CORVALLIS, Ore. – After having to postpone the 2020 Cascade Collegiate Conference season to the spring, conference action finally begins on Sunday, but with a different format. With no women’s soccer postseason tournament, the CCC teams were split into east and west divisions, with the winners of each division grabbing the conference’s automatic qualifiers to the NAIA National Tournament.
Each team plays an opponent from its division twice in one week, once on Sunday and once on Monday.
In the East Division, No. 10-ranked Eastern Oregon University hosts a banger for its conference opener as No. 19-ranked Rocky Mountain College comes to La Grande, Ore., for a pair of contests. College of Idaho hosts the University of Providence, while Multnomah University takes on Carroll College at home.
In the West Division, Northwest University plays host to Southern Oregon University – which is receiving votes in the national poll – while Corban University heads to Bushnell University. Oregon Tech and Warner Pacific University round out the matchups for the West Division on the conference-opening weekend.
Recently, the CCC
announced changes to its spectator policy, allowing fans to be permitted to events with capacity limits subject to state/county/local regulations, as well as, campus policies. CCC member schools intend on live streaming the majority of events, with the schedules being found by going to each athletic department’s website.