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“Seniors Brooks Hauser and Jack Regnery each tallied five points and sophomore goalkeeper Jack Old stopped 17 shots as the No. 1 Tufts University men's lacrosse team won its sixth NCAA title in program history with a 17-11 win over No. 10 Rochester Institute of Technology Sunday at Scott Stadium on the campus of the University of Virginia.

The title was the Jumbos (22-1) third consecutive, becoming the first time since Salisbury University in 2003-05 to earn three NCAA crowns in a row. Almost more impressive is the record that this senior class finishes with, as Tufts has gone 85-5 over the past four campaigns.

Regnery was named the tournament’s Most Outstanding Player.”

» What They’re Saying. “It’s been a pretty incredible journey with this group, 85-5 record across four years, and enjoyed every minute of it,” head coach Casey D’Annolfo said. “At the end of their freshman year, they had to walk off the field having lost the national championship, and I think it’s pretty cool that they get to walk off as a senior class winning the national championship.”

A three-goal spurt in the third quarter turned a 5-4 deficit into a 7-5 lead and propelled Middlebury to its fifth consecutive DIII women’s lacrosse title as the Panthers downed conference rival Wesleyan, 8-6.

Caroline Adams was named the tournament’s Most Outstanding Player and contributed two goals and an assist in the final. It is Middlebury’s 12th NCAA women’s lax title, equaling the 12 won by TCNJ for most-ever in NCAA competition.

» Why It Matters. “Sunday’s win extended Middlebury’s current postseason run to 30 straight NCAA tournament wins since 2019, and their 64th straight road or neutral contest victory. The Panthers also registered their fourth undefeated campaign in the last five years and have now won 92 of their last 93 games while playing in the most competitive Division III lacrosse league in the country.”

» What They’re Saying. “We were a little slow to gain our footing today, but we kept it close and started to develop our rhythm and get our confidence as the game wore on,” said Middlebury head coach Kate Livesay. ““It’s not about the numbers,” said Livesay, who owns an incredible 195-12 record as head coach at Middlebury. “For us, it’s just about enjoying the experience and staying hungry. We try to enjoy the process and we like chasing the trophies.”

To the home team goes the spoils.

The University of Wisconsin-La Crosse men’s and women’s track teams did not have to go far with their team championship trophies, as the Eagles swept the DIII outdoor track and field titles at their home complex.

» Individual Champions (M). 100-Kai Smith (Salisbury) 10.14; 200-Smith 20.42; 400-Grant Nelson (Bethel) 45.76; 800-Trevor Richwine (Dickinson) 1:47.39; 1500-Ryan Hagan (Geneseo) 3:44.29; 5K-Nathan Tassey (Roger Williams) 14:02.77; 110H-Luke Schroeder (UW-La Crosse) 13.42; 400H-Blake Postler (UW-Eau Claire) 49.88; Steeplechase-Joey Sullivan (UWL) 8:39.22; 4×100-UW-Oshkosh 39.25; 4×400-Geneseo 3:07.62; High Jump-David Brown (Rowan) 2.15m; Pole Vault-Peter Lichtenberger (Washington U.) 5.25m; Triple Jump-Aryan Shrivastava (Chicago) 15.50m; Shot Put-Gage Stankiewicz (UW-Eau Claire) 18.77m; Hammer-Owen Fremeau (Olivet) 63.85m; Javelin-Damitrius Hester (Rowan) 74.94m; Decathlon-Kale Hobart (Central) 7257.

» Individual Champions (W). 100-Sydney Radigan (Calvin) 11.48; 200-Radigan 23.43; 400-Sara Schermerhorn (Hope) 54.19; 800-Annika Paluska (Williams) 2:06.87; 1500-Haley Schoenegge (Vassar) 4:16.73; 5K-Ainara Sainz De Rozas (Concordia WI) 16:08.15; 100H-Aryianna Garceau (UMass Boston) 13.28 (DIII record); 400H-Alivia Henkel (North Central) 58.65; Steeplechase-Sophie Bull (Calvin) 10:04.18; 4×100-UW-La Crosse 45.57; 4×400-UW-La Crosse 3:40.69; High Jump-Avery Baker-Schlendering (Ohio Northern) 1.79m; Triple Jump-Imani Ogunribido (Illinois Wesleyan) 12.83m; Shot Put-Amblessed Okemgbo (Whitworth) 14.48m; Hammer-Erika Ezumba (Johns Hopkins) 60.11m; Javelin-Kayla Pelletier (Hartford) 45.73m; Heptathlon-Olivia Bohlen (Central) 5158.

