The National Lacrosse League has announced five finalists for the NLL Hall of Fame Class of 2014 ballot. The nominees this year are Jake Bergey, Pat Coyle, Chris Hall, Pat McCready and Kaleb Toth. Brief summaries of each candidate’s accomplishments are listed below. Ballots are cast by the teams, current members of the NLL Hall of Fame and senior members of the league’s covering media.Nominees for NLL Hall of Fame…
The Florida Launch (4-4) host the Chesapeake Bayhawks Saturday night in a must win game for Stan Ross’ club. Florida has struggled lately and will need a big victory at home to help get them some sort of momentum going into the final stretch of the season that has them on the road for four of their last six games. Chesapeake hasn’t met their expectations for the season, sitting at…
Never heard of the Continental Indoor Lacrosse League? They earned their 15 minutes of fame last night when Chicago Outlaws player Zack Dorn won the MLL hardest shot contest as a fan participant. Last season with the Outlaws, Dorn had eight goals and five assists for 13 points on the season and nine ground balls. The Outlaws open their season on August 2 against their rival Grand Rapids Dragonfish. Below, we…
It may have been low scoring, but the 2014 MLL All Star game lived up to the hype. Team USA was sloppy for most of the game but they still took home a 10-9 victory over Team MLL thanks to a goal from Rob Pannell with six seconds left in the game. The first quarter ended at 2-2 with Kevin Leveille of the Rochester Rattlers scoring both goals for USA. The…
Unlike in other sports (except maybe baseball where it means home field advantage), the Major League Lacrosse all star game has meaning to it. Especially this year when Team MLL will be taking on Team USA, and it is USA’s last scrimmage before they get ready for the FIL in Denver. Match Ups Team MLL Attack Eric Law Logan Schuss Matt Danowski Drew Westervelt Team USA Attack Rob Pannell Brendan…
Offensively, the ball was well distributed as was predicted last week. At least eight different players found the back of the cage in their most recent game (and win) against the Charlotte Hounds. Most of those athletes scored multiple times each. Jordan Wolf continued to be a feeding nightmare against an opposing defense. He assisted five different times in the Hounds game alone and was one of the players to…
Six Nations @ Peterborough, 8:00 pm Season series – 1-1 While Six Nations has played two games since last facing the Lakers, Peterborough will be seeing the Chiefs for the second game in a row. Last week the Lakers defeated the Chiefs 15-9 in an energetic matchup that saw Cody Jamieson held pointless and ejected for fighting. Expect Jamieson to come out firing to make up for last week. John…
The Continental Indoor Lacrosse League announced their teams for 2014 yesterday, and now their schedule is out. The season gets underway with Grand Rapids facing their rival Chicago Outlaws, and the next week each team is in action, all in Grand Rapids. The defending champion Colorado Sabertooths play four games on the road. Saturday, August 2 Grand Rapids at Chicago, 6:00 PM Saturday, August 9 (at Grand Rapids, MI) Lansing at…
The Ohio Machine are 3-5 so far in 2014 but it hasn’t been because of a lack of offense. The Machine have scored 106 goals so far this season which is tops in the league. Dare I say it, they are well oiled machine. In 2013, this offense was putrid, awful, horrendous, unbearable, I think you get the idea. Essentially, any other synonym you have for bad is what the Machine’s…
Will Manny was the hero on Saturday night as he led the Boston Cannons to a 17-16 overtime victory over the Ohio Machine. He scored five goals in the game, and after the contest we asked him what has worked so well in 2014.