Thomas Ricciardelli and Notre Dame secured a victory in their NCAA opener against Jacksonville University. The game showcased impressive performances, particularly from Ricciardelli.
Key points
Thomas Ricciardelli played a crucial role in the game
Notre Dame faced Jacksonville University
The match occurred on May 10, 2026
Game held at Arlotta Family Lacrosse Stadium
Notre Dame secured a victory
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'Lacrosse gods' smile on Thomas Ricciardelli, Notre Dame in NCAA opener
Notre Dame attack Luke Miller (77) passes the ball in the first round of the NCAA Tournament against Jacksonville University at Arlotta Family Lacrosse Stadium on Sunday, May 10, 2026, in South Bend.
Notre Dame goalie Thomas Ricciardelli looks to pass the ball in the first round of the NCAA Tournament against Jacksonville University at Arlotta Family Lacrosse Stadium on Sunday, May 10, 2026, in South Bend.
Notre Dame attack Will Maheras (16) runs with the ball in the first round of the NCAA Tournament against Jacksonville University at Arlotta Family Lacrosse Stadium on Sunday, May 10, 2026, in South Bend.
Notre Dame goalie Thomas Ricciardelli saves a shot on goal in the first round of the NCAA Tournament against Jacksonville University at Arlotta Family Lacrosse Stadium on Sunday, May 10, 2026, in South Bend.
Q&A
What was the outcome of the Notre Dame vs Jacksonville NCAA lacrosse game?
Notre Dame won their NCAA opener against Jacksonville University.
Who is Thomas Ricciardelli in the context of NCAA lacrosse?
Thomas Ricciardelli is a key player for Notre Dame, contributing significantly to their success in the NCAA tournament.
When did Notre Dame play their NCAA opener against Jacksonville University?
Notre Dame played their NCAA opener against Jacksonville University on May 10, 2026.
Where did the Notre Dame vs Jacksonville lacrosse game take place?
The game took place at Arlotta Family Lacrosse Stadium in South Bend.
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Notre Dame face-off midfielder Tyler Spano, left, and Jacksonville face-off midfielder Drew Rippeon fight for possession of the ball in the first round of the NCAA Tournament at Arlotta Family Lacrosse Stadium on Sunday, May 10, 2026, in South Bend.
Notre Dame midfielder Jalen Seymour (26) shoots the ball in the first round of the NCAA Tournament against Jacksonville University at Arlotta Family Lacrosse Stadium on Sunday, May 10, 2026, in South Bend.
Notre Dame midfielder Thomas Porell (72) celebrates after scoring a goal in the first round of the NCAA Tournament against Jacksonville University at Arlotta Family Lacrosse Stadium on Sunday, May 10, 2026, in South Bend.
Notre Dame attack Josh Yago, front, and midfielder Thomas Porell celebrate after a Porell goal in the first round of the NCAA Tournament against Jacksonville University at Arlotta Family Lacrosse Stadium on Sunday, May 10, 2026, in South Bend.
Notre Dame attack Teddy Lally runs with the ball in the first round of the NCAA Tournament against Jacksonville University at Arlotta Family Lacrosse Stadium on Sunday, May 10, 2026, in South Bend.
Notre Dame midfielder Will Angrick, front, gets tripped up in the first round of the NCAA Tournament against Jacksonville University at Arlotta Family Lacrosse Stadium on Sunday, May 10, 2026, in South Bend.
Notre Dame attack Teddy Lally (5) celebrates after scoring a goal in the first round of the NCAA Tournament against Jacksonville University at Arlotta Family Lacrosse Stadium on Sunday, May 10, 2026, in South Bend.
Notre Dame attack Luke Miller (77) keeps the ball away from a defender in the first round of the NCAA Tournament against Jacksonville University at Arlotta Family Lacrosse Stadium on Sunday, May 10, 2026, in South Bend.
Notre Dame attack Luke Miller (77) shoots the ball and scores in the first round of the NCAA Tournament against Jacksonville University at Arlotta Family Lacrosse Stadium on Sunday, May 10, 2026, in South Bend.
Notre Dame midfielder Matt Jeffery celebrates after scoring a goal in the first round of the NCAA Tournament against Jacksonville University at Arlotta Family Lacrosse Stadium on Sunday, May 10, 2026, in South Bend.
Notre Dame attack Josh Yago (12) makes a move in the first round of the NCAA Tournament against Jacksonville University at Arlotta Family Lacrosse Stadium on Sunday, May 10, 2026, in South Bend.
Notre Dame midfielder Matt Jeffery shoots the ball and scores in the first round of the NCAA Tournament against Jacksonville University at Arlotta Family Lacrosse Stadium on Sunday, May 10, 2026, in South Bend.
