Sandburg Draws Lincoln Land in 1st Round of NJCAA Volleyball Championship
Aaron Frey
Wednesday, November 8, 2017 11:57 AM
Campus News, Athletics
Galesburg, IL
Carl Sandburg College will face a familiar foe in the first round of next week’s NJCAA Division II Volleyball Championship.
The Chargers, making their first national tournament appearance, will open against No. 4 seed and defending national runner-up Lincoln Land at 2 p.m. Nov. 16 at the Charleston Civic Center in Charleston, WVa.
The 13th-seeded Chargers (25-14) and Loggers (34-6) met in the regular season, with Lincoln Land winning a hotly contested four-set match (25-10, 34-32, 24-26, 25-21) on Oct. 28 at the Parkland Fall Classic.
The winner advances to the quarterfinals at 6:30 p.m. Thursday against the winner between fifth-seeded Sauk Valley and 12th-seeded Northeast (Neb.). The losers will face each other in the ninth-place bracket at 11 a.m. Friday.
All matches at the NJCAA Division II Volleyball Championship can be seen on NJCAA TV. A single-broadcast pass on NJCAA TV costs $4.99, and a tournament pass costs $12.99. Broadcasts can be seen at www.njcaatv.com and through NJCAA TV streaming apps on Apple TV, Android TV, Amazon Fire TV and Roku. There are also NJCAA TV mobile apps for iPhone and Android devices. For more information, visit www.njcaatv.com.
NJCAA Division II Volleyball Championship website