Bryant Earns Top Seed in NE-10 Volleyball Championship
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
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South Easton, Mass. – The Bulldogs of Bryant University have
earned the top seed in the upcoming Northeast-10 Volleyball
Championship hosted by Bentley College in Waltham, Mass.
Bryant finished a perfect 14-0 in conference play to earn the
team’s third Northeast-10 Regular Season Title in five years.
Bentley (13-1, NE-10), last season’s tournament champion,
follows as the second seed. The Bulldogs and Falcons are making
their 27th straight appearance in the volleyball championship. They
are the only NE-10 schools to make the conference tournament each
season since its inaugural year in 1981.
Merrimack College earned the third seed after finishing the season
11-3 in conference play. Franklin Pierce University (10-4, NE-10)
received the fourth seed followed by Pace University (9-5, NE-10)
as the fifth seed.
The University of Massachusetts Lowell (7-7, NE-10), Le Moyne
College (7-7, NE-10) and the College of Saint Rose (7-7, NE-10)
round out the remaining seeds at sixth, seventh and eighth
respectively as determined by the conference tiebreak
procedures.
Quarterfinal matches include #1 Bryant versus #8 Saint Rose and #2
Bentley versus #7 Le Moyne at 5 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 9 followed by
#3 Merrimack versus #6 UMass Lowell and #4 Franklin Pierce versus
#5 Pace at 7:30 p.m.
The semifinal round will take place 2 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 10
followed by the championship match at 7 p.m. which will be aired
via the internet as part of the NCAA Division II Volleyball Match
of the Week Series. To gain access to the match log onto the
Internet and visit www.ncaasports.com/dii for more details.
Sponsoring 23 championship sports and 15 full-time members, the
Northeast-10 is the second largest NCAA Division II athletic
conference in the nation and sponsors the most championships of any
Division II conference.