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Roughnecks and Rush Begin Rematch of Last Year’s Division Finals

May 15, 2015
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The Calgary Roughnecks travel up the road to Edmonton to face the Edmonton Rush in Game 1 of the West Division Finals on Friday night, beginning a rematch of the 2014 Division Finals. Last year the Roughnecks upset the odds-on favourite Rush, splitting the two full games and then convincingly winning the tie-breaking mini-game. This year Edmonton is once again the favourite, but Calgary is looking to once again win…

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NCAA Quarter Finals: Notre Dame vs Albany

May 14, 2015
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We have a rematch this weekend of one of the best lacrosse games to ever take place that was last year’s Albany vs. Notre Dame playoff game. Now these to clubs meet at the same spot in 2015 looking to win and advance to the final four. Lyle Thompson leads Albany with 116 points. When Lyle teams up with freshman Connor Fields, who has 82 points, as a lefty attack…

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NLL Rookie Report: Playoff Edition

May 14, 2015
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Last weekend the Buffalo Bandits and Rochester Knighthawks kicked off the 2015 NLL playoffs on Saturday night in Rochester with the Knighthawks keeping the dream of four straight NLL championships alive with a 14-11 victory. The Colorado Mammoth and Calgary Roughnecks concluded the first weekend of NLL playoff action on Sunday, as the Roughnecks defeated the Mammoth by a score of 11-6. While three of the four teams competing in…

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NCAA Quarterfinals: Rematches Galore!

May 13, 2015
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By the end of the afternoon on Sunday, we should know the four teams moving on Championship Weekend in Philadelphia for the semifinals.  Three of these four matchups will be rematches from earlier in the season, while Albany-Notre Dame will be a rematch from last year’s quarterfinals.  These should end up to be four of the best games of the lacrosse season, as Albany, Denver, Johns Hopkins, and North Carolina…

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Onondaga Wins NJCAA Title As Dominance Continues

May 13, 2015
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Onondaga Community College has won their seventh straight national title and tenth as a program. This is a team that has produced the likes of Cody Jamieson Sid Smith and the older Thompson brothers as well as many more amazing players. This year the team was led by its defensemen, Tyson Bell and Oakley Thomas, as well as young offensive players Brine Rice and Matthew Bennett who received MVP honors after…

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MLL Power Rankings: Week Five

May 13, 2015
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Ah yes… The illustrious rankings of power. Where figuring out what team belongs were in relation to every other team is an exercise in futility. What do you value more? Stats? The Eyeball Test? Advanced Analytics? (HA! Just kidding. MLL doesn’t really have those yet.) There is only one thing that is clear at this point and that is that the New York Lizards are the king of the mountain…

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Analyzing Ohio State’s Stunning Duke Upset

May 13, 2015
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Hey ILWT readers! It’s another week, and there hasn’t been a need for an Ohio State lacrosse eulogy, so let’s continue with another week of talking about Buckeye lax. *Disclaimer: I won’t get into the nitty gritty of this week’s NCAA Quarterfinal matchup with Denver. I will do that in my preview coming Saturday. I’m just going to give you my simple thoughts after watching the OSU/Duke game from my…

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Unseeded Wins the Story of NCAA Tournament Opening Weekend

May 12, 2015
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The first weekend of the 2015 NCAA Men’s Lacrosse Tournament is in the books. A weekend of close games was exactly what you’d expect as parity in college lacrosse continues to increase. Entering Selection Sunday, the top four seeds in the NCAA Tournament were a pretty safe bet, and even Duke at #5 was almost a sure thing. The top four seeds took care of business (there were some close…

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McDaniels: Domino Effect of MLL

May 12, 2015
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We have come to the point in the Major League Lacrosse season where a domino effect is about to happen. The indoor season is finishing up so we will see an influx of stars coming back. We will also see the college draft picks begin their professional careers after they finish their own season. So, where does this leave some of the guys off to hot starts that are place…

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Orange Crush: Cuse Defeats Marist, Faces Johns Hopkins In Annapolis

May 11, 2015
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The game started out with shades of last year’s upset loss to Bryant, as the Red Foxes of Marist scored the game’s first goal to take an early lead. That would be their only lead of the night. Syracuse scored 10 unanswered there after to cruise to a 20-8 victory in a humid Carrier Dome. The Orange will play Johns Hopkins, a 19-7 victor over Virginia earlier in the day,…

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