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GETTYSBURG, Pa. – For the first time in five seasons, the NCAA Division III championship in women's lacrosse will not involve a team from the Centennial Conference as both Gettysburg College and Franklin & Marshall College fell in the national semifinals hosted at Clark Field on Saturday, May 22.

Gettysburg (18-4) was upended on its own turf as Salisbury University (20-1) punched its way into the title game with a 20-12 victory over the Bullets. Top-ranked and undefeated Hamilton College (21-0) continued its drive for a perfect season by taking down defending national champ Franklin & Marshall (16-4) 12-7. Salisbury, national runner-up in three of the last five seasons, will vie for its first championship against Hamilton, the 2008 national champ, at Clark Field on Sunday at noon. The championship games for Division II and Division III will be shown live on CBS College Sports.

The hosts and Salisbury put on an offensive display and averaged a goal per minute through the first 10 minutes of action. Senior Lexie Hearn (Old Greenwich, Conn./Greenwich) tallied the opening goal in a game for the seventh time this season just 54 seconds in before the Sea Gulls went on a three-goal run courtesy of Kim Cudmore, who picked up a pair of assists and scored her first tally at 25:09.

The scoring barrage continued as the teams took less than a minute to score each of the next five goals, the last coming on a free position shot by Gettysburg sophomore Hannah Church (Ellicott City, Md./Mount de Sales Academy) giving the Bullets a 5-4 lead at 21:17.

Cudmore churned out another assist to Beth Rhodey to tie the game at 5-5 just past the 20-minute mark of the opening period. Church had a hand in each of the next two goals for the hosts, scoring at 18:09 and then dishing the ball to senior Hollis Stahl (Hightstown, N.J./Peddie School) at 17:13 and giving Gettysburg its largest lead of the game at 7-5.

The pace slowed over the remainder of the opening half and Salisbury took advantage, netting six of the final eight goals. Church was the only Bullet to find the back of the net, tying the game at eight with a free-position goal and cutting the deficit to one (10-9) with an unassisted goal at 2:05. The Sea Gulls capped the half with Jessica Chmielewski finding Allie Wheatley with 43 seconds left and went into the break with an 11-9 lead.

Salisbury continued to carry momentum to start the final period as Wheatley tossed in a pair of goals and dished out an assist to push the lead to 14-9 and force a change in goal for Gettysburg. The switch looked like a good move early as junior Laura McIntyre (Glenmoore, Pa./Coatesville) stopped a pair of shots and the Bullets turned the defense into offense as senior Nina Emala (Baltimore, Md./Bryn Mawr) tossed in a pair of goals just 36 seconds apart, slicing the Sea Gull lead to 14-11.

After its longest scoring drought of the game at five minutes and 33 seconds, Salisbury dialed up the offense once again with Chmielewski dishing out two more helpers to Aileen McCausland and Wheatley and Cudmore adding a score. Senior Jessica Crane (Sudbury, Mass./Lincoln-Sudbury) stopped the run with a free-position goal at 13:10 to cut the margin to 17-12, but the respite was short as the Sea Gulls continued to fly to the goal and tacked on three more goals.

Gettysburg held a definite edge in draw controls at 22-12, but Salisbury held the edge in shots (29-28), ground balls (14-10), and saves (11-5).

Church let the Bullet faithful know the future is still bright by tying her career high, set in the regional championship last weekend, with seven points on four goals and three assists. Emala put up a hat trick in her collegiate finale and finished eighth in school history in points with 195. The school's second all-time leading scorer with 192 goals, Stahl put in a pair of goals and tied a personal mark with eight draw controls. Crane tallied one goal, two assists, two ground balls, and two caused turnovers.

Salisbury put its passing game on display with 19 assists on its 20 goals. Chmielewski and Cudmore each posted six helpers, the former adding one goal and the latter notching a pair of scores. Wheatley and Beth Rhodey each finished with seven points as well and McCausland tacked on five goals and one assist. Goalkeeper Julie Ann Caulfield posted a career-high 11 saves in the cage.

In a rematch of the 2008 finals and 2009 semifinals, Hamilton and Franklin & Marshall appeared headed to another close game as the teams traded opening goals. The Continentals, however, had other plans as they broke out a five-goal run with two goals from Rachel Friedman and one goal and two helpers from Anne Graveley to take a 6-1 lead at 13:52 of the first half.

The usually potent Diplomat attack found no quarter from the Hamilton's No. 1 defense, managing just four shots in the first 30 minutes, while being forced into a dozen turnovers. Franklin & Marshall cracked the scoring column after a 13-minute drought with back-to-back goals by Blake Hargest and Cat Serpe to pull to 6-3.

The Continentals ended the period on a high note as Audrey Nebergall scored back-to-back, the last with just eight ticks left to lift Hamilton to an 8-3 lead at the break.

