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ITHACA'S INVITATION: The Ithaca College men's lacrosse team (14-4) has been picked to host a first-round playoff game in the NCAA Championship Tournament. The Bombers will host Montclair State (16-1) Wednesday, May 7 at 4 p.m. at Higgins Stadium. The winner of that game will travel to Rochester Institute of Technology, who earned a first-round bye, on Saturday, May 10. Live stats, a live webstream and a WICB Radio broadcast will be available for Wednesday's game.
 
TICKET INFORMATION: Tickets prices will be $6 for general admission and $3 for senior citizens and students with identification. Children 12 and under are free.
 
ITHACA vs. 2014 NCAA PLAYOFF FIELD: The Bombers have faced three other 2014 NCAA Tournament qualifiers this season. Ithaca dropped a 15-11 decision to RIT on March 1, fell at Cabrini 20-11 on March 29 and suffered an 8-7 overtime loss to visiting Cortland on April 2.
 
SERIES RESULTS: The Bombers and the Red Hawks have met once. The inaugural game went the way of the Bombers, 17-5, on March 21, 1998. Ithaca owns a 29-21 record all-time against the Tigers. Against the top half of the bracket, Ithaca leads the series against: Colorado College 1-0, New England College 2-0, Western New England 2-0 and Keuka 5-0. The Bombers are 1-1 against Springfield, 0-4 against Union and 12-37 against Cortland. Ithaca has never played Amherst, Endicott, Keene State, Tufts or Emmanuel.
 
ITHACA IN THE NCAA PLAYOFFS: The Bombers are making their 12th appearance in the NCAA playoffs and first since 2008. They have compiled a 9-11 record in those tournaments. It is Ithaca's eighth appearance under head coach Jeff Long. Ithaca's last NCAA appearance was during the 2008 season when the Bombers advanced to the semifinal round for the fourth time in program history. Ithaca defeated Williams 17-10 and Western New England 13-12 in overtime before falling at Cortland, 16-5.
 
THE 2014 NCAA PLAYOFFS: The Division III championship provides for a 30-team, single-elimination tournament. The 30 teams include 20 winners of conferences whose champions have been awarded automatic qualification, including Empire 8 champion Ithaca and Liberty League champion RIT, five teams that are either independents or members of conferences whose champions do not receive automatic bids and five teams from automatic-qualification conferences that did not win their conference title. Fourteen first-round games will be held on Wednesday, May 7 and the second round-games will be played Saturday, May 10. The quarterfinals will be played Wednesday, May 14 and the semifinals will be held on Sunday, May 18. Except for the championship game, all games will be played on the campus of one of the competing teams. This year's finalists will advance to Baltimore for the championship game at M&T Bank Stadium, which will be played at 1 p.m. on May 25.
 
ITHACA LEADERS: Senior Pat Slawta paces the Bomber offense with a team-high 43 goals. He adds 22 assists for 65 points. Junior James Manilla has dished out a Bomber-best 34 assists and chips in 23 goals for 57 points. Rookie John Januszkiewicz has 53 with 38 scores and 15 feeds. Senior Brandon Henne has won 171-of-291 faceoffs for a win percentage of .588. He has 96 ground balls. Defensively, sophomore Eli Gobrecht has caused 33 turnovers and junior Jimmy Ryan 20. Named the Empire 8 Tournament MVP, sophomore Scott Sidnam has made 151 stops in goal for a save percentage of .551. The Bombers, who are outscoring opponents 238-137, have won seven of their last eight contests.