The Salem University men's water polo team heads to Erie,Pa., this weekend to compete in the 2019 Mid-Atlantic Water Polo Conference-West Region Tournament. The third-seeded Tigers open play Saturday at 12:30 p.m. against No. 6 seed Washington and Jefferson College.

The tournament is hosted by top-seeded Gannon University. Click HERE to go to the tournament website for complete schedule, along with links to video and live stats. (Please note that video is available on a pay-per-view basis: $25 for a tournament pass for the entire event or $10 for a single-game pass.)

For fans who plan to attend the tournament in person, general admission ticket prices are $15 for a tournament pass and $10 for a one-day pass.  Senior citizens will be admitted at discounted prices of $10 for a tournament pass and $5 for a day pass.  Children 12 and under will be admitted at no cost.

Salem (10-11, 4-2 MAWPC) is playing for the first time since hosting the CWPA Divison II Eastern Region Championship two weeks ago. The Tigers were tournament runners-up after splitting their first two games and then taking Gannon to overtime before falling 14-13. Tiger senior Milos Popovic was named Tournament Most Valuable Player.

Popovic became the MAWPC all-time career goal scoring leader last month and enters this weekend's tournament with 304 career goals. Popovic leads the Tigers with 66 goals on the season, including 31 goals in his last six games.

Salem is 2-0 against Washington and Jefferson this season, defeating the Presidents 21-8 in September and 24-13 in October.

A Salem win in its first-round game advances the Tigers to the semifinal round at 5 p.m. against the winner of No. 2 seed McKendree University and No. 7 seed Monmouth College (Ill.). A first-round loss would put Salem in the fifth-place game Sunday at 9 a.m. The Tigers were the runners-up in last year's MAWPC-West Region Tournament.

The MAWPC-West Region Championship Game is slated for Sunday at 1:30 p.m. The tournament champion advances to the MAWPC Championship against teams from the MAWPC-East Region. That winner earns a bid to the NCAA Men's Water Polo Championship.