AMHERST - Friday's winter weather prevented the University of Massachusetts men's lacrosse team from making its flight to Columbus, Ohio, forcing the cancellation of its game at Ohio State at noon on Saturday.

It is unlikely that the game will be rescheduled.

The Minutemen are off until Friday when they travel to New Haven, Conn., for a 7 p.m. game at Yale.

SOFTBALL TEAM SPLITS - Kyllie Magill's walk-off two-run home run in the bottom of the ninth gave the Minutewomen a 7-6 win over Mississippi State on Friday in the first game of the NFCA Leadoff Classic in Columbus, Ga.

But Bailey Sanders couldn't get out of the first inning in the second game as UMass (5-2) fell 3-1 to North Carolina State.

Only three of the six runs sophomore Sarah Plourde allowed in the first game were earned. She struck out nine, walked four and allowed eight hits while improving to 4-0. Plourde had her first career hit and an RBI in that game.

UMass tied the game twice with single runs in the third and eighth innings, setting the stage for Magill's one-out homer to left field.

Magill was 2-for-3 with two walks and two runs scored. Katie Bettencourt and Audrey Boutin (one RBI) also were 2-for-3 for UMass.

Plourde was strong in 5-1/3 innings in relief of Sanders in the second game. She allowed one hit and fanned 12, but the Minutewomen could not dig out of the early hole.

Meghan Carta singled in Whitney Williams (two hits) for the only UMass run against the Wolfpack.

2009 Atlantic 10 Player of the Year Carly Normandin remained out of action with an injury.

The Minutewomen play No. 6 Missouri at 1:30 p.m. Saturday and Illinois State at 6:30 p.m.

NEW HOME FOR FCS TITLE GAME - Chattanooga, Tenn., which hosted the Division I-AA Championship game which UMass won in 1998 and its trip to the Football Championship Subdivision title game in 2006, has lost hosting rights to the game after 13 years.

The NCAA announced Friday that the game's location and date will be moved. Pizza Hut Park in Frisco, Texas, will now host the game which has been moved from mid-December to early January beginning on Jan. 7, 2011. That moves it closer to the Bowl Subdivision's higher-profile bowls.

The tournament field also has been expanded to 20 teams.

Pizza Hut Park is the home of FC Dallas of Major League Soccer.

Matt Vautour can be reached at mvautour@gazettenet.com. For more UMass coverage, including a UMass sports blog, go to http://www.gazettenet.com/category/sports/umass-sports.