The Frontier Conference volleyball tournament opens Thursday at the Montana Tech HPER Complex.
No. 8 Montana Western and No. 9 Dickinson State open the tournament with a play-in match.
Host Montana Tech is the No. 5 seed, and the Orediggers will take on No. 4 MSU-Northern at 2 p.m. on the Kelvin Sampson Court.
No. 1 Lewis-Clark State will play the winner of the play-in match at noon Friday.
Other first-round matches pit No. 2 Carroll College taking on No. 7 Westminster College at 5 p.m. and No. 3 Great Falls playing No. 6 Rocky Mountain College at 7.
The semifinals start at 11 a.m. Saturday. The championship match will be at 7 p.m.
The winner of the tournament gets an automatic berth in the NAIA national tournament.
2012 Volleyball Standings
| School | Frontier | Overall | GB | Home | Away | Neutral | Streak | |||
| RV | Lewis-Clark State College | 11-4 | .733 | 15-9 | .625 | — | 8-1 | 5-4 | 2-4 | Lost 1 |
| Carroll College | 11-5 | .688 | 21-9 | .700 | 0.5 | 10-2 | 3-5 | 8-2 | Won 3 | |
| University of Great Falls | 10-6 | .625 | 19-11 | .633 | 1.5 | 9-3 | 3-5 | 7-3 | Lost 1 | |
| MSU-Northern | 10-6 | .625 | 16-14 | .533 | 1.5 | 7-1 | 3-6 | 6-7 | Won 1 | |
| Montana Tech | 8-8 | .500 | 18-10 | .643 | 3.5 | 6-2 | 3-6 | 9-2 | Lost 1 | |
| Rocky Mountain College | 8-8 | .500 | 13-17 | .433 | 3.5 | 8-1 | 1-9 | 4-7 | Won 2 | |
| Westminster College | 7-8 | .467 | 14-12 | .538 | 4.0 | 9-2 | 2-7 | 3-3 | Won 1 | |
| Montana Western | 5-11 | .313 | 10-18 | .357 | 6.5 | 6-5 | 1-7 | 3-6 | Lost 4 | |
| Dickinson State University | 0-14 | .000 | 2-20 | .091 | 10.5 | 0-6 | 1-10 | 1-4 | Lost 15 | |
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