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Cleveland State is adding lacrosse, and that’s positive news for the lacrosse community. However, at first it seemed that it would be at the expense of another sport, wrestling. However, it was announced that the college will keep wrestling after originally decided to dump it. Now they will keep both sports, with lacrosse starting in 2016. “I can’t overstate how excited we are,” junior wrestling co-captain Riley Shaw said to…

Outside of the Patriot and ACC Tournaments happening this weekend, there are plenty of games in college lacrosse that matter to many teams trying to keep their seasons alive.  Here are some games to keep an eye on: Saturday St. John’s vs. Georgetown: 11:30 AM Georgetown is in the Big East Tournament, St. John’s is not.  St. John’s needs to win and Villanova to lose to Providence in order to…

Conference tournaments began earlier this week with the Patriot League holding their quarterfinals Tuesday.  They have their semifinals and title game Friday and Sunday respectively on Navy’s campus.  The ACC Tournament will be the second tournament that kicks off beginning with the semifinals tonight and the title game Sunday afternoon in Chester, PA. This is the second year of a “new” ACC, with the only subtraction coming in the form…

Five games are on tap for Tuesday, with two of those games belonging in the Patriot League.  We’ll get to those later, but here are two games worth focusing on (besides UMass Lowell vs. Dartmouth): Albany vs. Siena: 4 PM The Great Danes had a very important two game stretch last week, edging Bryant and Yale in hopes of gaining a first round NCAA game to be played at Albany….