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Richmond Opens Program Against Virginia

VIRGINIA CAVALIERS (1-0) at RICHMOND SPIDERS This is the first ever meeting between the soon-to-be in-state rivals. The Skinny: Cavaliers: Dom Starsia’s squad enters Saturday’s contest two days after an epic tilt with Loyola. Despite holding a 12-4 lead entering the fourth quarter, the Greyhounds pulled off a ferocious comeback, scoring nine straight goals, including the go-ahead tally with 18 seconds remaining. But Virginia’s Ryan Tucker scored with a tenth…

February 8, 2014
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NCAA Preview: Duke at Jacksonville

Duke at Jacksonville WHERE: @ Jacksonville WHEN: Sunday February, 9 @ 12:00 Duke opens the season in Jacksonville where it will start its title defense and its quest for back-to-back NCAA Championships. With the team they bring back, they have a very good shot at it as well. Before they get ahead of themselves, however, they will face Jacksonville, a team slated to win the Atlantic Sun Conference. Duke Offense…

February 7, 2014
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Boston University Opens First NCAA Season

NCAA PREVIEW—MERCER @ BOSTON UNIVERSITY (MEN’S) At 1:00 pm this Saturday, the Boston University Men’s Lacrosse team will travel to Georgia to take on Mercer Bears. For BU, this will be a historic game, as it is their first match-up in Division I lacrosse. Last season, Mercer was one of the worst in Division I, while the Terriers had been competing as a club in the previous seasons. This will be…

February 7, 2014
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NCAA Preview: Manhattan at Rutgers

Manhattan @ Rutgers WHERE: @ Rutgers WHEN: Saturday February, 8 @ 1:00 In what will yet another of many opening day rematches, Manhattan heads to Rutgers as both teams open the season. Last year, Rutgers handled Manhattan by a score of 15-6. After that, however, both teams never really had great season as Rutgers ended the season going 1-13 the rest of the season while the Jaspers went 4-10 the…

February 7, 2014
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NCAA Preview: Michigan @ Penn State

The Nittany Lions are ready to take on Michigan this Saturday in State College. The faceoff will take place in Holuba Hall at 1 pm. Penn State Men’s Lacrosse program is excited and ready to compete in their first home game of the season. After warming up with two exhibition games last week, the Lions are hopefully going to build off the momentum from those games and take down rival…

February 6, 2014
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Duke Hires Ben DeLuca for 2014

February 5, 2014
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After a chain of ripple effects caused by transitioning college coaches, Duke University Men’s lacrosse hired Ben DeLuca today as the volunteer assistant coach for the 2014 season. For those who don’t remember, DeLuca was the head coach at Cornell University, where he is coming off a 2013 season of 14-4 and a 6-0 Ivy League title. In the fall, Cornell fired him after incidences of team hazing were reported…

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Looking Ahead to NCAA Week One

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…

February 5, 2014
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NCAA Injury Report: Week One

We are heading into the first week of the NCAA lacrosse season, and already have a ton of injuries to report. To start, Loyola sophomore Zach Herreweyers will miss the entire season. He missed their preseason game against North Carolina last weekend. Jimmy Bitter sat out this weekend with an injury for North Carolina but he is expected to play this week against Furman. The same goes for Joey Sankey….

February 5, 2014
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NCAA Preview: Mount St. Mary’s at Maryland

WHO: Mount St. Mary’s at Maryland WHERE: College Park, Maryland WHEN: Saturday February 8 @ 12:00pm EST Maryland and Mount St. Mary’s will faceoff this coming Saturday for their season openers. This game should explode all over the field with intensity and athleticism, as it dually serves as season openers and momentum setters. These two opponents do not share a specific rivalry and, in fact, have many similarities. However, they…

February 5, 2014
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NCAA Preview: Delaware at Bucknell

WHERE: @ Bucknell WHEN: Saturday February, 8 @ 5:00 Delaware had the unique opportunity to get their feet wet this season by opening with a 10-3 victory of High Point last weekend in one of only two lacrosse games to be played. This week they will face a much tougher test in the Bucknell Bison who is coming off a 12-4 record and a disappointing end to their season after…

February 4, 2014
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