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Concordia-Moorhead celebrates their victory over Carleton in PKs in the MIAC Women's Soccer Championship game. Photo by Katrina Styx, d3photography.com

Tonight marks the start of the NCAA Division III soccer playoffs. and the first game kicks off with a men’s match at 5 pm Eastern tonight between Transylvania and Lynchburg, and a women’s match at 8 pm ET (5pm Pacific) between Redlands and Chapman.

We’ll have our best soccer playoff coverage to date with six photographers confirmed for matches around the country:

1. Joe Bergman is covering the SCIAC tournament, starting with the Redlands/Chapman tilt tonight and the winner at Cal Lutheran on Saturday
2. Jeffrey Levy will be at the TCNJ regional
3. Daryl Tessmann will be at the UW-Whitewater regional on Saturday
4. Larry Radloff will be at the UW-Oshkosh regional
5. Scott Pierson will be covering the Macalester regional victors on Saturday
6. I will be at UW-Whitewater for the match between the Saturday victors.

We’ll also have some football covered this weekend with Matt Milless at the CORTACA game (Cortland State vs. Ithaca), Joe will be at the Occidental / Cal Lutheran game on Saturday, too, and I will be at the Monon Bell rivalry game between Wabash College and DePauw University – the 117th matchup between these two teams in the oldest football rivalry game in the Midwest.

Basketball, around the corner

Basketball season is right around the corner. November 15 is the earliest day the NCAA allows Division III teams to schedule a regular season game (they can play up to two scrimmages prior – often against teams from other divisions). This will make the number of sports we have coverage for in a news environment to twelve.

1. Men’s Basketball
2. Women’s Basketball
3. Men’s Soccer*
4. Women’s Soccer*
5. Football*
6. Div I Men’s Ice Hockey
7. Div I Women’s Ice Hockey
8. Div III Men’s Ice Hockey
9. Div III Women’s Ice Hockey
10. Wrestling
11. Men’s Swimming & Diving
12. Women’s Swimming & Diving

* denotes fall sports in playoffs

Wow, that’s a lot. And the baseball season starts in February. We will be working the Division III Men’s Frozen Four at Ridder Arena in Minneapolis for USCHO, the Division I Men’s Frozen Four at the XCel Energy Center in April for CollegeHockeyNews.com, the early rounds of the Div III men’s and women’s basketball playoffs for D3hoops.com, the Stagg Bowl for D3football.com and the men’s and women’s soccer championships for D3soccer.com in December. A busy few months ahead for us, including the MIAC Swimming and Diving Championship and a few other conference meets that we’re going to try and finalize the next few months.

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We’re all over the place this week.

Well, not really, but we’re really busy. And another blog to come covering rivalry games and the interest things seen on the sidelines and in the games, the drama that makes them all the more fun (some coverage in this week’s D3football Around the Nation podcast).

Football
No. 19 St. John’s hosts No. 4 St. Thomas – Photos by Ryan Coleman, Scott Pierson, Tim Ward and Greg Kremer. And possibly a guest appearance from Pat Coleman of D3football.com (in video interviews below)

No. 2 Mount Union hosts No. 8 Ohio Northern – David Rich
Redlands hosts No. 23 Cal Lutheran in a night game – Joe Bergman
Methodist hosts Maryville (Tenn.)  – Bruce Lee
Wisc.-Oshkosh hosts Wisc.-La Crosse in a night game – Larry Radloff

Soccer
St. Thomas hosts No. 15 Wisc.-Whitewater, Men’s – Caleb Williams
Methodist hosts Shenendoah, Men’s – Bruce Lee
Wisc-Oshkosh hosts N0. 10 Wisc.-Stevens Point, Women’s [gallery] – Larry Radloff
Bethel hosts Concordia-Moorhead, Men’s [gallery] – Ryan Coleman
Bethel hosts No. 19 Concordia-Moorhead, Women’s [gallery] – Ryan Coleman
Macalester hosts Carleton, Men’s [gallery] – Ryan Coleman
Augsburg hosts St. Olaf, Men’s [gallery] – Ryan Coleman

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We’ve got a fairly well packed week ahead of us.

But before I go there, you should go here and vote for Thiel: http://www.post-gazette.com/polls/default.asp?pollID=3829. Thiel vs. a High School football team – who will win? I’m going to file this under the “Are you kidding me??” header.

