Lenoir-Rhyne To Face Belmont Abbey In NCAA Women’s Soccer Tournament

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. - The Lenoir-Rhyne University women's soccer team (16-2-1) will face Belmont Abbey College (17-1-3) in the opening round of the 2010 NCAA Division II Tournament. The fourth-seeded Bears and the fifth-seeded Crusaders will play Friday at 5 p.m., in Columbus, Ga., in one-half of the Southeast Regional.

Top-seeded Columbus State University (19-1-1), the host school and the Peach Belt Conference Tournament Champions, will face the winner of Lenoir-Rhyne and Belmont Abbey on Sunday at Noon, at the Walden Soccer Complex.

Lenoir-Rhyne earned an automatic bid to the regionals after winning the 2010 Food Lion South Atlantic Conference Tournament Championship, its first-ever in school history, last Sunday in Rock Hill, S.C. L-R defeated Wingate by a 3-1 score.

The Bears will be playing in their first-ever NCAA Division II playoff match as well. L-R also set a school record for wins in a single season and won the program's first South Atlantic Conference Regular Season Championship in 2010.

Lenoir-Rhyne and Belmont Abbey played earlier in the year on October 11 when the two teams battled to a scoreless tie in Belmont, N.C.

2010 NCAA Division II Women's Soccer Southeast Regional
Columbus, Ga. - Walden Soccer Complex
Friday, November 12
No. 4 Lenoir-Rhyne (16-2-1) vs. No. 5 Belmont Abbey (17-1-3), 5 p.m.

Sunday, November 14
Lenoir-Rhyne/Belmont Abbey winner at No. 1 Columbus State (19-1-1), Noon

Savannah, Ga. - AT&T Field
Friday, November 12
No. 3 UNC Pembroke (15-3-2) vs. No. 6 Pfeiffer (13-5-2), 2 p.m.

Sunday, November 14
UNC Pembroke/Pfeiffer winner at No. 2 Armstrong Atlantic State (13-3-2), 2 p.m.