2023 Heart Softball Conference Tournament

The 2023 Heart of America Athletic Conference Softball Conference Tournament took place May 4-7 on the campus of Baker University next week, in Baldwin City Kansas.

The eight-team field featured the top three teams from the Heart South and top three teams from the Heart North, as well as the next two teams with the highest conference winning percentage, regardless of division qualified.

Central Methodist and Baker University shared the Heart regular season title, as they both went 21-5 in conference play.

Central Methodist is the No. 1 overall seed and has now won 10 Heart regular season titles.

Baker secured the No. 2 seed and won its second Heart regular season title in program history.

The CMU Eagles earned the first automatic bid to the NAIA National Championship, winning both the Heart regular season and tournament championship. 

Mount Mercy earned the second automatic bid to the NAIA Opening Round as the tournament runner-up. 

The remaining six teams were seeded based on their overall conference winning percentage.

CMU is the reigning Heart Conference Tournament Champions, as they defeated Mount Mercy in the championship game, 2-1, in 2022.

The Eagles won the 2023 Heart Conference Tournament with a 14-3 victory over Mount Mercy on Sunday, May 7. This is the seventh Heart Softball Conference Tournament Championship for the Eagles, the most of any program in the Heart. 

The following eight teams qualified:

No. 1 Central Methodist

No. 2 Baker

No. 3 Mount Mercy

No. 4 Grand View

No. 5 Benedictine

No. 6 Evangel

No. 7 MNU

No. 8 Culver-Stockton

To watch every game of the tournament on the Heart Conference Network, please click here.

To purchase tickets for the event, please click here. 

For the tournament central website, please click here. 

Fans may also purchase tickets at the front gate of the complex with cash or credit card.

Baker Softball Complex (Cavaness Field):

100 Fremont St

Baldwin City, KS 66006