A busy slate of games starts the unofficial opening weekend of the 2014 season. It’s the unofficial opening weekend, because while you were on the checkout isle buying guacamole for the Super Bowl last Saturday, Delaware defeated High Point 10-3 and Lehigh beat Furman 13-6 to start the 2014 season. My game of the weekend will be on TV Sunday on ESPNU, as Johns Hopkins attempts to rebound from not making the…
HOFSTRA (#24) 2013 Record: 7-7 The Skinny Hofstra got off to a strong start in 2013 winning five of their opening six games, including an impressive road win over No. 2 Notre Dame. However, the Pride dropped four one-goal affairs and only won two of their final eight games to drop out of postseason contention. Focusing on the little things will be the biggest challenge for Seth Tierney and his…
**Photo Credit: The Daily Collegian** The college lacrosse season has yet to start, but the UMass and Harvard teams are already making headlines. For UMass, this means being included in the preseason Top-20 polls, done annually before the start of the season. The polls, an Inside Lacrosse Media and United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association Coaches Polls, both included votes for the Minutemen squad. These polls are of course just estimates…
Lacrosse has skyrocketed in popularity; this is reiterated countless times a day by players, coaches and fans. Unfortunately, not many people outside the sport understand quite what it takes to be a topnotch competitor. There are so many professional lacrosse leagues that it would be impossible to hold professional league recruitment combines. The events would overlap too many leagues’ seasons and events, and therefore comes down to college players competing…
The US Lacrosse convention was last weekend and along with it came the MLL Collegiate Draft. With mock drafts completed and everyones predictions set, Friday night at 8:30 pm was upon us. Lots of ideas were running around the room as to who the Ohio Machine were going to pick first. There were GMs and head coaches galore and readily available to pop on to the live pre-draft show. Defense…
The Boston Cannons continued to revamp their roster as they took part in last Wednesday’s MLL Supplemental Draft. A total of 96 players were chosen from a pool of over 500 players and the Cannons seems to try and make the most of their picks. All in all, the Cnanons added 11 players, some with high profile names, such as Jack Rice, and others not so much, Michael Maggio. Below…
Here are my Boston-biased, minute-by-minute reactions to the trades and key picks of the 2014 MLL Supplemental Draft: 2:29 pm: Major League Lacrosse headquarters send the interns for coffee. There is a 50-minute wait at Dunkin Donuts. The interns miss the entirety of the draft and fail to provide fans with live twitter updates. A free-for-all for updates ensues. 2:33 pm: Three-team trade: New York sends picks #2 and #28…
Bill McGlone (Maryland) was selected with the first overall pick by the Ohio Machine in the MLL 2014 Supplementary Draft. After much chatter of the possibility of the first women to play in the professional league, two-time Women’s World Cup Champion Goaltender Devon Wills was not taken in the draft. New York once again made some bold trades during the off-season. Coach Spallina’s team acquired all-star long pole Kyle Hartzell…
Yesterday was a big step for the newly acquired MLL franchise in Florida as the Supplemental Draft took place at 2:30 p.m.n The Florida Launch added twelve new faces to their already strong squad that will consist of many Hamilton Nationals from 2013 with the accession of Casey Powell who was part of the Joe Walters trade with Chesapeake. Florida has added good talent to their ranks with guys who…
At the end of the 2012/2013 season, the UMass Men’s lacrosse team defeated Delaware 16-8. This impressive win did not accurately reflect the tone of their entire season, which ended dismally at a record of 7-8. At one point, the Minutemen lost 7 of 9 games, with their two wins by the narrowest of margins.