mabrowndog said:Colin Clive scores twice and Barlow notches another to give Siena a 5-1 lead approaching halftime. The Saints held a similar lead over Marist earlier in the season, and had to hold on for a narrow 9-8 win.
mabrowndog said:High Point scores 77 seconds into the final frame, cutting the Spiders' lead to 6-5.
EDIT - And now they tie it up. 11:00 left in the 4th.
mabrowndog said:And now Goldberg's 2nd of the day puts the Spiders up 8-6. Time out HPU with 2:50 left to play.
mabrowndog said:Albany wins it 20-11 to join Notre Dame & Loyola MD in the NCAA field. Seven more autobids to come, six of them today.
Just to give an overview of the field, six other slots are locks between the other 5 ACC teams (Maryland, Duke, UNC, Syracuse & UVA) and independent Johns Hopkins. That leaves two at-large bids. One will likely go to the loser of tomorrow's Harvard-Penn final in the Ivy. The other would likely come down to either a third Ivy team (Cornell) and a second CAA school (today's Drexel-Hofstra loser).
That's what makes the Big East final so huge. If Villanova pulls off the upset at home and knocks off Denver, that final at-large bid will go to the Pioneers.
mabrowndog said:Miller opens the 2nd-half scoring with his second of the game to give Denver the 7-6 lead just over a minute in.
mabrowndog said:Meanwhile in Columbus, it's been a defensive battle in the last-ever ECAC men's lax final where Air Force jumped ahead 4-1 only to see Fairfield battle back to tie it in the final minute of the first half. USAF has goals from Keith Dreyer, Tommy McKee, Mike Crampton, Kyle Cassidy and Erik Smith. The Stags' scores are from Bryan Barry, Mike Roe, Eric Warden & Colin McLinden, and the knotter-upper from Tristan Sperry just a moment ago.
mabrowndog said:Bobzien comes from behind the net, fights off a full-on rear smothering assault, and falls to his left while firing it in. It's his 2nd of the game, making it 11-6 Denver with 1:17 left in the 3rd.
The Pioneers have 12 of the 17 shots this quarter.
mabrowndog said:Varn gets his 2nd of the game on the man-up, and Hofstra has scored 3 straight to take a 6-5 lead with 9:26 left in the 3rd.