North Dakota State Carries Top Seed Into #SummitWSOC Championship
North Dakota State Carries Top Seed Into #SummitWSOC Championship
2015 Summit League Women's Soccer Championship Page
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ELMHURST, Ill. – North Dakota State will be the top seed at the Summit League Women's Soccer Championship after winning the regular season crown. Joining the Bison in the tournament field are Oral Roberts, defending champion and host South Dakota State, and South Dakota.
The 2015 Summit League Women's Soccer Championship will be played Thursday and Saturday, Nov. 5 and 7 at Fishback Soccer Park in Brookings, S.D. All games will be streamed free of charge, with the semifinals airing on gojacks.com and the championship on thesummitleague.org.
Thursday's first match pits No. 2 seed Oral Roberts (10-7-2, 6-2) against No. 3 seed and host South Dakota State (10-5-3, 5-1-2) at 3 p.m. CT. No. 1 North Dakota State (12-5-1 overall, 7-0-1 Summit League) meets No. 4 South Dakota (8-11, 5-3) in the day's second match at 6 p.m. CT.
The winners of Thursday's matches will play in Saturday's championship match at noon CT with the victor earning an automatic bid to the NCAA College Cup.
North Dakota State recorded its first unbeaten Summit League season in school history while Oral Roberts earned its highest Summit League Tournament seed since 2004 and will be making its first tournament appearance since 2007. South Dakota qualified for The Summit League Tournament for the first time in school history.
For complete coverage of The Summit League Women's Soccer Championship, visit the official championship website at thesummitleague.org/championships and follow the championship Twitter feed @summitchamps.
ABOUT THE SUMMIT LEAGUE
In its fourth decade of Division I athletics, The Summit League offers 19 championship sports and has a combined enrollment of over 120,000 at nine institutions, including four located in top 60 U.S. metro populations and two land-grant universities. Member institutions include: Denver (University of Denver), Fort Wayne (Indiana University-Purdue University-Fort Wayne), IUPUI (Indiana University-Purdue University-Indianapolis), North Dakota State University, Omaha (University of Nebraska Omaha), Oral Roberts University, the University of South Dakota, South Dakota State University and Western Illinois University. Previously known as the Mid-Continent Conference, The Summit League rebranded in 2007 and has since produced eight NCAA Champions along with over 75 Academic All-Americans, 65 All-America selections and numerous former student-athletes competing at the highest professional level. In 2014-15, The Summit League ranked first for NCAA Graduation Success Rate in women's basketball and second in baseball. For more information about the league and to "See The Summit", visit www.thesummitleague.org website, follow Summit League Basketball on Twitter @summithoops and watch the weekly "Inside The Summit League" show at www.thesummitleague.org/itsl.
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