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May 20, 2013 | From Staff and Wire Reports
Duke and Denver will join Cornell and top-seeded Syracuse in the NCAA Division I men's lacrosse Final Four this weekend at Lincoln Financial Field. David Lawson scored his career-best fifth goal with 2 minutes, 16 seconds remaining to lift seventh-seeded Duke to a 12-11 win over No. 2 Notre Dame (11-5) in the quarterfinals Sunday in Indianapolis. In their seventh consecutive trip to the Final Four, the Blue Devils (14-5) will play Cornell at 2:30 p.m. Saturday at the Linc. Duke won the national championship in 2010.
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May 20, 2013 | DAILY NEWS STAFF REPORT
THE NCAA men's lacrosse Final Four will be held next weekend at Lincoln Financial Field, and the semifinals now are set. Unseeded Cornell will play Duke at 2:30 p.m. Saturday. Top-seeded Syracuse will play fourth-seeded Denver at 5 p.m. Saturday. The national championship game will be played at 1 p.m. Memorial Day. In yesterday's quarterfinals, Eric Law scored with 13 seconds left to cap Denver's big comeback in a 12-11 win over North Carolina in Indianapolis. Denver trailed by as many as six goals and was down five at halftime.
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May 19, 2013 | Associated Press
Steve Mock scored seven goals while Rob Pannell added two goals and six assists as unseeded Cornell routed third-seeded Ohio State, 16-6, in the NCAA men's lacrosse tournament quarterfinals in College Park, Md., on Saturday. The Big Red (14-3) will face the winner of Sunday's Duke-Notre Dame match in next Saturday's semifinals at Lincoln Financial Field. Pannell moved into second on the NCAA's career points list with 347 points, six shy of former Duke attackman Matt Danowski's career record of 353. Mock scored all seven of his goals in the first half, including three in a span of 85 seconds as the Big Red broke things open.
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May 18, 2013 | The Inquirer Staff
No player would want it any other way, but there is an unintended consequence that comes with Archbishop Carroll's long streak of Catholic League girls' lacrosse titles. "It actually puts some pressure on the girls," coach Lorraine Beers said. "No one wants to be the one that breaks it or loses the streak. " There was no need for worrying about that Thursday. Archbishop Carroll beat St. Hubert, 20-2, in the Catholic League semifinals at Neumann University. Carroll will go for its 13th straight championship Monday against Cardinal O'Hara at Neumann at 6 p.m. O'Hara advanced to the title game by beating Archbishop Wood, 10-5, on Thursday.
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May 18, 2013 | By Tyler R. Tynes, Inquirer Staff Writer
The winners of Saturday's quarterfinals in the NCAA Division I women's lacrosse championships will head to Villanova for the semifinals on May 24. The championship game is slated for May 26 at Villanova Stadium. The Division II and III semifinals and title games are both Saturday and Sunday in Owings Mills, Md. Maryland, undefeated in 20 games, is the top seed in Division I and will host unseeded Duke (14-5) on Saturday. No. 4 Syracuse (17-3) will host No. 5 Florida (18-2)
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May 18, 2013
The men's lacrosse teams that will play for the NCAA Division I championship in Philadelphia will be determined this weekend. Winners of the quarterfinals Saturday and Sunday will advance to the semifinals at Lincoln Financial Field next Saturday at 2:30 and 5:30 p.m. The championship game is set for May 27 at 1 p.m. at the Linc. On Saturday, No. 1-seeded Syracuse will face unseeded Yale, and No. 3 Ohio State will meet unseeded Cornell at Maryland's Byrd Stadium. On Sunday, No. 4 Denver is set to play No. 5 North Carolina, and No. 2 Notre Dame will take on No. 7 Duke at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis.
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May 16, 2013 | By Rick O, Inquirer Columnist
After focusing on lacrosse the last three years, Pete Auteri approached La Salle skipper Joe Parisi last December about a possible switch to baseball. "I told him, 'What you're trying to do is difficult,' " Parisi said. "But I said, 'We're going to give you a shot.' He went out and earned it. " Wednesday afternoon, with Auteri producing a two-run single to right field in the sixth inning, the host Explorers turned back Father Judge, 6-4, in a Catholic League first-round playoff in Wyndmoor.
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May 16, 2013 | By Chris Melchiorre, For The Inquirer
Brittany Read remembers Lauren Regan as the coach who turned her into a goalie in seventh grade. "She saw something in me, and if it wasn't for her I don't know if I would have ever done it," said Read, a junior who is set to play goalie in college for the University of Louisville. Many Eastern girls' lacrosse players can tell similar stories about Regan, who coached most of team's juniors and seniors in youth lacrosse before coaching them in high school. Stories like Read's were the driving force behind the team's trip to Regan's home before this season.
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May 16, 2013
Tim Kemner is quick to talk about how much he loves lacrosse. It's a point that's easy to understand just by watching him play the game. The Kingsway senior looks as if he's having fun. He'll bounce shots, sneak around the net, cut through lanes, spin, dive, or rifle shots as strongly as any area player. Kemner is one of South Jersey's most creative goal scorers - and one of the area's few Division I recruits. He will play for Monmouth next season, a dream come true, to be sure.
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May 16, 2013 | The Inquirer Staff
Neumann fell to Farmingdale State, 7-2, on Wednesday in the first game of the NCAA Division III baseball regional in Auburn, N.Y. The fifth-seeded Knights (29-14) will face No. 8 Moravian (24-18) in a tournament elimination game Thursday morning. Moravian lost to top-seeded Ithaca, 11-2, on Wednesday. Buddy Elgin scored on a Rams error in the top of the sixth. In the eighth, Bill Pace (Cardinal O'Hara) doubled, Matt Sheneman singled, and Andrew Snow (Penncrest) drove in Pace with a pinch-hit single.