Wesleyan beat SUNY Geneseo 8-1 in the first round of the NCAA Division III field hockey tournament Wednesday, Nov. 11, and Trinity can clinch the NESCAC's first NCAA football bid with a win over Wesleyan on Saturday, Nov. 14. Merrimack beat top-seeded Fairfield 1-0 in the Metro men's soccer semifinals and plays Sacred Heart for the title Saturday, Nov. 14.

Results, Nov. 8-11

Wesleyan (11-6) scored six second-half goals against Geneseo, the school said, and plays No. 9 Hamilton at Middlebury in the second round Saturday at 2 p.m. Fairfield lost 1-0 to Wagner in its NCAA opener at College Park, Md., despite a 15-6 shot advantage, Fairfield reported. The Stags finished 12-8.

Merrimack scored in the 35th minute to beat top-seeded Fairfield 1-0 and next plays No. 4 Sacred Heart in Fairfield, Conn., on Saturday at 6 p.m. with the conference title and an NCAA berth at stake, Merrimack said. Sacred Heart beat Marist 1-0 in the other semifinal on Ivan Morcillo's 72nd-minute goal, Marist said.

Yale women's basketball beat Loyola (Md.) 71-67 in overtime Tuesday to open 3-0, Yale said. Yale men's soccer, the No. 3 seed, plays No. 2 Penn in the Ivy League semifinals at Cornell on Thursday at 7 p.m., Yale said.

No. 6 Quinnipiac women's hockey beat Sacred Heart 6-1 on Tuesday, Quinnipiac said. New Haven men's basketball beat Army 63-55 the same night, New Haven said, and Southern Connecticut volleyball swept Saint Anselm 3-0 in the Northeast 10 first round, the school said. Connecticut College's Marco Perugini was named NESCAC men's soccer Player of the Year on Wednesday, the school said.

Football and the NESCAC bid

Trinity (8-0) hosts Wesleyan (7-1) at noon Saturday in Hartford. A Trinity win guarantees an NCAA bid, Wesleyan said. Wesleyan needs a win plus an Amherst loss at Williams, also at noon; if Amherst wins, three teams finish 8-1 and the league office breaks the tie by random draw. UConn hosts James Madison at noon on CBS Sports Network, Yale hosts Princeton at noon, and Sacred Heart hosts Bryant at noon.

Week ahead

  • Thursday, Nov. 12: UConn women (No. 4) at No. 17 Ohio State, 6:30 p.m., FS1; Quinnipiac hosts Siena in the Metro women's soccer semifinals at 1 p.m., and Fairfield visits Niagara at 6 p.m.; Sacred Heart men host Central Connecticut, 7 p.m.

  • Friday, Nov. 13: UConn field hockey hosts Lafayette in the NCAA first round, noon; Yale plays UMass at Harvard's Berylson Field in the NCAA first round, 2:30 p.m.; Southern Connecticut plays Bentley in the NE10 volleyball semifinals, 5 p.m.; UConn men host Ohio State in Hartford, 7:30 p.m., TNT.

  • Saturday, Nov. 14: Wesleyan men's soccer hosts Geneseo and Connecticut College hosts UMass Boston in NCAA first-round games, both 11 a.m.

  • Sunday, Nov. 15: Metro women's soccer final, afternoon, site to be determined.

Results are through Wednesday night, Nov. 11, and are limited to games listed as final on school and conference sites. All times are Eastern.