After a whirlwind weekend that started on Thursday and finished with a D-I champion crowned on Monday, it's about time to leave Gillette Stadium. Congratulations go out to Syracuse (D-I), C.W. Post (D-II) and Cortland State (D-III) for their 2009 national championships.

Now that the action's over, take a look at some of our favorite pieces from the five days to relive the NCAA's second-largest event this year (some 100,000 fans bought tickets to the games at Gillette this weekend, behind only the Men's D-I Basketball Tournament at Ford Field) now that it's in the books. And for more, just browse around the blog.

Thanks for being with us and we'll see you next year at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore. In the meantime, keep up with us on twitter at http://Twitter.com/NCAALax09.

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Interview with Tournament Most Outstanding Player Greg Cerar

End of Game
C.W. Post 8, Le Moyne 7

Le Moyne had the ball with 40 seconds left, but a kick-save by C.W. Post goalie Daniel Sciulla -- who had a tremendous fourth quarter -- preserved the game for the Pioneers, as second-seeded Post avenged a 6-5 loss earlier this year with an 8-7 win in the national championship game.

End of 3rd Quarter
C.W. Post 7, Le Moyne 5
The clouds are rolling in, and the rain's started to fall again. Should be a pretty wild fourth quarter.

End of 1st Half
C.W. Post 4, Le Moyne 3

After all that -- after three goals in the opening three minutes and six in the first quarter -- only one followed in the second, with Le Moyne sneaking in a tally. C.W. Post was about .5 of a second away from scoring at the end of the frame, but the horn blew with a shot in the air (a shot that eventually went in). Le Moyne goalie Doug McIver is keeping the Dolphins in the game, making nine saves through two periods, even as Le Moyne's getting heavily out-ground-balled and outshot.

CW Post 21, Le Moyne 15
Saves: CW Post 3, Le Moyne 9
Ground balls: C.W. Post 22, Le Moyne 11


End of 1st Quarter
C.W. Post 4, Le Moyne 2
CW. 12 shots on goal, Le Moyne 7

Before we had a chance to even post that the game had begun, Le Moyne's Brian Welch scored off an assist from Jack Venditti just 12 seconds in to give the Dolphins a 1-0 lead over C.W. Post.

...of course, then C.W. Post came back to score two straight goals. Already, just 3:33 into the game, we've got three goals. This could be a big one.

By Monday, all three national championship trophies could be making their way back to three schools separated by about 25 miles. And now, with lacrosse at an all-time high in popularity, the trifecta would bring the game back to one of its birthplaces.

Video Interviews: Le Moyne's Brian Welch | Cortland's Cody Hoyt and Connor Duffy | Tewaaraton Finalists, Including Syracuse's Matt Abbott

Theirs is the land of forever hills and tireless clouds, of a winter that arrives always too early and lasts far too long, of cornfields and trees and rust-wrapped mills. Onondaga and Cortland Counties are places famous for their natural beauty - sitting, as they do, on the northeast tip of the Finger Lakes region - but, like the rest of Upstate, routinely abused by outsiders, including their downstate neighbors in The City.

Said American singer Connie Francis: "There are some cities that I did take time out to study, because I love history and one of them was Boston, and of course Rome and all of those places like that. But, in Syracuse or Rochester, or any of those places, no."

Three hundred miles from Boston, with just three games remaining in the NCAA men's lacrosse season, this place has also become perhaps the most fertile land in lacrosse.

With defending D-I champ Syracuse at the center, the possibility exists that all three national championship trophies will make their way back to one 25-mile stretch in Central New York. On Sunday, in the D-II final, it'll be Le Moyne (located in Syracuse) playing for its third crown in four years, with Cortland State out for its second D-III crown in four years. And in Monday's D-I final, Syracuse takes on Cornell, a team a little outside the immediate region, but just over 50 miles from the Carrier Dome.