Notre Dame attack Teddy Lally (5) passes the ball in the first round of the NCAA Tournament against Jacksonville University at Arlotta Family Lacrosse Stadium on Sunday, May 10, 2026, in South Bend.
Notre Dame long stick midfielder Will Donovan (81) reacts to an official's call in the first round of the NCAA Tournament against Jacksonville University at Arlotta Family Lacrosse Stadium on Sunday, May 10, 2026, in South Bend.
Notre Dame midfielder Gavin Lynch (22) runs with the ball in the first round of the NCAA Tournament against Jacksonville University at Arlotta Family Lacrosse Stadium on Sunday, May 10, 2026, in South Bend.
Notre Dame long stick midfielder Will Donovan (81) runs with the ball in the first round of the NCAA Tournament against Jacksonville University at Arlotta Family Lacrosse Stadium on Sunday, May 10, 2026, in South Bend.
Notre Dame attack Griffin Grant, second from left, gets tripped up in the first round of the NCAA Tournament against Jacksonville University at Arlotta Family Lacrosse Stadium on Sunday, May 10, 2026, in South Bend.
Notre Dame head coach Kevin Corrigan, right, shakes hands with athletic director Pete Bevacqua after winning the first round of the NCAA Tournament 18-5 against Jacksonville University at Arlotta Family Lacrosse Stadium on Sunday, May 10, 2026, in South Bend.
Notre Dame head coach Kevin Corrigan after winning the first round of the NCAA Tournament 18-5 against Jacksonville University at Arlotta Family Lacrosse Stadium on Sunday, May 10, 2026, in South Bend.
Notre Dame head coach Kevin Corrigan after winning the first round of the NCAA Tournament 18-5 against Jacksonville University at Arlotta Family Lacrosse Stadium on Sunday, May 10, 2026, in South Bend.
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Photos from Notre Dame lacrosse's NCAA tournament first round win
Notre Dame attack Luke Miller (77) passes the ball in the first round of the NCAA Tournament against Jacksonville University at Arlotta Family Lacrosse Stadium on Sunday, May 10, 2026, in South Bend.
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Photos from Notre Dame lacrosse's NCAA tournament first round win
Notre Dame attack Luke Miller (77) passes the ball in the first round of the NCAA Tournament against Jacksonville University at Arlotta Family Lacrosse Stadium on Sunday, May 10, 2026, in South Bend.
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Photos from Notre Dame lacrosse's NCAA tournament first round win
Notre Dame goalie Thomas Ricciardelli looks to pass the ball in the first round of the NCAA Tournament against Jacksonville University at Arlotta Family Lacrosse Stadium on Sunday, May 10, 2026, in South Bend.
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Photos from Notre Dame lacrosse's NCAA tournament first round win
Notre Dame attack Will Maheras (16) runs with the ball in the first round of the NCAA Tournament against Jacksonville University at Arlotta Family Lacrosse Stadium on Sunday, May 10, 2026, in South Bend.
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Photos from Notre Dame lacrosse's NCAA tournament first round win
Notre Dame goalie Thomas Ricciardelli saves a shot on goal in the first round of the NCAA Tournament against Jacksonville University at Arlotta Family Lacrosse Stadium on Sunday, May 10, 2026, in South Bend.
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Photos from Notre Dame lacrosse's NCAA tournament first round win
Notre Dame face-off midfielder Tyler Spano, left, and Jacksonville face-off midfielder Drew Rippeon fight for possession of the ball in the first round of the NCAA Tournament at Arlotta Family Lacrosse Stadium on Sunday, May 10, 2026, in South Bend.
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Photos from Notre Dame lacrosse's NCAA tournament first round win
Notre Dame midfielder Jalen Seymour (26) shoots the ball in the first round of the NCAA Tournament against Jacksonville University at Arlotta Family Lacrosse Stadium on Sunday, May 10, 2026, in South Bend.
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Photos from Notre Dame lacrosse's NCAA tournament first round win
Notre Dame midfielder Thomas Porell (72) celebrates after scoring a goal in the first round of the NCAA Tournament against Jacksonville University at Arlotta Family Lacrosse Stadium on Sunday, May 10, 2026, in South Bend.
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Photos from Notre Dame lacrosse's NCAA tournament first round win
Notre Dame attack Josh Yago, front, and midfielder Thomas Porell celebrate after a Porell goal in the first round of the NCAA Tournament against Jacksonville University at Arlotta Family Lacrosse Stadium on Sunday, May 10, 2026, in South Bend.
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Photos from Notre Dame lacrosse's NCAA tournament first round win
Notre Dame attack Teddy Lally runs with the ball in the first round of the NCAA Tournament against Jacksonville University at Arlotta Family Lacrosse Stadium on Sunday, May 10, 2026, in South Bend.
