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Lynx draw Amherst College in NCAA First Round

INDIANAPOLIS - The NCAA has revealed its 2010 Women's Volleyball Tournament bracket, and Lesley will take on Amherst College on Friday, November 12 at 5:30 p.m. in the Lynx first-ever tourney match-up.

The 2010 New England Collegaite Conference Champion Lynx (19-9) will travel to host site Springfield College to take on Amherst (24-3), the No. 1 team in the NCAA Division III New England Region and No. 30 team nationally in last week's Bison/AVCA Division III Coaches Poll.

Lesley, featuring three-time NECC Player of the Week Amanda McCracken and reigning Player of the Week Kaitlyn Miller, enters its first NCAA Tournament on the heels of Saturday's 3-2 NECC Championship victory over Daniel Webster. Winners of five in a row, TJ Hajjar's could face either Tufts (22-10) or the host Pride (29-4) should the team advance.

Download a complete NCAA Tournament bracket here. Links for live video and live in-game statistics will be available free of charge as the event approaches.

Below is a full list of additional conference champions and automatic qualifiers:

Conferences and Teams Receiving Automatic Qualification

Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference Pittsburgh-Bradford 

American Southwest Conference     Hardin-Simmons 

Capital Athletic Conference     Frostburg State 

Centennial Conference     Franklin & Marshall

City University of New York Athletic Conference Hunter

College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin     Carthage 

Colonial States Athletic Conference Cabrini

Commonwealth Coast Conference     Roger Williams 

Commonwealth Conference     Lebanon Valley

Empire 8 Ithaca

Freedom Conference     Eastern 

Great Northeast Athletic Conference Johnson & Wales (Rhode Island)

Great South Athletic Conference Piedmont

Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference Mount St. Joseph 

Iowa Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Wartburg

Landmark Conference Juniata

Little East Conference Massachusetts-Boston

Massachusetts State College Athletic Conference Westfield State

Michigan Intercollegiate Athletic Association Hope

Midwest Conference Beloit

Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference St. Olaf

New England Collegiate Conference Lesley University

New England Small College Athletic Conference Middlebury

New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference Coast Guard

New Jersey Athletic Conference Richard Stockton 

North Atlantic Conference Maine Maritime 

North Coast Athletic Conference Wittenberg 

North Eastern Athletic Conference Gallaudet

Northern Athletics Conference Dominican (Illinois)

Northwest Conference Whitworth

Ohio Athletic Conference Heidelberg 

Old Dominion Athletic Conference Randolph-Macon

Presidents’ Athletic Conference Thomas More

Skyline Conference Polytechnic (New York)

Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Cal Lutheran

Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference Colorado College

St. Louis Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Greenville

State University of New York Athletic Conference SUNY Cortland

Upper Midwest Conference Northwestern (Minnesota)

USA South Athletic Conference     Christopher Newport

University Athletic Association Emory

Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Association Wisconsin-Platteville