Two trades have taken place tonight at the Major League Lacrosse draft. First, the New York Lizards acquired David Earl and Steven Waldack to the Hamilton Nationals for the fifth overall pick in the draft. That fifth overall pick ended up being Josh Hawkins out of Loyola. The Lizards, who have seen a lot of turn over in the past year, pick up an attackman in Earl who put up…
The Rhode Island Kingfish will be playing their first game in the NALL tomorrow when they face the 0-1 Kentucky Stickhorses in Louisville. Last week the Stickhorses suffered a 10-9 loss at the hands of the Boston Rockhoppers. This is their second straight home game and a chance for the team to find some chemistry together. Kentucky will not add Chazz Woodson until February. Rhode Island is playing their first game…
Our Phil Shore is in Philadelphia tonight where he will be live blogging the Major League Lacrosse collegiate draft. Before we get to that, we bring you our official mock draft of the first round. 1. OHIO MACHINE – PETER BAUM, A, COLGATE: Yeah, Ohio has a lot of attackers. But Baum is the best player in the draft and one way or another Ohio could use more offensive weapons….
Yesterday on the NLL coaches and media conference call, Minnesota Swarm head coach Joe Sullivan addressed the issue of his two goaltenders, Tyler Carlson and Evan Kirk. He told the media that they will be going with a two goalie system like last season and thus Kirk and Carlson will split duties in between the pipes. The sophomore goalies both saw success last season with the Swarm. Carlson had a…
Hunter Francis is a veteran lacrosse person, having been a GM in MLL. He now will be running the Baltimore Bombers, and we got a chance to catch up with the coach and GM below as he previews the season and their opener against Boston. On Training Camp: We’ve had a very good training camp- not great, but very good. The logistical challenges of having camp during the holidays meant we…
The Baltimore Bombers open their 2013 campaign this Saturday when they travel to Boston to face the Rockhoppers. I caught up with James Synowiez about how training camp has been going and his thoughts on the opener. On Training Camp: Training camp has been nothing less than exciting. Men of all ages putting their best effort forward, from recent college grads to NLL veterans it has been a great experience….
The Boston Rockhoppers picked up their first win of the North American Lacrosse League season with a 10-9 victory over the Kentucky Stickhorses, repeating their performance when they defeated them to close out last season. Goaltender Nick Schroeder led the Rockhoppers with 40 saves in the win to counter the 37 saves from losing goaltender Spencer Lyons. Kentucky had 49 shots on goal to the Boston 47. Andrew Kirkaldy scored…
The Washington Stealth pulled an early season upset in front of 7,023 fans in Everett as they defeated the Rochester Knighthawks by a score of 13-12. Athan Iannucci tiptoed around the crease to score with 1:23 left in the contest to give the Stealth the lead and they did not look back as they start their season 1-0. The Knighthawks, who were without Casey Powell, fall to 0-1. Cliff Smith…
The Rochester Knighthawks are opening on the road against the Washington Stealth in a very interesting matchup. Rochester won the 2012 NLL Championship while Washington was the one team to not make the playoffs. Recently it was announced that Sid Smith will serve as the captain of the team with the retirement of Pat McCready. For Washington, they also have a new captain in Kyle Sorensen. Both teams have new…
The Minnesota Swarm are getting ready to start their season after surprising most of the league last season. They took a very young roster and made it all the way to the Western Finals, something that no one outside of Minnesota expected. Minnesota brings in four rookies in 2013; Brock Sorensen, Kiel Matisz, Shayne Jackson and Alex Crepisneck who were all first round draft picks. Sorensen starts the season on…