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FEBRUARY 24, 2026
composed by STEVE ULRICH
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MEN’S LACROSSE
1. Top Three Remain In Place
Will Rubley, Lynchburg
The USILA and USA Lacrosse Magazine DIII men’s lacrosse polls agree - Tufts, Salisbury and Christopher Newport are 1-2-3.
The Jumbos, Sea Gulls and Captains are the top three teams in both polls, while the ranking diverge from there. Lynchburg made the week’s biggest jump in the top 10, moving three spots to No. 10 in the USA Lax list.
» USILA Top 10. 1-Tufts (0-0), 2-Salisbury (4-0), 3-Christopher Newport (5-0), 4-RIT (2-0), 5-Bowdoin (0-0), 6-Wesleyan (0-0), 7-York (2-0), 8-Stevens (2-0), 9-Gettysburg (0-2), 10-Cortland (1-0).
» USA Lacrosse Magazine Top 10. 1-Tufts (0-0), 2-Salisbury (4-0), 3-Christopher Newport (5-0), 4-Bowdoin (0-0), 5-RIT (2-0), 6-York (2-0), 7-Wesleyan (0-0), 8-Stevens (2-0), 9-Dickinson (1-1), 10-Lynchburg (2-0).
2. Roundup
Scores
Hanover 25, Bethany 6
Mount Union 18, Hiram 8
Jack Deweese scored six goals and assisted on three others as Hanover (1-2) rolled past Bethany, 25-6. Mack Langridge added 6-2 as the Panthers led 19-1 after three periods.
Talen Osmun scored five times and Sly Sundown added 3-3 as Mount Union opened its season with an 18-8 win at Hiram.
WOMEN’S LACROSSE
3. Seeing Red
The hottest team in DIII women’s lacrosse resides in Granville, Ohio.
Denison jumped eight spots to the No. 7 position in the latest USA Lacrosse Magazine women’s lacrosse ranking, after the Big Red went on the road and knocked off Gettysburg and Dickinson.
Middlebury, Tufts and Salisbury remain 1-2-3 in the poll, while Colby moved past the Bullets and Franklin & Marshall to No. 4.
» USA Lacrosse Magazine Top 10. 1-Middlebury (0-0), 2-Tufts (0-0), 3-Salisbury (2-0), 4-Colby (0-0), 5-Franklin & Marshall (1-1), 6-Stevens (1-0), 7-Denison (2-0), 8-Gettysburg (0-1), 9-William Smith (0-0), 10-Wesleyan (0-0).
Scores
Hanover 5, Huntingdon 4
Ohio Wesleyan 5, Westminster 5 (suspended, snow)
Julia Jarrells scored a pair of goals, including the game-winner midway through the final period as Hanover (1-2) held off homestanding Huntingdon, 5-4. The Hawks (1-2) nearly tied the game with 1:09 remaining but Kate Hudson’s shot hit the post.
The Ohio Wesleyan-Westminster game was suspended with 10:10 left in the third quarter with the score tied at 5 due to snow at the New Wilmington, Pa. facility. No decision was made at press time if the game will resume.
IN THE NEWS
4. RIT’s Heffernan Combines Her Passion For Sports and Design
Zoe Heffernan, RIT (far right)
“Teamwork and camaraderie are ingrained in RIT’s student-athletes, and those traits extend beyond practice and game days. For three athletes majoring in industrial design, their collaborative mindsets helped bring the vision of an 8-foot-tall National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) championship trophy to life.
Over the course of the fall semester, fourth-year students Joe Bonfiglio, a former player for the RIT baseball team, Zoe Heffernan, who plays for the RIT women’s lacrosse team, and Roberta Moger, who plays for the RIT women’s soccer team, worked alongside Visiting Lecturer Joe Allgeier to build the massive trophy replica.”
» Quotable. “I think it’s really cool that we’re giving back to athletics by leaving behind something that we built using the skills we learned at RIT. It was exciting to merge two of the things that we all love, athletics and industrial design,” said Heffernan, from Halladay, Utah. “Yes, it was a project we were hired for, but it didn’t feel like work because we were all excited and happy to be involved.”
» Behind The Scenes. “Creating the trophy replica required the use of both digital and analog processes. The group used Fusion 360 and a CNC router in the SHED’s Atrium Makerspace to create mock-ups and cut out larger pieces of materials. Then, they finished the sculpture using traditional woodworking techniques, such as milling lumber, lamination, and edge banding. The completed sculpture, made entirely from wood and acrylic, is estimated to be roughly 300 pounds.”
» The Final Word. “This has been a great collaborative experience, even more so than I would have expected,” said Allgeier. “I think our success is a testament of their personalities and strengths, and it speaks to the quality of our student athletes who work at this high academic level. Balancing those responsibilities is extremely challenging and requires a certain level of focus and maturity.”
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