Good morning. Here’s the latest from around the lacrosse world:

1. The Tewaaraton Foundation announced 10 finalists — five men and five women — for the Heisman of lacrosse. The Tewaaraton Award annually recognizes the most outstanding male and female players in collegiate lacrosse.

Five of the finalists — Denver’s Trevor Baptiste, North Carolina’s Marie McCool, Stony Brook’s Kylie Ohlmiller, Yale’s Ben Reeves and Loyola’s Pat Spencer — also were finalists in 2018. Reeves is a three-time finalist. Baptiste, meanwhile, is vying to become the first faceoff specialist to win the award since its inception in 2001.

Rounding out the group are Duke’s Justin Guterding and Maryland’s Connor Kelly on the men’s side; Boston College’s Sam Apuzzo, James Madison’s Kristen Guadian and Maryland’s Megan Whittle on the women’s side.

The winners will be announced at the annual Tewaaraton Award ceremony May 31 in Washington, D.C.

2. The WCLA Division I national semifinals are set. No. 1 seed Michigan will face No. 5 North Carolina (5 p.m. ET) and No. 3 BYU will meet No. 7 Virginia (8 p.m. ET) after the four teams advanced with quarterfinal victories Thursday in Round Rock, Texas.

Only UNC, the lowest seed among the four semifinalists, returns from last year’s final four. Michigan remained undefeated on the season with an 8-5 comeback win over defending champion Delaware, while North Carolina steamrolled Pitt 15-3.

On the other side of the bracket, BYU relied on six goals from senior All-American Briana Arnold to fuel its 12-10 comeback win over San Diego State, and Virginia slipped past Georgia 5-4 on a free-position goal with 14 seconds remaining.

3. Michigan State and Chapman will play in the MCLA Division I championship game Saturday after winning semifinals Thursday in Salt Lake City, Utah.

The Spartans, who will make their first-ever appearance in the final, separated from Brigham Young with a 6-1 third-quarter run en route to a 12-7 victory.

The Panthers made it to the championship game for the third straight season, having won it all in 2016, with a 16-9 win over South Carolina. Dylan Garner led the way with five goals, while Wiley Bonham added three goals and two assists.

The MCLA Division II final, meanwhile, will pit North Dakota State against five-time champion St. Thomas.

4. The Boston Cannons defeated the Florida Launch 15-9 on Wednesday to earn their first win of the 2018 Major League Lacrosse season and snap a nine-game losing streak dating back to last season. Max Seibald and Justin Turri scored four goals apiece, with Seibald hitting on two 2-pointers, and rookie Will Sands (Bucknell) added three goals in his pro debut.

5. Loyola’s Foster Huggins has come back from three ACL tears and emerged as the deadliest takeaway defender in Division I men’s lacrosse.

6. Georgetown, only a year removed from a 4-10 finish, is 12-4 and back in the NCAA tournament for the first time since 2007. The Hoyas got there by stunning seemingly everyone but themselves with an 8-3 win over Denver in the Big East championship game.

WHAT WE’RE READING

• Johns Hopkins, walloped in back-to-back NCAA tournament first-round losses, “has something to prove.”

• An allegation that a white high school boys’ lacrosse player hurled a racial slur at a black female athlete from another school has sparked a state investigation in New Jersey.

• The Virginia women’s lacrosse team is embracing the underdog role after narrowly making it into the field for its 23rd straight NCAA tournament appearance.

• UMass’ Buddy Carr, a legacy at the school and one the seniors responsible for the Minutemen’s turnaround during their time in Amherst, nearly had his career derailed by a serious skiing accident in high school.

• A good read from the Roanoke Times on Virginia Tech standout Tristan McGinley and the about face the Hokies have done to become a national contender during her career.

• A by-the-numbers look at the storied career of West Genesee (N.Y.) boys’ lacrosse coach and National Lacrosse Hall of Famer Mike Messere, who is retiring after the season.

• A West Coast team has not won the NCAA women’s lacrosse championship or even reached the final four. Kelsey Murray still likes Stanford’s chances.

WHAT WE’RE WATCHING

As featured on NBC’s “Today” show, high school lacrosse coach Kellianne Fleyshman-Wunk is teaching her girls the importance of sticking together — even at nine months pregnant.

Our May/June edition cover story, featuring Team USA’s mentor-protégé faceoff tandem of Greg Gurenlian and Trevor Baptiste, comes out next week. Whet your palette with this video from US Lacrosse’s “Under the Helmet” series, presented by Cascade.

WHAT’S ON TAP

• The NCAA Division I women’s lacrosse tournament gets underway Friday with 10 first-round games. Among the marquee matchups: Virginia Tech vs. Georgetown (at Cardinal Gibbons in Raleigh, N.C.), Princeton vs. Syracuse (at Boston College), Penn vs. Penn State (at Stony Brook), Stanford vs. Virginia (at James Madison and Navy vs. Johns Hopkins (at Loyola).

• The 12-team NCAA Division II women’s lacrosse tournament also starts Friday with four first-round games: Limestone vs. Florida Tech (at Florida Southern), LIU Post vs. Adelphi (at Le Moyne), Mercyhurst vs. East Stroudsburg (at West Chester) and Indianapolis vs. Regis (at Lindenwood).

• Those games kick off arguably the best weekend of the college lacrosse season, with all NCAA tournaments at play (including eight nationally televised Division I men’s lacrosse first-round games Saturday and Sunday), not to mention the MCLA and WCLA national championship games Saturday and the NJCAA men’s and women’s lacrosse national championship games Sunday.

“DIALED IN” IS POSTED DAILY MONDAY-FRIDAY AT 8 A.M. EASTERN ON USLAXMAGAZINE.COM. SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER FOR A WEEKLY DIGEST DELIVERED DIRECTLY TO YOUR INBOX.