BAY CITY, Mich. - A total of eight teams from the Midwest Region—four teams from the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference and four from the Great Lakes Valley Conference—were selected to participate in the NCAA Tournament. Ferris State University, Northwood Univeristy, Michigan Technologial University, and Wayne State University will be representing the GLIAC in the NCAA D-II Midwest Regional Tournament.

Northwood will host the opening two rounds of the tournament Thursday, May 6 and Friday May 7. Along with Northwood, teams slated for this site include Lewis University, Ferris State and Southern Indiana. Host Northwood faces Lewis at 1 p.m. and the Ferris State-Southern Indiana matched is slated to start at 3 p.m.

Drury University will host a separate four-team regional in Springfield, Mo. Wayne State and Michigan Tech will travel to compete against GLVC foes Rockhurst and Drury. The Tech-Drury match is scheduled Friday, May 7  at 1 p.m. (CT) at the Cooper Tennis Complex in Springfield. Wayne State will face Rockhurst on Friday, May 7 at 10 a.m. (CT).

The winner at each site will earn a trip to the NCAA Championships in Altamonte Springs, Fla., May 12-15.

Ferris State Bulldogs 

The Ferris State men's tennis team will square off against Great Lakes Valley Conference (GLVC) opponent Southern Indiana on Thursday (May 6) at 3 p.m. (EDT) in the opening round of the 2010 NCAA Division II Midwest Regional Tournament at Midland, Mich. The other first-round match in the Northwood regional pits GLVC member Lewis (Ill.) against the host Timberwolves starting at 1 p.m. (EDT) with the winners slated to meet Friday (May 7) in the final at 12 p.m. (EDT). FSU, which is presently 12-7 overall, will be making its 13th consecutive and 16th overall NCAA-II Regional Tournament appearance. Last season (2009), FSU defeated Grand Valley State 5-4 in the regional first round (5/7) before falling to host Northwood in the regional final (5/8) at Midland, Mich. Ferris has advanced to the NCAA-II "Sweet Sixteen" round nine times overall in its history. The Bulldogs are guided by third-year head coach Alex Palladino.  FSU placed third overall at the 2010 GLIAC Men's Tennis Tournament earlier this month (April 17-18) at the Midland Community Tennis Center.

Michigan Tech Huskies 

The Michigan Tech men’s tennis team has earned an at-large berth into the NCAA Midwest Regional for the second straight year. The Huskies will travel to Springfield, Mo., to play host Drury on Friday (May 7). The Tech-Drury match is scheduled to start at 1 p.m. (CT) at the Cooper Tennis Complex in Springfield. The winner will face either Wayne State (Mich.) or Rockhurst Saturday (May 8) at 10 a.m. (CT) in a second-round match.

Northwood Timberwolves 

Northwood recently claimed their 16^th straight GLIAC Championship and earned the No. 2 seed in the Midwest region for the upcoming NCAA Tournament.  The Timberwolves will host the open two rounds of the tournament May 6-7.  NU enters the event 13-4 overall on the season, having won 12 of their last 13 matches.  Northwood is led by GLIAC Player of the Year Peter Kazianschuetz, who is currently ranked No. 45 nationally in singles.  Kazianschuetz also ranks No. 22 nationally in doubles with partner Frederic Schoelzel.  On the season, Northwood has gone 64-30 in singles (.681), which included a 37-5 mark in GLIAC play (.881).

Wayne State Warriors

Fresh off of its best finish at the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Tournament in more than a decade, the Wayne State University men’s tennis team (15-7, 5-2 GLIAC) will now have the chance for even more success as the Warriors have been selected by the NCAA Division II Men's Tennis Committee to take part in the 2010 NCAA Division II Men’s Tennis Championships.

Wayne State will play Rockhurst in its first round match on May 7 at Drury University in Springfield, Mo. If victorious, WSU would face the winner of the Drury vs. Michigan Tech match for the right to move on. 

Next week’s match will be the first meeting between WSU and Rockhurst, a school located in Kansas City that competes in the Great Lakes Valley Conference. The Eagles finished their season with an overall record of 10-8 and a conference mark of 4-1.

WSU and Rockhurst had three common opponents on their respective schedules this season. Both the Warriors and Eagles lost to Northwood while defeating Grand Valley State and Lewis.

Wayne State has been led by Bertrand Moulin and Thomas Ducret in singles competition. Moulin, who is a two-time First Team All-GLIAC performer, has produced a record of 20-4 this season. Ducret, a freshman who was named to the All-GLIAC Second Team, had a 16-4 record at No. 3 singles in his first season at Wayne State. Three other Warriors (Roberto Gomez, Oscar Gamarra and Jon Groszek) have also won at least 10 singles matches this year.

In doubles action, Moulin and Britton Steele had a 15-4 record from the No. 1 position while Gamarra and Kevin Turnbull went 13-7 playing primarily from the third doubles spot.

Wayne State has earned NCAA Tournament berths in seven of the last 10 years.