Alex Urquhart The MCLA fall ball season is much harder o follow then the NCAA, most scores aren’t published other than on Facebook or over Twitter. The only advantage is if you know coaches players and organizers. The Madcity Tournament hosted by Wisconsin had both an MCLA bracket and a GLLL/ Men’s bracket. The MCLA Bracket had teams like UW- Madison, Ohio St. club, Michigan club, and Minnesota- Duluth. …
This last weekend was filled with a number of fall ball classics and series. The most notable were the Nick Colleluori Fall Classic and the Play for Parkinson’s Series. Both tournaments were held on October 5 and 6, with some of the best teams coming out to give a great show for their fans and other spectators. The NCC was held in Folsom, PA and had St. Joseph’s, Monmouth, Lafayette,…
The MCLA fall ball season is very different from the NCAA’s, the biggest difference is that there is no limit on practices. MCLA teams are allowed to take on as many teams or have as many practices as they want to have. Now the biggest problem MCLA teams face is burning players out before the season starts, especially freshman. Two tournaments will be taking place this upcoming weekend in the…
Alex Urquhart The fall ball season is well underway and there’s still a lot of fall left tell the first snow and the end of the fall season. This will be another big week in the college fall scrimmage and tournament tours. The two big Classics/ Series are the Nicholas Colleluori Fall Classic and the Play for Parkinson’s Series. The Colleluori Classic will be held at Ridley High School…
Alex Urquhart Earlier in the week we took a look at the NCAA fall ball schedule, now we will take a quick look at the MCLA fall ball schedule. Defending MCLA D2 Champions St. Thomas will be participating in the Lake Front Classic in Kenosha, WI over the weekend of October 5. The same weekend many of the UMLC and GRLC teams will be engaged in either the Madcity…
Alex Urquhart Once again school has started and the NCAA teams have come together for their individual fallball practices and scrimmages and games. Right out of the gate we have already had one team become ineligible for fall games, Cornell. One of the biggest fallball competitions this fall are the games at SUNY- Cortland this coming weekend. Both team Israel and the Iroquois Nationals will be playing each other…
Alex Urquhart The Minnesota Swarm had the most picks in the NLL Entry Draft for the second straight year in a row. With the most picks this year they had the most picks in the first round ever, with four picks. To no real surprise the Swarm took top rated Logan Schuss as the first overall pick and then with the second overall pick Minnesota took Jason Noble. Both Schuss…
Alex Urquhart The Minnesota Swarm have continued to deal players for future draft picks. Their most recent player moved was Evan Kirk, their 26 year old goaltender. The Swarm gave up Kirk for two draft picks from the Philadelphia Wings, one in the first round of the 2015 draft and a first round pick in the 2017 draft. The Swarm drafted Kirk in the first round of the 2011 draft….
Alex Urquhart The Ohio Machine finished the year in last place, with two wins and 12 loses. The Machine’s two wins came against the Rochester Rattlers and the Boston Cannons. With those 12 loses the Machine almost the entire season at the bottom of the MLL standings. Ohio had some of the worst team stats in the MLL over the summer. The Machine brought up the rear in goals for…
Alex Urquhart The Minnesota Swarm are coming off another year in which they made it to the Divisional Finals. The Swarm had a rough regular season only going 7-9. With the NLL 2013 Draft coming up the Swarm will need to look at their deficiencies and try to resolve them before the regular season starts on 28 December against the reigning NLL Champion Knighthawks. The Swarm are going into…