Tuesday Division III Notebook: Defense Wins Championships, But Faceoffs Might Too

Tuesday Notebook
March 11, 2014

It has become increasingly obvious over the last few years that faceoffs are becoming one of the most important facets of the modern game of lacrosse. Teams with a good faceoff guy can control the ball, get consecutive possessions, create fastbreak opportunities and–perhaps most importantly–reduce deficits in a much more efficient manner. That was on display Saturday afternoon at Springfield College as the Pride came back from a 7-4 deficit…

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NCAA: Who To Watch This Week

March 11, 2014

Week of 3/10/2014 The middle of March is upon us and that can only mean one thing: college lacrosse is HERE. Tuesday, March 11 Bucknell vs. North Carolina 4 pm The action gets started later today when Bucknell travels to Chapel Hill, North Carolina to face a Tar Heels unit that rebounded from their only loss of the season against Notre Dame by beating a strong Princeton team this past…

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PSU vs Denver: Monday Night Under The Lights

March 10, 2014

Denver University and Penn State will meet for the sixth time in program history, and Denver has won three of the previous matches, while the Nittany Lions have won two. The Nittany Lions are amidst the highest ranking that the program has ever had, and are only looking to increase their ranking. The team is coming off a road win at Ohio State last weekend, and they are hoping to…

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Division III USILA Poll Week 3: Top Tier Holding Steady

USILA
March 10, 2014

This past week was, when compared to the previous week, a fairly pedestrian one. The best teams took care of business and the top six of the USILA Top 20 seems to have taken its permanent shape. RIT, Cortland, Salisbury, Tufts, Stevenson, and Cabrini have been on a whole other level than the rest of the country and it will take a major shakeup for any other teams to crack…

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Sawyer, Pontrello Star in Loyola’s Rout of Duke

March 10, 2014

Duke thought that Mike Sawyer graduated last year. Well, they are right, he did. Unfortunately, for the Blue Devils, his brother Matt Sawyer did not. On Sunday, Loyola and Sawyer torched the Blue Devils in one of this weekend’s showcase games. Sawyer and junior Nikko Pontrello combined for 11 of the team’s 14 goals as the Greyhounds routed the Blue Devils 14-7. Sawyer scored six goals while Pontrello added five…

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Tewaaraton Watch: Thompsons, Sawyer, Rice

March 10, 2014

Matt Sawyer (Loyola)—In one of the most anticipated games of 2014, Loyola used it as a statement game, winning 14-7 over Duke. It was an intense, physical, high scoring affair that saw multiple contributions, including 11 combined goals from Matt Sawyer and Nikko Pontrello. It was Sawyer that paced the Greyhounds offense with four first half goals, followed by two more in the second. Matt Donovan (Cornell)—Saturday’s upset over #2…

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Springfield’s Ryan Murphy, Lynchburg’s Andrew Fawkes Earn D3 Players of the Week

March 10, 2014

Mixed in with all of the action over the last week were some outstanding individual performances. Those individuals will be recognized in this space each week as the D3 Players of the Week. Offensive Player of the Week—Ryan Murphy, Springfield College The Pride’s senior attackman has had one heck of a career against cross-town rival Western New England and he added to that on Saturday with four goals and an…

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Wheeling Jesuit Wins Three Times This Weekend

March 10, 2014

Ever since I graduated from Wheeling Jesuit University in 2004, I’ve made it a habit to check scores on laxpower to see how the program was doing.  Even though I graduated 10 years ago, I am still very proud of the program and the time I spent at WJU.  Whenever I found myself driving cross-country, I made a stop on campus to just drive around and keep the memories fresh….

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NCAA: UPenn Quakes Villanova

March 9, 2014

The UPenn and Villanova men’s lacrosse team met for a Pennsylvania brawl at Villanova’s home, in Northwest Philadelphia. The intensity of this rival game was unmatched as this was the fourth time out of the past five games that one goal influenced the outcome. Villanova started out strong and held the lead until the last two minutes of the fourth quarter.  They had goals scored by some of their most…

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NCAA Recap: Tar Heels Pull Out ‘W’ in Final Minutes Over Princeton

March 9, 2014

It was a relatively quiet day for Tom Schreiber. He scored three on the day, two of them unassisted; as well as three assists.   Talk about comparable teams much? The Tigers and Tar Heels were practically neck and neck the entire time. I was not until the closing minutes of the game that North Carolina finally pulled ahead, and Princeton lost its steam.   On North Carolina’s side of…

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