Lake Forest College Volleyball News & Notes November 8, 1999  Contact:  Scott Rucker, SID LF TO FACE CALVIN IN NCAA VOLLEYBALL TOURNAMENT ON THURSDAY      After claiming the school's second Midwest Conference Championship in three years on Saturday (Nov. 6), the Lake Forest College volleyball team earned the school's first NCAA Tournament bid. The team learned on Sunday night that they will face Calvin College on Thursday at 5:00 p.m. at UW-Whitewater in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. Lake Forest garnered the six seed in the Midwest region, while Calvin is the three seed. The winner will face Mt. St. Joseph (OH) on Friday at 5:00 p.m. and the regional championship match will be Saturday at 7:00 p.m.      Calvin has compiled a 28-10 record this season, including a perfect 10-0 record in the Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association. Calvin won last weekend's MIAA Championship Tournament to earn their automatic bid. Lake Forest and Calvin have three common opponents this year. Calvin defeated Benedictine University 3-2 on September 1st and Lake Forest bested Benedictine 3-1 on September 16th. Both teams also defeated St. Mary's (IN) - Lake Forest in five games and Calvin in three games. Both school's faced Wheaton, with Calvin falling 1-3 to Wheaton in their season opener on September 1st and the Foresters splitting their season series with Wheaton (winning 3-0 in their season opener on September 3rd and losing 2-3 on October 7th).      Lake Forest breezed through last weekend's Midwest Conference Championship without dropping a game. The Foresters entered the tournament as the South Division's top seed and, after receiving a bye in the first round, defeated Lawrence 15-4, 15-11, 15-2 in the second round. Lake Forest then advanced to the championship match with a 16-14, 15-10, 15-5 victory over Illinois College, the defending champions, in the semifinals. In the final match versus Carroll, the North Division's top seed, Lake Forest rolled to a 15-9, 15-6, 15-2 win. The title was the school's second overall. Lake Forest also won the 1997 MWC Championship.      Lake Forest earned the Midwest Conference's first automatic bid into the NCAA Tournament and will bring an 18-10 overall record into the NCAA Tournament. They have won four straight matches and six of their last seven matches, with all those wins coming by 3-0 scores. After a slow start to the season (LF was 1-3 and 4-5 at different points early in the season), the Foresters have won 14 of their final 19 contests under Head Coach Beth Pier, who won her 100th match and became the school's winningest volleyball coach this season.