There will be a new champion in NCAA Division II women’s lacrosse after Adelphi rallied to beat defending champion LeMoyne 12-11 in double overtime in the East Region championship.
In a wild game that featured four separate five-goal runs, Adelphi struck last.
Training 11-7 with 13:15 left in the second half after LeMoyne’s Erin McMullen scored three straight goals to cap a five-goal spurt for the Dolphins, Adelphi responded.
Adelphi scored four straight, tying the game with just 32 seconds remaining in regulation on Chelsea Abreu’s goal.
LeMoyne goalie Hannah George and Adelphi goalie Emma Lemanski each turned away free position shots in the first six-minute overtime period, but in the second overtime period, Kole Pollock scored the game-winner with just 4.6 seconds on the clock to send the Panthers to the national semifinals.
McMullen led LeMoyne with four goals and Sydney Meagher had a goal and three assists.
Adelphi, the 2017 national champion, will meet unbeaten Regis in the first national semifinal on Friday in Allendale, Mich., at Grand Valley State University.
Regis (Colo.) improved to 20-0 with a 16-14 victory over Colorado Mesa in the Midwest Region championship. The Rangers never trailed in the contest and led by as many as five goals on three separate occasions, but had to hold off a late rally by the Mavericks as they scored the final three goals of the game.
Seven different players scored multiple goals for Regis, led by Jessica Berg and Andrea Macalalad with three goals each. Sarah Myres had a team-high six points on two goals and four assists.
Olivia Hayden led Colorado Mesa with four goals and Kiley Barber had three goals and three assists.
In the other half of the bracket, West Chester will meet Queen’s in the semifinals.
West Chester routed East Stroudsburg 16-5 in the Atlantic Region championship to advance to the NCAA semifinals for the first time since the 2012 season when it fell to C.W. Post in the national championship game.
The Rams, who lost a regular season game to East Stroudsburg in overtime before beating the Warriors in the PSAC championship game last weekend, fell behind 2-0 in the first five minutes of the game, but then scored five straight goals to take control early.
Sami Barnett led West Chester with five goals, Ryan McKinney and Tara Morrisey each had three goals and an assist, and Julianne Clemens made 11 saves.
Hana Cicerelle led East Stroudsburg with three goals.
Queens is headed to the NCAA semifinals for the first time in school history after beating Rollins 14-13 in overtime in the South Region final. Queens, the No. 4 seed in the South Region had upset top-seeded Tampa on Friday and followed up with another upset.
Hanna Scott scored the game-winning goal 1:31 into the overtime period to send the Royals to the next round.
The back-and-forth game featured six ties and neither team led by more than two goals. Rollins used a thre-goal lead late in the second half to take a 13-12 lead with 7:23 left on Nikki Stumpf’s goal. Kara Blanchard answered for Queens with 3:00 left to send the game tie it and Chase Brokaw’s save on a Rollins free position shot with 16 seconds left sent it to overtime.
Brokaw made 14 saves in the game and the save at the end of regulation was the 400th of her career. Blanchard had a team-high seven points for Queens with three goals and four assists. Scott and Kyleigh Masteran each had four goals.
Kallie German had four goals and two assists for Rollins and Stumpf had a hat trick.
NCAA Division II Quarterfinals
Adelphi 12, LeMoyne 11 (2 OT)
Queens 14, Rollins 13 (OT)
Regis (Colo.) 16, Colorado Mesa 14
West Chester 16, East Stroudsburg 5
NCAA Division II Semifinals
May 17 – Allendale, Mich.
Adelphi vs. Regis, 11 a.m.
West Chester vs. Queens, 3 p.m.
Division III Field Down to 16 Teams
The second round of the NCAA Division III Women’s Lacrosse Championship yielded little drama with all 16 games decided by at least four goals. Highlights from the day:
• Liza Barr set a NCAA Division III tournament record with 13 assists and had 15 points overall as two-time defending NCAA champion Gettysburg beat Westminster 24-1.
• Isabelle Sennett had five goals and Amherst used a six-goal run midway through the second half to break open a one-goal game and beat Claremont-Mudd-Scripps 14-8.
•.Catholic tied a school record with 17 wins, beating Mount Union 16-6 on the road behind four goals and two assists from Julia Clementi.
• In the closest game of the day, Kasey Donoghue had a first half hat trick and scored her 100th career point to lead The College of the New Jersey past Colby 11-7.
• Tufts set a school single-season record with 17 wins, shutting out Plymouth State 18-0. It was Tufts second shutout victory of the season and just the fourth in NCAA Division III tournament history.
• Washington and Lee tied a school record with its 15th straight win, beating Ithaca 18-9 behind five goals from Dani Murray.
NCAA Division III Second Round
Amherst 14, Claremont-Mudd-Scripps 8
Bowdoin 13, William Smith 5
Catholic 16, Mount Union 6
Colorado College 21, George Fox 7
Denison 19, Transylvania 6
Franklin & Marshall 17, Springfield 3
Gettysburg 24, Westminster 1
Illinois Wesleyan 14, Hamline 4
Middlebury 22, Johnson & Wales (R.I.) 3
Salisbury 16, Lebanon Valley 3
St. John Fisher 18, Brockport State 7
TCNJ 11, Colby 7
Tufts 18, Plymouth State 0
Washington and Lee 18, Ithaca 9
Wesleyan 11, Mary Washington 6
York 17, Misericordia 8
NCAA Division III Third Round
May 18 - Sites to be announced
Middlebury vs. Bowdoin
Illinois Wesleyan vs. Franklin & Marshall
Gettysburg vs. Denison
Wesleyan vs. Washington and Lee
Salisbury vs. Colorado College
Catholic vs. Amherst
Tufts vs. TCNJ
St. John Fisher vs. York
NAIA
In the NAIA National Invitational on Saturday night in Grand Rapids, Mich., Savannah College of Art & Design (SCAC) won its third straight championship, beating Benedictine 18-12. Maggie Lortz had a school-record 23 wins in the victory. Jordan Mitchell had three goals and three assists and was the tournament MVP.
NJCAA
Natalie Sonntag’s goal in overtime gave Anne Arundel Community College a 19-18 victory over Harford Community College on Saturday in the Region 20 championship game of the National Junior College Athletic Association. Both teams advance to the four-team national tournament which Anne Arundel will host next weekend.
The other two semifinalists come from Region 3, where Onondaga Community College beat defending national champion Monroe Community College 15-7 in the regional final.
WCLA
The US Lacrosse Women’s Collegiate Lacrosse Associates (WCLA) finished up the season on Saturday in Virginia Beach with Pitt claiming the Division I crown and Loyola repeating in Division II.