(Portions of this story were taken from the NCAA
website)
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. - The NCAA Division III
Women’s Soccer Committee announced today the field of 63
teams for the 2010 NCAA Division III Women’s Soccer
Championship, and SCAC champion Trinity University was the only
conference team selected for participation. Complete Bracket
Trinity (17-1-0) will take on 24th-ranked University of Puget Sound
(Wash.) (17-1-2) in a first round match that will be played at
Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene, Texas. If the
sixth-ranked Tigers win, they will take on the winner of
Hardin-Simmons (19-0-0) and Principia
College (15-6-0).
Trinity's one loss this season came on Sept. 4 at Hardin-Simmons -
a 4-0 defeat to the second-ranked Cowgirls in the Tigers' second
game of the season.
Forty-two conferences were awarded automatic qualification for the
2010 championship. One team was selected from Pool B, which
consists of independent institutions, and institutions that are
members of conferences that do not meet the requirements for
automatic qualification. The final 20 berths were reserved for Pool
C, which are institutions from automatic-qualifying conferences
that are not the conference champion and any remaining Pool B
teams.
One team will receive a first-round bye. One two-team
first-round match will be played to determine the team that
advances to the second round to play the team that received a
first-round bye. Fifteen four-team sites will conduct first-
and second-round play on the first weekend of the championship,
November 13-14 or 14-15. Second-round winners will advance to
one of four sectional sites November 20-21 or 21-22. 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 December 4-5, at Blossom
Soccer Stadium in San Antonio, Texas.