Rochester Knighthawks fans knew it wasn’t going to be an ordinary night when Sid Smith opened the scoring just 22 seconds into the game. Smith’s goal sparked a 10-goal first half and the defense limited the Colorado Mammoth to a season-low five goals in a 14-5 win tonight. With the victory, the Knighthawks locked up a berth in the 2015 Champion’s Cup Playoffs. “It was another good team victory,” said…
Grant Limone finished with 17 saves, and the Loyola University Maryland defense held off Boston University in the final quarter as the Greyhounds defeated the Terriers, 8-6, on Saturday afternoon in Patriot League play. With the win, 19th-ranked Loyola (7-6 overall, 5-2 Patriot League) clinched a spot in the League Championships. The Greyhounds jumped out to a 5-1 first-quarter lead, but Boston University (6-6, 3-4) dominated possession and pace-of-play in…
Tewaaraton Watch List member Wesley Berg (Coquitlam, B.C.) broke Denver’s career points (217) and goals (158) records, leading the [5/5] University of Denver men’s lacrosse team to an 18-5 win over St. John’s on Saturday afternoon at Da Silva Memorial Field. Fellow Tewaaraton Watch List member Connor Cannizzaro (Cazenovia, N.Y.) had a game-high six points on three goals and three assists. The hat trick was his team-leading seventh of…
The No. 15/16 Marquette University men’s lacrosse team locked up a berth in the BIG EAST Conference semifinals with a 14-10 victory over Providence on Saturday afternoon at the Ray Treacy Track and Field Complex. Graduate attackman Jordan Greenfield posted his fifth hat trick of the year for the Golden Eagles (10-3, 3-1 BIG EAST), who spotted PC a four-goal edge to begin the game. Nine players scored for MU,…
Pride junior Sam Llinares recorded a goal and two assists but Big Red senior Dan Lintner tallied five goals to lead 10th-ranked Cornell to a 14-5 victory over Hofstra at Schoellkopf Field Saturday afternoon. Cornell, with its second consecutive victory, improves to 9-3 on the season. The Pride, which dropped their third straight contest, falls to 4-8. In addition to Llinares, senior Mike Malave and sophomore Zachary Franco each…
After not scoring a goal in last week’s loss to Rochester, Brett Hickey made up for it in a big way by scoring a new team record 7 goals in the Rock’s (12-4) convincing 14-7 win over the Vancouver Stealth (4-10) at Air Canada Centre in Toronto on Friday night. “I didn’t even know,” Hickey told the Air Canada Centre crowd after being named the game’s first star and being…
The National Lacrosse League has issued a summary of discipline following the league’s official review of NLL Week 14 for games played on Friday, April 3 and Saturday, April 4. Vancouver Stealth defenseman Rory Smith has been assessed a two-game suspension for a high-sticking incident on Edmonton Rush forward Jarrett Davis at approximately the 8:53 mark of the fourth quarter of their game on April 4. No call was made on the…
Buffalo Bandits General Manager Steve Dietrich today announced the team has agreed to terms on one-year deals with transition player Mitch Jones and goaltender Kurtis Wagar. The Bandits acquired Jones (6’2”, 205 lbs., 12/12/1991) on Sept. 16, 2013 in a trade with the Washington Stealth. He played four games for the Bandits last season, finishing with five points (2+3) and 22 loose ball recoveries. Wagar (6’0”, 240 lbs., 11/5/1985)…
Maverik Lacrosse, a leading lacrosse equipment manufacturer that designs products for ultimate player performance, today announced that Major League Lacrosse (MLL) standout Ned Crotty has joined the company’s growing roster of athletes. Crotty, an attackman with the MLL’s New York Lizards, was the No. 1 overall pick in the 2010 MLL Collegiate Draft after a stellar four-year career with Duke University. Crotty led the Blue Devils to the program’s first…
On the team’s mindset coming out of training camp… “We had two sound weeks of training camp, probably not as much time as we would have liked together, but certainly moving forward there is a little bit of a void as we’re trying to find a new direction. Matt Danowski was kind of a larger than life personality for us. Adam Ghitelman on the defensive end too. Both your captains are…