HARTFORD, Conn. — The University of Southern Maine was eliminated from the NCAA Division III baseball tournament with a 2-1 loss to Wheaton College on Monday afternoon.

The Huskies (34-11) advance to the regional final with two wins on Saturday before rain forced the postponement of the final two games on Sunday. Wheaton College (19-5) advanced to the final with a 7-4 win over Salve Regina earlier Monday. The Lyons advance to the national championship tournament with the win.

Wheaton took a 1-0 lead in the first inning when Zach DeMattio hit an RBI single to score Jacob Studley. The Lyons made it 2-0 when Andrew Spirito scored on an error.

Cam Seymour homered in the eighth inning for Southern Maine.

Joshua Joy started and pitched four innings for the Huskies, allowing two runs (one earned) on four hits while striking out two and walking one. Ben Lambert pitched five innings in scoreless relief, allowing two hits, while striking out five and walking one.

Gavin Reily earned the win for Wheaton, allowing one run on four hits, while striking out three and walking two in seven innings of work.

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NCAA CHAMPIONSHIPS: Cole Anderson and the Florida State men’s golf team advanced to the match play round of the NCAA Division I team tournament by finishing sixth in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Anderson, winner of three high school state titles while at Camden Hills, also won the Maine Amateur in 2019 and 2020. He is a redshirt sophomore at Florida State and shot a 3-over 73 on Monday to help the Seminoles advance. He finished the four-rounds of stroke play at 16-over par 296 to finish tied for 65th. Each team has five golfers and the four best scores are applied to the team total.

Florida State finished the four rounds at plus-16 for sixth overall and will next play No. 3 Pepperdine in the quarterfinals – which are match-play format – starting at 9:20 a.m. Tuesday. It’s the first time since 2010 that the Seminoles have advanced to match play, and the first time ever for Pepperdine. Schools played four rounds to get down to the final eight with quarterfinals, semifinals and finals set to be played Tuesday and Wednesday with coverage on The Golf Channel.

Arizona State finished 3-under to enter match play as the top seed followed by Oklahoma State (even) and Pepperdine (plus 5).

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VIRGINIA 17, MARYLAND 16: Matt Moore and Connor Shellenberger scored four goals apiece and goalie Alex Rode made a huge save in the final seconds, and Virginia held off previously unbeaten Maryland in East Hartford, Connecticut, to win its second straight NCAA men’s lacrosse championship.

The Cavaliers (14-4) won their seventh national championship and ended a 17-game winning streak by Maryland (15-1) dating to last season. The combined 33 goals marked the highest-scoring championship game since Syracuse beat Johns Hopkins 17-16 in 1983.

The Terrapins, playing in their sixth final in 11 years, rallied after trailing by five goals in the middle of the fourth quarter. Maryland scored four times in a 4-minute, 16-second span to cut it to 16-15. Logan Wisnauskas went top shelf for his fifth goal of the game, Daniel Maltz scored with the Terps a man up and Bubba Fairman and Anthony DeMaio followed with goals.

Moore made it a two-goal game with 3:35 left, but DeMaio scored with 10.8 seconds left to pull the Terps within 17-16. Luke Wierman won the ensuing faceoff, picked up a ground ball and shot from 7 yards, but Rode was able to make the save and the Cavaliers ran out the clock.


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