Boston College is back in the NCAA baseball tournament for the first time since 2009. And New England will be represented by its most teams ever with five.
The Eagles, making their 11th tourney appearance overall, open play in the Oxford (Miss.) Regional on Friday at 4 p.m. against Tulane. BC, an at-large selection with a 31-20 record, is seeded third in the double-elimination regional.
BC is one of 10 Atlantic Coast Conference teams in the 64-team field, the league tying the all-time tourney record.
Bryant (47-10) was placed in the Charlottesville (Va.) Regional, Rhode Island (30-25) is in the Columbia (S.C.) Regional, UConn (37-23) is headed to Florida for the Gainesville Regional, and Fairfield (32-24) travels to the Lubbock Regional in Texas.
Florida (47-13) is the tournament’s No. 1 overall seed. No top seed has won the championship since Miami in 1999.
The College World Series in Omaha begins June 18.
Men’s lacrosse
NCAA Division 1 final — North Carolina (12-6) earned its first national title since 1991, defeating Maryland, 14-13, in Philadelphia on Chris Cloutier’s goal at 1:39 of overtime. This is the fifth championship overall for UNC, the first school since Princeton in 1994 to win the women’s and men’s lacrosse titles in the same year. Maryland (17-3) was bidding for its first national championship since 1975.
Cloutier finished with five goals in following his record nine-goal performance against Loyola in the semifinals.
Tennis
NCAA Division 1 finals — At Tulsa, Okla., UCLA’s Mackenzie McDonald became the first player in 15 years to pull off a double national championship. About four hours after he upset top-seeded Mikael Torpegaard of Ohio State, 6-3, 6-3, to win the men’s singles title, McDonald and teammate Martin Redlicki claimed the doubles championship.
Danielle Collins of Virginia defeated top-seeded Hayley Carter of North Carolina, 6-3, 6-2, for her second NCAA singles championship. Brooke Austin and Kourtney Keegan of Florida won the women’s doubles final.
Men’s golf
NCAA Division 1 championships — Oregon sophomore Aaron Wise closed with a 1-over-par 71 to win the individual title by two shots in Eugene, Ore. Wise is the first Duck to win the NCAA title and the first player from the host school to win since 1979.
Oregon was among eight teams that advanced to match play to decide the team title.
