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CC Championship Wrestling Release

Wrestling Turner Kirby - Director of Athletic Communications

#15 Wrestling Opens Conference Carolinas Championship Against Belmont Abbey

GREENVILLE, S.C. - Conference Carolinas has released the bracket for the 2026 Conference Carolinas Wrestling Championship, and West Division Champion and 15th-ranked Lander will face East Division runner-up Belmont Abbey in the semifinal round on Sunday, February 15 at 11 a.m. inside Lumbee Guaranty Bank Court in Pembroke, North Carolina.

The other semifinal features 24th-ranked UNC Pembroke, the East Division Champion and tournament host, taking on Montevallo, the West Division runner-up.

Both semifinal duals will be contested concurrently and streamed via pay-per-view at conferencecarolinasdn.com. The championship match will follow at 3 p.m. The cost to stream the full tournament is $15.

All-session tickets are $10 and can be purchased through the conference website.

Lander enters the championship in search of its fifth straight conference title. The Bearcats captured the final two South Atlantic Conference Carolinas titles before the league transitioned fully to Conference Carolinas and have won both editions of the current four-team championship format.

Lander is the only program to qualify for all three editions of the current format and the only team to win its division outright in each of those seasons, earning the top seed on its side of the bracket every year.

Additional information regarding the championship is available on the Conference Carolinas website at the links above.
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