THE FACTS
No. 1 Tufts (21-0) 17, No. 10 Gettysburg (15-5) 8
What: NCAA Div. III men's lacrosse tournament quarterfinal
When: Saturday, May 17
Where: Medford, Mass.
THE SKINNY STORY
Top-ranked Tufts used a 7-2 first quarter to build an early lead and defeat No. 10 Gettysburg 17-8 to remain undefeated, winning the quarterfinal game in the 2025 NCAA Div. III men's lacrosse championship tournament.
THE LEADERS
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Stokes Myers (Nashville, Tenn./Montgomery Bell Academy) was one of three players to score two goals of the Bullets, adding two ground balls.
FOR THE FOES
• Max Ettinghausen led the Jumbos with six goals on nine shots. He also had three ground balls and a caused turnover.
THE REST OF THE STORY
• Jack Regnery scored twice in a 52-second span to stake Tufts to a 2-0 lead before three minutes were gone in the game. Brooks Hauser made it 3-0 with 8:09 to play before
Jackson Alpaugh (Darien, Conn./Westminster School) got Gettysburg on the board with 4:43 to play.
Stokes Myers then cut the deficit to 3-2 just 1:08 later but an 8-1 run from the Jumbos made it an 11-3 game with 5:35 to play in the second. Max Ettinghausen scored two of the four goals in the final 3:22 of the first quarter to make it a 7-2 game after 15 minutes.
• Alpaugh made it 7-3 with 12:51 to play but Logan Lee responded 21 seconds later to start another four-goal Tufts run but four different players, including Ettinghausen's third of the day.
Jackson Barroll (Annapolis, Md./Severn School) and Myers scored the final two goals of the half to make it 11-5 at the break.
• However, three more Ettinghausen goals keyed a 5-0 run that stretched 94 seconds into the fourth quarter to put the game out of reach.
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Patrick Maroney (Hingham, Mass./Boston College H.S.) scored two of the next three goals for the Bullets, making it 16-8 but Callum Wood set the final margin with 1:18 to play.
THE INSIDE STORY
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Patrick Maroney and
Jackson Alpaugh each also added two goals.
• Tufts finished with a 52-48 edge in shots and won 19 of 29 faceoffs.
