While the top two teams in New England dropped conference series during the second-to-last weekend of the regular season, Bryant nabbed the most crucial of Northeast Conference set victories to take a one-game, first-place lead with three games remaining.
Elsewhere, Yale suffered a rare Ivy League setback in its final action before this weekend's Championship Series on home turf, while Rhode Island and Harvard kept up winning ways. Outside the Top 10, Holy Cross took Patriot League-leading Navy to three games before dropping its postseason series.
