The first round of the 2016 NCAA Men’s Lacrosse Tournament came to a close Sunday, and every game provided some exciting action. One of the most anticipated games of the first round was the matchup of the Yale Bulldogs and the Navy Midshipmen. Both teams played hard and put on a great show, but the Midshipmen edged the Bulldogs by a score of 13-10. If one just watched the first…
Intensity was the focus of the Tigers upset of the defending National Champions Denver Pioneers. There were multiple aspect playing into Towson’s win in the Mile High City, but intensity is what made it all happen. To start, Trevor Baptiste may have won 20 of 22 face offs, but that didn’t necessarily guarantee Denver coming up with the possession and offense. Towson in actuality came up with the majority of…
Providence, Rhode Island—The Brown Bears advance to the second round after defeating the Johns Hopkins Blue Jays, 17-8. The third quarter was the difference in the game, as the Bears scored eight goals in the quarter. The combination of timely saves, pressure defense, and faceoff dominance keyed the Bears to victory. Brown opened up the scoring in the contest after both teams traded possessions, having opportunities each way. Attackman Henry…
A familiar regular season matchup makes its way back to the postseason for the first time since 2004, as the #8 seeded Syracuse Orange host the Albany Great Danes in the final first round game of the weekend Sunday night at 7:30 p.m. The two teams have met at least once each season since 2004, and the Orange have won the last three meetings, with all 13 previous meetings occurring…
Ah, May… the best time of the year; birds are chirping, flowers are blooming, shorts and flip-flops are becoming regular… oh, and there’s the NCAA LACROSSE CHAMPIONSHIPS! This Saturday morning we welcome the NCAA Lacrosse Championships to our televisions, and one of the first games will be the Duke Blue Devils (11-7) vs the seventh ranked Loyola Greyhounds (12-3). The teams met earlier in the season, back in March, when Duke…
In Wednesday’s play-in game, Towson lit up Hobart. That’s the only way of saying it when Hobart barely touched the ball offensively and the Tigers had 33 shots on goal in the first 31 minutes of play. The win has earned Towson a trip west to the Rockies to take on the defending NCAA Division-I Champs: the DU Pioneers. If this matchup weren’t filled with controversy, then it wouldn’t be…
The Marquette Golden Eagles will host the first NCAA tournament game played in Wisconsin after clinching the six seed in this year’s road to Philadelphia. No easy task for the Golden Eagles as University of North Carolina, one of four ACC teams in the tournament, rolls into Valley Fields for faceoff, Saturday, May 14, 1:30 p.m. Central Time. North Carolina (8-6) makes its 31st appearance in the NCAA tournament, looking…
When: Saturday, 5pm, Stevenson-Pincince Field Johns Hopkins earned an at-large berth in the NCAA tournament and earned a road game versus the high scoring, fast paced Brown University Bears. This game has a similarity to another game that Hopkins faced in recent memory, 2008 National Final Four versus Duke University. Brown comes into the contest after losing in the Ivy League Tournament Semi-Final against Harvard. The Bears come into the…
Boston, Massachusetts – Deemer Class ended 2016 with 49 goals, five coming in today’s contest. Duke would enter in the NCAA Tournament after a 15-8 win over the host Boston University Terriers. Boston University came on strong to begin the contest, taking the first four shots of the game. Duke’s goalie Danny Fowler had to be strong from start and was able to come up with the first save of…
When the calendar turns to May, it’s every men’s lacrosse collegiate program’s favorite time of the year. The regular season has concluded, and now the conference tournaments get underway. The CAA is one of the most underrated conferences in NCAA Division I Men’s Lacrosse, but the action in the semi-finals of the tournament had the feel of a major conference tournament. The regular season concluded with Fairfield and Towson…