Monday, November 24, 2014

NCAA Field Hockey Championships

The NCAA Division I and Division III field hockey championship games were held Sunday, and both were won by the same schools that won the very first NCAA championships 33 years earlier.

The University of Connecticut topped Syracuse, 1-0, in College Park, Maryland to capture their second consecutive national title and fourth overall. In 1981,the Huskies defeated top-seeded Massachusetts, 4-1, to become the first women's team to win an NCAA Division I championship in any sport:

STORRS (AP) -- A 4-1 victory over the top-ranked University of Massachusetts on Sunday earned the University of Connecticut field hockey team the NCAA Division I championship. UConn, seeded third in the tournament, handed Massachusetts its first loss of the season.

Also on Sunday, The College of New Jersey earned the school’s 11th NCAA Division III field hockey championship by defeating defending champion Bowdoin, 2-0, in Lexington, Virginia. TCNJ was known as Trenton State College when it collected the 1981 title with a 2-0 win over Franklin & Marshall in Westfield, Massachusetts:

Trenton State put the finishing touches on an undefeated season when the Lions blanked Franklin and Marshall, 2-0, in the finals of the firstr NCAA Division III Field Hockey Championship. Coach Melissa Magee's squad ended the year with a 15-0-2 record, while Franklin and Marshall would up 9-6-1.

There is no chance of the Division II champion being a repeat of 1981, as Pfeiffer University no longer has a field hockey team. This year’s Division II championship tournament is scheduled to get underway Tuesday, with Westchester, Stonehill, Shippensburg, Millersville, LIU Post and 1981-semifinalist Adelphi all in the running.
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