Sewanee Field Hockey earns NCAA Tourney Bid

(From Sewanee's website)

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. - The NCAA Division III Field Hockey Committee has announced today the field of 24 teams that will compete in the 2008 NCAA Division III Field Hockey Championships. Sewanee has earned a berth Tournament, according to the NCAA. Sewanee's opening round match will be against Lynchburg (17-5) in Lynchburg, Va. on Wednesday at 3:30 pm EST.

Sixteen teams will compete in eight first-round games Wednesday, November 12. The eight first-round winners, along with the eight teams that received a first-round bye, will compete at four campus sites during second/third-round play, Saturday and Sunday, November 15 and 16. The winners of the four sites will advance to the semifinals and finals Saturday and Sunday, November 22 and 23, at Eleanor Frost Snell Alumnae Field on the campus of Ursinus College in Collegeville, Pennsylvania.

Sewanee claimed its first Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference Title on Sunday with a 1-0 victory over Centre in the championship match. The victory marks eight straight wins for the Tigers. Other highlights for the 2008 Tigers are Clarkie Crawford's (Louisville, Ky., Collegiate) conference-leading 123 saves on the year and Lynn Hancock's (Paris, Ky., Foxcroft) 16 goals - good to tie the Sewanee single-season record and the top-scoring effort in the league in 2008. The Tigers finish 2008 regular season at 14-6, the best yearly record for Sewanee in a decade and only the third time in Sewanee's 33-year field hockey history that the Tigers have won 14 games.

For the official tournament site, click the link below:
http://www.ncaa.com/sports/w-fieldh/spec-rel/110908aah.html

For the tournament bracket, click the link below:
www.ncaa.com/auto_pdf/p_hotos/s_chools/ncaa/sports/w-fieldh/auto_pdf/2008-D3FH-Full