The SUNY Oneonta field hockey team is poised to make a run at the SUNYAC title and its quest will begin Friday morning at 11am versus top-seeded and host SUNY Cortland in the semifinals of the SUNYAC tournament.  Tomorrow's winner will face the SUNY New Paltz/SUNY Geneseo winner in the championship game on Saturday at 1pm, also at Cortland.

In its third year of holding a conference tournament, the champion will receive an automatic berth to the NCAA Div. III tournament, which begins Wed., Nov. 13 with first round games.  The national championship weekend is scheduled for Nov. 23-24 at L.R. Hill Sports Complex on the campus of Old Dominion University.

Oneonta enters this year's tournament as the No. 4 seed after finishing 3-3 in conference play.  The Red Dragons are 12-7 overall and winners in two of its last three games.  Oneonta has out scored its opponents 65-33 this season while holding a 177-165 advantage in penalty corners.

Individually, Oneonta has seven players who have reached double figures in points including two who have 30+ points.  Junior Andrea Day (Greene/Greene) is having her best season of her collegiate career with 34 points to lead Oneonta.  She has a team best 15 goals and three game-winners.  Classmate Kelcy Forbragd (Camden/Camden) is having a breakout season as well for the Red Dragons; as she is second on the team with a career best 14 goals and 31 points.  Entering this season Forbragd scored a total of seven goals.

Senior Ashley Morgan (Putnam Valley/Putnam Valley) has 24 points on six goals and a team-leading 12 assists.  Junior Sierra Earle (Baldwinsville/Baldwinsville) (13 pts.), sophomore Sara Rattigan (Stormville/Carmel) (13 pts.), and freshmen Erin Butler (Walton/Walton) (15 pts.) and Anna Torri (Niskayuna/Niskayuna) (11 pts.) round out the group of players that have recorded double digits in points.

Junior Tess Tracy (Liverpool/Liverpool) has played the majority of the minutes in goal for Oneonta this fall with 14 starts.  In 922 minutes, she has a 1.82 goals against average and a save percentage of .753.  She is 7-5 with two shutouts.

Sophomore Krista Servedio (Shrub Oak/Lakeland) has started five games in goal for Oneonta this season and has a record of 5-2.  Servedio has a 1.42 goals against average and a save percentage of .800.

Cortland is 13-2 overall and ranked No. 14 in the latest NFHCA Coach's Poll.  In the regular season meeting between the two just two weeks ago at Cortland, Oneonta fell in double overtime 3-2.  A pair of goals by Day gave Oneonta a 2-1 lead in the second half until Cortland scored the game-tying goal with no time left on the clock.  Cortland netted the game-winner in the 93rd minute.

This is the second time that the two teams will be meeting in the conference tournament.  Two years ago, the two locked up in the championship game at Cortland.  In an epic battle, Cortland pulled out a 2-1 victory in the first overtime period.

Oneonta is in search of its first SUNYAC title in the program's history.  The Red Dragons have played in three NCAA tournaments (1984, 1990, 1992).