Coverage of the Boston Rockhoppers, Boston Cannons, and college coverage of New England teams like Boston University, UMass, Vermont, Quinnipiac and more.
Photo Credit: UMass Lowell Paced by four, first-half goals by freshman Sean Tyrrell (Calgary, Alberta), The UMass Lowell River Hawks held on for a historic first Division I victory defeating NJIT, 9-7, Saturday afternoon at Lutbekin Field. “It’s great to get our program’s first ever Division I win,” said Head Coach Ed Stephenson. “It was a great battle between two brand new programs. We did well enough in the first…
The No. 13/16 Harvard men’s lacrosse team led from beginning to end as it upended Penn State Saturday afternoon at Soldiers Field Lacrosse Stadium, 12-9. Freshman Joe Lang was the story once again for the Crimson attack, scoring four goals for his second straight hat trick. Sean McDonagh turned in a career-high four points with one goal and three assists, while Deke Burns and Ian Ardrey added two goals apiece….
Brown is 3-0 after beating Quinnipiac, Hartford and UMass now today they will look to make it four straight wins after playing Michigan. In the last three games the Bears have not scored less then seventeen points and Dylan Molloy is leading the way with twenty points, eleven points ahead of the next players who are tied for second. Hennery Blynn, Kylor Bellistri and Brendan Caputo all have nine points so far….
What a week!!! A battle of division leaders went to OT, a battle between the teams who played in the Champion’s Cup was decided again by a goal. We even had a goalie score a goal. Calgary loses their fourth one-goal game of the year. Most of the league is off this week as only two games are slated this weekend. But beware, the weekend of March 13-15 is sure…
We had some very exciting lacrosse and some unbelievable performances this past weekend. Some of which included goaltenders not only standing on their head to make some unreal saves, but also had a goalie score a goal, and not on himself. 1-Rob Hellyer–(5G/5A–Tor) Hellyer was a beast on Friday night. Hellyer’s first goal at :35 of the second quarter put the Rock in the lead until Edmonton tied it…
So far the 2015 college lacrosse season has had to deal with a lot of weather issues, causing delays in action but there has been no delay in some of the freshmen emerging as go-to players for their teams. With the talent being spread through more teams in Division I, there is a lot of opportunity for underclassmen to make their presence felt. This weekend is that start of March,…
Harvard had an interesting game last time around as Deke Burns put in an outstanding performance against UMass. With 7 goals for Burns, Harvard looks to sneak through another tough game as they play Duke on Saturday, February 28th. Duke enters the game being ranked 6th Nationally, while Harvard continues with a National Rank of 10 (Coaches Poll). This will be an interesting match up for Harvard, seeing how close of a game…
Week 8 of the NLL season saw a number of rookies make their NLL debuts, with Mike Burke in Colorado, Matt Bennett in Buffalo and Josh Johnson in New England all appearing in their first NLL games this season. While Burke has the most noticeable impact on paper, both Bennett and Johnson faired well in their NLL debuts, proving they deserve more playing time moving forward. With the NLL moving…
The Colorado Mammoth’s contest against the New England Black Wolves this past week was delayed from 1pm to 2pm due to what was called a weather related issue. Now, we know what the issue really was. While watching the game, a 14-12 victory from Colorado, you may have noticed a few Mammoth players didn’t have matching helmets. If you were really observant, you would have noticed on the Mammoth bench…
We had four games this weekend, all decided by a total of 7 goals. The Black Wolves forced the Rock to OT before falling to them. Cody Jamieson scores the final three goals to lead the Hawks to a huge OT win. Roughnecks save their season with seven goals by Dickson to gain their first win, and Colorado and New England had a classic battle before the Mammoth came up…