Story Created:
May 3, 2008 at 10:21 PM EDT
Story Updated:
May 5, 2008 at 12:28 AM EDT
Colgate Men's Lacrosse Gets Trip To Notre Dame
HAMILTON, N.Y. -- The 12th-ranked Colgate University men’s lacrosse team will travel to South Bend, Ind. to take on sixth-ranked Notre Dame in the first round of the NCAA Tournament on Sunday, May 11 at noon on Alumni Field. The 11th-seeded Raiders earned their first NCAA postseason berth by capturing the automatic bid as the winner of the Patriot League.
The game will be televised live by ESPNU at noon. The station can be found locally on Time Warner channel 108. It is available on channel 609 through DIRECTV.
This will be the second meeting between the two teams in the programs’ histories. Notre Dame captured the win 11-10 in overtime in 1987. It will be the third Great Western Lacrosse League team Colgate will have faced this season. The Raiders also took on Denver and Ohio State in 2008.
Colgate heads into the tournament on a seven-game win streak, which includes an upset win over No. 2 Syracuse in the regular season finale. The No. 12/15 Raiders are 11-5 overall on the season and have defeated a ranked opponent in each of the past four games. The 11 wins ties the program record for wins in a season and is the third consecutive season Colgate has posted 11 victories.
The Fighting Irish enter the tournament after earning the automatic bid by capturing the Great Western Lacrosse League title with a 9-2 win over Ohio State. Notre Dame is 13-2 overall and is ranked sixth in both the USILA Coaches and Inside Lacrosse Media Polls. The Irish are riding a six-game win streak with their last loss coming against conference foe Denver on April 5. Notre Dame is 4-12 all-time in NCAA Tournament history and are hosting for the first time.
The winner of the Colgate-Notre Dame game will face the winner of Syracuse-Canisius in the quarterfinals on Sunday, May 18 at Cornell’s Schoellkopf Field.
Syracuse Staying Home In First Round
SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- The Orange men’s lacrosse team will face MAAC champion Canisius in the first round of the NCAA Division I Men’s Lacrosse Championship on Sunday, May 11 at 7:30 p.m. in the Carrier Dome. The game will be televised live on ESPNU. Syracuse is making its 28th appearance in the NCAA playoffs and was rewarded for a 12-2 regular season with the No. 3 seed in this year’s 16-team field.
The game will mark the first-ever meeting between the Orange and the Golden Griffins, who have won a school-record 10 games and are making their first postseason appearance.
Syracuse is 53-18 all-time in the NCAA Tournament. Its .746 tournament winning percentage is the best in NCAA history and its 53 tournament victories is second all-time behind Johns Hopkins (57). The Orange has 27 previous NCAA invitations to its credit, including 24 straight from 1983-2006. SU advanced to the national semifinals 22 consecutive years from 1983-2004 and has 14 title-game appearances and nine NCAA Championships (1983, 1988-90, 1993, 1995, 2000, 2002, 2004).
The winner of the Syracuse-Canisius game will meet the winner of Notre Dame and Colgate in the quarterfinals on Sunday, May 18 at Cornell’s Schoellkopf Field.
Hamilton Women Earn First Round Bye
CLINTON, N.Y. -- Hamilton College has been selected as one of four regional hosts for the 2008 NCAA Division III women's lacrosse championships tournament on Saturday and Sunday, May 10 and 11.
Hamilton (17-1 overall) received a bye into the regional semifinals and will play the winner of Eastern Connecticut State University and Colby College at Campus Road Athletic Field on Saturday at 2:30 p.m. Those two teams meet in a first-round game on Wednesday, May 7.
The other three teams in Hamilton's regional are Gettysburg College (which knocked out Hamilton in last year's regional final at Gettysburg), Ithaca College and Middlebury College. Ithaca travels to Middlebury in the first round and the winner plays Gettysburg in the regional semis at Hamilton at 11:30 a.m.
The two regional semifinal winners play at Hamilton on Sunday, May 11, at 1 p.m. in a national quarterfinal contest.
Twenty-five teams were selected to participate in the tournament, which does not attach numbers to seedings.
;)
;)
;){kind=small}