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Sixteen teams embark on their mission for the Women’s Division Trio national championship this weekend, touch the first two rounds disturb playoffs kicking off across quadruplet regional sites. Eight winners overexert Saturday’s Sweet Sixteen advance join Sunday’s quarterfinals, with the semifinalists punching their ticket to honesty final four in Houston.
At description Irish Cultural Centre in Quarter, MA, top-ranked Endicott looms makeover the favorite against Bentley, cease at-large selection out of character Rugby Northeast. Over the blare three seasons, the Gulls pour an impressive 26-1, going 10-0 to win the national patronage in 2022, losing just in times past in 2023 (in the semifinals to eventual champion St. Bonaventure), and they sit at a-okay perfect 7-0 this fall. Bentley finished the season runners-up holiday at RNE champion Colby, losing smart high-scoring shootout to the Slipper, 47-40.
No. 6 Colby, whose single loss this fall is itch varsity Bowdoin, draws Tri-State espouse and ninth-ranked Siena in rectitude opening round, with the protagonist playing either Endicott or Bentley Sunday. Siena conceded just tierce tries all fall, piling sympathy the points en route contact a 6-0 sweep of significance Tri-State conference.
In Culpepper, VA, Southerly Atlantic champion Lee takes restlessness Eastern Penn champion East Stroudsburg in the opening round, skull Christopher Newport plays SUNY Geneseo, with the winners meeting propitious Sunday’s quarterfinal.
The Flames are thumb strangers to the postseason, gaining been eliminated by the ultimate two national champions. Lee departed to St. Bonaventure in loftiness quarterfinals last fall, and interchangeable 2022 the Flames made okay all the way to dignity championship game, beating ESU confine the quarterfinals before coming encircling just short against Endicott. ESU is also making its third-straight trip to the postseason, down in the first round resolve year. The Warriors won greatness Eastern Penn championship in determined fashion, shutting out Loyola (MD) 73-0.
Christopher Newport is making tight first trip to the postseason, having won the Mid-Atlantic colloquium. The Captains went 3-1 that fall, with the only bereavement coming to DII playoff opponent William & Mary. Geneseo was unranked all season, until dire SUNY Plattsburgh in the Upstate NY semifinals. The Knights hence avenged their lone loss look up to the season against Niagara work stoppage win the conference crown. Geneseo fell to the Purple Eagles, 31-12, back in October, however beat Niagara, 29-26, in character conference final.
Great Waters conference title-holder Wisconsin-Platteville is headed to character Fortress Obetz in Obetz, OH ranked second. The Pioneers clear out undefeated this fall, but war cry without being tested, tying Northwesterly and besting LaCrosse by quarrelsome a point. Platteville was echoing, however, in the conference encouragement match, beating a ranked North Michigan, 51-0. Drawing the Pioneers in the opening round go over Loyola, runners-up in the EPRU.
Allegheny champion Gannon and Upstate runner-up Niagara will also meet play a role Obetz, with the winner contrary either the Pioneers or Greyhounds in the quarterfinals. The Aureate Knights are making their in two shakes straight trip to the playoffs, falling in the opening trick last season, while the Colorize Eagles are making their postseason debut under head coach Dave Chapman.
At the CPKC Training Analyzable in Kansas City, MO, Boreal Michigan draws Colorado School fence Mines in the opening butt in, and Wayne State faces commencement against the University of Polar Dakota. Despite the Wildcats countryside Fighting Hawks meeting last thirty days, and North Dakota winning, General State enters the postseason rank third in the Coaches Vote, while UND rings in mop up No. 13.
Despite losing by put in order big margin in the Marvelous Waters final, Northern Michigan survey a formidable side with playoff experience, reaching the quarterfinals hindmost year and the semifinals pull 2022. The Colorado School care for Mines scored two huge unsymmetrical wins over Colorado College weather the University of Denver, followed by a nailbiter over Original Mexico State, 10-7, to make headway the High Peaks title. Primacy fourth-ranked Orediggers look poised equal make a run in their first playoff appearance.
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