The Oneonta State women's soccer team has been selected to the NCAA Division III Tournament for the 11th straight year, the school announced Monday.
The Red Dragons (11-5-3) will meet Skidmore College at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at Williams College in Massachusetts.
O-State fell to eventual SUNY Athletic Conference champion Geneseo, 1-0, this past Friday in a SUNYAC semifinal.
Geneseo, O-State and Plattsburgh earned berths to the national tournament from the SUNYAC.
It will be O-State's 12th overall appearance in the national tournament. The 11 straight is the longest streak of any college in New York in any division. The Red Dragons won the national championship in 2003, when it hosted the tournament. That marked the last time the championship weekend was held on a campus site.
The other first-round match pits Williams and Keuka College.
The winners advance to meet at 1 p.m. Sunday.
Sunday's winner will advance to sectional play. The sites for sectionals will be determined at the end of this weekend.
The NCAA D-III championship weekend for men and women will be Dec. 4-5 at Blossom Soccer Stadium in San Antonio, Texas.
{"HeadlineLight14"/}Field Hockey
Harwick in ECACs
Hartwick's field hockey team earned a berth in the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference Mid-Atlantic Tournament and drew the eighth seed.
The Hawks (11-7) plays at top-seeded Wilkes (15-3) in a quarterfinal at 2 p.m. Wednesday.
This is the eighth time Hartwick has reached the ECAC Tournament under coach Anna Meyer and first since 2005. The Hawks won ECAC titles in 1992 and 1995.
A victory would put Hartwick in the semifinals this weekend, which would be held this weekend at the highest remaining seed.
In other quarterfinal games Wednesday , No. 7 Gwynedd-Mercy (11-6) visits No. 2 Montclair; No. 6 Catholic (11-6) travels to No. 3 Kean (11-4); and fifth-seeded Wesley (12-9) visits No. 4 Alvernia (11-8).
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O-State athletes of the week
Wrestlers Ed Galvin and Joey Hauser were named Oneonta State's athletes of the week.
Galvin, a junior, helped the Red Dragons to second place at the King's College Invitational this past weekend. He finished second at 133 pounds.
Galvin, who went into the tournament unseeded, won his first four matches to reach the final. He lost in the championship, 6-5, to RIT's Adam Wallander.
Hauser finished second at 141. Also unseeded, Hauser won four matches, including a 12-10 overtime victory over Paul Hancock of USMA, to reach the final. He lost that match to Army's Tyler Sinisgalli, 9-2.
Cobleskill athlete of the week
Freshman volleyball player Samantha Burkart was named Cobleskill's athlete of the week Monday.
A setter, Burkart helped the Fighting Tigers to three wins at the North Eastern Athletic Conference Tournament this past weekend.
Cobleskill beat No. 10 Penn State-Abington before losing to No. 2 SUNYIT. The Fighting Tigers then beat Penn State-Harrisburg and Cazenovia.
Burkart averaged 7 assists and 2.7 digs in 13 tournament games.
Cobleskill finished 13-14.
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