Ivy Soccer Eliminated from NCAA Tournament

Ivy League soccer has finally come to an end.

Although the regular season ended weeks ago, the Dartmouth and Brown men’s soccer teams played their final games last weekend.

Both Ivy teams lost in their NCAA Championship Sweet Sixteen matchups on Sunday. This year marks the first in over a decade in which two Ancient Eight squads were still standing so late into tournament. Princeton and Penn also made it to the postseason, losing in earlier matchups.

The Bears made it to the final 16 with a first-round win over Boston College and a thrilling penalty-kick victory over Connecticut last week. But on Sunday, Brown suffered a 2-0 defeat at the hands of sixth-seeded Cal in Berkeley, Calif.

The Big Green shutout Monmouth, its first opponent of the tournament, and had a similarly close second round game, getting by Notre Dame in 2-1 overtime win. But Dartmouth’s luck in extra time ran out as it fell, 2-1, in a double-overtime heartbreaker against eighth-seeded UCLA in Los Angeles, Calif., on Sunday.

Despite the disappointing end, this year saw four Ivy League men’s teams make it into the NCAA Championship field for the second consecutive season, a feat that hadn’t been accomplished since the 1970s.

Harvard (5-7-5, 2-3-2 Ivy) failed to reach the NCAA tournament for the first time since 2005.