And just like that, just four teams remain in Division II men\u2019s lacrosse.<\/p>\n
The quarterfinals were all played Wednesday at 4 p.m. Eastern, setting the stage for Sunday\u2019s national semifinals.<\/p>\n
A look at who is one step closer to a national championship:<\/p>\n
NORTH REGION<\/p>\n
The Cinderella run is over. Seventh-seeded Saint Michael\u2019s fell at the ends of third-seeded Molloy 12-7 behind two goals and two assists from Jake Taylor and a hat trick from Brian Green. John Basile made 15 saves.<\/p>\n
Molloy burst out to a 4-0 lead and maintained at least a two-goal lead for the entire game. That lead never shrunk to less than four in the second half.<\/p>\n
The Lions advance to play two-time defending national champion Adelphi, which had little trouble with Northeast-10 rival Pace in the second half in a 12-5 win.<\/p>\n
Up 6-3 at the half, the Adelphi defense locked in for the second half, allowing just two scores. Christian Tomei\u2019s 15-save performance was surely a big part of that \u2014 as were the collective efforts necessary to cause 14 turnovers.<\/p>\n
In a display of balanced offense, five players scored two goals for the Panthers \u2014 Braden Donnellan, Kyle Lewis, Carter Linkletter, Michael Durnin and Vincent McDermott.<\/p>\n
SOUTH REGION<\/p>\n
Anderson is still dancing.<\/p>\n
The seventh-seeded Trojans took down sixth-seeded Lenoir-Rhyne 9-7 by shutting out the Bears in the fourth quarter and scoring the final three goals of the game \u2014 the last two of which came from Radyn Badraun, who scored five times.<\/p>\n
Lenoir-Rhyne appeared to be on cruise control with a 4-1 first-quarter lead, but Anderson battled back to knot the score at 5 entering halftime.<\/p>\n
Aiden Dixon gave Anderson a 6-5 just five seconds into the third quarter, but Lenoir-Rhyne followed with tallies by Donovan Powell and Morgan Madish to flip the one-goal lead to its side.<\/p>\n
Following 11 straight scoreless minutes, Jacob Kirchhofer tied it at 7 for Anderson, and then Badraun finished the comeback. The Trojans advance to the semifinals to take on top-seeded Tampa, which beat Lewis 12-9.<\/p>\n
Lewis had the Spartans on the ropes early with a 3-1 lead in the first quarter, but Tampa eventually battled back to take a 6-5 lead and maintain its advantage from there.<\/p>\n
NCAA DIVISION II
QUARTERFINAL SCORES<\/p>\n
North<\/p>\n
(1) Adelphi def. (4) Pace 12-5
(3) Molloy def. (7) Saint Michael\u2019s 12-7<\/p>\n
South<\/p>\n
(1) Tampa def. (4) Lewis 12-9
(7) Anderson def. (6) Lenoir-Rhyne 9-7<\/p>\n
NCAA DIVISION II
SEMIFINAL SCHEDULE<\/p>\n
Both semifinals scheduled for Sunday, May 17, at 1 p.m. Eastern.<\/p>\n
(3) Molloy at (1) Adelphi
(7) Anderson at (1) Tampa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"And just like that, just four teams remain in Division II men\u2019s lacrosse. The quarterfinals were all played…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270188,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-270187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}