the 2024 season as interim head coach at Nevada. Day recently completed her playing career at Sacramento State (2020-24) in which she established herself as one of the greatest players to wear the Green and Gold.

Every home game (schedule permitting), and road games against a Big Sky opponent, will stream on ESPN+.