Ithaca College's men's lacrosse and softball teams captured Empire 8 postseason championships and automatic qualifiers into the NCAA Division III tournament. Women's lacrosse earned an at-large bid into NCAA's. Ithaca College's men's lacrosse and softball teams captured Empire 8 postseason championships and automatic qualifiers into the NCAA Division III tournament. Women's lacrosse earned an at-large bid into NCAA's.
The Ithaca College men's lacrosse team will make its 13th all-time appearance in the NCAA Division III tournament when the Bombers host Morrisville State at 4 p.m. Wednesday at Higgins Stadium.
The Bombers earned one of the four top seeds for the tournament along with RIT, Salisbury, and Gettysburg. The men's bracket can be viewed here.
Ithaca (18-1), ranked No. 1 in the country by both the United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association (USILA) and Nike/Lacrosse Magazine, brings a school-record 16-game winning streak into the first-round NCAA game.
The Bombers defeated Stevens 15-11 to win the Empire 8 championship. This is Ithaca's ninth NCAA tournament appearance under longtime head coach Jeff Long, in his 29th season leading the Bombers.
Erin McQuillan lined a two-out two-run single up the middle to lift the nationally-ranked and top-seeded Ithaca College softball team to a 3-2 walk-off win over second-seeded St. John Fisher College and the 2016 Empire 8 Championship on Sunday at Doris Kostrinsky Field.
With the win, Ithaca, which is now 32-8 overall, earned the Conference's automatic bid into the 2016 NCAA Division III Softball Championship and will find out who it will face at 1 p.m. on Monday during the NCAA selection show.
The Ithaca College women's lacrosse team is heading back to the NCAA Division III tournament after securing an at-large berth.
Ithaca (13-5), which lost to St. John Fisher College Sunday afternoon in the Empire 8 championship, will play Regis (Mass.) College in a first-round game Saturday.
This is the Bombers' 10th appearance all-time in the NCAA tournament, and first since 2011, when Ithaca fell to Middlebury 14-7 in the first round. The women's bracket can be viewed here.
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