BEVERLY, Mass. — The top-seeded Endicott women's tennis team (10-3) hosts Nichols (8-4) in the Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) Championship on Saturday at 1 PM. Here's a preview of this weekend's title bout. 

FIVE THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW

• Endicott enters the matchup as the back-to-back defending CCC Champion.
• The Gulls are making their 12th consecutive trip to the title match, while the Bison are making their first appearance since the 2020-21 campaign. 
• The Blue and Green are 7-4 in the CCC Championship over the past 11 seasons. 
• Nichols fell to Endicott, 6-3, in the regular season match between the two teams on 9/24/22 in Dudley, Mass. 
• This is the 10th time the Gulls and Bison have clashed in the CCC Championship match (Endicott leads 5-4; Gulls won the last matchup in 2020-21). 

WHAT'S NEXT

The winner of Saturday's CCC Championship match will be named the 2022 CCC Women's Tennis Tournament Champion and will earn the league's automatic qualifier into the 2022-23 NCAA Division III Women's Tennis Championship Tournament in the spring.

(Photo Credit - Jonny Ratner '24)