(Portions of this story courtesy of the NCAA)
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. -- The 2014 Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference women's soccer champion Trinity University Tigers, earned the program's sixth straight NCAA Division III Women's Soccer Championship bid on Monday afternoon. Interactive Bracket | Printable Bracket
The Tigers earned the SCAC automatic bid to the NCAA playoffs by virtue of their 3-0 win over Texas Lutheran University yesterday afternoon. The SCAC championship was the sixth consecutive league crown for Trinity and assured the Tigers of their 20th appearance in NCAA postseason play since 1992.
Trinity (20-0-1) will serve as one of 16 first/second round host
sites, and the Tigers' four-team pod is stacked as three of the
four squads are nationally ranked. Play will be conducted on
Saturday-Sunday, November 15-16 at Paul McGinlay Field.
Trinity (20-0-1), which is ranked third in the nation, opens first
round play against 20th-ranked University of Texas-Tyler (13-2-2) -
a team they defeated 2-1 back on Sept. 12. That match is slated for
5 p.m. On the other side of the bracket, 25th-ranked Hardin-Simmons
University (16-2-0) and University of Redlands (11-6-3) square off
at 7:30 p.m. The winners of Saturday's matches will play on Sunday
at 5 p.m. with the winner advancing to the Sweet Sixteen.
Forty-four conferences were awarded automatic qualification for the 2013 championship. The final 20 berths were reserved for Pool C, which include institutions from automatic-qualifying conferences that are not the conference champion and any remaining Pool B teams.
Sixteen four-team sites will conduct first- and second-round play on the first weekend of the championship, Nov. 14-15 or 15-16. Second-round winners will advance to one of four sectional sites Nov. 21-22 or 22-23. All games, except the semifinals and final, will be played on the campuses of competing institutions. Winners of the four sectionals will advance to the semifinals Dec. 5-6, at Swope Soccer Village in Kansas City, Missouri.
