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NORFOLK, Va., March 20, 2023 – The Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) will host the 2023 MEAC Bowling Championship Friday through Sunday at Pinboy’s at the Beach [1577 Laskin Rd., Virginia Beach, VA 23451].
 
Eight of the MEAC’s nine bowling programs will compete in the double-elimination tournament, with an automatic bid to the 2023 NCAA Bowling National Championship (April 14-15 in Las Vegas, Nev.) on the line.
 
Competition will begin on Friday at 9 a.m. with four opening-round matches. Top seed and regular-season champion North Carolina A&T State, which has won the last two tournament titles, will take on No. 8 seed Howard, while No. 2 Maryland Eastern Shore will face No. 7 Norfolk State, No. 3 Monmouth will take on No. 6 Coppin State and No. 4 UAB will face No. 5 Morgan State.
 
Delaware State finished second in the regular-season standings, but will not compete in the 2023 MEAC Bowling Championship after the program’s decision to conclude its season on March 1.
 
Friday afternoon will see two elimination matches and two winners’ bracket matches at 2 p.m., before Saturday’s action gets underway at 9 a.m. with two more elimination matches. One finalist will be determined in a Saturday afternoon match at 2 p.m., and there will also be another elimination match at that time.
 
Sunday will see the second finalist determined in a 9 a.m. elimination match, and the championship final will begin at 2 p.m. ESPNU will re-air the match on Monday, April 3 at 6 p.m.
 
The MEAC currently has four nationally-ranked programs, per the National Tenpin Coaches Association’s (NTCA) most recent Top 25 poll. North Carolina A&T State is ranked No. 7, followed by Maryland Eastern Shore at No. 10, Delaware State at No. 21 and Morgan State at No. 24.
 
With the exception of Sunday’s championship match, the tournament will be held in Mega Match format (each match featuring a best-of-three format with five-person team play followed by Baker total pinfall and then Baker best-of-seven; the team that wins two of the three formats wins the match).
 
The championship final will be a best-of-seven Baker format.
 
The 2023 MEAC Bowling Championship will be open to the public. For more information on the 2023 MEAC Bowling Championship, please visit the Championship Central page.
 
 
About the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference
The Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) is in its 52^nd year of intercollegiate competition with the 2022-23 academic school year. Located in Norfolk, Va., the MEAC is made up of eight outstanding historically black institutions across the Atlantic coastline: Coppin State University, Delaware State University, Howard University, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, Morgan State University, Norfolk State University, North Carolina Central University and South Carolina State University.