CORTLAND, N.Y. -- The Elizabethtown College men's soccer team will make its 26th all-time appearance in the NCAA Division III Championship tournament Saturday night at 7:30 when it faces Williams College in a First Round game at Cortland.

Blue Jay fans can follow the game by using the live video and stats links above, or by navigating to the men's soccer schedule page.

Elizabethtown (10-4-4) earned its place in the 62-team field as an automatic qualifier after winning the Landmark Conference Championship, 1-0, over Catholic last Sunday. The Blue Jays head into the tournament unbeaten in 13 consecutive games (10-0-3) since Sept. 15.

Landmark Conference Player of the Year Gilbert Waso has produced a team-high 24 points on seven goals and 10 assists. The senior forward ranks 14th in Division III in assists and 19th in assists per game (0.56). Junior JD Haaf has 14 points on the year (five goals, four assists) and freshman Garrett Winchilla has supplied five goals.

Thirteen different players have scored at least one goal for 36th-year head coach Skip Roderick and 17 have at least one point this season.

Defensively, the Blue Jays have frustrated their opponents. Led by Landmark Conference Defensive Player of the Year and All-Landmark First Team pick Mitchell Gochnauer, First Team keeper Brian Gately and Second Team defender Danny Sullivan, E-town hasn't allowed more than one goal in a game during its current unbeaten streak. The Blue and Gray lead the Landmark with nine clean sheets and rank 55th nationally in shutout percentage (.500).

Gately owns a league-best 0.89 goals against average (84th in DIII) and eight shutouts. The Lancaster native also ranks second in save percentage (.766) and goals allowed (15).

Williams received an at-large berth to the tournament after dropping a penalty kick shootout to Colby in the New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC). The Ephs and Mules played to a scoreless draw through 110 minutes, but Colby emerged with a 4-3 edge in the shootout.

The Ephs bring a 10-5-3 overall record into the tournament and are 6-2-2 in their last 10. Williams, the 1995 national champion, is making its 19th trip to the "Big Dance." Head coach Erin Sullivan was the goalkeeper on the Ephs' national championship-winning squad.

Like Elizabethtown, Williams has gotten balanced scoring this fall with 13 goal-scorers. Senior Greg Andreou and junior Chris Fleischer are tied for the team-lead with four goals apiece. Fleischer has a team-high 12 points. It should be a good matchup in goal, too, where the Ephs' Aaron Schein has a 0.67 goals against average, .789 save percentage and eight shutouts.

The only previous meeting between Elizabethtown and Williams in men's soccer came all the way back in 1971. The Ephs defeated E-town, 3-2, in the NCAA College Division Tournament.

Elizabethtown and Williams are joined in their four-team pod by host No. 6 Cortland (15-2-3) and New England Collegiate Conference (NECC) champion Newbury (11-4-4). The Cortland/Newbury game will precede Elizabethtown/Williams at 5 p.m. Saturday's winners will meet in the Second Round on Sunday.