Football
No. 4 St. Thomas vs. Concordia-Moorhead (Scott Pierson) [gallery]
No. 9 Coe vs. No. 7 Central (Ryan Coleman) [gallery]
Augsburg vs. No. 19 St. John’s (Caleb Williams and Tim Ward) [gallery]
(RV) Wisc.-Stevens Point vs. Albion (Larry Radloff) [gallery] – the first Pink football game in college football history
Union vs. Rochester (Matt Milless) [gallery]

Soccer
St. Thomas vs. St. Scholastica (Ryan Coleman) [gallery] – Sept 21
Hamline vs. Cornell (Ia.) (Ryan Coleman) [gallery] – Sept 21
Methodist vs. Shenandoah (Bruce Lee) [gallery] – Sept 25

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Fall sunset over Wabasha, Minnesota. Photo by Ryan Coleman, d3photography.com

As we enter Week 3 Our photographers are turning in their beach towels for jackets. With the leaves starting to turn and the chill in the air it is clear that summer is coming to a close and the fall has arrived. The d3photography staff will be out and about this weekend stopping the action of the best in Division III athletics. Check back often for the latest galleries as they will be updated throughout the weekend.

We have a few games in so far but will be posting the photos from our shooters tomorrow afternoon. Check back then.

Football:
Otterbein vs. Ohio Northern [gallery]
St. John’s vs. Concordia-Moorhead [gallery]
Wisconsin Lutheran vs Minnesota-Morris [gallery]

Women’s Soccer:
St. Catherine’s vs. St. Thomas [gallery]
Macalester vs. Concordia-Moorhead [gallery]
Hamline vs. St. Olaf [gallery]
Bethel vs. Saint Mary’s (Minn.) [gallery]

Volleyball:
Carleton vs. Waldorf [gallery]
Grinnell (Iowa) vs. Waldorf [gallery]
Macalester vs. Carleton [gallery]

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Photo by Ryan Coleman, d3photography.com

I’m a little late on this post, but I have a bunch of photos from our photographers from week two of the 2010-2011 sports season.

Football
No. 1 Wisc.-Whitewater vs. Dakota State [gallery]
Wisc.-Oshkosh vs. No. 2 Mount Union [gallery]
No. 24 Cal Lutheran vs. No. 4 Linfield [gallery]
Ithaca vs. Union [gallery]
Gustavus Adolphus vs. Wartburg [gallery]
Occidental vs. Puget Sound [gallery]
Augsburg vs. Martin Luther [gallery]
Hamline vs. Pacific Lutheran [gallery]
Pomona-Pitzer vs. Whitworth [Coming Soon]

Men’s Soccer
Augsburg vs. Clarke [gallery]
Macalester vs. Nebraska Wesleyan [gallery]

Volleyball – Augsburg Invitational
St. Thomas vs. Wisc.-Eau Claire [gallery]
St. Thomas vs. Northwestern (Minn.) [gallery]
St. Benedict vs. Wisc.-Eau Claire [gallery]
Macalester vs. Central [gallery]
Augsburg vs. Edgewood [gallery]
Wisc.-Eau Claire vs. Edgewood [gallery]

Photos below courtesy of: David Rich, Daryl Tessmann, Larry Radloff, Dan Harris and Ryan Coleman

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Jay Priest collected 47 yards on three receptions for No. 11 Ohio Northern in the kickoff game of the 2010 Div III football season. Photo by David Rich, d3photography.com

Our first event is in the books: Ohio Northern defeated Wisc.-River Falls 35-21 to kickoff the 2010 NCAA Division III football season. David Rich was there, submitted a few photos with more to come later on tonight. Check back here over the weekend for select photos from each of the games we are covering.

Events on the schedule:

Football

No. 1 Wisc.-Whitewater hosts Adrian (Mich.) [gallery]
St. Norbert hosts No. 5 St. Thomas (Minn.) [gallery]
No. 7 Central hosts Wisc.-Oshkosh [gallery]
No. 8 Wittenberg vs. Olivet [gallery]
No. 9 St. John’s (Minn.) hosts Northwestern (Minn.)
No. 11 Ohio Northern hosts Wisc.-River Falls [gallery]
Wartburg hosts No. 17 Monmouth (Ill.) [gallery]
Augsburg hosts Concordia (Wisc.) [gallery]
Crown hosts Carleton [gallery]

Soccer

Mens – Macalester hosts Northwestern (Minn.) [gallery]
Mens – Hamline hosts Wartburg [gallery]
Mens – Macalester hosts Loras [gallery]
Womens – Macalester hosts Loras [gallery]

Volleyball

Union hosts Sage [gallery]
Skidmore vs. Sage [gallery]

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Photo gallery inside. (continue reading…)

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