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1. No. 14 Bucknell upset No. 5 Yale 9-8 in overtime Wednesday night on Sean O’Brien’s game-winning goal with just 1:02 remaining.

The win snapped the Bulldogs’ seven-game winning streak and marked the Bison’s third straight road game over a ranked opponent.

Bucknell opened with an early 3-1 lead over Yale before the Bulldogs shut out the Bison 3-0 in the second quarter to lead 4-3 at halftime.

Out of the break, Bucknell fired off four straight goals, three of which came from Connor O’Hara and one from O’Brien, to regain a 7-4 lead.

Yale then had a 2-1 advantage to close out the third quarter and scored the first two goals of the fourth period to knot it at eight on Ben Reeves’ tally with 1:38 left on the clock.

The upset victory was then set up thanks to two point-blank saves from Bucknell’s Christian Klipstein with 36 seconds remaining in regulation, including one as a man-down unit. He finished with 11 saves.

O’Brien had five points on four goals and an assist, while O’Hara set a new career high with six points on four goals and two assists. 

2. No. 3 Maryland wins its ninth straight with a 15-8 win over Virginia women, also on Wednesday, thanks to a team-high five goals from Megan Whittle and five points from Kali Hartshorn.

It was an even battle for the first 13:21 before the Terps began to pull away with two three-goal runs in the first half to establish a 9-4 lead with 2:35 remaining before halftime.

But the Cavaliers went on a four-goal run spanning both periods to come within one, 9-8, with 20:04 left on the clock.

Hartshorn then broke Maryland’s scoring drought at the 15:35 mark in the second half, sparking a six-goal run and a Virginia shutout to close out the game. Hartshorn had three scores in the spurt and Whittle had two.

“We were able to make some in-game adjustments, especially in the second half when they had three goals in the beginning and we weren’t able to put away any,” Maryland coach Cathy Reese said. “Towards the end of the second half, our defense did a really nice job of doing what we were asking and we were able to hold them scoreless for these last 15 minutes, which was huge.”

In other women’s action, Boston University’s Kailey Conroy set a new program record with 13 points in its 20-16 win over Harvard, surpassing the previous mark of 12 set by Danielle Etrasco in 2013. Her 13 points are the most by any player in a single game in the NCAA this season.

More Wednesday Division I Women Scores:

No. 7 Florida 15, Temple 3
Georgetown 8, No. 19 Denver 7
Albany 17, Vermont 8
Villanova 13, UConn 12

3. Albany’s Connor Fields will not play against UMBC on Saturday, according to coach Scott Marr, Lax Sports Network tweeted Wednesday.

It will be Fields’ second straight missed game since injuring his right knee March 24 against UMass-Lowell.

The returning Tewaaraton finalist leads the No. 1 Great Danes with 58 points on 26 goals and 32 assists.

4. Tariro Kandemiri, also known as @OfficialLaxGirl, is feeling good about looking different. She wants to use her popular social media platform to inspire diversity.

“I started Official Lax Girl sophomore year [of high school], when I was really starting to fall in love with the sport,” she told US Lacrosse Magazine’s Matt Hamilton. “I had about 5,000 followers, and my parents told me I should put my picture on my account. I was like, ‘No, it’s fine. I don’t want to put my face or my name.’ Part of it was because I realized that I didn’t look like a lot of lacrosse players.

“I want other players that look like me to know that I’m black,” she continued. “In my quest to make my account more inclusive, I want people to be able to relate to me no matter what color they are.”

5. Two-time Team USA midfielder Kyle Harrison, also a former Tewaaraton Award winner at Johns Hopkins, wants to be an agent of change in the sport.

“Growing up, obviously I noticed that I was the only black pair of legs running around on the field. That was a given,” Harrison told Matt Hamilton. “When I found out that black people didn’t play lacrosse, that was almost surprising. I was like, ‘Where are the rest of the black people?’”

“Regardless of what I’ve dealt with or not, I’m still a black lacrosse player,” he continued. “My biggest worry is that we’re more socially unaware than before because of the climate of the country. The saddest part about it for me, it’s what people are being taught.”

6. In case you missed it, St. Mary’s Annapolis (Md.) continued its ascent, moving up four spots to No. 11 in the Nike/US Lacrosse High School Boys’ Lacrosse National Top 25.

Meanwhile, Syosset (N.Y.) entered the Nike/US Lacrosse High School Girls’ Lacrosse National Top 25 at No. 14 with an 11-10 upset over then-No. 2 Garden City (N.Y.).

Plus, the Warrior/US Lacrosse Boys’ Players of the Week are Max Rosa, Jack Myers, Colin Hall, Chase Baker and Jackson Harvey and the Brine/US Lacrosse Girls’ Players of the Week are Kendall Halpern, Christina Cavallo, Ellie Bromley, Katherine Burnside and Isabel Anema.

What We’re Reading

  • Read about Yale women’s lacrosse standout Kiwi Comizio’s return from an ACL injury that derailed her 2017 season.

  • Maryland’s game against Rutgers women on Saturday was moved to Friday at 5 p.m. due to impending snow.

  • Boston College club jumped eight spots to No. 7 in the WCLA Rankings with wins over No. 4 BYU and Colorado State.

  • Letting go is a key development phase for young athletes, writes US Lacrosse’s T.J. Buchanan, who describes the Teaching Games for Understanding (TGFU) learning path.

What We’re Watching

After defeating Cornell 19-4 on Tuesday, No. 1 Stony Brook women’s lacrosse sing “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” in its quest to reach the 2018 NCAA championship on its home turf.

Towson men’s lacrosse sang the Tigers’ fight song at the Cool Kids Campaign Learning Center, which is dedicated to helping kids with cancer.

It may be April, but there's still #SnowCrosse. Tryouts for the Prior Lake High School (Minn.) girls' lacrosse team ended with some snow angels. 

Brynn Cartelli, a lacrosse player from Massachusetts, advances past the knockout round on NBC’s The Voice.

What’s On Tap

  • Our “Faces and Voices of Black Lacrosse” series continues today with Elijah Black and Taylor Thornton.

  • Check out Division I men’s notes later today, as well as a feature on Duke women’s upset of Syracuse.

  • There are four Division I women’s games Thursday, highlighted by a Syracuse-Loyola tilt in Baltimore at 4 p.m.

  • Stony Brook’s Courtney Murphy could also become the new NCAA career goals record holder tonight if she scores three goals in its 5:30 p.m. game against Hartford.

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