San Antonio – Trinity's men's soccer team will host three other teams in the First and Second Round of the NCAA Playoffs on Saturday and Sunday.

Trinity won the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference Tournament with a 2-0 victory over Southwestern University last weekend, earning the league's automatic bid to the NCAA Playoffs. 

The Tigers will open the postseason with a rematch against Claremont-Mudd-Scripps Colleges on Saturday at 7:30 p.m.   Earlier this season, Trinity won 2-0 at Claremont to improve to ???.  Mississippi College and Whitworth University will face off before the Tigers play, at 5:00 p.m. on Saturday.  The winners of both games will meet on Sunday at 6:00 p.m.

Tickets for the weekend's events will be $6.00 for adults/general admission, $3.00 for students and senior citizens, and $2.00 for children (ages 3-12).  Gates will open 90 minutes before the first game begins, and all games will be played on Trinity's campus.

Trinity also played Mississippi College at home earlier this year, winning a 4-0 decision in the second game of the season.  Whitworth is the only team Trinity has seen in the NCAA Playoffs, losing a 1-2 overtime game in the 2005 Quarterfinals.

The Tigers are 31-14 (.689) overall in 15 previous appearances in the postseason, and have made the NCAA Tournament for 11 consecutive seasons.  Trinity lost to the University of Texas-Tyler in the Second Round of the playoffs last year.  The Tigers won the 2003 NCAA Division III Championship, and finished as the runner-up in 2007. 

In his 22nd season with the Tigers, Head Coach Paul McGinlay is the winningest active coach among all NCAA Divisions.  He has led Trinity to the NCAA Quarterfinals on seven occasions in his career.