» Team Scores (M). UW-La Crosse 106, Rowan 85, UW-Oshkosh 55, Geneseo 39, UW-Eau Claire 34.

» Team Scores (W). UW-La Crosse 53, Washington U. 42, Johns Hopkins 38, Calvin 36, Centre 34.

» Complete Results

Emory broke its own NCAA championship record on its way to defending its Division III women’s golf championship at the Desert Willow Golf Resort in Palm Desert, Calif.

Leading by just a single shot entering the final 18 holes, the Eagles posted a four-under-par 284 and finished with a seven-shot advantage over rival Carnegie Mellon to join Methodist and Rhodes as the only women’s golf programs to win three or more national championships.

Emory posted a four-day total of 1,154 strokes - bettering its own NCAA DIII record team total by 14 shots set last season.

Carleton’s Carter Sichol captured individual honors with a final round 70 to edge the Tartans’ Emma Wong and Alyssa Lim by a single stroke.

» Championship Scoreboard

The pairings are set as eight teams are set to descend on Classic Auto Group Park in Eastlake, Ohio, the home of the Division III Baseball Championship, colloquially known as the Division III World Series.

Three teams from Region 7 should bring in more fans as they are all within a three hour drive. Six of our participants will be looking for their first DIII Championship and one of this six will play in the Championship series as past winners (Rowan and Salisbury) are in the same bracket.

The following pairings and seedings, as two brackets of four teams meet in double-elimination play, with the winners advancing to the best-of-three Division III Championship Series.

The pairings, including game times for first-round action on Friday, May 29, and a preview.

Bracket 1
No. 8 Johns Hopkins (37-12) vs. No. 10 Baldwin Wallace (36-10), 10 a.m. EDT
No. 1 Denison (45-1) vs. No. 15 East Texas Baptist (38-11), 1:15 p.m.* EDT

Bracket 2
No. 5 Rowan (37-5) vs. No. 16 Adrian (37-12), 4:45* EDT
No. 7 Salisbury (37-9) vs. No. 8 Endicott (40-11), 8:00* EDT

The eight teams that will be participating in the Division III softball championship are set for Salem, Va. this weekend.

Bracket 1
No. 1 Virginia Wesleyan vs. No. 17 Rowan, 11 a.m. EDT
No. 5 Linfield vs. No. 4 Redlands, 1:30 p.m.

Bracket 2
No. 2 Trine vs. No. 9 Belhaven, 4 p.m.
No. 10 Simpson vs. No. 11 Mount Union, 6:30 p.m.

» Tennis (M). The men’s singles final is set for today at 10 a.m. CDT in Chattanooga, Tenn., as top-seed Advik Mareedu of Claremont-M-S takes on second-seed Michael Melnikov of Swarthmore. The doubles championship pits the Gustavus Adolphus duo of Gage Gohl and Tyler Haddorff against Ethan Green and Kael Shah of Denison.

» Tennis (W). Babson senior Matia Cristiani won the DIII women’s singles title with a 6-1, 6-1 victory over Lia Melvin of Johns Hopkins in the final. Lindsey Eisenman and Rebecca Kong of Claremont-M-S defeated Cristiani and Sandra Sikarulidze, 6-1, 2-6, 7-6(3) for the doubles crown.

» Legal. “A man is being acquitted of a fatal shooting of a St. Olaf football player. Terrell Anthony Ranzy was acquitted of second-degree felony murder and second-degree manslaughter. In September 2025, 20-year-old Matthew Lee was shot and killed in his St. Paul home in an apparent exchange of gunfire. The court found "no credible evidence" that Ranzy shot first and that he was acting in self-defense.

» Merger. “The New York State Board of Regents approved the merger of Russell Sage College and Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences to become Russell Sage University. Pending all regulatory approvals, Russell Sage University will welcome its first class as the region’s premier healthcare-forward comprehensive university in fall 2027. Russell Sage won’t start using the university name until then.”

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