18-05-2025
Tufts men's lacrosse one win away from playing at Gillette Stadium for Division 3 title; women's team advances to quarterfinals
Regnery, a junior from Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., and Ettinghausen, a senior from Rochester, N.Y., have combined for 125 of the 367 goals (34 percent) scored by Tufts this season.
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Parker Merril had a team-high seven ground balls to lead the Jumbos defensively.
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Tufts, which has won 26 straight games including last year's championship, will host NESCAC rival Bowdoin in the semifinals Sunday (7:30 p.m.). The winner gets a spot in the national championship game, which will be held May 25 at Gillette Stadium.
The Polar Bears defeated Christopher Newport, 19-11, in the other quarterfinal in Medford.
In its last game played away from home, Tufts erased a three-goal deficit in the fourth quarter to take a 15-14 double-overtime victory against Bowdoin in the last game of the regular season on April 23.
Tufts hosted the NESCAC Tournament and the first four NCAA Tournament games and would only need to travel about 35 miles for the final in Foxborough.
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In the other semifinal, Dickinson will face RIT, the team Tufts defeated in last year's final.
Earlier in the day, the top-seeded Tufts women's team earned a spot in the quarterfinals with a 16-8 win over Pomona-Pitzer.
Margie Carden had three goals and two assists, Madeline Delaney scored three times, and Allie Zorn added two goals and two assists in the Jumbos' seventh straight win.
Tufts junior Allie Zorn (center) of Bedford winds up for an 8-meter shot during a 16-8 win over Pomona-Pitzer in the NCAA Division 3 third round on Saturday.
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Delaney, a graduate student from Boxford and Brooks alumna, opened the scoring just 49 seconds in. Tufts led 12-1 midway through the second quarter. Zorn, a junior from Bedford, leads the Jumbos with 79 points (57 goals, 22 assists).
Tufts (19-1) will face Salisbury, a 10-5 winner over St. John Fisher, on Sunday (4:30 p.m.) in Medford with the winner heading to Salem, Va., next weekend for the Final Four.
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