UMAC to hand out five championship and tournament trophies this weekend
ST. PAUL -- This weekend will be a busy one for several UMAC teams as the conference will host three championship events, awarding five trophies and an automatic berth into the NCAA Division III Tournament in the process.
The first UMAC postseason event to kick off will be the four-team softball tournament at Kenwood Field in Duluth, Minn. The College of St. Scholastica, University of Minnesota Morris, Northwestern College and Northland College will all gather for a two-day event, weather pending, with the winner emerging from a double elimination format to claim the tournament trophy and punch their ticket to the NCAA Regional Tournament.2012 represents the second year that the UMAC will award an automatic qualifier in softball. St. Scholastica took the conference’s first-ever pass last season.
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A few hours after the softball tournament is up and running in Duluth, four men’s and women’s tennis teams will enter the Baseline Tennis Center on the University of Minnesota campus in Minneapolis for their respective UMAC Tournaments. The UMAC Tennis Tournaments will take on a new format this year with teams competing against each other in place of the previous format, which included individual flighted tournaments in both singles and doubles play. St. Scholastica is the top seed in both tournaments in 2012, with Northwestern, Minnesota Morris and Martin Luther College fighting for their own piece of hardware.
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The most individual participants will be featured on Saturday afternoon at the UMAC Men’s and Women’s Outdoor Track and Field Championships. Five men’s and women’s teams will converge on the University of Minnesota Morris campus in Morris, Minn. with individual medals and a pair of team trophies waiting to be claimed. The Morris men’s team has won two consecutive outdoor UMAC championships, while the St. Scholastica women’s team is riding a seven-year winning streak of its own conference titles. Read more about the track and field event here.
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