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The start of the NCAA Tournament has been absolutely spectacular with upsets, tight games and every position on the field scoring. This evening, UNC will meet Colgate on Fetzer Field in Chapel Hill at 5:15pm in the first round of the tournament. Carolina comes in as the third seed, highest since being seeded number one in 1993 and Colgate enters unseeded but has the Patriot League title under their belt….
The New York Lizards and Boston Cannons match ups always produce some of the closest games, and Friday’s game was no different. Both teams played competitively, but in the end, the Lizards claimed a 15-12 win over the Cannons at James M. Shuart Stadium, sweeping the Cannons for the second time in the last two seasons and remaining undefeated in the regular season. The Cannons and Lizards last met up…
The Buffalo Bandits have been eliminated from the playoffs at the hands of the Rochester Knighthawks. Rochester controlled much of the temp of the game game, and lead for all but a couple of minutes early in the 1st quarter, and as a result, came away with the 14-11 win. “We did not play good tonight” said Bandits Head Coach Troy Cordingley. “Especally considering how well we played down the…
After clinching second place in the NLL’s Eastern Division during the regular season, the defending NLL champion Rochester Knighthawks (12-6) will host the Buffalo Bandits (11-7) 7pm Friday night at the Blue Cross Arena for the opening round of the 2015 NLL playoffs. It’s what we work for in the regular season to get into the playoffs and then obviously to have home floor as much as possible,” said Knighthawks…
With Marist winning their play-in game over Bryant to start the NCAA tournament, Syracuse now knows who to plan on hosting this Sunday. Marist played well in their 10-6 victory to improve their overall record to 14-3, but they will need to play significantly better if they want to upset the Orange in the Dome. The key to Marist’s victory was jumping out to a 5-2 lead in the…
Kevin Cunningham scored off a feed from Kieran McArdle with 2:30 left in the fourth quarter to tie the score at nine and force overtime, in a game the Launch were down 7-3. The Rochester Rattlers would need an overtime winner and fourth goal of the game for Jordan Macintosh, who was named Coca-Cola player of the game. Macintosh added one assist. Sam Snow opened the scoring for the Launch,…
The Rochester Rattlers and Florida Launch have just completed a deal that sends Miles Thompson to Florida, an eventually will collaborate with his brother for the first time since the two were named Tewaaraton co-winners at University of Albany in 2014. The Rattlers receive face-off specialist Mike Poppleton and the rights to 2015 Draft pick Kevin Rice, along with a sixth round 2016 MLL Supplemental Draft pick. The Launch will also…
The Minnesota Swarm can finally say this rough season is over. Unfortunately for them it is over. The Swarm have finished the season with a 6-12 record and five games back of the Buffalo Bandits. The Swarm did finish the season on a high note toppling the three- time NLL Champion Rochester Knighthawks, in overtime, and taking two out of the three games they played. The Swarm started the…
In an interesting turn of events, two NCAA tournament teams will be facing off a week before the round of 16 begins. Syracuse is coming off an ACC tournament championship while Colgate just won the Patriot League. Those two wins lock up the first two automatic qualifiers available while the rest of the country plays this weekend to figure things out. What this means is that you are going to…
The Buffalo Bandits (10-7) and the New England Black Wolves (4-12) will face off in their final of four 2015 NLL regular season matchups on Saturday May 2nd at the First Niagara Center in Buffalo. In their first two meetings of the regular season, the Black Wolves defeated the Bandits by scores of 12-8 and 12-11. In their third meeting between these two teams, the Black Wolves were looking to…