A week after California-Santa Cruz Sol won the women’s division the Slugs matched them in the men’s division.
March 16, 2026 by Alex Rubin in Preview, Recap
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Throughout the spring season, we’ll publishing a bite-sized weekly recap of the action across the college division. This will serve as a supplement to our standard tournament reporting and offer a high-level look at the latest happenings and the biggest stories of the week.
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D-I Women’s
Around the Division
- D-III Whitman Sweets won PACCon, defeating Nevada-Reno Black Ice in the final 13-5.
- #18 Notre Dame Echo overcame a pool play loss to Harvard Quasar to win Tally Classic XX. After that loss in their first game of pool play, Echo were undefeated, including an 11-5 win over Clemson Tiger Lilies in the final.
Looking Ahead
Following this quiet week, next week is full of both quantity and quality of play. Northwest Challenge will be the headline event, bringing together #1 Carleton, #3 Stanford, #4 British Columbia, #5 Tufts, #6 Washington, #7 Colorado, #8 North Carolina, #11 Victoria, #12 Western Washington, #14 Oregon, #20 Vermont, BYU, and Michigan.
Regional events include Spring Skirmish, Jersey Devil, Butler Spring Fling, Atlantic Coast Open, Centex, Rockford Meltdown, and Summit Showdown.
D-I Men’s
Slugs Win Stanford
#5 California-Santa Cruz Slugs powered past all opponents to win Stanford Invite, taking down #19 British Columbia Thunderbirds 13-10 in the final. It was an impressive weekend for the Slugs, who were playing without two key contributors in Selim Jones and Milan Moslehi. Before the final, their closest game was a five goal victory.
Likewise, UBC was fairly dominant until the bracket stage. Illinois Rise and #20 Wisconsin Hodags offered UBC close games in the quarterfinal and semifinal round respectively. Tulane Tucks were the fourth semifinalist, taking down D-III Lewis & Clark Bacchus in a riveting quarterfinal.
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Around the Division
- Utah Valley Ultimate won Centex, going undefeated through pool play and the bracket despite a loss to #15 Texas TUFF in Friday night’s showcase game. UVU beat D-III’s Colorado College Wasabi in the final 15-9.
- Davenport Panthers won the Invite Division of the Grand Rapids Invite, rolling through the competition without allowing more than six goals in any of their games. Wisconsin B Fauxdags likewise crushed all opponents as they swept their way through the development team heavy Open Division.
- D-III’s Ave Maria Gyrenes won Tally Classic XX, taking down Florida State DUF 14-10 in the final.
- Florida State B DUF-Eyyy came second in the Dev/D-III section of Tally Classic XX, losing to D-III’s Georgia College Disconnected in pool play and the final.
Looking Ahead
There are several regional events on the calendar next week including Atlantic Coast Open, Jersey Devil, New England Open, Butler Spring Fling, and Rockford Meltdown. For those only looking for elite-level play, Easterns is coming up in two weeks time.
D-III Women’s
PACCON
#6 Whitman Sweets won PACCon, beating #12 Lewis & Clark Artemis in the semifinal and D-I Nevada-Reno Black Ice 13-5 in the final. Artemis then lost to #19 Portland UPRoar in the third place game. Portland beat everyone they played this weekend except Nevada-Reno, but never got to face Whitman. Pacific Lutheran Reign Women beat D-I California State-Long Beach twice, but finished the tournament in the consolation pool rather than the championship bracket.
Around the Division
- Georgia College Lynx Rufus made the semifinals and finished fourth at Tally Classic.
Looking Ahead
Several ranked teams are in action this weekend. #3 Haverford/Bryn Mawr Sneetches (along with #17 Williams Nova, Lehigh Gravity, and Swarthmore Warmothers) are playing at Jersey Devil. #4 Davenport Panthers are playing Spring Skirmish. #13 Colorado College Zenith and #25 Trinity Altitude (and Rice Torque) are in the field for Centex’s Tier 2.
Regional events include Spring Fling (Butler Hot Dawgs), Atlantic Coast Open, Rockford Meltdown, and Summit Showdown (St Thomas).
D-III Men’s
Stanford D-III Experiment
#3 Lewis & Clark Bacchus made the championship bracket at Stanford Invite, but lost to D-I Tulane in a streamed quarterfinal. Bacchus finished eighth after close losses in consolation. #25 Santa Clara SCAB beat #6 Whitman Sweets 11-8 in the ninth place quarterfinals and went on to finish 11th. Whitman finished 14th with two wins over D-I Southern California.
Around the Division
- #18 Colorado College Wasabi made the final of Centex, but lost to D-I Utah Valley Ultimate 15-9. Until that point, Wasabi were 5-0 and impressed with their upwind offense. One of their wins was a 13-5 drubbing of Air Force Afterburn, who only won games in consolation play. Meanwhile, Trinity Turbulence beat Harding Apocalypse 15-12 in the 17th place game. Rice Cloud 9 finished 22nd without a win.
- #5 Ave Maria Gyrenes overcame universe point pool play and crossover losses to win Tally Classic XX against a field of D-I competition.
- Georgia College Disconnected beat D-I Florida State B DUF-Eyyy in pool play and the final to win the Dev/D-III section of Tally Classic XX.
- Hillsdale Chargers and Cedarville Swarm each went 3-3 during the pool play portion of the Invite Division at Grand Rapids Invite. They met for third place with Hillsdale winning by two (the same score differential as their pool play matchup!).
- In the Grand Rapids Invite Open Division, Luther LUFDA and Rose-Hulman Elephantitis dropped down to the 5th place bracket. RHIT finished in the bottom two, having just defeated Northwestern B Bake Effect. Final scores are not in for Luther’s game at press time. If you know what happened, please email [email protected] so we can add their results.
Looking Ahead
Just two ranked teams is anre action, as #7 Carleton CHOP and #12 Richmond Spidermonkeys are scheduled to be in the field at Atlantic Coast Open. Elsewhere, Jersey Devil (Haverford Big Donkey, Swarthmore Earthworms, Siena Saints) and Butler Spring Fling (Butler Big Dog) have some D-III action as well.
