#1 Duke and #2 Syracuse The NCAA Tournament field was announced on Sunday night. Duke will be your #1 seed while Syracuse earned a No. 2 seed. The Blue Devils will face the winner of Richmond/Air Force. The first play-in game features two underdog teams. The Richmond Spiders are in their first season at the Division I level, and a league championship was wholly unexpected. High Point had been the…
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My, my, my what an absolutely thrilling weekend to end another regular season of great lacrosse. A total of eight automatic bids were up for grabs this weekend in the NEC, America East Conference, Ivy League, MAAC, Big East, CAA, Atlantic Sun and ECAC. With the tournament field ready to be announced later tonight at 9 pm, here is a recap of all the conference championship action and how it…
Sudden death overtime means one shot, one opportunity for both teams to be named champions. Unfortunately the odds were not in Hofstra’s favor as the Drexel Dragons defeated the Pride in the third overtime 11-10 on Saturday in Hempstead. “Defense stood on their heads in overtime, they made great stops, kept giving us another chance to win the game,” Hofstra senior co-captain Torin Varn said. “In the third overtime it…
This week’s Increasingly Lax had our host Todd McElwee go one on one with Lacrosse Magazine’s Corey McLaughlin about this week’s NCAA conference championships and possible bracket outcomes. Increasingly Lax Episode 9
Tonight at James M. Shuart stadium, the first-seed Hofstra takes on second-seed Drexel University in the Colonial Athletic Association title game. Hofstra Starters: A: 17-Varn, 2-Yapor, 5-Llinares M: 7-Malave, 12-Coholan, 21-Hendrickson D: 23-Caputo, 34-Satterthwaite, 44-Sullivan GK: 33-Selva Drexel Starters: A: 1-Boudreau, 15-Shafer, 22-Trizano M: 5-Raucci, 9-McIntosh, 13-Belka D: 11-Dusek, 33-Houchins, 35-Thomas GK: 8-Gabrielsen First Quarter: HU GOAL: 1-0 Hofstra’s Torin Varn opens up scoring off of a…
The Colonial Athletic Association will finish its championship series on Saturday as top-seeded Hofstra and second-seeded Drexel University battle for the conference title at James M. Shuart Stadium in Hempstead, NY. Hofstra has been the number one seed in the CAA tournament four times and has only one championship win in 2006 as the top-seeded team. The Pride’s most recent CAA title was a 10-9 overtime victory against Drexel in…
The NCAA lacrosse season is almost over. It seemed like yesterday team’s were practicing in sweatshirts and sweatpants in frigid temperatures as they began their quest to the NCAA Tournament. As the lacrosse season heads into the conference tournaments and eventually the NCAA Tournament, some players will be playing their last lacrosse games ever while others will be moving onto the MLL. While Miles Thompson, Kieran McArdle and Jordan Wolf…
The rain poured down at James M. Shuart Stadium on Wednesday night but was not enough to stop Hofstra from defeating fourth-seeded University of Delaware 8-6 in the semi-finals of the Colonial Athletic Association tournament. With the win, Hofstra (11-4, 4-1 CAA) will advance to the CAA Championship game on Saturday here in Hempstead while Delaware (7-9, 1-4 CAA) saw its CAA goals go down the drain. “Obviously thrilled to…
Can you believe we only have a week left until Selection Sunday? It feels like ages since the season started back in February and just as the weather has started to heat up, so to has the games we’ve seen and the players performances. Miles Thompson continues to pile up the points in chuncks, Jordan Wolf looks to be playing his best lacrosse when his team needs it most and…