ECFC Champion Mount Ida will travel to Dover, Delaware to face Wesley College at Scott D. Miller Stadium on Saturday, November 17 at noon.
The Mustangs, who are appearing in the NCAA Tournament for the first time, will meet the fifth-ranked Wolverines who have been selected to their eighth consecutive tournament.
Tickets for the first round matchup are $10 for adults and
$5 for children 12 and under.
The Wolverines (8-1) earned the lone Pool B bid to the 2012
tournament, allotted for teams competing either as an independent
or in a conference not eligible for an automatic bid.
The Mustangs (8-2) earned a Pool A or automatic bid to the
playoffs after winning its first Eastern Collegiate Football
Conference Championship with a 52-28 victory over Castleton State
College on Saturday, November 10.
Wesley and Mount Ida have faced off just one time, with the
Wolverine coming out on top, 43-6, on September 18, 1999.
This will be the first time that Mount Ida has traveled to
Dover.
Wesley's 18 NCAA postseason wins over the past six years are
the third most in Division III, trailing only Mount Union and
Wisconsin-Whitewater over that timeframe. The Navy & White have
won the last three NCAA South Region Championships and five of the
last seven.
The winner of the Wesley/Mount Ida contest will face the
winner of the SUNY Cortland/Framingham St. match up. On the
other side of the bracket, Mary Hardin-Baylor hosts Louisiana
College and Franklin travels to Adrian.
The winner of the bracket will face the winner of a bracket
headlined by Mount Union in the national semifinals on December
8.
The semifinal winners compete in the Stagg Bowl for the
Division III National Championship in Salem, Va., on December
14.
Courtesy of Wesley Athletics.