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Photos from Notre Dame lacrosse's NCAA tournament first round win
Notre Dame midfielder Will Angrick, front, gets tripped up in the first round of the NCAA Tournament against Jacksonville University at Arlotta Family Lacrosse Stadium on Sunday, May 10, 2026, in South Bend.
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Photos from Notre Dame lacrosse's NCAA tournament first round win
Notre Dame attack Teddy Lally (5) celebrates after scoring a goal in the first round of the NCAA Tournament against Jacksonville University at Arlotta Family Lacrosse Stadium on Sunday, May 10, 2026, in South Bend.
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Photos from Notre Dame lacrosse's NCAA tournament first round win
Notre Dame attack Luke Miller (77) keeps the ball away from a defender in the first round of the NCAA Tournament against Jacksonville University at Arlotta Family Lacrosse Stadium on Sunday, May 10, 2026, in South Bend.
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Photos from Notre Dame lacrosse's NCAA tournament first round win
Notre Dame attack Luke Miller (77) shoots the ball and scores in the first round of the NCAA Tournament against Jacksonville University at Arlotta Family Lacrosse Stadium on Sunday, May 10, 2026, in South Bend.
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Photos from Notre Dame lacrosse's NCAA tournament first round win
Notre Dame midfielder Matt Jeffery celebrates after scoring a goal in the first round of the NCAA Tournament against Jacksonville University at Arlotta Family Lacrosse Stadium on Sunday, May 10, 2026, in South Bend.
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Photos from Notre Dame lacrosse's NCAA tournament first round win
Notre Dame attack Josh Yago (12) makes a move in the first round of the NCAA Tournament against Jacksonville University at Arlotta Family Lacrosse Stadium on Sunday, May 10, 2026, in South Bend.
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Photos from Notre Dame lacrosse's NCAA tournament first round win
Notre Dame midfielder Matt Jeffery shoots the ball and scores in the first round of the NCAA Tournament against Jacksonville University at Arlotta Family Lacrosse Stadium on Sunday, May 10, 2026, in South Bend.
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Photos from Notre Dame lacrosse's NCAA tournament first round win
Notre Dame attack Teddy Lally (5) passes the ball in the first round of the NCAA Tournament against Jacksonville University at Arlotta Family Lacrosse Stadium on Sunday, May 10, 2026, in South Bend.
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Photos from Notre Dame lacrosse's NCAA tournament first round win
Notre Dame long stick midfielder Will Donovan (81) reacts to an official's call in the first round of the NCAA Tournament against Jacksonville University at Arlotta Family Lacrosse Stadium on Sunday, May 10, 2026, in South Bend.
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Photos from Notre Dame lacrosse's NCAA tournament first round win
Notre Dame midfielder Gavin Lynch (22) runs with the ball in the first round of the NCAA Tournament against Jacksonville University at Arlotta Family Lacrosse Stadium on Sunday, May 10, 2026, in South Bend.
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Photos from Notre Dame lacrosse's NCAA tournament first round win
Notre Dame long stick midfielder Will Donovan (81) runs with the ball in the first round of the NCAA Tournament against Jacksonville University at Arlotta Family Lacrosse Stadium on Sunday, May 10, 2026, in South Bend.
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Photos from Notre Dame lacrosse's NCAA tournament first round win
Notre Dame attack Griffin Grant, second from left, gets tripped up in the first round of the NCAA Tournament against Jacksonville University at Arlotta Family Lacrosse Stadium on Sunday, May 10, 2026, in South Bend.
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Photos from Notre Dame lacrosse's NCAA tournament first round win
Notre Dame head coach Kevin Corrigan, right, shakes hands with athletic director Pete Bevacqua after winning the first round of the NCAA Tournament 18-5 against Jacksonville University at Arlotta Family Lacrosse Stadium on Sunday, May 10, 2026, in South Bend.
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Photos from Notre Dame lacrosse's NCAA tournament first round win
Notre Dame head coach Kevin Corrigan after winning the first round of the NCAA Tournament 18-5 against Jacksonville University at Arlotta Family Lacrosse Stadium on Sunday, May 10, 2026, in South Bend.
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Photos from Notre Dame lacrosse's NCAA tournament first round win
Notre Dame head coach Kevin Corrigan after winning the first round of the NCAA Tournament 18-5 against Jacksonville University at Arlotta Family Lacrosse Stadium on Sunday, May 10, 2026, in South Bend.
SOUTH BEND — This Mother’s Day brunch with upstart Jacksonville wasn’t even two minutes old when Thomas Ricciardelli, senior netminder of Notre Dame lacrosse, experienced what he interpreted as a good omen.
