Division III Men's Golf Championships

Dates and sites: The 72-hole championship tournament is May 9-12 at the Mission Inn Golf and Tennis Resort in Howey-in-the-Hills, Florida. Oglethorpe is the member institution host.

Field: Fifteen participants from each of six regions, plus 30 selected at large, for a total of 120 golfers at the finals (23 teams and five individuals).

2004 champion: Gustavus Adolphus.

2004 medalist: Chad Poling, Ohio Wesleyan.

Top team contenders: Methodist, Redlands, Guilford, Oglethorpe and Greensboro were the top five teams listed in a recent Golf Channel poll.

Championship notes: Medalist Adam Horton fired an eight-under par 64 to lead Methodist's team win at the USA South Conference championships April 17. Methodist, which has been the nation's top-ranked all season, finished 11 strokes ahead of host Greensboro. Greensboro's Ryan Wilson was the only player other than Horton to break par in the tournament. Horton tied for third in last year's national tournament ... Earlier, Methodist had placed third at the Emory Spring Invitational, which Guilford won by virtue of placing four golfers in the top 10. The Quakers outdistanced top-ranked Methodist by 14 strokes in the 17-team event ... Methodist hasn't won the team title since 1999, a year in which the Monarchs won a sixth straight championship and ninth in 10 years. Five different teams have won titles since.

Division III Women's Golf Championships

Dates and sites: The 72-hole championship tournament is May 10-13 at Methodist.

Field: Sixty golfers (10 teams and 10 individuals).

2004 champion: Methodist.

2004 medalist: Brittany Cary, McMurry.

Top contenders: Methodist, Mary Hardin-Baylor, DePauw, Saint Mary's (Indiana) and Gustavus Adolphus were the top five teams listed in a recent Golf Channel poll.

Championship notes: St. Thomas (Minnesota) beat Gustavus Adolphus by six strokes in a recent two-round tournament behind senior Katie Glorvigen's medalist performance ... Saint Mary's (Indiana) won the Capital University 2005 Purple and White Golf Invitational April 1 after shooting a course-record 357 in the 13-team event near Columbus, Ohio. Senior Steffanie Simmerman tied the club course record with a low score of 83, while she tied with Otterbein's Colleen Groomes, who won the event last year. Simmerman's teammate Julia Adams placed second with an 84 ... Methodist has been the lone champion of the Division III tournament begun in 2000. Mary Hardin-Baylor has been runner-up to the Monarchs in each of the last three years.

Division III Women's Lacrosse Championship

Dates and sites: First-round games are May 11 and regionals are May 14-15, all on the campus of participating schools. The semifinals and final are May 21-22 at The College of New Jersey.

Field: There are 19 teams that take part in the single-elimination tournament. Thirteen berths are allocated to automatic qualifiers. Four are reserved for true independents and those teams that are members of conferences that do not meet the criteria for automatic qualification. The remaining two berths are provided for teams remaining from automatic-qualifying conferences who do not win their conference's automatic berth.

Selection date: May 8.

2004 champion: Middlebury.

Top contenders: According to the Intercollegiate Women's Lacrosse Coaches Association poll for the week ending April 3, the top teams are Salisbury, Middlebury, Cortland State, Amherst, The College of New Jersey and Bowdoin.

Championship notes: Middlebury beat The College of New Jersey in overtime to claim the 2004 national title. The two schools have won every Division III women's lacrosse championship since 1991, except for 2003 when Amherst took the crown ... Salisbury, Cortland State and Amherst were all undefeated early in April ... Salisbury has been ranked in the top 10 for the past five seasons. The Sea Gulls' highest finish was fourth in 2001. Their average margin of victory this season has been more than 10 goals ... Middlebury's only loss in 2005 came to Salisbury, and the Panthers kept pace with the high-scoring Sea Gulls, losing by only two.

Division III Softball Championship

Dates and sites: Play begins at eight first-round campus sites from May 13 through 16. The eight winners advance to the finals at the Walnut Creek Softball Complex in Raleigh, North Carolina, May 20-24.

Field: Forty-three teams.

Selection date: May 9.

2004 champion: St. Thomas (Minnesota).

Top contenders: Washington U. in St. Louis, Chapman, Muskingum, Salisbury, Rutgers-Camden, St. Thomas (Minnesota).

Championship notes: Washington U. in St. Louis became the top-ranked Division III softball team on April 13, which is a first for the program ... In the last 10 seasons, Chapman has won six regional championships and the 1995 national championship ... As of mid-April, Rutgers-Camden ranked second in the nation with a 0.50 earned-run average ... Junior pitcher Erica Hoyt was 22-2 as of mid-April to lead Muskingum's pitching staff ... As of April 18, St. Thomas (Minnesota) was 173-15 (.920) in the last nine seasons in Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference play.

Division III Men's Tennis Championships

Dates and sites: First and second rounds are May 7-8 on the campus of a participating institution. The finals are May 18-23 at UC Santa Cruz. Quarterfinals, semifinals and finals of the team championship take place May 18-20. Singles and doubles championships are May 21-23.

Field: The team championship consists of 27 teams. Individual championships consist of 32