Tufts won the NESCAC men's soccer and field hockey championships on Sunday, Nov. 8, and Trinity ended Amherst's unbeaten football season 16-13 on Saturday, Nov. 7. Results are as of 7:10 p.m. Eastern Sunday, Nov. 8; all times are Eastern.
Football
Amherst (7-1) outgained Trinity 416-219 and scored the game's last 13 points, but went 1-for-6 in the red zone and had a field goal blocked and returned 70 yards for a touchdown, Amherst reports. Trinity (8-0) clinched at least a share of the NESCAC title. Williams (5-3) lost 20-7 at Wesleyan after senior quarterback Drew Renzella, in his first start of the season, threw four interceptions, Williams says.
Harvard (7-1, 4-1 Ivy League) beat Columbia 37-0 at home. Holy Cross won 27-24 at Georgetown on Joseph Williams's 17-yard touchdown pass with 27 seconds left and is 5-5 overall and 5-2 in the Patriot League, Holy Cross reports. Boston College (4-5, 2-4 ACC) lost 31-24 to Florida State, BC says.
Soccer and field hockey
Fourth-ranked Tufts (10-3-5) beat Amherst 1-0 in the NESCAC men's soccer final in Williamstown after a corner-kick header in the 53rd minute. Amherst led 12-1 in shots at halftime, Tufts reports. Top-seeded Tufts field hockey (18-0) beat Middlebury 2-0 for its fourth NESCAC title on two third-quarter goals by Helm, Tufts says.
No. 8 Williams (14-2-1) beat No. 3 Tufts 2-1 for the NESCAC women's soccer title, its first since 2017, with Tufts scoring with 1:59 left, Williams reports. Bentley won the Northeast 10 women's soccer title with a 2-1 win at top-seeded Franklin Pierce in Rindge, N.H., its first since 1998 and a program-record 15th win, Bentley says.
Boston University women's soccer beat Bucknell 4-0 in the Patriot League first round, and Holy Cross lost 1-0 to Loyola (Md.) in the quarterfinals, ending its season at 9-7-3, BU reports and Holy Cross reports. BU field hockey lost the Patriot League title game 2-1 to No. 15 Lafayette on Saturday and finished 9-10.
Hockey and basketball
No. 13 Boston University won 6-2 at No. 3 Michigan State on Friday, then lost the rematch 5-0 on Saturday and is 7-3-0, BU reports. No. 19 UMass was shut out 2-0 at Maine on Saturday and is 5-5-1, UMass says. UMass Lowell men's basketball beat Marist 63-61 on Sunday to improve to 3-0, UMass Lowell reports.
Boston College volleyball lost to Syracuse in four sets on Sunday (21-25, 26-28, 25-12, 19-25) and is 13-12, 4-10 in the ACC, BC says.
Week ahead
The NCAA Division III soccer fields are announced Monday, Nov. 9, at 11:30 a.m., per Williams and Tufts. BU men's basketball plays at Northwestern at 8 p.m. that night. On Tuesday, Nov. 10, BU hockey hosts Harvard at 7 p.m., and UMass women's soccer plays a MAC Tournament semifinal in Columbus, Ohio, at 1 p.m., per UMass.
On Wednesday, Nov. 11, fourth-seeded BU women's soccer plays at second-seeded Army in the Patriot League semifinals at 6 p.m. UMass football is at Toledo at 7:30 p.m. on CBS Sports Network, and UMass men's basketball hosts UMass Lowell at 7 p.m., per UMass.
On Saturday, Nov. 14, Amherst visits Williams at noon for the 140th Biggest Little Game in America. Boston College is at Notre Dame at 3:30 p.m. and Harvard is at Penn at 1 p.m.
