While team captains Kyle Harrison and Marcus Holman, along with Peter Baum, Brian Karalunas, Tom Schreiber and Dana Wilber are coming back to the Buckeye state from Houston, let’s step back and take a look at Ohio as they head into the final six games of the regular season. First off, the Machine were one of the hottest teams in the league heading into the all-star break, having won their…
This season’s “MLL Ultimate Fan” winners, Hayden MacArthur and Ethan Sorkin, participated in a playground style draft earlier today (Friday night), which determined both the team names and the opposing rosters for Saturday’s MLL All-Star Game. Just before the draft the Ultimate Fans revealed that they wanted to both name the teams after their hometown high school mascots of Coppell, TX (Cowboys) and Alpharetta, GA (Gladiators). Here are the results of the draft……
When you take a moment to think about it, what can really be said to preview an All-Star game? Almost regardless of the sport under examination, All-Star games are an exhibition of offensive skill. Sure, defenders are invited to show up, but really this is their moment to shine on the other half of the field. I’ll admit to writing this on Friday afternoon before the teams have been picked…
With the MLL All-Star break coming up, now is a time to look back at the Rochester Rattlers’ opening half of the 2015 MLL season. Last year’s runner up in the 2014 MLL Championship game against the Denver Outlaws in Kennesaw, Georgia, the Rattlers (5 – 3) are currently tied for second overall in the league with the Ohio Machine (5 – 3). Six Rattlers will be representing the team…
The MLL All-Star game always comes at a strange time in the lacrosse calendar. Several NLL stars have yet to log significant minutes, and most rookies have done the same assuming they have even seen the field. But, the great thing about the MLL is there is so much talent on the field that it is hard to argue that the All-Star selections do not represent the best in the…
Rookies are continuing to make their mark in Major League Lacrosse. It’s hard enough to crack a gameday roster (as evident by the relatively few who have played), but those who are playing are continuing to contribute. The Florida Launch continue to feature several rookies, led by Lyle Thompson who tallied one goal and three assists in last Friday’s 18-11 loss at undefeated New York. Thompson has recorded multiple points…
The term “breakout player” is so vague that it is hard to define who truly have broken out this season in Major League Lacrosse. The way we’ve gone about it is selecting players playing better than expected and making more of an impact than they have for their team in the past. Obviously, rookies who came aboard two weeks ago cannot be considered. Davey Emala- Boston Cannons The Cannons were…
Major League Lacrosse, the premier professional outdoor lacrosse league, has finalized the gameday roster for the 2015 MLL All-Star Game to be held on June 13th at BBVA Compass Stadium in Houston, Texas. The MLL is sending thirty-nine of it’s most elite players to the 2015 MLL All-Star Game. The overall roster consists of eight attackmen, ten defensemen, four goalkeepers, thirteen midfielders, and four face-off position midfielders. MLL All-Star Roster by…
As Major League Lacrosse heads into the All-Star break, check out our three stars from the weekend that was. 3) Jake Bernhardt (Ohio) – 3 goals, 3 groundballs There were several tremendous candidates this week, but Jake Bernhardt gets the third star not for the quantity of goals, but importance. Jordan Wolf of Rochester and his seven points deserve an honorable mention, but that came in a 13-6 win. Bernhardt…
The Major League Lacrosse All-Star break is here so what better time to see who are the contenders and pretenders in the league. Pretenders Florida- The Launch have some great offensive firepower, but they don’t seem to have much chemistry at this point. It is something that needs to be developed and they have six more games to figure out how to best use the Thompson’s with McArdle and Powell….