SIOUX CITY, Iowa (GPACSports.com) \u2013The\u00a0 Northwestern College, Red Raiders, will be the number one seed when the 2019 Cypress Risk Management Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) Volleyball Tournament opens on Saturday, November 9.\u00a0 Northwestern was\u00a0 the regular season champion with a 16-0 league record.<\/p>\n
The two seed will be The University of Jamestown, finishing with a league record of 14-2 .\u00a0 Concordia, is the third seed with a \u00a0league play record of \u00a011-5.\u00a0 Midland the fourth seed, will be final host in the quarterfinals, finishing 10-6 in conference play.<\/p>\n
Th fifth seed, Dordt, will be the five seed (9-7), with Doane as the six seed (8-8).\u00a0 Morningside will be the seventh seed (8-8) and College of Saint Mary will be the eighth seed (7-9).\u00a0 GPAC tie-breakers were used for all ties in the standings.<\/p>\n
Northwestern will receive the GPAC regular season automatic berth to the 2019 NAIA National Volleyball Championship. The Cypress Risk Management GPAC Volleyball Tournament winner (runner-up if Northwestern wins) also receives an automatic berth to the NAIA National Volleyball Championship.<\/p>\n
The 2019 NAIA Volleyball National Championship includes a field of 44 \u00a0teams. Twenty-four teams will compete in 12 opening round matches played on campus sites nationwide on November 23. The top 19 seeds and final site host (Morningside) receive an opening round bye. Opening round winners will join the top 19 and host at the final site for a 32-team pool play NAIA National Championship December 3-7 in Sioux City at the Tyson Events Center.<\/p>\n
GPAC Volleyball Quarterfinals \u2013 Saturday, November 9<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Records listed as (Overall, GPAC)<\/p>\n #8 College of Saint Mary (22-13, 7-9) at #1 Northwestern (28-0, 16-0), 7pm<\/p>\n #5 Dordt (18-10, 9-7) at #4 Midland (18-9, 10-6) at, 7pm<\/p>\n #6 Doane (17-12, 8-8) at #3 Concordia (22-5, 11-5), 7pm<\/p>\n #7 Morningside (16-10, 8-8) at #2 Jamestown (26-4, 14-2), 4pm<\/p>\n GPAC Volleyball Semifinals \u2013 Wednesday, November 13<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Highest Seed Hosts Semifinal Winners, At Highest Seed, 7pm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" SIOUX CITY, Iowa (GPACSports.com) \u2013The\u00a0 Northwestern College, Red Raiders, will be the number one seed when the 2019 Cypress Risk Management Great Plains Athletic Conference (GPAC) Volleyball Tournament opens on Saturday, November 9.\u00a0 Northwestern was\u00a0 the regular season champion with a 16-0 league record. The two seed will be The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":93519,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=184553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184554,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184553\/revisions\/184554"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/93519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=184553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=184553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=184553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n#4\/#5 Winner vs. #1\/#8 Winner, 7pm
\n#3\/#6 Winner vs. #2\/#7 Winner, 7pm
\nGPAC Volleyball Championship \u2013 Saturday, November 16<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n