The MCLA fall ball season is very different from the NCAA’s, the biggest difference is that there is no limit on practices. MCLA teams are allowed to take on as many teams or have as many practices as they want to have. Now the biggest problem MCLA teams face is burning players out before the season starts, especially freshman. Two tournaments will be taking place this upcoming weekend in the…
The college lacrosse fall ball season is in full force across all three divisions. This Saturday five teams will compete in the sixth edition of the Play for Parkinson’s Event. The event will host the Georgetown Hoyas, Loyola Greyhounds, Richmond Spiders, Team USA and the Towson Tigers at Episocopal High School in Alexandria, VA. The teams featured at this event are quite an interesting bunch. Richmond is getting ready to…
Alex Urquhart The fall ball season is well underway and there’s still a lot of fall left tell the first snow and the end of the fall season. This will be another big week in the college fall scrimmage and tournament tours. The two big Classics/ Series are the Nicholas Colleluori Fall Classic and the Play for Parkinson’s Series. The Colleluori Classic will be held at Ridley High School…
UMass-Lowell has started their new women’s lacrosse program by hiring Carissa Medeiros as the new head coach. Being that it is UMass first year in Division I, Medeiros coaching background (she spent the past six years at Bentley) should help the team really get off their feet in what is a very tough division. While this program is not set to begin until 2015, this early hire shows the preparedness…
NCAA Tournament Expands to 18 teams – The addition of two teams for the NCAA tournament will include two play in games for the four teams that received the lowest AQ seeds. Expanding the tournament is to keep a balance between AQ and at-large bid teams. There will be 10 AQ teams, with eight at-large squads, which the AQ squads will be knocked down to eight after the two play-in…
On Sunday, the Syracuse lacrosse team got a preview of what to expect from their 2014 team as they participated in scrimmages with the Israeli and Iroquois national teams. Originally, the Orange were not slated to participate in the scrimmages as Cornell was supposed to take part on Sunday. However, Syracuse replaced Cornell after the hazing allegations canceled Cornell’s fall ball season. The first opponent Syracuse faced was the Israeli…
The beginning of Women’s fall ball is just days away, with Liberty taking on Virginia Tech on the other day. With the Tech ranked at #34, and Liberty miles behind at #85, it was an interesting pre season matchup. Another game that also took place was Penn State vs Alumnae on September 28th. Alumnae games are nothing short of a great time, and with the current State College squad ranking…
Fall is in the air and players have had plenty of time to settle in at their respective schools. With a new year comes new hope and the opportunity to begin the quest towards a Final Four Weekend in Baltimore, MD. One of the teams who is very familiar with championships is Syracuse University. Syracuse had quite the year in 2013 after having to replace a very talented 2012 Syracuse…
Alex Urquhart Earlier in the week we took a look at the NCAA fall ball schedule, now we will take a quick look at the MCLA fall ball schedule. Defending MCLA D2 Champions St. Thomas will be participating in the Lake Front Classic in Kenosha, WI over the weekend of October 5. The same weekend many of the UMLC and GRLC teams will be engaged in either the Madcity…
After the Terriers held their first team practice on September 12th, we were finally given the opportunity to see this year’s recruiting class in action. Highlighting this group are several All-Americans, including Jake Dansey, Sam Talkow, and Tyler Zickel. With Zickel’s leadership skills, Dansey’s impressive resume on defense, and Talkow’s experience at the attack position, these three could be a force to be reckoned with. This young group may not…