Team USA only has one current college star on its roster and that player is Albany goalie Blaze Riorden. Blaze is going into his fourth year as a starting goalie for the Great Danes and the Fairport native has played a huge part in taking his team to the NCAA tournament the past three springs. This past summer was his third as a member of the Junior B Akwesasne Indians…
Today the Deutschland Adler U-19 played our first ever international game. We took on a well run and highly skilled Wilmot Wild of the OJCLL in an exhibition game at the Syl Apps Community Center in Paris, ON (home of the SouthWest Cyclops of CLax). For me it was the first night with the team, some guys arrived as early as Monday, while other arrived yesterday where the team held our first…
The Presidents Cup was a great week filled with some top-notch lacrosse, which took place in St. Catherine’s Ontario. Many teams from all over Canada and one from upstate NY had the same goal in mind to hold the trophy high over their heads Saturday night. The two teams that faced off in the championship were the Capital Region Axemen and the Six Nation Rivermen. Both had never won the…
Yesterday we were live at the Team USA scrimmage as they practiced with their recently cut down roster. After the scrimmage, we caught up with a few players and the team’s general manager to discuss the team’s preparations for the WILC tournament. Casey Powell Jeff Ratcliffe Jimmy Butler Garrett Thul
With the start of the W.I.L.C. just thirteen days away, Team U.S.A. gathered at Bryn Athyn College (20 miles northeast of Philadelphia) for a scrimmage against Team Fusion coached by Tom Slate. Two of the big names for Team Fusion were Kevin Crowley and Jordan Hall. Former Philadelphia Wing Eric Hoffman was on the roster as well. There was no “official” score kept on the board, but from my count…
The 2015 Presidents Cup kicks off Monday in St. Catharines, Ontario as the defending champion Onondaga Redhawks take on the Catpital Axemen, who enter the tournament after winning the Quebec Senior Lacrosse League. The Redhawks look to repeat as champions for the first time since the St. Regis Braves won back to back titles in 2011 and 2012. However the 2015 Presidents Cup may be one of the deepest tournaments we’ve…
Desmond Bailey is the goalie for the CILL defending champion Chicago Outlaws. I sat down with Desmond to find out more about him, his team, and Box lacrosse in the Midwest. 1. Have you always lived in Chicago? Yes sir, born and raised on the north side of the Chi. 2. When did you start playing lacrosse? I started playing lacrosse sophomore year of high school after quitting baseball and…
The Chicago Outlaws (1-0), proud members of the Continental Indoor Lacrosse League (www.ci2l.com), defeated the Indianapolis Copperheads (0-5) 26-8 at the SportONE Parkview Icehouse on Sunday, August 23. This season started exactly where last season ended, with Chuck Czerkawski winning the faceoff. Chuck would go on to win 23 of the 29 faceoffs he took. The game got off at a fast pace with a lot of back and forth transition, until Ryan Shahidehpour…
Following a three-day training camp at the Westminster School in Simsbury, Conn., US Lacrosse has announced the final 23-man roster for the 2015 U.S. Men’s Indoor National Team. Team USA will compete in the Federation of International Lacrosse (FIL) World Indoor Championship, Sept. 18-27 in Onondaga Nation and Syracuse, N.Y. The U.S. men’s indoor national team is led by head coach Tony Resch and assistant coaches Adam Mueller and Chris Schiller….
In the last 13 months the National Lacrosse League has had a lot of paperwork moving across their desk. In July of 2014, news breaks of the Philadelphia Wings leaving Philadelphia after 28 years to relocate to the Mohegan Sun Casino in Connecticut. Then we had rumors of the Minnesota Swarm moving to Georgia, and Edmonton Rush going to Saskatchewan. Both of these came true. On May 22 the Swarm announced…