Despite winning its fourth straight Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF) title on Saturday, the Stanford women’s lacrosse team was left out of the NCAA Tournament after the tournament bracket was released yesterday.

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Jaimie Nesbit and the MPSF champion Cardinal women will not get the chance to compete for the NCAA title this season, as the team was not chosen to take part in the tourney this year. #gallery http://daily.stanford.edu/image/full/9119
Jeff Keacher

Jaimie Nesbit and the MPSF champion Cardinal women will not get the chance to compete for the NCAA title this season, as the team was not chosen to take part in the tourney this year.

The Cardinal defeated two of the teams who are in the 16-team tournament field — No. 2 seeded Penn and unseeded Notre Dame. The team held a 12-8 record on the season after finishing on a roll at the MPSF tournament, but a stretch of six losses in eight games in the middle of the season was ultimately their undoing when it came to the NCAA selection committee.

The announcement did not come as a shock to the Cardinal women, who, despite winning their conference tournament, knew that it was going to be tough to sway the committee. Yesterday’s news officially marks the end of the careers of a senior group of important contributors throughout their four years on the Farm: Daphne Patterson, Amanda Soto, Laura Shane, Bri Ned, Alicia Soto and Katharine Fox all played in their last games in Stanford’s victory over Denver in the MPSF championships.