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Messiah, Eastern & Haverford capture conference tournament championships

Related Topics: NCAA Division III

Three area teams booked automatic bids in the NCAA Division III tournament over the weekend with wins in their conference tournament finals.

Eastern University won back-to-back conference championships for the first time in program history after tying the game 1-1 in the 89th minute on a Jake Sankey goal and pushing the game to penalties, where Quentine Keibler was the hero for the second straight game with a huge penalty stop.

Keibler made six stops to claim the MVP award in what will officially go down as a 1-1 draw with Misericordia.

Haverford also repeated as conference champions with a 2-1 win over Franklin & Marshall in the Centennial Conference final.