Indianapolis, Ind. - After maintaining its No. 2 regional ranking three straight weeks and earning a repeat berth to the NE10 Championship final, the Adelphi University women's soccer team has acquired the East Region's No. 2 seed in the 2023 NCAA Division II Championship, the field was announced Monday night.

The Panthers have racked up double-digit victories this fall for the first time since 2017 -- the last occasion when Adelphi was tabbed as a host for the NCAA Tournament.

This Friday and Sunday, Motamed Field will entertain four teams for first- and second-round competition. Tickets are $10 for adults, $5 for senior citizens and students with valid ID, and $2 for children under the age of twelve. Any children under the age of two will be admitted free.

The tournament will commence with an early 10 a.m. start between No. 3 seed Jefferson University and No. 6 seed Molloy University, followed by a 1 p.m. contest between No. 2 seed Adelphi and No. 7 seed University of Bridgeport.

The two winning teams will meet Sunday at 12 noon on Long Island for the right to advance to the NCAA East Region Championship final at the Atlantic Region's highest remaining seed on either Nov. 30 or Dec. 1.

All four schools were once bitter conference rivals in the then-New York Collegiate Athletic Conference, when Jefferson went by its previous moniker of Philadelphia University.

Adelphi and Bridgeport haven't met since 2019, but the two teams are an even 8-8-2 all-time against one another. The Purple Knights, despite under new leadership since Magnus Nilerud's departure to Fordham, have won five of the last eight meetings.

Of the entire four-team regional, Adelphi only met Molloy this fall back on Sept. 2 and prevailed 1-0 on Madison Apicella's 22nd-minute goal. Molloy and Jefferson are less than a month removed from their head-to-head meeting, in which Molloy claimed a 3-0 victory at home.

Now three-time reigning NE10 Tournament champion and No. 1 ranked The College of Saint Rose earned the top overall seed, behind an unblemished 19-0-1 record. The Golden Knights will receive a bye and face the winner of the first-round match between No. 4 seed Roberts Wesleyan University and No. 5 seed Southern New Hampshire University.

You may purchase your tickets for this weekend's NCAA Tournament in advance through Hometown Ticketing -- which will be made available at the following link.