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The Season Thus Far: Wins: 7 Losses: 5 Games Back: 3 HOME: 4-2 AWAY: 3-3 The Rochester Rattlers proved just how tough they are this past week with a big win over Chesapeake at home. A very strong faceoff game with various scorers in Lawson, Staats, Matthews, and Rice helped…
In one of their most action-packed home games of the 2015 MLL season, the Rochester Rattlers (7 – 5) defeated the Chesapeake Bayhawks (5 – 7), in front of a good crowd in Brockport, NY. A strong first and fourth quarter led by Dave Lawson, who had five points, Kevin Rice, who had a hat trick including the game winner, and another great game by Mark Matthews’ who had his…
The Rochester Knighthawks have signed assistant coach Paul Day to a three-year deal. Day, who joined head coach Mike Hasen’s staff in 2011, will enter his 18th season with the organization in 2016. “I am very excited to get back at it next winter,” said Day. “It’s a great draft and we will improve a good team.” The Knighthawks, who have the second overall pick in September’s Draft, made one of their…
The Rochester Rattlers (6 – 5) are taking on the Chesapeake Bayhawks (5 – 6) in the final home game of the regular season in Brockport, NY. Coming off a statement win against the Ohio Machine (7 – 5) at Ohio, the Rattlers look to make a playoff push against a struggling Bayhawks team. Meanwhile, Chesapeake is coming off a loss against the Lizards, so Coach Cottle and the five-time…
With a playoff spot locked up, the New York Lizards could have simply taken it easy and rested some of their stars. However, that wasn’t their intentions as the Lizards got off to a hot start against the Denver Outlaws and never looked back on their way to an 18-15 victory. This game was New York’s last home game of the season until the playoffs, so they wanted to send…
In the second part of a Home-And-Home series, The Rochester Rattlers (6 – 5) defeated the Ohio Machine (6 – 5), in front of a great crowd of over two thousand in Delaware this past Fourth of July weekend (sorry guys, it wasn’t Columbus. Heh, My bad!). Led by a five point afternoon for Mark Matthews in just his second game played this season, the Rattlers used a strong second…
Weeknight MLL action gets rolling tonight when the Denver Outlaws visit Hofstra University to take on the New York Lizards. The visitors are coming off of their worst lost in recent memory, a 22-9 trouncing at home to the Boston Cannons. Denver Head Coach B. J. O’Hara said that his team got off to a good start but then the Cannons outplayed the Outlaws in every aspect of the game….
Rochester (6-5), down 8-3 at half time, outscored Ohio (6-5) 13-7 in the second half to come away winners by a 16-15 final score on Independence Day at Selby Stadium in Delaware, Ohio. The Machine got the scoring started 10 seconds into the game thanks to Brian Karalunas’ first goal of the season. Tom Schreiber and Kyle Harrison provided goals to put the home team up 3-0 at the 8:25…
The Rochester Rattlers (5 – 5) head to Columbus in the second half of a home-and-home series with the Ohio Machine (6 – 4). The Rattlers are coming off a tough loss at home to Ohio, where the Machine’s electric offense on top of excellent defense and goal-tending helped propel them to a commanding 17 – 12 victory. Possibly the biggest factor in their win however was the domination of…
This summer, we will examine the top 50 players from the 2015 NLL season. Now, that doesn’t mean the best players, period, it just means who played the best this past season. The top 50 were voted on and decided by members of our NLL staff. Any questions, tweet to @LacrosseWeTrust. Jay Thorimbert 2015 Team: Buffalo Bandits Position: Transition Status: UFA Draft Year: 2008 2015 Stats: 13 points, 246 loose balls, 338-513 faceoffs Thorimbert was…