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Men's Lacrosse Ranked Sixth In Pre-Season
Coming off six straight appearances in the NCAA Division III National Championship playoffs, the Shoremen are ranked sixth in the Face-Off Magazine pre-season poll.
This season, 21 freshmen recruits join the team.
The Shoremen begin their campaign with one of the toughest Division III schedules in hopes of earning the Centennial Conference automatic bid into the NCAA Division III Tournament.
The schedule features seven NCAA tournament teams from 2000, including last year's NCAA Division II national champion, Limestone, and NCAA Division III national champion and preseason #1, Middlebury. The Shoremen also will meet NCAA Tournament runner-up #2 Salisbury State, semi-finalists #4 Nazareth and #3 Washington & Lee, quarter-finalist #5 Gettysburg and first round qualifier Widener.
Washington also will take on traditionally strong #16 Roanoke, #17 Hampden-Sydney, and #20 Eastern Connecticut. The 2001 season is the first that the Shoremen have been scheduled to play all of these teams in the regular season.
"This is one of the toughest schedules at Washington in a number of years. With no at-large bids to the NCAA tournament, we feel that strength of schedule should prepare WC to compete in the Centennial Conference," says Washington Athletic Director Bryan Matthews.
The Shoremen finished the 2000 campaign with a 12-4 record and a 5-1 Centennial Conference mark.
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