SWAC West Not Quite Settled Yet
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The field of eight has now been determined for the 2011 Southwestern Athletic Conference Women's Soccer Championship. The championship tournament will be held in Alexandria, La. Nov. 3-6.
The final ticket in the East was punched on Friday when Alabama State beat Alabama A&M 1-0 in Huntsville. Meanwhile, the West is still in the air and will be settled this weekend.
Division winners Jackson State (3-0-1) and Arkansas-Pine Bluff will be the top seeds, but other seedings are still up for grabs. Going into the final weekend of the regular season, Mississippi Valley State and Alcorn State will meet to settle the No. 2 spot in the East. The Devilettes will claim second with a win or tie, while Alcorn can move into the second place with a win. The Lady Braves can finish no worse than third, but can claim second with a win. Alabama State will be the fourth seed.
In the west, despite falling hard to UAPB 5-0 on Sunday, Texas Southern is still holding on to second place at 2-1-1. But, Southern has matches versus UAPB and Grambling this weekend and a pair of wins will move the Lady Jags past Texas Southern into the No. 2 spot. If Southern should get a win and a tie, they would finish deadlocked with Texas Southern. If that should happen, TSU holds the tiebreaker since they defeated Southern 2-1 on Sept. 30. Grambling still has an outside shot if Southern loses to UAPB, and they defeat the Lady Jaguars head-to-head on Sunday. If that happens, Grambling will get the No. 4 seed in the West, while Southern would be eliminated.
Here is the complete schedule for the final weekend of the regular season.
Friday, Oct. 28
Southern at Arkansas-Pine Bluff
Prairie View at Alabama A&M
Jackson State at Grambling
Mississippi Valley State at Alcorn State
Houston-Victoria at Texas Southern
Saturday, Oct. 29
Prairie View at Alabama State
Sunday, Oct. 30
Southern at Grambling
Prairie View at Alabama State
Jackson State at Arkansas-Pine Bluff