NCAA Division III Championship Bracket
GETTYSBURG, Pa. – The Gettysburg College women's lacrosse team marches on to the regional round of the NCAA Division III Championship this weekend at Middlebury College.
Fourth-ranked Gettysburg (17-2) will face off with No. 8 Amherst College (13-4) on Saturday at 2:30 p.m. That game follows host and fifth-ranked Middlebury's (18-1) match up with No. 18 St. John Fisher College (17-3) at 11:30 a.m.
The two winners will square off in the regional championship on Sunday at 1 p.m. The team that emerges victorious from the weekend will take part in the national championship festivities at Talen Energy Stadium in Chester, Pa. on May 28-29.
Ticket prices for the event are $6 for adults and $3 for children, students, and senior citizens. Middlebury will also feature live video of all the games at
http://www.nsnsports.net/colleges/middlebury/.
Gettysburg, which opened the NCAA playoffs with a 4-2 win over William Smith College, is seeking its sixth appearance in the national semifinals in the last decade, but first since the team won the national title in 2011.
Gettysburg is making its 15th consecutive and 16th overall appearance in the NCAA Championship. The Bullets are 25-14 all-time in the NCAA playoffs. The team received an automatic bid to the big dance after winning the Centennial Conference.
The Bullets face off with Amherst, which beat York (Pa.) College 12-7 in its national playoff opener, for the first time since meeting in the regional championship of the 2006 NCAA Tournament. Gettysburg won that meeting 8-4, but Amherst holds a 2-1 lead in the all-time series. Amherst received its 12th bid to the tournament as an at-large team out of the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC).
Middlebury received an automatic bid to the national tournament after avenging its only regular-season defeat with a 10-7 win over Trinity (Conn.) College in the NESCAC finals. The Panthers rank second only to The College of New Jersey in NCAA appearances (22), wins (50), and national titles (5). Middlebury opened postseason play with a 12-7 win over FDU-Florham.
St. John Fisher is in the national postseason for the seventh time since 2007. The Cardinals claimed their fifth-straight Empire 8 Conference championship to earn an automatic bid. In its opener, St. John Fisher defeated Calvin College 18-2.