The run momentum carried over to the start of the final period with more goals separated by just 36 seconds. Anne Graveley turned in her second goal at 26:39 and Liz Rave put up her first ally at 26:03.

Franklin & Marshall began a trip on the comeback trail with four of the next five scores, capped by consecutive goals by Blake Hargest and Meredith Lussier 24 seconds apart, to pull to 11-7 with 14:27 on the clock. The Continentals held off the revival with consistent control of possession, going perfect on 10 clear attempts and committing only seven turnovers in the second half. Ashley Allen put the icing on the cake with an unassisted tally at 5:20 to close the scoring.

Hamilton doubled up F&M on shots 28-14, while also control action off the draw with 13-of-21 draw controls. The Continentals' defense also forced the Diplomats into 21 turnovers.

Nine different Hamilton players reached the scoring column, with Graveley, Friedman, and Nebergall each finishing with a pair. Graveley tacked on two assists for a four-point day and Sarah Bray posted one goal, two assists, three draw controls, and two caused turnovers.

Hargest posted a hat trick and Lussier tallied two goals for F&M. Sarah Veneski handed out a trio of assists and Paulette Cutruzzula and Meghan Cohen each corralled a game-high four ground balls.

Kate Fowler picked up the win with five saves in the Hamilton goal. Lidia Sanza closed an outstanding collegiate career with nine saves in a losing effort.

In the first Division II semifinal, West Chester University (19-1) erased a five-goal deficit to beat Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference rival Lock Haven University (16-2) 9-8 in overtime. Jackie Hooer tallied the game-tying goal with 1:27 left in regulation and then connected on the game-winner in the extra session.

Jackie Hoover scored the game-tying goal with 1:27 left in the second half and then potted the game-winner with 1:17 left in the first three-minute overtime session, giving No. 5 West Chester an exhausting 9-8 victory over No. 2 Lock Haven in between brief showers at Clark Field in the first of two NCAA Division II Women's Lacrosse semifinals Saturday night.

The Golden Rams remained unbeaten in national semifinal contests (8-0) and will make their eighth appearance in the national championship game in the last 10 years. The team will face Adelphi University (18-1), which continued its repeat bid by downing C.W. Post (16-2) 14-9 in Saturday's final championships contest, on Sunday at 3 p.m.

With 15:49 showing on the second-half clock and trailing by an 8-3 margin, West Chester began an improbable comeback with a pair of goals 43 seconds apart. Claire Grimwood scored unassisted, and Nicole Haines converted a free position attempt to quickly draw the Golden Rams to within three (8-5).

West Chester's five-goal run came after a 26-minute scoring drought in which Lock Haven built its 8-3 cushion.

Freshman Lauren Glassey netted her 25th goal of the season with 9:19 remaining, and Gabrielle Stitz made it a one-goal game at the 5:03 mark. Hoover then completed the comeback with her 24th of the season off a turnover by Lock Haven in the Golden Rams' end.

Lock Haven had two final opportunities in the closing moments of regulation. However, West Chester goalkeeper MacKenzie O'Keefe came up with the two biggest saves of her career to preserve the tie. She finished with 11 saves on the day.

2009 champ Adelphi returned to the title game thanks to freshman Demmianne Cook's four-goal second-half effort, which propelled the team past C.W. Post.

The Panthers struck first as Marissa Mills tagged the back of the net off a feed from Elizabeth Fey at 23:48 in the first half. C.W. Post answered in kind just over a minute later with Brianne Jackolski hitting paydirt. It was all Adelphi over the next 18 minutes, however, as the defending champs found the back of the cage four times. Jackolski halted the run just before the break with an unassisted tally at 44 seconds to set the halftime score at 5-2.

Cook opened the final period with a goal to stake her team to a four-goal advantage, but comebacks were the theme of the day in the Division II semis and C.W. Post followed through with four of the next five goals, three by Jackolski and the last by Kim Williams coming on a free-position shot at 24:51 which closed the gap to 7-6.

Though only a freshman, Cook showed the resiliency of a veteran by putting home the next two scores for Adelphi. Corinne Pingitore chalked up a third goal to regain the four-goal lead at 10-6 with 20:13 left the play.

After a Pioneer goal by Staci Passafiume, the Panthers added three more goals, including Cook's fifth of the night, to grab an insurmountable 13-7 lead with only seven minutes on the clock.

Cook finished with five goals on seven shots and added team highs of five draw controls and two caused turnovers. Mills picked up three goals and one assist and Fey posted one goal and four assists. Caitlin Fitzpatrick played all 60 minutes in goal and registered half a dozen saves.

Jackolski was perfect in five shooting opportunities and grabbed three draw controls for C.W. Post. Michelle Fucich dished out a pair of helpers and Ashley Olen managed three draw controls and two caused turnovers.