On Mon, 5 Mar 2007 15:54:50 -0500, Dave Geringer wrote:
>The Corsairs are the first team representing the Eastern College Athletic Conference Northeast to earn a first round bye in the NCAA Division III Championships. The Corsairs will play the winner of Wednesday’s first round game between the State University of New York at Fredonia and Middlebury in a quarterfinal game Saturday. Fredonia upset Plattsburgh State in Saturday’s State University of New York Athletic Conference championship game at Plattsburgh, while Middlebury defeated host Bowdoin in the New England Small College Athletic Conference championship game Sunday.
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>Oswego State and Manhattanville also earned first round byes in the East. Oswego State, the SUNYAC regular season champ, will host Norwich of the ECAC East after both teams earned at-large berths. Manhattanville, the champions of the ECAC West, earned the NCAA’s Pool B bid, which goes to a team representing a conference that does not automatically qualify for the NCAAs. The Valiants will host Babson, which earned the ECAC East’s automatic berth.
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>Three teams advanced in the Western bracket. Bethel, the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference champion, will visit Wisconsin-River Falls, which earned the lone Western at-large berth. The winner will visit Northern Collegiate Hockey Association champion St. Norbert.
KRACH for division III can be found at
http://rate.swiss-soccer.net/collhock3.20070305.html
Play-ins:
1. #17 Fredonia at #15 Middlebury
2. #27 Bethel at #10 Wis.-River Falls
Quarterfinals:
3. #19 Babson at #1 Manhattanville
4. winner game 2 at #4 St. Norbert
5. #9 Norwich at #3 Oswego
6. winner game 1 vs. #14 Mass.-Dartmouth
Teams not in the championship, by KRACH rank:
#2 Neumann
#5 Utica
#6 Elmira
#7 Hobart
#8 Wisconsin-Stout
(KRACH, it seems, likes ECAC West.)
Cheers,
Ken.
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Ken Butler
Brampton, Ontario, Canada
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