MAY 26, 2025 | composed by STEVE ULRICH

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TOP STORY
1. A Jumbo Repeat

Tufts overwhelmed Dickinson, 25-8, to repeat as DIII men’s lacrosse champions on Sunday night in Foxborough, Mass.

The Jumbos (23-0) scored the first 10 goals of the game and cruised to their 28th consecutive victory - the sixth-longest streak in NCAA men’s lacrosse history.

Brooks Hauser had an eight-point night with four goals and four assists, while Garrett Kelly and Jack Regnery each had a hat trick as Tufts outshot Dickinson, 58-29.

The Red Devils (17-6) received two goals and an assist from Landen Hyatt and Ethan Gess.

» Game Recap
» Box Score 

LACROSSE (W)
2. Four Is Fine For Middlebury

Hope Shue scored twice in the final six minutes to lift Middlebury to a fourth consecutive NCAA DIII women’s lacrosse championship, defeating NESCAC rival Tufts, 10-9.

The Jumbos (21-2) opened the contest with four unanswered goals in the first 6:17 of the contest. A Kelcey Dion tally gave the Panthers (21-1) their first lead of the game (8-7) with 10:21 remaining. After an Emma Joyce tally tied the scored just 76 seconds later, Shue scored on the power-play just inside six minutes to play and found the back of the net again with 2:07 left for the clincher.

It is the 11th national title for Middlebury.

» Game Recap
» Box Score

TRACK AND FIELD
3. Eagles, Engineers Capture Crowns

Wisconsin-La Crosse won its second consecutive and 17th title overall with a resounding victory in the NCAA DIII men’s outdoor track and field championship in Geneva, Ohio, last weekend.

The Eagles were led by senior Sam Blaskowski who won the 100, 200 and ran a leg of the winning 4×100 relay.

MIT rode the performance of Alexis Boykin to win their first-ever women’s title. Boykin broke a 19-year-old DIII record in winning the shot and also posted bronze-medal performances in the discus and hammer throw.

» Team Scoring (M). 1-UW-La Crosse 84, 2-UW-Eau Claire 56, 3-Rowan 44.5, 4-Saint John’s 39.5, 5-UW-Oshkosh 39, 6-Bethel 35, 7-Lynchburg 25, 8-Geneseo 24, T9-RPI 22, T9-Pomona-Pitzer 22.

» Team Scoring (W). 1-MIT 56, 2-Washington U. 47, 3-UW-La Crosse 38, 4-UW-Eau Claire 34, 5-Augustana 31, 6-Chicago 28, 7-Geneseo 26, 8-Centre 24, 9-Elmhurst 22, 10-Wartburg 21.

» Complete Results
» Highlights | Men | Women

GOLF (M)
4. Methodist Surges to Front

Methodist won its 15th DIII men’s golf championship, going back-to-back for the first time since 1998 and 1999.

The Monarchs posted the best team round of the tournament with a six-under 282 to make up an eight-shot deficit and overtake Illinois Wesleyan for the title.

Lynchburg’s Eddie Coffren took medalist honors, carding a final-round 70 to hold off Bethel’s Will Karkoc by a single shot.

» Team Scoring. 1-Methodist 303-298-292-282—1175; 2-Illinois Wesleyan 290-305-290-295—1180; 3-Emory 300-305-282-292—1182; 4-Washington and Lee 298-309-289-287—1183; 5-Carnegie Mellon 298-300-296-291—1185.

» Individual Scoring. 1-Eddie Coffren (Lynchburg) 68-73-69-70—280; 2-Will Karkoc (Bethel) 68-70-75-68—281; 3-Kevin Mu (Emory) 69-73-69-71—282; 4-Leonardo Vieira (Carnegie Mellon) 75-72-71-70—288; 5-Aaron Buck (Redlands) 77-68-72-72—289.

» Complete Results

TENNIS (W)
5. WashU Wins Women’s Team Title

For the first time in program history, Washington U. is the champion of the DIII women’s tennis world, as the Bears edged Pomona-Pitzer, 4-3.

WashU (18-7) captured the doubles point and took a 3-1 advantage on singles victories from Eliana Hanna at #3 and Ally Lin at #4. The Sagehens (17-8) fought back to square the match at 3-3 with wins from Lauren Rha at #2 and a three-setter from Amelia Poor at #5 to set the stage for the deciding point.

After dropping the first set, Nina Moravek battled back to defeat Leticia Bazua Vazuez at #6 by a 5-7, 6-1, 6-2 count for the decisive point.

» Box Score

NEWS YOU CAN USE
6. Lightning Round ⚡️ 

» News. “Guilford College had a mysterious money problem. Each year, the board of trustees would pass a budget, and each year revenue would fall significantly short of projections. “We’re like, ‘What is going on?’” said Jean Parvin Bordewich, who joined the board in 2023. It was only this year - after the provost, chief financial officer, and president left their positions and Bordewich became the fifth president in five years - that she said the board discovered the issue: The school hadn’t been collecting payments from all of its students.”

» Baseball. The field for the 2025 DIII World Series is set with #1 Johns Hopkins, #2 Denison, #3 UW-Whitewater, #4 Endicott, #8 Kean, #9 Trinity TX, #13 Rowan and Messiah advancing to pool play beginning Friday in Eastlake, Ohio.

» Softball. Eight teams competing for the DIII Softball championship are headed to Bloomington, Ill. for the start of pool play on Thursday. #2 Virginia Wesleyan is the top seed and is bracketed with #6 Linfield, #7 Saint Mary’s (Minn.) and Randolph-Macon. #4 Rowan is the second seed and is paired with #5 Trine, #9 Redlands and #10 Texas Lutheran.

» Tennis (M). It will be CMS’ Advik Mareedu and Denison’s Kael Shah in the DIII men’s tennis singles final on Monday.

» Tennis (W). It will be Wesleyan’s Jacqueline Soloveychik vs. NYU’s Jimena Menendez and CMS’ Lindsey Eisenman vs. Emory’s Emily Kantrovitz in the DIII women’s tennis singles semifinals on Monday in California.

TRANSACTIONS
7. Comings and Goings 

EUREKA - Jared Sotelo named head softball coach
LINFIELD - Dan Spencer will step down as head baseball coach. Jordan Harlow named head coach
MARY WASHINGTON - Maddie Taghon stepped down as head women’s lacrosse coach

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