Unbeaten Virginia wins NCAA men’s title
Virginia completed an undefeated season with its fourth NCAA men’s lacrosse title Monday in Philadelphia, beating unseeded Massachusetts 15-7 behind five goals each from Matt Poskay and Matt Ward.
The Cavaliers finished 17-0, the second straight year the NCAA champion was unbeaten. Johns Hopkins went 16-0 last year.
Before a record crowd of 47,062, Massachusetts (13-5) made a game of it for the first half but ultimately could not contain the top-seeded Cavaliers. Virginia spent much of the first half watching its shots sail high and wide.
UMass tied it 5-5 early in the third quarter and pulled to 7-6, but the Cavaliers scored six straight goals to take a 13-6 lead with 9:37 left.
Tennis
Kohlloeffel wins title
Benjamin Kohlloeffel became UCLA’s first men’s NCAA singles champion in 31 years, beating Virginia’s Somdev Devvarman 6-1, 6-4 in Stanford, Calif.
“This is an incredible feeling,” said Kohlloeffel, also the fourth straight German winner. “Seeded No. 1, I could imagine winning it, but you can never plan it. I was really nervous but a good start helped me feel better.”
In the women’s final, California’s Suzi Babos beat Southern California’s Lindsey Nelson 6-4, 6-1 to become Cal’s first women’s singles champion.
“I’m still in shock,” Babos said. “I just need to believe I actually won. I need to know what exactly happened.”
Kohlloeffel, ranked first in the nation since April 4, also became just the second player ever to win the ITA National Indoor Championship and the NCAA title in the same year.
Baseball
Clemson No. 1 seed
Clemson was selected as the top seed for the 64-team NCAA Division I tournament Monday.
The Tigers (46-14), the Atlantic Coast Conference regular-season and tournament champions, will host one of 16 four-team, double-elimination regionals that begin Friday.
The other national seeds, in order, are: Rice (50-10), Texas (40-19), Alabama (41-19), Cal State Fullerton (43-13), Nebraska (42-15), Georgia (41-19) and Georgia Tech (45-16).
Miscellany
Tony Sardisco dies
Tony Sardisco, the former Tulane lineman who captained the AFL’s Boston Patriots in the early 1960s, died Sunday in Shreveport, La., of a massive heart attack. He was 73.
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