Entering Week 12 on the MLL season, the playoff race is as tight as it may have ever been. Allow me to paint the picture for you as the match-ups this weekend will surely shake things up. Denver Outlaws and the Rochester Rattlers are tied atop the league at 8-3. The Lizards have sole possession of third place with a 7-4 record. After that it gets really interesting, The Boston…
Surely not many MLL fans expected to see the Rochester Rattlers at the top of the standings heading into the final quarter of the season did they? I certainly did not. Rochester is the team that traded arguably their two best players, Matt Striebel and Ned Crotty, to their in-state rivals in the New York Lizards before the season started. The Rattlers looked like a team devoid of any offensive…
This past weekend the MLL returned to action after a week break due to the FIL Championships. While the FIL Championships started to wind down, teams around the league started to gear up for the last quarter of the season. With many of their players playing for various teams, several rookies made their debuts or stepped up for their teams in big ways. Here is the week in review for…
Photo Credit: Di Miller On July 23, the MLL held their weekly Coaches Conference Call and Denver Outlaws Head Coach B.J. O’Hara was asked about the change of goalies in the game against the Florida Launch on July 20. Coach O’Hara said: “Obviously that was a contingency that we had talked about before the game. Goalie Jesse Schwartzman was coming off a long two weeks where he played awfully well,…
The path for the Rochester Rattlers organization has not been typical. One of Major League Lacrosse’s original franchises, the team has enjoyed its fair of good seasons and its fair share of bad seasons. Rochester has not made the playoffs since 2008 when the Rattlers won their only MLL Championship. The Rochester franchise even moved north of the border for the 2009 and 2010 seasons until the old Chicago Machine…
Traveling to Denver with Team Iroquois was a life changing experience for me. I was eager to play and couldn’t wait to represent my people. The pride I was feeling was indescribable. A heavy disappointment hit me when I wasn’t named to the 23 man roster. I wanted to play so bad. I realized disappointments happen on our lives and we have to deal with it. I held my head…
The New York Lizards kept control of the third seed in Major League Lacrosse on Saturday with a 16-15 win over the Boston Cannons on the road. The Cannons drop to 5-6, the same record as the Ohio Machine, and they both are now tied for fourth place while Boston owns the tiebreaker. Both teams were without star players at the world championships. Boston was especially impacted, missing the second…
Photo Credit: Di Miller On Sunday July 20, the Denver Outlaws (8-3) hosted the Florida Launch (4-7) at Sports Authority Field at Mile High in front of 7,136 faithful fans. It was the last regular-season home game and the fans were ready to see their Outlaws in action. The 2014 World Lacrosse Championships had just ended the night before, and many of the fans and teams from the World’s were…
DELAWARE, Ohio – The Ohio Machine moved a step closer to earning its first Major League Lacrosse playoff berth Saturday night, taking a 13-12 overtime victory over the Charlotte Hounds at Selby Stadium. Rookie Tom Schreiber’s goal midway through the sudden-death overtime period gave the Machine (5-6) their first-ever season sweep over the Hounds (4-7), and moved them into a tie for fourth place in the MLL standings with the…
TODAY’S GAME Charlotte Hounds (4-6) at Ohio Machine (4-6) 7 p.m., Selby Stadium, Delaware, Ohio TV: CBS Sports Network After a two-week break, the Charlotte Hounds and Ohio Machine head into the homestretch of the 2014 Major League Lacrosse season, with playoff implications on the line for both teams. The Hounds and Machine are both tied for fifth in the MLL standings along with the Florida Launch, just a game…