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ROCK HILL, S.C. - After closing the regular season by winning
two of their final three matches and six of their last eight, the
Anderson volleyball team claimed the sixth seed in next week's Food
Lion South Atlantic Conference Tournament, hosted on the campus of
Newberry College, Friday through Sunday.
After going unbeaten in SAC matches, Wingate will be the top
seed in the 2013 Food Lion SAC Volleyball Championship bracket,
which was finalized on Saturday.
The championship, which begins on Friday with quarterfinal
matches, will take place in Newberry, S.C.
Wingate defeated Mars Hill on Saturday evening to finish a
perfect 22-0 in the SAC. The Bulldogs - who have won eight-straight
SAC regular-season titles and enter the conference tournament as
the event's seven-time defending champions, are 26-2 overall and
ranked ninth in the nation.
WU will take on No. 8 seed Newberry on Friday in the SAC
Championship quarterfinal round. Newberry finished the regular
season 18-11 overall and 12-10 in the conference.
Tusculum will be the bracket's No. 2 seed after going 20-9
overall and 15-7 in the SAC. TC was last year's SAC Championship
runner-up after falling to Wingate in a thrilling five-set title
match. The Pioneers will face seventh-seeded Mars Hill, which went
16-11 overall and 13-9 in the league, in Friday's
quarterfinals.
Four teams - Lenoir-Rhyne, Lincoln Memorial, Queens and Anderson
- finished tied for third in the SAC standings at 14-8 in the
league, requiring the use of multiple tiebreak procedures to
determine SAC Championship seeds.
In a comparison of the foursome's results against the other
three teams, Lenoir-Rhyne had the best record at 4-2, earning the
bracket's No. 3 seed. Anderson and Queens were both 3-3, while LMU
was 2-4.
In determining the No. 4 seed, Anderson, LMU and Queens were all
2-2 versus the other two, moving the tiebreaker to a comparison of
the teams' records against the bracket's top seeds. All three
finished 0-2 against No. 1 Wingate, but LMU went 2-0 against No. 2
Tusculum while Anderson and Queens were 0-2 versus the Pioneers,
giving the Railsplitters the highest seed.
The Queens-Anderson tiebreaker for the bracket's No. 5 seed also
required the use of multiple procedures, as the teams split
head-to-head and had identical records against every other
conference opponent. Queens ultimately wins the tiebreaker,
however, by virtue of its 5-4 head-to-head set score advantage over
Anderson's 4-5 mark.
Lenoir-Rhyne will take on Anderson and LMU will face Queens in
Friday's quarterfinals.
Winners of Friday's matches will move on to Saturday's
semifinals, while the championship's title match takes place on
Sunday.
2013 Food Lion SAC Volleyball Championship
Quarterfinals - Friday, Nov. 22
No. 1 Wingate vs. No. 8 Newberry, noon
No. 4 Lincoln Memorial vs. No. 5 Queens, 2:30 p.m.
No. 2 Tusculum vs. No. 7 Mars Hill, 5 p.m.
No. 3 Lenoir-Rhyne vs. No. 6 Anderson, 7:30
p.m.
Semifinals - Saturday, Nov. 23
QF 1 winner vs. QF 2 winner, 1:30 p.m.
QF 3 winner vs. QF 4 winner, 4 p.m.
Finals - Sunday, Nov. 24
Semifinal 1 winner vs. Semifinal 2 winner, 2 p.m.