Hofstra opens its lacrosse season Saturday with four Canadians on its roster and its eyes on a national championship.

Hilary Bowen scored five goals, and Katrina Dowd and Danielle Spencer had four apiece to lead Northwestern to its fifth straight N.C.A.A. championship against North Carolina.

Amid its diverse and potent attack, the most intriguing story for the Orange this season has been the emergence of the Canadian junior-college transfer Cody Jamieson.

Syracuse crushed Duke, 17-7, moving a step closer to capturing back-to-back titles, while a usually conservative Cornell stunned the high-flying Virginia team, 15-6.

Despite the growth of college lacrosse, it’s the old guard teams that dominate the N.C.A.A. men’s semifinals.

Ned Crotty had two goals and six assists as third-seeded Duke held off North Carolina, 12-11, in the quarterfinals of the N.C.A.A. lacrosse tournament in Annapolis, Md.

The Northwestern University women’s lacrosse team’s support of the cancer survivor Jaclyn Murphy inspired a charity that pairs pediatric brain tumor patients with college teams.

The Maryland lacrosse attackman and transfer student Will Yeatman was brought back to Notre Dame on Sunday for a first-round game against his former teammates.

Notre Dame comes into the N.C.A.A. men’s lacrosse tournament as an example of lacrosse’s expanded geography and as a pied piper of promoting the game in nontraditional areas.

There was something going on Saturday at Giants Stadium that had never been seen here before. The sport of lacrosse had finally arrived.

Coach Bill Tierney said there were moments last year when his team seemed burdened by the program’s past success. He made it clear that they are a new group.

The first lacrosse games to be played at Giants Stadium will feature three of the sport’s top college programs in a tripleheader on April 4 called the Big City Classic.

Crystal Mangum, woman who prosecutors determined falsely accused three Duke lacrosse players of rape, maintains in memoir that she was attacked; claim prokes lawsuit threat from one player's family; memoir is named The Last Dance for Grace: The Crystal Mangum Story; photo

Before Evan Royster became a college football star as Penn State’s starting tailback, he was among the most coveted lacrosse prospects in the country.

Curt Styres is believed to be the first individual American Indian known in Canada as First Nations people to own a major professional sports franchise.