College

Chad Palumbo, Colin Burns and Ryan Croddick powered the Tigers to a 16-9 win, completing Matt Madalon’s decade-long rebuild and restoring a lacrosse blueblood to the top.

When Princeton goalie Ryan Croddick is seeing the ball well, Chad Palumbo says, "This team feels unstoppable." That certainly proved true championship weekend.

Unheralded relative to certain teammates, Colin Burns has proven as pivotal as any of them in Princeton's pursuit of its first national title in a quarter century.

His first assignment out of Air Force Academy? Grad school. The destination? South Bend. Playing lacrosse in the national championship? Gravy.

It was another overtime classic. This time, Tampa did not call timeout and Tommy Ortega delivered the game-winning goal for the Spartans' second NCAA championship.

An early injury and a pair of overturned goals provided the spark for Northwestern.

Battling a torn ACL, Gresham couldn't watch from the sidelines in the NCAA championship game.

Winning a third straight title meant joining Salisbury (2003-05), Middlebury (2000-02) and Hobart (1980-91) as the only Division III men's teams to win at least three titles in a row. 

Middlebury beat NESCAC rival Wesleyan 8-6, its third victory over the Cardinals this season, to win another NCAA championship

The Fighting Irish scored five man-up goals and added a man-down tally in a 15-7 victory over Syracuse. They'll play Princeton for the national championship.