The NCAA Championships Committee awarded Cal State San Bernardino the bid to host the 2009 NCAA Division II West Regional Volleyball Tournament and made the Coyotes the top seed Sunday night.
    The three-day, seven-match tournament will be played either Thursday through Saturday on the CSUSB campus.
     The Coyotes (29-1), the defending champion in this event, will play the No. 8 seed Seattle Pacific (16-11) of the Great Northwest Athletic Conference in the quarterfinals.
     Other quarterfinal matchups:
     No. 2 UC San Diego (28-2) Vs. No. 7 San Francisco State (20-10)
     No. 3 Sonoma State (22-7) Vs. No. 6 Cal State L.A. (21-8)
     No. 4 Hawaii Hilo (25-1) Vs. No. 5 Alaska-Anchorage (22-6).
     Match times and other information about the regional will be announced later this week.
     Hawaii-Hilo is the Pacific West Conference champion while Alaska Anchorage is the Great Northwest Athletic Conference titlist. The Coyotes enter the post-season after capturing their fourth straight CCAA conference title and seventh in the last nine years.
     This will be CSUSB's 10th straight post-season appearance. The team has advanced to the regional title match in each of the last nine tournaments and won the regional three times -- 2003, 2004 and 2008.