BILLINGS, Mont. – The defending Great Northwest Athletic Conference champion, Montana State University Billings' softball team needs to win its final five regular season games and hope for some losses from other teams to qualify for this year's conference tournament.

The bad news first, MSUB (10-26, 8-11 Great Northwest Athletic Conference) begins the weekend with the continuation of a postponed game with Simon Fraser down 6-2 in the second inning. The good news, all five games are at home where the Yellowjackets have had success this season. MSU Billings and the Clan had their second game halted in the bottom of the second inning with two outs, with SFU leading 6-2. Simon Fraser's Danielle Raison is on second base and Lauren Kolanko was about to bat. Jessyka MacDonald had been announced to come in to pitch for MSUB. The Yellowjackets will be the designated visiting team in that game.

At home MSU Billings is 4-4 this season, but has totaled 78 runs in those eight games. In the other 28 contests, the Yellowjackets have scored 71 runs. That's an average of 9.5 runs at Bjorgum Field, and 2.5 away from Billings.

Simon Fraser (23-20, 13-8 GNAC) has fell in four of its last six contests. The Clan opened the conference schedule 7-0, but is 6-8 since. SFU won the bronze bracket at the Tournament of Champions. Carly Lepoutre has started 40 games for the Clan and has a team-high .331 batting average. Trisha Bouchard leads Simon Fraser with 14 extra-base hits. Kelsie Hawkins has a 2.48 Earned Run Average with a 13-7 record on the mound. Cara Lukawesky posts an 8-11 record with a 3.25 ERA. The Clan has a team batting average of .275, while their opponents are at .249.

In their lone full meeting this season, Simon Fraser won its home opener over Montana State University Billings, 7-1, March 5. Lauren Mew went 3-for-4 for the Clan. The senior had two RBI with a home run. Bouchard also drove in a pair of runs and had two doubles in the conference opener for SFU. In Game 2, Montana State Billings opened the scoring in the top of the first with a two run home run against SFU starter Hawkins. The Clan responded in the bottom of the second with six runs before play was suspended.

The Yellowjackets welcome Western Washington (22-22, 11-11) Sunday for Senior Day. Tanya Eckles, Rose Harrington, and Nicole Wilkerson will all be playing their final regular season games at Montana State Billings. Harrington led the GNAC in base hits last season with 71 and was one of four .400 hitters in the league, and she was named second team All-West Region. Wilkerson is an All-Conference catcher and has 58 hits in her Yellowjacket career. She has seven home runs at MSUB, five coming this season. Eckles has appeared in 27 games as a Yellowjacket. She is hitting .387 this season.

Sunday's doubleheader will be the final regular season games for both the Yellowjackets and WWU. Kristen Allen leads the Vikings with a .339 batting average. Allen and Alexie Levin have combined for 23 doubles. Levin bats .321 this season with a .521 slugging percentage. Anisa Wingsness has a team-best 3.31 Earned Run Average. She is 5-5 on the mound, while Jenna DeRosier is 8-9.

In their doubleheader in Bellingham, MSU Billings grabbed a victory in a game that was delayed a day, but dropped the second on March 7. The Yellowjackets completed the delayed game with the victory behind Emily Osborn's 2-for-4 performance at the plate. The sophomore drove in a pair of runs in the win. Amanda Todd improved to 2-0 this season. The Billings native, pitched a complete game, allowing six hits and three earned runs. She struck out nine Vikings, and walked four others. She threw 139 pitches, 85 were strikes. DeRosier was credited with the loss, allowing five earned runs.

All five games will have live stats on MSUBSports.com. Saturday's second and third games will have audio-by-play on MSUBSports.com as well. Saturday's first pitch is scheduled for noon, while Sunday's doubleheader begins at 1 p.m., following Senior Day honors.