Coverage of the Charlotte Hounds and colleges such as the North Carolina Tar Heels and Duke Blue Devils
Chapel Hill, North Carolina – The North Carolina Tar Heels defeat the top ranked Maryland Terreapins 11-8 at home. Charlie Raffa played a great game in controlling the face off circle, but the Tar Heels too advantage of some timely saves by their goalie Kieran Burke and got balanced scoring from their offensive players to get their first win in ACC play this year. The Heels opened up the…
This weekend was about as close in performance NCAA games have been thus far in 2014. I don’t mean scores… I speak of statistics and in-game situations. Many games this weekend were neck and neck until teams took advantage of opportune situations. Virginia – 9 Notre Dame – 18 The Fighting Irish came out with a very mobile and inclusive offense full of assists, offensive rotation and off-ball movement. They…
Alex Urquhart The North Carolina Tar Heels are making their way to Durham to take on the Duke Blue Devils. This is one of the biggest rivalries in college sports. There is only, roughly, 10 miles between the two campuses and that has sparked one of the greatest bubbles of animosity between two schools, just look at college basketball when these two play each other. Now lacrosse is a bit…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ides_of_March #3 Johns Hopkins vs #10 Syracuse I like ‘Cuse to defeat Johns Hopkins in this contest. While the Orange has struggled on faceoffs, they are still an elite program that is still working out its lineup. Each week this team continue to improve and on Saturday, Randy Staats, Dylan Donohue and Kevin Rice will give the Hopkins defense fits. I’m calling for a big day for the Orange vs….
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…
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…
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…
WHERE: @ Loyola WHEN: Sunday March, 9 @ 6:00 Duke returns to the state of Maryland this Sunday as it tries to avoid its second straight loss. Loyola will look to hand Duke another loss and extend its four game winning streak when the two face off on Loyola’s campus. It is also a rematch of last season’s NCAA first round game where Duke upset the Greyhounds on their way…
WHERE: @ Princeton WHEN: Friday March, 7 @ 5:30 For the second week in a row, Princeton will be the site of another high profile matchup on Friday. North Carolina comes off a startling overtime defeat to Notre Dame while Princeton got served a nice dish of humility by Johns Hopkins. Both teams entered the season with high hopes that had fans of both schools thinking Final Four or better….
NCAA Weekend Recap #1 Duke 6 #2 Maryland 10 This was a third quarter game changer as Maryland scored three in the third and held Duke to none. After that, the Blue Devils seemed to lose all momentum. Maryland totaled 44 shots, 32 ground balls, 17 saves and won eight of 19 face offs. On the other side, Duke totaled 36 shots, 26 ground balls, 15 saves and won…