May 9, 2007

COMMERCE CITY, Colo. - The top eight seeds all advanced in the opening round of the 2007 US Lacrosse Women's Division Intercollegiate Associates National Championship. Seventh-seeded Colorado rallied for a 12-11 victory over UCLA in the closest game of the day at Dick's Sporting Goods Park.

Thursday's quarterfinal games will be highlighted by Colorado State and Michigan squaring off at 1 p.m. CSU was the runner-up in 2005 and Michigan was the runner-up in 2006. Cal Poly, which has won this national championship of college club teams each of the six previous years, battles Michigan State, which is making its first appearance in the tournament since 2002.

The other quarterfinals pit Navy, unbeaten against WDIA competition this year, against Colorado and UC-Santa Barbara meets up with BYU. The championship of the event will be held on Saturday, May 12 at the University of Denver's Peter Barton Stadium. All preliminary round games are being played at Dick's Sporting Goods Park. The championship game will be televised on a tape-delay basis on CSTV will the first airing on Wednesday, May 16.

The US Lacrosse WDIA National Championship is sponsored by Lax World Colorado and Sports Her Way. US Lacrosse, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation, is the national governing body for men's and women's lacrosse. To learn more about the organization, please visit its Web site at www.uslacrosse.org.

Thursday, May 10 Schedule
10 a.m. - #2 Navy vs. #7 Colorado
10 a.m. - #3 UC-Santa Barbara vs. #6 BYU
1 p.m. - #1 Cal Poly vs. #8 Michigan State
1 p.m. - #4 Colorado State vs. #5 Michigan

Consolation games
11 a.m. - #15 Oregon vs. #10 UCLA
11 a.m. - #14 Northeastern vs. #11 Georgia
2 p.m. - #16 Minnesota vs. #9 Florida
2 p.m. - #13 Lindenwood vs. #12 Pittsburgh

Wednesday, May 9 Scores
#2 Navy 22, #15 Oregon 7
#7 Colorado 12, #10 UCLA 11
#3 UC-Santa Barbara 14, #14 Northeastern 7
#6 BYU 14, #11 Georgia 12
#1 Cal Poly 22, #16 Minnesota 6
#8 Michigan State 10, #9 Florida 8
#4 Colorado State 13, #13 Lindenwood 4
#5 Michigan 12, #12 Pittsburgh 6

Visit http://www.lacrosse.org/events/ia/results07.phtml for game wrap-ups and box scores.