CAPE COD, MA -- SUNY Cortland has been selected to host the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Division III Northeast football bowl game and will entertain Union College on Saturday, Nov. 17, at 12 p.m. Tickets for the game are $5 for adults and $3 for all students with ID. There will be no complimentary tickets or passes accepted, nor will there be any advance ticket sales.

Union (5-4) will be making its 17th postseason appearance and fifth in the last eight years. The Dutchmen have played in the NCAA tournament 11 times, including the last two seasons. The Dutchmen were national runner-up in both 1983 and 1989. Union is also 5-0 in ECAC bowl games, with its most recent appearance resulting in a 38-25 win over Hartwick in the 2001 Northwest championship at home at Frank Bailey Field. Head Coach John Audino has led Union to five NCAA and five ECAC playoffs in his 16 seasons, including this year.

Cortland, led by 11th-year head coach Dan MacNeill, finished the regular season 7-3 and tied for first in the New Jersey Athletic Conference (NJAC) standings for the third straight year with a 6-1 record. The College of New Jersey, however, received the NJAC's automatic bid to the NCAA playoffs by virtue of its win over the Red Dragons in late October.

Cortland is making its 13th postseason appearance overall and fifth in the last six years. The Red Dragons have appeared in the NCAA playoffs five times, the last in 2005, and are 4-3 in seven previous ECAC showings. Cortland and Union will be playing for the second time in school history. Union defeated the Red Dragons, 42-14 on November 18, 1989, in the first round of the NCAA tournament on its way to the Stagg Bowl. Both teams are coming off losses last weekend in long-standing rivalry games. Cortland lost 40-17 at Ithaca in the Cortaca Jug game and Union fell 20-14 at home to Rensselaer in the Dutchman Shoes game.

Other ECAC bowl games on Saturday feature Rochester (6-4) at Alfred (7-3) in a rematch of last year's Northwest game, Bridgewater St. (Mass.) (6-3) at Plymouth St. (N.H.) (8-1) in the North Atlantic game, Albright (Pa.) (7-3) at NJAC member Montclair St. (N.J.) (8-2) in the South Atlantic contest, Gettysburg (Pa.) (6-4) at Carnegie Mellon (Pa.) (6-4) in the Southwest game and Waynesburg (Pa.) (8-2) at Dickinson (Pa.) (8-2) in the Southeast title game.