Cortland Earns NCAA Field Hockey Berth, Travel to MIT Wednesdsay for First Round
Cortland Sports Information Department
The Cortland field hockey team will play in its second straight NCAA Division III tournament and its 30th overall when the Red Dragons travel to MIT in Cambridge, Mass., for a first-round contest on Wednesday, Nov. 9. Game time is 4 p.m.
Cortland (14-4) won the State University of New York Athletic Conference (SUNYAC) tournament after defeating host and top-seeded Geneseo, 2-1 in overtime, in the conference finals Saturday. MIT (15-4) earned a "Pool C" at-large berth into the tournament after losing at Babson, 3-1, in the finals of the New England Women's and Men's Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) tournament Saturday.
The Cortland-MIT winner will advance to face four-time defending national champion Middlebury (17-1) in the second round on Saturday, Nov. 12, as part of a four-team regional hosted by Middlebury in Vermont. Saturday's other second-round game will feature the winners of Wednesday's first round games between Trinity (Conn.) (13-4) and Catholic (11-7) and The College of New Jersey (12-6) and Wilson (12-3). Sunday's regional champion advances to the national semifinals and finals Nov. 18 and 20 at Rowan University in New Jersey.
Cortland, led by seventh-year head coach Tiffany Hubbard, has won eight of its last nine games. Two of Cortland's four losses this year have come in overtime.
Cortland won national titles in 1993, 1994 and 2001 and finished second in 1997. The Red Dragons tied for third in 1999 and 2003, placed third in both 1989 and 1996 and were fourth in 1988. In their most recent appearance last season, Cortland fell at home in overtime to Ohio Wesleyan in the first round.
Sophomore Kierra Ettere (Mahopac/Lakeland) leads the Red Dragons with 14 goals and 30 points. Senior Lily Fox (Northport) has scored 10 goals, including the overtime game winner in the SUNYAC finals, and she's tied with sophomore Hanna Corrigan (Barneveld/Holland Patent) for the team lead with nine assists. Sophomore Jamie Snyder (North Syracuse/Cicero-North Syracuse) has scored nine times this fall and Corrigan has eight goals. Freshman goalie Emma Morgan (Whitney Point) has a 0.96 GAA, 14-3 record and six shutouts in 17 starts.
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