Men's Lacrosse

Edited: May 4, 2009

NCAC Champion Denison (12-2) and runner-up Ohio Wesleyan (10-4) have earned berths in the 21-team NCAA Division III Men's Lacrosse Tournament. The Big Red host the Battling Bishops in the first round on Wednesday. It is the eighth time the two teams will meet in the NCAA tournament. Denison makes its 17th appearance in the national championship tournament and fifth in a row. OWU is also making its fifth straight NCAA tournament appearance. The Battling Bishops have been selected to the national tournament field in seven of the past 10 seasons and 28 times overall. This season, OWU has not lost since falling to the Big Red on April 5.

The Denison/Ohio Wesleyan winner advances to face Roanoke (17-1) in the second round in Virginia on Saturday. Saturday's winners advance to the national quarterfinals on May 13. The semifinals are set for May 17, while the championship game, scheduled for May 24, will be held at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts, and will be broadcast live on CBS College Sports Network at 12 noon.

Denison has a 5-16 (.238) NCAA record, and has finished as high as third twice (1999, 2001). Ohio Wesleyan has an 18-22 (.450) national tournament record and has finished as national runner up four times (1987, '99, ‘89 and '93).

Notes:
Sophomore Emmett Jones (Colorado Springs, CO/Air Academy) scored six goals in DENISON'S 24-6 defeat of St. Vincent in the final week of the regular season. Junior Brady Burton (Dublin, OH/Jerome) collected five ground balls against St. Vincent, then scored six times in a 12-9 loss to fourth-ranked Stevenson. Senior Dan Maude (Wayne, PA/The Haverford School) scored the 100th goal of his career to become the fifth DU player since 1991 to reach that plateau ...

KENYON finished the season with a pair of North Coast victories – 21-7 over Oberlin and 12-6 over Wooster. Senior Devin Catlin (Charlottesville, VA/Western Albemarle) scored twice and added five assists against the Yeomen, then registered another pair of goals and an assist against the Fighting Scots. He finishes the season with 34 assists, and a school-record 114 in his career. He recorded at least one point in all but two of the 57 games he played in his Lord career. He has 213 career points, second all-time at Kenyon, and 99 career goals, ninth-best in school history ...

OBERLIN senior Jesse Kane (Roslyn Hts., NY/Waldorf School) scored a career-high four goals in the final game of his career, but the Yeomen still lost to Mount St. Joseph, 16-14. Oberlin also fell to Kenyon, 21-7, in the final week ...

Junior attacker Rob Young (Langhorne, PA/Council Rock South) led OHIO WESLEYAN to a pair of North Coast victories and sole possession of second place in the final standings. Young led the Battling Bishops with three goals and an assist in an 11-5 defeat of Wooster. He added another five scores in a 13-7 downing of Wittenberg. Young finished the final week of the regular season with eight goals and one assist ...

WOOSTER fell to 7-6 overall with a pair of conference losses. Senior attacker Mark Weschler (Silver Spring, MD/Our Lady of Good Counsel) had a four-goal, two-assist week. He finishes his career with 175 points, sixth-best in school history. He led the Fighting Scots in scoring in three of his four seasons, including this year's 41 points.