Hail to the Champions!

Automatic berths awarded in field hockey, soccer

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Steve Ulrich
November 11, 2024 • Estimated Reading Time: 9 minutes

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NOVEMBER 11, 2024 | written by STEVE ULRICH

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Headlines
🗞️ Hail to the Champions!
🏑 28-Team Bracket is Out
🏈 Sea Gulls Top NPI Ranking
⚽️ Slug Stunner

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TOP STORY
1. Hail to the Champions!

William Peace men’s soccer

Conference champions have been crowned and automatic berths have been awarded for the 2024 DIII field hockey and men’s and women’s soccer championships.

The remainder of the 64-team soccer tournament fields will be announced this afternoon, while the field hockey bracket was released Sunday night (see below).

There are 21 at-large berths available in the soccer fields. The men’s selection show will begin at 1:30 p.m. ET, while the women’s selection show starts at 2 p.m. ET

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FIELD HOCKEY
2. 28-Team Bracket is Out

Tufts field hockey

The quest for the 2024 DIII field hockey championship begins on Wednesday with 12 first-round contests. Tufts, Williams, Salisbury and Middlebury received first-round byes.

FOOTBALL
3. Sea Gulls Top NPI Ranking

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Salisbury vaulted past Saint John’s into the No. 1 ranking in the latest NCAA Power Index rankings. The Sea Gulls blasted McDaniel, 69-13, while the Johnnies did the same to St. Olaf, 55-6. Hardin-Simmons also slipped ahead of SJU following a 27-19 victory against Mary Hardin-Baylor.

NPI Top 10

  1. Salisbury (9-0)

  2. Hardin-Simmons (8-0)

  3. Saint John’s (9-0)

  4. North Central (9-0)

  5. Cortland (9-0)

  6. Mount Union (9-0)

  7. Hope (9-0)

  8. Springfield (9-0)

  9. Whitworth (8-0)

  10. Johns Hopkins (8-1)

Last Week

  1. McDaniel, 69-13

  2. #22 UMHB, 27-19

  3. St. Olaf, 55-6

  4. Elmhurst, 70-7

  5. Brockport, 29-28

  6. Marietta, 28-21

  7. Calvin, 38-7

  8. USMMA, 42-7

  9. George Fox, 31-0

  10. Dickinson, 30-0

This Week

  1. at Kean

  2. at East Texas Baptist

  3. #19 Bethel

  4. at Illinois Wesleyan

  5. Ithaca

  6. at Muskingum

  7. at Olivet

  8. at Maritime

  9. #25 Linfield

  10. at McDaniel

» Automatic Berths. Eighteen (18) AQs have already been determined for the 2024 DIII football championship: Wartburg (ARC), Hardin-Simmons (ASC), Johns Hopkins (CC), North Central (CCIW), Endicott (CNE), Cortland (E8), Susquehanna (LAND), Hobart (LL), King’s (MAC), UMass-Dartmouth (MASCAC), Hope (MIAA), Lake Forest (MWC), Aurora (NACC), Salisbury (NJAC), Mount Union (OAC), Randolph-Macon (ODAC), Northwestern (UMAC), Maryville (USAS).

» Still On The Table. ECFC (Anna Maria-Alfred State-Gallaudet), Heartland (Mount St. Joseph-Hanover-Rose-Hulman), Minnesota (Bethel at Saint John’s), North Coast (Wabash at DePauw), NEWMAC (Springfield at Maritime), Northwest (Linfield at Whitworth), Presidents (Carnegie Mellon-Grove City-Washington & Jefferson), SAA (Berry-Centre-Trinity), SCIAC (Chapman at Pomona-Pitzer), Wisconsin (Platteville-La Crosse-Oshkosh-Stout)

SOCCER
4. Slug Stunner

“In a battle of what some would call David versus Goliath, the UC Santa Cruz women's soccer team stunned the No. 2 Christopher Newport Captains, breaking CNU's 84-game unbeaten streak with a 2-0 victory to claim the program's first ever Coast-to-Coast Conference Championship crown.

Fans would have to look back to Nov. 17 of 2019 to find Christopher Newport's last loss when they suffered a 2-0 defeat at the hands of Johns Hopkins University in the Second Round of the NCAA Tournament.

Kristi Truong and Camille Anneet scored for the Banana Slugs, while Ainsley Grove made 11 saves.”

NEWS
5. Lightning Round ⚡️ 

🗞️ News. We think it was a DIII first. Both Franklin & Marshall College president Barbara Altmann and Muhlenberg College president Kathy Harring were interviewed at halftime of the Diplomats’ broadcast football game vs. the Mules on Saturday. Two presidents at a game is rare and their availability on air is even rarer.

🏀 Basketball (M). #24 Cal Lutheran upended #9 Calvin, 81-71, ending a lost weekend for the Knights who also dropped an 82-81 decision to UW-Platteville on Friday. Unranked UW-Eau Claire got the better of #14 Nebraska Wesleyan, 68-64, while Averett downed #20 Maryville, 85-79. On Friday, Yeshiva toppled #19 Mount Union, 86-81, and Anderson topped #21 Hope, 80-78.

🏀 Basketball (W). Redlands stunned No. 17 Transylvania, 61-50, in the weekend’s biggest upset, while St. Joseph’s (L.I.) edged #22 New Paltz, 66-65. Washington & Jefferson took down #19 Baldwin Wallace, 72-67, on Friday.

🏒 Ice Hockey (M). #6 Curry and Endicott split a weekend set with the Gulls downing the Colonels, 3-2 on Friday with Curry returning the favor, 4-1 on Saturday. Unranked Plymouth State took out #8 Plattsburgh, 5-3, on Friday.

🏒 Ice Hockey (W). #14 Norwich blanked #7 Elmira, 3-0, on Saturday, to split a weekend set with the Soaring Eagles after a 3-1 loss on Friday.

TRANSACTIONS
6. Comings and Goings

HIGHLIGHTS
7. Plays of the Weekend

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