{"id":611003,"date":"2026-04-16T15:57:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T15:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/611003\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T15:57:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T15:57:09","slug":"nccu-positioned-fourth-as-meac-womens-tennis-bracket-is-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/611003\/","title":{"rendered":"NCCU Positioned Fourth as MEAC Women\u2019s Tennis Bracket Is Revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n                        Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">NORFOLK, Va. \u2013 The Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference has released the seeding ahead of the 2026 MEAC Tennis Championships, hosted by North Carolina Central on April 23-25 at Cary Tennis Park. The NCCU women&#8217;s team has earned the fourth seed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The Eagles finished the regular season 9-9 overall, with a 4-2 record in MEAC action. NCCU&#8217;s only conference loses were to co-champions Morgan State and third-seed Howard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">NC Central opens the postseason on Thursday, April 23 at 8 a.m. facing No. 5 Delaware State. The Eagles swept the Hornets at the MEAC Round-up last month. No. 1 Morgan State awaits the winner, as the Bears receive a bye into the semifinals. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Norfolk State also posted a 5-1 conference record, sharing the regular-season title with Morgan State. However, after losing the head-to-head matchup, the Spartans earned the No. 2 seed. NSU will face No. 7 Coppin State on Thursday, April 23 at 8 a.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Filling out the remainder of the bracket is No. 3 Howard and No. 6 South Carolina State. The two teams battle on Thursday, April 23 at 11 a.m. Both semifinal matches start at 9 a.m. on Friday, April 24, with the winners competing in the championship on Saturday, April 25 at 9 a.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-top:12.0pt;line-height:115%\">For more information on NCCU Athletics, visit NCCUEaglePride.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; NORFOLK, Va. \u2013 The Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference has released the seeding ahead&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":611004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-611003","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=611003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/611004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}