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The bowling team will be looking to capture their first ECAC Championships this weekend at Howell Lanes in Howell, New Jersey. The 14-team field will include nine squads that are currently ranked in the Top-20. The Terriers are coming off their finest performance in the history of the program. St. Francis (NY) had never been one of the top-four finishers at a large scale multi-day event that featured 20 or more teams. Continuing what has been a watershed season for the program, the Terriers placed fourth out of 26 teams at the Morgan State Invitational last February. The three teams to finish ahead of the Terriers - Nebraska, Fairleigh Dickinson, and Maryland-Eastern Shore – have won five of the last six NCAA national titles. Sitting at 55-32 overall, St. Francis (NY) now owns the third-highest overall win percentage (.632) amongst the eight Northeast Conference members.
ECAC Tournament Participants
#1 Vanderbilt University
#3 Delaware State University
#4 Fairleigh Dickinson University
#7 Adelphi University
#9 New Jersey City University
#10 St. Francis College
#12 Kutztown University
#19 Norfolk State University
#20 Morgan State University
PLUS (not ranked): Long Island University, Saint Peter’s College, Coppin State University
SATURDAY
6 traditional team matches on Saturday beginning at 1:15 pm
SUNDAY
3 quad Baker format matches on Sunday beginning at 9:30 am
2 bracketed playoff best-of-seven Baker matches beginning at 12:40 pm
NEC Tournament Seeding Set
The second of two Northeast Conference regular season meets is in the books and the seeds for the upcoming NEC Championship are set as a result. A team’s win-loss record from the 14-match league schedule determines its seeding with head-to-head competition and pinfall serving as the first two tiebreakers if needed. New Jersey City (12-2), the lone team to reached double digits in wins, owns the top seed for what will be the program’s first-ever appearance at the conference title meet. The 2008-09 NEC regular season champion Kutztown Golden Bears (9-5) grabbed the No. 2 seed this time around. St. Francis (NY) (8-6) is slotted third with Adelphi (8-6) fourth. The Terriers bested AU in each of the two head-to-head meetings during league play. If defending NEC Tournament champion Fairleigh Dickinson is to repeat, it’ll have to do so as the No. 5 seed. The Knights (7-7) finish one spot ahead of Sacred Heart (7-7) by virtue of a greater overall pinfall compiled during the two head-to-head NEC matches. Saint Peter’s (5-9) will be slotted seventh followed by Long Island (0-14) in eighth.
The Northeast Conference, which named bowling its 23rd sport of sponsorship in 2008, will sponsor its second annual championship meet on March 20 & 21. Move from its original three-day format down to a two-day event, the tournament will return to Parkway Lanes in Elmwood Park, New Jersey for the second straight year. Fairleigh Dickinson, currently the fourth-ranked team in America, won the inaugural NEC title when it swept past top-seeded Kutztown in last year's title match.