The Northeast Conference does not have an outpost in New Hampshire, but several of its women’s lacrosse programs have been attractive to Granite State public school players for years.
Last spring, Mount St. Mary’s ran the table in winning all 11 of its conference games. Its reward for earning the league’s auto-bid to the NCAA tournament?
A first-round game at titan Duke and a 19-3 loss.
Bryant and Sacred Heart were middle-of-the-pack programs a year ago, while Merrimack and Central Connecticut State will try to climb up from the bottom.