William Krupsky, a hulking midfielder for the visiting Dolphins, whizzed a shot past Ricciardelli’s ear that miraculously clanged off the goalpost as the teams were just settling in.
A good indicator?
“Absolutely,” Riccardelli said after an eventual 18-5 win in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. “I’d like to consider those position saves. Realistically, they’re probably not.”
As superstitious as the next goalie, Ricciardelli smiled as he considered a more nuanced definition.
“It’s just help from the gods — the lacrosse gods,” he said. “It’s definitely helpful seeing one like that where you’re just like, ‘All right, maybe this is my game,’ and just kind of gain that confidence. That felt good.”
On a gorgeous Sunday afternoon at Arlotta Stadium, May 10 brought a career-high five goals off the sizzling stick of sophomore attackman Luke Miller and three more from freshman Teddy Lally. All told, nine different Irish shooters lit the figurative lamp to help end this Cinderella run for Jacksonville (11-6), playing its fourth game in nine days amid its first NCAA Tournament appearance.
Second-seeded Notre Dame (11-2) advances to a quarterfinal meeting on May 16 with Johns Hopkins, 9-8 overtime winners over defending champion Cornell in the opening round. The Blue Jays (10-5) are unseeded but entered the NCAA Tournament ranked ninth in both major polls.
Yet, Sunday’s biggest headline was a much-needed bounce back from Ricciardelli after he let in 15 of 22 shots in a semifinal loss to Virginia in the ACC Tournament nine days earlier.
That 32% save rate against a Cavaliers team that scored 11 times on him in the only other Irish loss this season (March 28) was enough to leave the senior from New Canaan, Conn., in a bit of an existential crisis.
“I lost a little bit of confidence in that game in terms of where I was and how I was doing,” said the newly minted ACC goalie of the year. “It was just (a matter of) looking at what I was doing in the games where I was successful, trying to feel those same feelings.”
He also received a significant boost on the eve of this NCAA opener in his weekly phone chat with Irish predecessor Liam Entenmann, the two-time national championship goalie now playing professionally for the New York Atlas of the Premier Lacrosse League.
“He’s the best,” Ricciardelli said of Entenmann, who doubles as an assistant coach at Michigan. “He was just re-instilling that confidence in me, just telling me I’m good enough to play here and be the starting goalie here.
“It’s been a lot, just coming after him and how good of a goalie he was, but the amount of support he’s given me and just telling me to be me and play my game because I know how to play lacrosse – he’s been the best.”
Irish coach Kevin Corrigan, after watching his goalie stop 16 of 19 shots on goal, said he had no doubt Ricciardelli would come through.
“He’s a great goalie, and great goalies have short memories,” Corrigan said. “He was terrific today. He couldn’t have been a lot better, and he’ll have a short memory about that and get back to work for this week.”
Thomas Ricciardelli sets the tone
Corrigan noted his second-year starter in goal is “pretty good at self-regulation” and absorbing the inevitable punches that come his way. It took Jacksonville 14 shots before it got on the board, but by then the Irish had built a 3-0 lead after Ricciardelli (and the lacrosse gods) helped them withstand an early onslaught.
“They had opportunities early,” Corrigan said, “and when he shut the door on those, it set a tone for everybody.”
Corrigan called a timeout halfway through the first period with the game still scoreless and the Irish struggling to gain possession.
His message?
“It wasn’t as bad as what it seemed,” he said. “To start the game with an almost three-minute defensive possession and really not give them any great looks during that time was really good. I just wanted to reinforce the positive things we were doing and say results will follow if we keep doing that.”
Riccardelli remembered his coach’s impassioned soliloquy a bit differently.
“I got yelled at a little bit for some poor clears, especially early on,” he said, smiling. “I was rushing a few things, just trying to play too quickly. (Corrigan) kind of yelled at me but he calmed me down. I just had to go through the progressions, find the open guy. It’s easy to clear when you just go one pass, one pass, one pass. It was all good.”
The Irish rolled from there to earn their spot next weekend at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y. They also managed to avoid the first-round fate that sent home fourth-seeded Richmond (courtesy of Duke) along with No. 7 Cornell.
The Irish trail the all-time series with the Blue Jays 4-3 but have won the past two meetings, including a 12-9 decision in the 2023 NCAA quarterfinals on route to the first national title in program history.
In the only other meeting between the teams since 2007, Notre Dame rolled 16-9 at home in the 2019 NCAA Tournament.
“They’re playing very well,” Corrigan said. “Watching them all year long, they’ve been kind of a team that doesn’t say die and has come back a number of times. We know it’s going to be an all-day sucker next week.”
Mike Berardino covers Notre Dame football for the South Bend Tribune and NDInsider.com. Follow him on social media @MikeBerardino.