The Brooklin Redmen have always been a lacrosse club built around home grown talent, but the 50th edition of the club will have an even more local flavour with 20 of 25 players hailing from the Durham Region. This also could be the strongest team the Redmen have assembled since the 2000 Mann Cup winner, the last time Brooklin were crowned Men’s Senior A Lacrosse National Champions. “I really want…
Third Star- Mike Poulin- Calgary Roughnecks Mike Poulin came up huge on Saturday night, making 56 saves on 66 shots to help lift the Calgary Roughnecks past the Colorado Mammoth 11-10 in overtime in the West Division Semifinals. Poulin also added a pair of assists in the victory. It wasn’t just the quantity of saves that made Poulin made, but rather the quality and timeliness of the saves the Kitchener,ON…
Dragons Breathe Fire, Burn Red Storm; Shafer & Frazee score 7 as Granito is Stellar in Goal. This afternoon the Drexel Dragons (3-4) dominated the St. John’s Red Storm (1-7) by a score of 13-4 at Vidas Field in Philadelphia. Cole Shafer (Jr-A) scored four times and picked up 4 ground balls to help lead the team. Before the Red Storm could figure out what hit them, the Dragons built…
Our very own Pat Gregoire makes his picks for the ILWT Three Stars for week seven of the 2016 CLax season.
Led by hat tricks by AJ Fish and Greg Coholan, the #14 Virginia Cavaliers (1-1), cruised to a 14-7 win over the Drexel Dragons (0-1) Saturday afternoon at Vidas Field in Philadelphia. Virginia was generating a bunch of scoring chances but the ball didn’t want to go in until 2:05 of the first when Zed Williams scored his first goal of the day. Cole Shafer would get the Dragons on…
Third Star: Ian Martin—Ohsweken Demons Ian Martin had a strong opening weekend for the Ohsweken Demons, netting six goals and four assists in two games. In Friday’s season opener, Martin tallied four points (2 G, 2 A) in the Demons 14-12 loss to the Barrie Blizzard on Friday. The next night, the Six Nation Arrows product followed up with an impressive six point (4 G, 2 A) performance in Ohsweken’s…
Third Star: Randy Staats—Georgia Swarm Randy Staats’ rookie campaign is off to a hot start as he totaled seven points (3 G, 4 A) in the Georgia Swarm’s impressive 12-7 win over the Toronto Rock on Saturday night. The 2016 first-round pick has 14 points and sits just one point behind the league leader Adam Jones. The former Syracuse Orange sniper has scored a hat trick in his first…
Last season, the McGill Redmen ended their season by watching the Guelph Gryphons raise the Baggataway Cup while they let their perfect season slip right through their fingers. Fast forward 12 months later, and those very same Redmen claimed redemption as they knocked off the Western Mustangs 15-11 to capture the program’s second Canadian University Field Lacrosse Association title and cap off a perfect 15-0 CUFLA season. Although the back-to-back…
Photo Credit: SPORTDAD Sports Photography Third Star- Brandon Slade- Brock University ILWT CUFLA Three Star Mainstay Brandon Slade continued his sensational season, potting four goals and nine assists for 13 points in two games this past weekend. In the first contest, the Orangeville, ON native tallied two goals, including the game winner, while also adding four assists for six points in the Badgers win against Guelph(11-10). In the second match…
Third Star: Alex Wright—Queen’s University Senior attackman Alex Wright led Queen’s University to a 14-8 victory over Ottawa this past Sunday. The Newmarket, ON native netted a hat trick while dishing out five assists for eight points. Wright currently leads the Gaels in scoring with 34 points in eight games played. Second Star: Paul Rakoczy—McGill University It’s tough to find a defender in the CUFLA ILWT Three Stars, but it’s…