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The Atlantic Coast Conference dominated the top of the national rankings in NCAA Division I women’s lacrosse all season, so it’s not a surprise that four of the final eight teams standing come from the league.

Boston College, North Carolina, Syracuse and Virginia – all teams ranked in the Top 10 for the majority of the season – advanced to the quarterfinals.

The Big Ten, which advanced No. 1 overall seed Maryland along with Northwestern, is the only other league with multiple teams. Denver will represent the Big East and Princeton will carry the Ivy League banner in the quarterfinals.

Here are roundups of Sunday’s games:

Boston College 21, Colorado 9
Boston College scored 11 straight goals to break open a 3-3 tie as Sam Apuzzo and Kenzie Kent put on a scoring show. Apuzzo scored seven times and Kent had four goals and five assists as the Eagles topped 20 goals for the seventh time this season.

Colorado freshman Charlie Rudy, a member of the U.S. U19 training team, led the Buffs with five goals.

Denver 9, Michigan 5
Denver held Michigan to just one goal in the first 44 minutes of the game and Quintin Hoch-Bullen scored five times as the Pioneers reached the quarterfinals for the first time in school history. (Read More) 

Maryland 17, Stony Brook 8
Stony Brook raced out to an early 4-0 lead, but graduate student Erica Evans took over the first half to lead the Terps back. Evans, the all-time leading goal scorer at Canisius, continued to make her presence felt for the Terps. Evans had five goals and two assists, all in the first half as Maryland bounced back for an 11-6 halftime lead.

Any momentum Stony Brook hoped to build for the second half took a major blow when leading scorer Ally Kennedy was carded for a dangerous follow through early in the second half. It was her second card of the game and sent her to the bench for the final 27:51.

Sara Moeller scored a man-down goal shortly after the card, but the Terps then scored the next six goals to put the game away.

Evans is now tied for the Maryland lead with 53 goals this season and has scored 26 times in the last six games. Caroline Steele had three goals and three assists and Jen Giles scored three times.

Moeller had two goals and an assist for Stony Brook and Siobhan Rafferty scored twice.

North Carolina 15, Florida 11
North Carolina jumped out to an early 6-1 lead and held off a late rally to continue the momentum from its ACC tournament championship two weeks ago.

Three straight goals from Florida got the Gator within 13-11 with 7:37 to play. On the ensuing possession, Florida got a good look in front of the cage with a chance to cut it to one and the shot went wide. North Carolina had the back-up on the shot and on the other end, Kara Klages used a sweet split dodge to open up a clear shot and she buried it.

Olivia Ferrucci then sealed the game with her career-high tying fifth goal of the game. Scottie Rose Growney added a career-best four goals for UNC, none more impressive than this quick behind the head rip off of a ground ball.

Katie Hoeg added three assists for North Carolina to give her 124 for her career, breaking the school record of 121 set by Ela Hazar.

Sydney Pirreca scored five times for Florida.

Northwestern 13, Notre Dame 10
Northwestern blitzed Notre Dame with eight straight goals over the first 20 minutes before Samantha Lynch finally scored for the Irish with 9:07 left in the first half.

A four-goal Notre Dame run in the second half pulled the Irish within three, but Northwestern answered with three more goals to help put it out of reach.

Selena Lasota scored five times for Northwestern and freshman Izzy Scane, a U.S. U19 training team member, had four goals. Mallory Weisse made 10 saves to earn the win.

Lynch and Maddie Howe each scored three times for Notre Dame.

Princeton 17, Loyola 13
Princeton and Loyola battled back and forth for the first 30 minutes, with the Tigers taking a 9-8 lead into the break.

The second half was a different story as Princeton scored six straight goals to open the half and led by as many as eight goals on the way to its third straight quarterfinal berth.

Senior Elizabeth George, playing her last game at home, led Princeton with six goals, including the first two goals of the second half.

Kyla Sears had a seven-point day for Princeton with three goals and four assists and Tess D’Orsi and Izzy Mangan each had three goals.

Loyola senior Hannah Powers had five goals and an assist to finish her career with a school record 317 points. Sophomore Livy Rosenzweig had three goals and two assists and set Loyola’s single-season records for assists (70) and points (116).

Syracuse 14, Georgetown 8
Emily Hawryschuk scored five goals, giving her 70 for the season, as the Orange beat their old Big East rival. Hawryschuk scored at least four goals in a game for the 14th time this season and matched her season-high best of five goals set against Louisville earlier this season.

U.S. U19 training team member Megan Carney added three goals and two assists for the Orange, who never trailed in the contest.

Morgan Ryan had three goals and an assist for Georgetown and Francesca Whitehurst had a goal and three assists.

Virginia 15, Navy 12
Sammy Muller had a dominant performance as Virginia reached the NCAA quarterfinal round for the first time since 2014. Mueller matched her career-high best of eight points, scoring six goals with two assists, and also added four draw controls, three ground balls and two caused turnovers.

Navy scored first, but Virginia quickly responded with three straight goals and never trailed again.

Maggie Jackson added a hat trick for Virginia. Kelly Larkin led Navy with three goals and three assists and Andie O’Sullivan and Nicole Victory each had three goals as well.

Scoreboard

Boston College 21, Colorado 9
Denver 9, Michigan 5
Maryland 17, Stony Brook 8
North Carolina 15, Florida 11
Northwestern 13, Notre Dame 10
Princeton 17, Loyola 13
Syracuse 14, Georgetown 8
Virginia 15, Navy 12

Quarterfinals

May 18

Denver at Maryland
Syracuse at Northwestern
Virginia at North Carolina
Princeton at Boston College