DATE: May 10, 2001
CONTACT: Brian Logue, blogue@lacrosse.org

Stanford, UCSB Crash IA Men's Semifinals

Lower seeded WCLL teams join BYU and Colorado State in semis

St. Louis — Twelth-seeded Stanford and ninth-seeded Cal-Santa Barbara pulled consecutive upsets on the first two days of the US Lacrosse Men's Intercollegiate Associates national championship tournament to advance to the semifinals. Second-seeded Brigham Young, the defending national champion, and third-seeded Colorado State are also in the semifinals which will be played Friday, May 11 at the Anheuser-Busch Sports Centre in St. Louis.

Stanford beat fifth-seeded Simon Fraser 20-11 in the opening round and then defeated conference rival and fourth-seeded Sonoma State 7-4 in the quarterfinals. UCSB, also from the Western Collegiate Lacrosse League, eased past eighth-seeded Auburn 13-6 in the first round and then freshman Tom Smith scored the game-winning goal with 2:35 remaining as the Gauchos knocked off top-seeded Michigan 7-6. Stanford and UCSB will meet in the first semifinal game at 12:30 p.m. on Friday. UCSB nipped the Cardinal 12-11 in the regular season.

The other semifinal will also feature a conference showdown as well as a rematch of last year's national championship game. BYU, which beat Colorado State in last year's title game, opened its championship defense by beating Tennessee 14-11. The Cougars then blew open a tight game in the fourth quarter to beat California 17-11. Colorado State, the 1999 national champion, destroyed Rhode Island 19-1 in the opening round and then had little trouble with state rival Colorado in the quarterfinals, winning 15-7. BYU has edged Colorado State twice already this season, including an overtime win the Rocky Mountain Intercollegiate Lacrosse Lacrosse championship game. The teams will square off at 4 p.m. on Friday

The inaugural US Lacrosse Women's Intercollegiate Associates national championship tournament begins on Saturday, May 12. The eight-team field includes Army, Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo, Georgia, Miami (Ohio), Michigan State, Navy, Northwestern and Texas A&M. The women's championship game will be played at 1:30 p.m. on Sunday, May 13.

Intercollegiate associates are non-varsity teams at colleges and universities all over the country. There are currently more than 125 men's and 100 women's intercollegiate associates programs affiliated with US Lacrosse, the national governing body for the sport.

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