VALDOSTA, Ga. – The Valdosta State women's soccer team is set to kick off the NCAA DII Women's Soccer Championship first round on Friday against Gulf South Conference foe West Florida at noon. 

The match will be hosted at Embry-Riddle University in Daytona Beach, Fla., who clinched the second seed in the South Region. 

The Blazers, who enter the tournament as the No. 6 seed, will face off against the No. 3 seed West Florida Argonauts. VSU has faced the Argos two times this season, once in a 0-0 double overtime draw in the regular season and then again in the GSC tournament, where the Blazers fell in a heartbreaker, 1-0 at home. 

Lee was named the top-seed in the South Regional and also a host.  Mississippi College battles Florida Tech in the No. 4/5 matchup and the winner on that side of the bracket will face Lee.

VSU is 1-3 all-time in the NCAA postseason with trips in 2012, 2013 and 2014, marking the second, third and fourth years of the program.  The Blazers reached the second round in 2014 with a 1-0 victory over Christian Brothers and a 1-0 loss to Rollins.  

This will be the first time VSU and UWF have faced each other in the NCAA postseason, and the first meeting on a neutral field in series history.