Nov. 9, 2006

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The Notre Dame women’s soccer team (20-0-1) – ranked No. 1 in all four national polls since early in the 2006 season – has been selected as one of four national No. 1 seeds and thus will have the chance to play at home through the first four rounds of the NCAA Championship, as long as the Irish can maintain their winning ways … ND will open its quest for the program’s third NCAA title (second in the past three years) on Friday night, Nov. 10, at Alumni Field, which will serve as the site of three total women’s soccer games this weekend … Friday’s pair of first-round games will feature Wisconsin-Milwaukee versus Michigan at 5:00 p.m. EST, followed by ND versus Oakland (Mich.) at 7:30 … yhe winners of those games then will return to Alumni Field for a second-round game on Sunday, Nov. 12, at 1:00 p.m. … tickets are $7 for adults and $3 for children, students and senior citizens – with the first 100 Notre Dame/Saint Mary’s/Holy Cross students admitted free of charge … ND owns a 35-11-1 all-time record (.755) in the NCAAs (28-3-0 at Alumni Field) … the Irish just won their 10th BIG EAST regular-season title and then won the BIG EAST Tournament for the ninth time, after a 2-0 semifinal vs. Marquette and 4-2 final vs. Rutgers (both at UConn).

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