HORNETS GET RETURN TRIP TO NCAA BOWLING TOURNAMENT
Indianapolis, Ind. (Mar. 24, 2010) --- The Delaware State bowling team has been selected to compete in the NCAA National Collegiate Women's Bowling Championship for the second straight year. The eight-team tournament field, announced via webcast by the NCAA this afternoon, is unchanged from last year.
The Hornets will be joined by Arkansas State, Central Missouri, Fairleigh Dickinson, New Jersey City, Maryland-Eastern Shore and defending national champ Nebraska in North Brunswick, New Jersey April 8-10 for the 2010 championship tournament.
Delaware State is making its second straight NCAA Tournament appearance. The Hornets won two games before falling to eventual champ Nebraska in the semifinals last year. The 2009 tournament victories for the first for any Delaware State University sports team in NCAA post-season competition.
"This is such a thrill for the team and the university," said Delaware State first-year head coach Ricki Williams-Ellison, who has led the Hornets to a 103-38 overall record and second straight Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) championship this season. "I thought we had a good chance to make the tournament based on our performance this season, but there's something special about seeing our name on the screen when the field was announced."
The NCAA Tournament bid is the latest honor DSU, which became the third school to win back-to-back MEAC bowling titles in the 11-year history of the tournament, joining Maryland Eastern Shore (2005-08) and North Carolina A&T (2001-04).
Delaware State is also No. 5 in the latest National Tenpin Coaches Association Top 20 poll. The Hornets reached No. 3 in the poll earlier this season, the highest ranking in team history. The 2010 NCAA Tournament field consists of the top eight teams in the NTCA poll.
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NATIONAL COLLEGIATE WOMEN'S BOWLING CHAMPIONSHIP FIELD ANNOUNCED
INDIANAPOLIS---The eight-team field competing for the 2010 NCAA National Collegiate Women's Bowling Championship was announced today by the NCAA Women's Bowling Committee. The field includes the following teams, all selected at large:
Arkansas State University
University of Central Missouri
Delaware State University
Fairleigh Dickinson University
University of Maryland, Eastern Shore
University of Nebraska, Lincoln
New Jersey City University
Vanderbilt University
Competition begins with qualifying rounds in which each team bowls one five-person regular team game against each of the other seven teams participating in the championship for a total of seven games. Teams will be seeded for bracket play based on their win-loss record during the qualifying rounds. Teams will then compete in best-of-seven-games Baker matches in a double elimination tournament. In the Baker format, each of the five team members, in order,bowls a complete frame until a complete (10-frame) game is bowled. A Baker match tied 3½ games to 3½ games after seven games will be decided using a shootout sudden death roll-off.
During bracket play, the higher seed receives starting lane preference for the first and seventh games of the match and for a tiebreaker.
New Jersey City University will host the championship, which will be held April 8-10 at Brunswick Zone Carolier Lanes in North Brunswick, New Jersey. Tickets can be purchased by calling 201/200-2444 prior to the championship.
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