St. Andrews earns top seed in Deep South Lacrosse Tournament

April 15, 2006

DSC Tournament Bracket

ROCK HILL, SC—St. Andrews Presbyterian College will enter the eight-team 2006 Deep South Lacrosse Tournament as the No. 1 seed as announced by the conference office on Saturday night. The Knights host Pfeiffer University in the first round on Tuesday at 4:00 p.m.

An unprecedented five teams – Limestone, Mars Hill, Queens, St. Andrews and Wingate - finished tied for first place in the Deep South Conference following completion of the regular season with 7-2 conference records. Normal tiebreaker procedures could not break the logjam, and a blind draw was held Saturday for the top seed in next week’s Deep South Conference Tournament, with St. Andrews Presbyterian College (7-6 overall) earning the top seed.

The four remaining teams were then seeded using the conference’s tiebreaking procedures.

Wingate University (9-4 overall) and Queens University of Charlotte (7-4) had identical 2-1 records against the remaining four tied teams, while Mars Hill (10-4) and Limestone (8-5) had 1-2 records. Wingate earned the second seed by virtue of its 12-11 double-overtime regular-season victory over Queens. The Royals are the third seed.

Limestone earned the fourth seed by virtue of its 10-6 win over Mars Hill. Mars Hill is the fifth seed.

St. Andrews will host eighth seed Pfeiffer (2-7 DSC, 3-10 overall) in quarterfinal action on Tuesday. The Knights defeated the Falcons 23-6 on April 11.

Other quarterfinal games will have Wingate hosting seventh seed Catawba (3-6, 3-9); Belmont Abbey (4-5, 6-6), the sixth seed, will travel to face Queens; while fifth seed Mars Hill travels to face fourth seed Limestone.

Tuesday’s winners advance to the semifinals on Friday at Memorial Stadium in Charlotte, N.C. Game times Friday are 5 p.m. and 8 p.m. The championship game is set for 2 p.m. on Sunday.