Coverage of the Charlotte Hounds and colleges such as the North Carolina Tar Heels and Duke Blue Devils
Following Duke’s win over High Point on Saturday, Air Force flew in to North Carolina for a second Blue Devil game yesterday (Sunday). The Falcons came out swinging and full throttle, but it wasn’t enough to overcome the Duke roster depth, as the Blue Devils came out victorious 13-7. FIRST QUARTER Of the four goals committed in the opening period (two each side), three were on man-up opportunities. Duke drew…
NCAA lacrosse season is fully underway as of this weekend. Both teams are matched well for the first time in two or three seasons and each squad has its advantages. Game time is set for noon EST in Durham, N.C. DUKE They’re a powerhouse that just repeated National Championship victories. Deemer Class and Myles Jones return following great 2014 performances. Deemer Class (midfield, junior) posted 65 points in 2014 behind…
2014 Finish Furman – 1-12 UNC – 10-5 – lost to Denver 9-5 in first round of the NCAA tournament UNC took down Richie Meads inaugural Furman team 19-3 in last year’s meeting. Coach Breschi’s Tar Heels are returning an insane amount of talent on offense but lost key players to graduation in Pat Foster, Ryan Creighton, TJ Kemp, Greg McBride and, of course, RG Keenan. Stephen Kelly and Brent…
The Duke Blue Devils open their season tomorrow, but they will be without three of their starting players when they take on the 1-0 High Point Panthers. The team announced the indefinite suspensions of three players- attackman Kyle Keenan, defenseman Chris Coady, and LSM Brian Dialey. Keenan was a starter last season with Duke when Josh Dionne got hurt in the playoffs, and he was going to be a starting…
@proctorpac on Twitter Saturday February 7th at 12:00pm– The Blue Devils start their run for a 3rd NCAA Championship at High Point who is coming off their first win of the season against Delaware. You would think this sounds like a walk in the park for the Blue Devils but when you look at basically an entire attack line graduating it makes you wonder. The Duke University Blue Devils This…
Kip Orban Midfielder, Princeton University 6’2, 200 pounds Drafted by the Charlotte Hounds Round 3, 19th overall 2014: Orban finished the season as the Tigers’ fifth leading point scorer as he scored 21 goals and handed out eight assists for a total of 29 points. Orban is a pure goal scorer who can stretch a defense with his cannon of a shot. He also has the ability to get his hands…
The Panthers proved to stalk their prey first half and attack second half, as they broke away from the Blue Hens in the third quarter of Sunday’s season-opening matchup to win 15-10. Both teams scored the same for the first two quarters: 3 goals in the first and 4 in the second. In the third period, Delaware was only able to find the back of the cage one time compared…
The 2015 MLL Supplemental Draft was held December 17 and the Charlotte Hounds selected first overall this year. In that powerful position, the Hounds selected Garrett Thul, an attackman who played lacrosse out of Army in college and more recently on Team USA in the 2014 FIL World Games held in Denver. Thul is a monster on the field and has two seasons of MLL experience with the Hamilton Nationals…
2014 Record: 9-7 overall, 4-1 in the Atlantic Sun Conference, 5-3 at Home, 3-3 Away 2014 in Review: The regular season was nothing short of a success for the High Point University Panthers. They finished 4-1 in conference play and 9-7 overall, which marked a major turnaround for the program in 2014 compared to the team’s 2013 results when they finished 3-12 overall. High Point comes into 2015 with one…
The Charlotte Hounds continued their very busy off season this afternoon by trading for defenseman Joe Cinosky from the Florida Launch. This will be Cinosky’s second stint in Charlotte. In return, Florida will receive a fourth round pick in the upcoming 2015 collegiate draft and a fifth round supplemental draft pick for 2016. This is Charlotte’s fourth deal of the off season. Just last night they traded away Matt Danowski…