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INDIANAPOLIS – The 2017 Great Lakes Valley Conference Men's Soccer Championship Tournament bracket was released late Wednesday by the Conference office. Rockhurst University earned the No. 1 seed in the eight-team tournament, followed by No. 2 Maryville University, No. 3 Lewis University, and No. 4 University of Indianapolis. All four teams will host quarterfinal action on Sunday, Oct. 29, as the opening round of the GLVC Championship Tournament commences.
Top-seeded Rockhurst (13-1-2, 12-1-1 GLVC, .893) earned its third-straight regular season title and will play in its 13th Conference tournament overall and seventh straight. The eighth-ranked Hawks, who have captured six GLVC Championships with the first in 2005, will face No. 8 Missouri S&T (7-6-3, 6-6-2, .500) at 1 p.m. CT on Sunday in Kansas City, Missouri. This is the 11th GLVC postseason bid for the Miners and fifth consecutive, as they beat out Drury for the final spot based on winning a head-to-head tiebreaker. Earlier this year, Rockhurst earned a 2-0 home victory past S&T on Oct. 1.
No. 2 Maryville (12-2-2, 10-2-2, .786) advances to its second overall and consecutive league postseason since joining the Conference in 2008 and will host No. 7 seed University of Southern Indiana (10-6, 8-6, .571) on Sunday at 3 p.m. CT in St. Louis, Missouri. Southern Indiana advances to the postseason for the 20th year and third-straight, having won a league-record 10 tournament titles. The Saints and Screaming Eagles will return to their first league matchup of the season where Maryville pulled out a 2-0 home win on Sept 10.
No. 3 Lewis (11-4-1, 10-3-1, .750) will host No. 6 University of Illinois Springfield (8-7-1, 8-5-1, .607) on Sunday in Romeoville, Illinois, at a time yet to be determined in what will be the Prairie Stars first attempt at a GLVC Championship crown since becoming league members in 2008. The Flyers get to the postseason for the GLVC-record 31st season but first time since 2014. Lewis will get a chance to flip the script on UIS this weekend, following a 1-0 home loss to UIS on Oct. 15.
No. 4 Indianapolis (10-5-1, 9-4-1, .679) will serve as host to fifth-seeded Bellarmine University (11-4-1, 9-4-1, .679) at 2:30 p.m. ET Sunday in Indianapolis, Ind. UIndy swiped up the fourth seed from Bellarmine based on head-to-head results from Sept. 24, winning 1-0 at home. The Greyhounds won a Conference title in 2014 and make their fifth-straight and 24th berth overall this postseason, while the Knights are making their 26th appearance overall and 14th in the last 15 years.
Each of the four quarterfinal winners will advance to the GLVC Championship Tournament semifinals, which will be hosted for the second time in the sport’s history at a neutral site by the GLVC at Carroll Stadium on the campus of IUPUI in Indianapolis, Indiana, on Friday, Nov. 3. The two semifinal contests will be played at 6 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. ET, while the 2017 GLVC Championship Tournament final will take place Sunday, Nov. 5 at 3 p.m. ET. Last year, top-seeded Rockhurst captured the 2016 GLVC Championship as a result of a 4-3 penalty kick victory over No. 7 Indianapolis after a 1-1 overtime draw.
All GLVC Championship Tournament action will be streamed for free on
GLVCSN.com, the GLVCSN iOS and Android mobile apps, and GLVCSN OTT apps on Roku, Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV, and Android TV. All other details and results can be found on the official tournament homepage at
GLVCsports.com/2017soccer.