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Tufts captures DIII national championship

A double overtime golden goal from Tyler Kulcsar gave Tufts University the NCAA Division III title on Saturday and made champions out of a couple of Philadelphia area natives.

Narberth, Pa., native Kevin Lawson won it for the second time in his last game while freshman reserve forward Joseph Braun, of Yardley, Pa., got his first taste of the success the Boston program has experienced winning it all two of the last three seasons.

“It was a fairytale ending to a career,” Lawson wrote in an email, still processing all that transpired in Salem, Virginia over the weekend.