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Boston Globe
29-05-2025
- Sport
- Boston Globe
Tufts men's lacrosse started the season under a cloud of controversy. It finished with perfection.
What followed was the most dominant season in the program's history. Tufts finished 23-0, capping the year 'I think our guys really didn't have a choice but to move on and be focused,' said coach Casey D'Annolfo, a Tufts alumnus. 'I think if anything at all, it kind of made us more more resilient, and sort of more exclusive to the outside. I think it made us a tighter-knit group and a more resilient group.' Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up The Jumbos' success started in midfield with junior Jack Regnery, the Division 3 Player of the Year, who led the NESCAC with 103 points. Tufts overwhelmed opponents with its scoring, firing in 418 goals — more than 100 more than any other NESCAC team. Advertisement Tufts junior Jack Regnery was the Division 3 Player of the Year. Daniel Murphy/Melrose High School Tufts had a couple of scares — mainly in overtime wins over No. 3 Christopher Newport University in March, and No. 10 Wesleyan and No. 6 Bowdoin (both double OT) in April — but nobody could get one over on the Jumbos. Advertisement 'When we encountered things during the season that were challenging, or in years past would have been considered as adversity … it sort of paled in comparison to what we went through in the fall,' D'Annolfo said. 'So I think it calloused us in a way, and I think it made us more resilient in the springtime." By the time the postseason arrived, any thought that Tufts would be seriously challenged vanished. The Jumbos romped through the NESCAC tournament, winning each game by at least nine goals, including a 12-goal demolition of Wesleyan for the championship. Then came the NCAA Tournament. Rhodes College was first, victim of a 15-7 defeat. Next was No. 17 St. Lawrence, whose 14-8 loss was the closest any team would get to dethroning the champion. No. 7 Gettysburg College went down, 17-8, in the quarterfinals. Fifth-ranked Bowdoin perhaps looked likeliest to give Tufts a real challenge in the semifinals, having come closest to an upset this season. Instead, the Polar Bears were subjected to a 26-11 demolition. All that was left to do was finish the job in Sunday's title game at Gillette Stadium, and the Jumbos did it convincingly. Tufts scored the first 10 goals and led, 14-3, at halftime, never being challenged by No. 11 Dickinson College in the final stretch of the Jumbos' road to perfection. Tufts set records for goals and margin of victory in a Division 3 championship game. Casey D'Annolfo, a 2006 Tufts graduate, has guided his alma mater to two national titles. Daniel Murphy/Melrose High School The final calculus on the Tufts postseason: eight games, eight wins, a combined margin of victory of 90 goals, and a dominant fifth national championship for the program. 'When we were playing those games, after the first couple minutes, we're like, 'OK, we're dialed, we're ready to go,' ' D'Annolfo said. 'So, you know, was I surprised? No, I wasn't totally surprised, but I guess I was just happy that they were ready to answer the call.' Advertisement For a group of 16 seniors (including five Massachusetts natives), four seasons in Medford finished with a record of 82-7, three NESCAC titles, two national championships, and one perfect season. 'The senior class is incredible,' D'Annolfo said. 'They're incredibly resilient. We were wire to wire, No. 1 in the country, so you're getting everybody's best shot, the expectations from everybody are super high. And every time their best was needed, they provided it ... Certainly, statistically, the most successful group to ever come through the program and they just answered every call at every turn.' Amin Touri can be reached at
Boston Globe
19-05-2025
- Sport
- Boston Globe
Tufts men's lacrosse headed to Gillette Stadium for shot to defend Division 3 national championship
On Sunday, the Jumbos, who needed two overtimes to win at Bowdoin in their regular-season finale, trailed eight minutes in following two goals from Patrick Fitzgerald. They scored seven of the next eight, however, and Garrett Kelly, Max Ettinghausen, Brooks Hauser, and Norwell's Will Emsing all went on the scoresheet multiple times as the Jumbos built a 14-7 halftime lead. Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up Fitzgerald finished with five goals for Bowdoin (16-3), which reached the national semifinals for the second straight season. Three of the school's five all-time NCAA appearances have come in the last four seasons. Advertisement Callum Wood (New Canaan, Conn.) scored a pair of late goals for Tufts, with Westwood's Ethan O'Neill, Brookline's Beau Keough, and Harrison Stockdale (Darien, Conn.) adding single tallies. Conner Garzone made 12 saves for Tufts. The grad student's .630 save percentage ranks second in the nation. Advertisement … Margie Carden scored three goals and Bedford's Allie Zorn had two as the Tufts women's lacrosse team held off visiting Salisbury, 8-7, in the NCAA Division 3 quarterfinals. Sophie Powless (30) and the Jumbos are headed to the Division 3 semifinals in women's lacrosse as well. Daniel Murphy Tied at 5 through three quarters, Emma Joyce, Boxford's Madeline Delaney, and Zorn put the Jumbos (20-1) up by three with 9:33 to go. Salisbury (16-5) got within 8-6 on the following possession, but despite a half-dozen shots and holding the majority of the possession, couldn't get within one until Lauren Hackett's goal with 12 seconds left. The Sea Gulls won the ensuing draw, but time ran out and set up a Tufts meeting with Gettysburg (19-3) on Friday in Salem, Va. The other semifinal will feature fellow NESCAC foes Colby (17-3) and Middlebury (19-1), the three-time defending national champions who had a 67-match winning streak broken in the conference tournament.
Boston Globe
18-05-2025
- Sport
- Boston Globe
Tufts men's lacrosse one win away from playing at Gillette Stadium for Division 3 title; women's team advances to quarterfinals
Regnery, a junior from Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., and Ettinghausen, a senior from Rochester, N.Y., have combined for 125 of the 367 goals (34 percent) scored by Tufts this season. Advertisement Parker Merril had a team-high seven ground balls to lead the Jumbos defensively. Get Starting Point A guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday. Enter Email Sign Up Tufts, which has won 26 straight games including last year's championship, will host NESCAC rival Bowdoin in the semifinals Sunday (7:30 p.m.). The winner gets a spot in the national championship game, which will be held May 25 at Gillette Stadium. The Polar Bears defeated Christopher Newport, 19-11, in the other quarterfinal in Medford. In its last game played away from home, Tufts erased a three-goal deficit in the fourth quarter to take a 15-14 double-overtime victory against Bowdoin in the last game of the regular season on April 23. Tufts hosted the NESCAC Tournament and the first four NCAA Tournament games and would only need to travel about 35 miles for the final in Foxborough. Advertisement In the other semifinal, Dickinson will face RIT, the team Tufts defeated in last year's final. Earlier in the day, the top-seeded Tufts women's team earned a spot in the quarterfinals with a 16-8 win over Pomona-Pitzer. Margie Carden had three goals and two assists, Madeline Delaney scored three times, and Allie Zorn added two goals and two assists in the Jumbos' seventh straight win. Tufts junior Allie Zorn (center) of Bedford winds up for an 8-meter shot during a 16-8 win over Pomona-Pitzer in the NCAA Division 3 third round on Saturday. Daniel Murphy Delaney, a graduate student from Boxford and Brooks alumna, opened the scoring just 49 seconds in. Tufts led 12-1 midway through the second quarter. Zorn, a junior from Bedford, leads the Jumbos with 79 points (57 goals, 22 assists). Tufts (19-1) will face Salisbury, a 10-5 winner over St. John Fisher, on Sunday (4:30 p.m.) in Medford with the winner heading to Salem, Va., next weekend for the Final Four. Keith Pearson can be reached at
