Amherst won two games on the road last week, holding each foe to fewer than five goals, and then-No. 1 Salisbury fell flat at then-No. 4 TCNJ to make the Mammoths No. 1 for the first time this season in this week's Nike/US Lacrosse Division III Women's Top 20. Amherst completed a journey from not being ranked in the preseason in this space nor in the Intercollegiate Women's Lacrosse Coaches Association poll in part with a suffocating defense that has held its opponent to the note above on seven occasions this season.
PHOTO BY KEVIN P. TUCKER
TCNJ's Brooke Lionetti guards Salisbury's Lindsey Wagner during the Lions' 10-1 shutdown of the nation's former No. 1 team Friday. Lionetti accounted for three of TCNJ's 14 caused turnovers.
The Mammoths' ascension coincides with the Lions' 10-1 humbling of the Sea Gulls Friday night in Ewing, N.J. TCNJ harassed Salisbury into 20 turnovers and allowed it to get off just 10 shots. Middlebury won at then-No. 6 Tufts to move up to No. 3, and York continued its late-season run by knocking off then-No. 3 Gettysburg.
Mary Washington, Trinity, Washington & Lee, and Franklin & Marshall won conference games to round out the top 10.
There aren't many matchups of ranked squads this week, but those appearing here will need to avoid stumbles in league play to assure themselves of favorable seedings in upcoming conference tournaments.
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| 1 | Amherst | 13-1 | 2 | 4/25 at No. 9 Trinity |
| 2 | TCNJ | 13-2 | 4 | 4/24 at Kean |
| 3 | Middlebury | 12-2 | 5 | 4/25 at Williams |
| 4 | Salisbury | 15-1 | 1 | 4/25 at St. Mary's |
| 5 | York | 12-3 | 7 | 4/25 Marymount |
| 6 | Gettysburg | 12-2 | 3 | 4/25 McDaniel |
| 7 | Mary Washington | 13-3 | 8 | 4/25 at Catholic |
| 8 | Trinity | 10-4 | 9 | 4/25 No. 1 Amherst |
| 9 | Washington & Lee | 12-4 | 10 | 4/28 Roanoke |
| 10 | Franklin & Marshall | 13-3 | 11 | 4/25 Dickinson |
| 11 | St. John Fisher | 12-2 | 12 | 4/24 Alfred |
| 12 | Tufts | 11-3 | 6 | 4/25 at No. 14 Bowdoin |
| 13 | Cortland | 11-4 | 14 | 4/24 Brockport |
| 14 | Bowdoin | 11-3 | 15 | 4/25 No. 12 Tufts |
| 15 | Wesleyan | 9-5 | 17 | 4/25 at Connecticut Col. |
| 16 | William Smith | 12-4 | 18 | 4/28 Skidmore |
| 17 | Ithaca | 11-4 | 19 | 4/25 at Hamilton |
| 18 | Geneseo | 11-3 | 13 | 4/24 Fredonia |
| 19 | Claremont-Mudd-Scripps | 16-1 | NR | 4/28 Pomona-Pitzer (SCIAC semi) |
| 20 | Rowan | 12-2 | 16 | 4/24 Rutgers-Camden |