First-timers Calvin and Dominican men, and Lynchburg women join the Messiah, Washington University, and College of New Jersey women, Messiah and Williams men

We started off the weekend with 32 teams in both men's and women's play. Now we have our eight teams for San Antonio: The Bears of Washington U. are making their second trip in women's soccer history to the national semifinals and Calvin is making its debut appearance, marking only the second MIAA men's program to advance this far (Alma made it in 1999). The Williams men are returning after a long break, and the College of New Jersey women return for the fifth time in seven years, Messiah will be sending both their men's and women's, and Dominican advances in a 2-0 defeat of Whitworth. Lynchburg finished off the list by advancing past Trinity in a shootout. Box scores and game summaries are all available both on the scoreboard and below.
Carnegie Mellon sectional Calvin is on the way to its first ever semifinal via after defeating Transylvania on penalty kicks. The two teams played to a 1-1 draw through regulation and two overtime periods. In the shootout, Ryan Bratt came up with three clutch saves for Calvin with freshman Chris Nance scoring the decisive goal in the shootout.

Messiah sectional: No. 1 Messiah defeated No. 8 Rochester 2-1 in the sectional final on Sunday. Messiah returns to the Final Four for their ninth time in ten years. In the match, Falcon Geoff Pezon scored with 3 minutes to play for the Messiah victory. The Yellowjackets finish their most successful season to date at 14-2-3.

York sectional: No. 13 Williams needed two overtimes and out-shot No. 4 Christopher Newport 4-1 on penalty kicks to complete the upset and make their way to the semifinals.

Loras sectional: No. 14 Dominican blanked No. 25 Whitworth 2-0 to advance to its first ever Final Four. Michael Kapusta and Ryan Roberts had goals for the Stars. Whitworth ends their season at 16-3-3.

Augustana sectional: Lee Ann Felder scored the go-ahead goal in the 57th minute as No. 12 Washington U. defeated Calvin 2-1 and is making their second semifinal appearance.

Trinity (Texas) sectional: No. 3 Trinity played No. 21 Lynchburg to a 1-1 draw, but fell to the Hornets in penalty kicks. Lynchburg advances to the Final Four for the first time in program history.

Johns Hopkins sectional: No. 1 Messiah ran past No. 8 Johns Hopkins 3-1 and will return again to the Final Four. The Falcons jumped out to a 3-0 lead before the Blue Jays scored in the 56th minute on a goal from Allie Zazzali. Erin Hench scored twice for Messiah, while teammate Amanda Naeher grabbed her 30th goal of the season.

Williams sectional: In the 70th minute Briann McDonough scored the only goal as No. 9 TCNJ blanked No. 25 1-0 to advance to their fifth Final Four in seven years. TCNJ's Jessica Clarke notched her 16th shutout of the season as she finished with five saves. Clarke has not allowed a goal in her last 702:33 minutes.