Championship Central 

NEW YORK I With the regular-season wrapping up last night, the matchups for the upcoming 2025 Skyline Conference Men's Tennis Championship are finalized. 

The conference tournament will begin Monday at the higher seeds in the four-team field. 

The U.S. Merchant Marine Academy tennis team wrapped up the regular season with a 4-3 triumph on the road against conference foe Purchase last night. The victory clinched the No. 1 overall seed for USMMA in the upcoming tourney next week. 

The Mariners improved to 8-3 (6-1 Skyline), while the Panthers dropped to 8-4 (4-3 Skyline). Both are bound for the playoffs, though, as the Panthers are No. 4 in the field. 

Farmingdale State (6-1 Skyline) is the second seed. Yeshiva (6-1) is third. In terms of conference standings, the three-way tie went to USMMA as all finished 6-1. From the top down, the three teams split between them and beat everyone else, while a ratio of games won to games lost looked like this: USMMA is 8-6 and takes the No.1 seed, FSC is 7-7 and takes the No.2 seed and YU is 6-8 and is No. 3. Purchase (4-3) lost to USMMA and therefore takes No. 4 seed.

The Panthers draw a regular-season finale rematch and will face USMMA in the semifinals Tuesday at 4 p.m. FSC and YU will square off Monday at 4:30 p.m. on Long Island. 

The final is slated for Friday, May 2 and will pit the two semifinal winners against each other in the championship match at the site of the highest remaining seed.

The winner of the championship will receive the conference's automatic bid into the Division III NCAA Tournament.