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BREVARD, N.C. – The NCAA has announced the complete 64-team field for the upcoming 2023 NCAA DIII Men's Soccer Tournament, as the Brevard College men's soccer team (7-8-4) will head back down to Atlanta, Georgia for a rematch of a regular season meeting vs. No. 9 Emory University (11-3-3), as the Tornados and Eagles will square off on Saturday at 1 p.m. at the Woodruff P.E. Center Soccer Field.
The Tornados, who received an automatic bid into the national tournament after repeating as USA South Conference Tournament champions, will match up with the Eagles for the second time this season. Brevard held a 1-0 first-half lead on the nationally-ranked Emory squad back on September 23, before the Eagles used a pair of second-half goals to snatch the win, 2-1.
The winner of the Brevard/Emory contest will advance to the second round of the tournament on Sunday at 3 p.m. and take on the victor of the Colorado College/Oglethorpe match.
Brevard College men's soccer team, who was the fourth seed in the USA South Tournament, captured its second consecutive USA South Conference championship with a dramatic 8-7 penalty kick shootout win over host and no. 2 seed N.C. Wesleyan after a 1-1 draw on Saturday afternoon in Rocky Mount, North Carolina.
Freshman
Jerick Moreno scored the championship-clinching penalty kick that set off an ecstatic celebration for Brevard student-athletes, coaches and fans alike. To set up the game-winning opportunity, sophomore goalkeeper
Matheus Rossi made the only save of the shootout with the score tied 7-7 in penalty kicks. Junior defender
Adan Miller scored Brevard's lone goal off a corner kick from senior
Ryan Lynch in the 17th minute.
Lynch was named the tournament's Most Valuable Player. Rossi, Miller, senior
Rocco Barbon, senior
Marcos Silva and sophomore
Caue dos Santos were also named to the USA South Conference All-Tournament Team.
BC men's soccer becomes just the third team in Brevard's NCAA history to win a conference championship (2010 BC Men's Basketball, 2022 BC Men's Soccer), and the men's soccer program becomes the first program to ever appear in consecutive NCAA Tournaments in school history. This year's championship trophy marks BC's third in four seasons (Spring 2021 USA South West Division Tournament Champions, 2022 USA South Conference Tournament Champions).
The national tournament consists of a classic 64-team field, dedicating 41 slots to automatic qualifiers and the remaining 23 berths to at-large candidates chosen by the selection committee. Four semifinalists will advance to Kerr Stadium in Salem, Virginia, where Roanoke College will host the final two rounds of the tournament on Dec. 1 and Dec. 3.
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