{"id":1815,"date":"2024-11-13T16:30:12","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T22:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pennsylvaniasports.net\/?p=1815"},"modified":"2024-11-13T16:30:12","modified_gmt":"2024-11-13T22:30:12","slug":"no-1-shippensburg-to-host-ncaa-field-hockey-quarterfinal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pennsylvaniasports.net\/?p=1815","title":{"rendered":"No. 1 Shippensburg to host NCAA field hockey quarterfinal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ba69bd0382286421b2efd19ddc0e9b53\" data-index=\"6\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Above Post Ad 2 -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:inline-block;width:638px;height:70px\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-4024319323781499\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"8631827568\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>Shippensburg Athletics<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>SHIPPENSBURG, Pa. \u2013\u00a0<\/strong>The No. 1-seeded Shippensburg University field hockey team will host No. 8 seed (and No. 10-ranked) Limestone in an NCAA Division II Quarterfinal at 12 p.m.\u00a0<span data-value=\"2024-11-16 16:00:00\">Saturday<\/span>\u00a0at Robb Sports Complex.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shippensburg won the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) Championship last\u00a0<span data-value=\"2024-11-17 16:00:00\">Sunday<\/span>, 1-0 in overtime, to claim an automatic berth in the NCAA Tournament.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Likewise, Limestone won the South Atlantic Conference (SAC) Championship on Sunday, 1-0, by winning a 1v1 shootout over Mount Olive after 80 scoreless minutes. It earned the Saints an automatic berth in the NCAA Tournament.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span data-value=\"2024-11-16 16:00:00\">Saturday<\/span>\u00a0will mark the first NCAA Tournament game played at Shippensburg since 2018; it was an NCAA Quarterfinal in which the Raiders defeated Merrimack, 4-1.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Series History:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">* Shippensburg is 6-0 all-time against Limestone.<br \/>\n* This will be the first time that the two teams have played at Robb Sports Complex; five of the six previous matchups have taken place at neutral sites.<br \/>\n* The two teams last met in 2022 at Limestone; the Raiders won that game 9-0.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>NCAA Tournament Notes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">* Shippensburg is in the NCAA Tournament for the 17th time in school history (2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024).<br \/>\n* Shippensburg is 17-12 all-time in the NCAA Tournament and has won five NCAA Division II national titles (2013, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2021).<br \/>\n* Shippensburg has won six total national championships \u2013 the team&#8217;s first national championship in school history came in 1979, when the Raiders claimed the AIAW Division III national championship to complete a 16-2-3 season that included a school-record 14 shutouts.<br \/>\n* Shippensburg has lost two consecutive NCAA Tournament matches after compiling a streak of 11 straight NCAA Tournament victories that stretched from 2016-22.<\/p>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shippensburg Athletics SHIPPENSBURG, Pa. \u2013\u00a0The No. 1-seeded Shippensburg University field hockey team will host No. 8 seed (and No. 10-ranked) Limestone in an NCAA Division II<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1766,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,495,312,513,23],"tags":[496,516],"class_list":["post-1815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-division-ii","category-field-hockey","category-ncaa","category-shippensburg","category-top-news","tag-field-hockey","tag-shippensburg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pennsylvaniasports.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pennsylvaniasports.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pennsylvaniasports.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pennsylvaniasports.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pennsylvaniasports.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pennsylvaniasports.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1816,"href":"https:\/\/pennsylvaniasports.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1815\/revisions\/1816"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pennsylvaniasports.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pennsylvaniasports.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pennsylvaniasports.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pennsylvaniasports.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}