The 2015 NCAA Men’s Lacrosse season concluded on Memorial Day Monday with Denver defeating Maryland 10-5 for the Division I National Championship. It set history for the sport, as it was the 10th different team to win an NCAA title in the sport, and the first team west of the Mississippi to take on the title. But there were nearly four months of college lacrosse that helped culminate to Monday’s…
The Minnesota Swarm of the National Lacrosse League today announced that the team is relocating to the metro-Atlanta area for the 2016 NLL season. The franchise will be named the Georgia Swarm and has agreed in principle on a lease agreement to play its home games at The Arena at Gwinnett Center (Duluth, Ga.) in Gwinnett County, which is located 25 minutes northeast of Atlanta. “Today is an exciting day as we…
Last week, we talked about the rookies we thought would make an impact in their Major League Lacrosse debuts. It was an impressive showing for the Class of 2015 so far. Joey Sankey dropped five goals and three assists for the Hounds. This was one of the most impressive debuts in league history albeit in a losing effort. The Hounds other young guns Josh Hawkins and Mike Sawyer will help…
Back in 2002, the Calgary Roughnecks began their franchise history by setting an NLL record. For goals against. The Montreal Express, another expansion team that year, scored 32 goals in the rout. On the upside, the Roughnecks managed to iron the kinks out pretty quickly after that and went on to win their third game. They would go on to an unimpressive 4-14 record in their inaugural year, but since…
Ok, in terms of full disclosure, for last week’s rankings I put much more thought into teams’ Mallrats equivalents than the actual order of the teams. Looking back, however, I’m comfortable with where everyone was slotted. The obvious caveat to that last statement is that comfort is a relative term with the teams in this league. As one of the play-by-play guys said this weekend (I can’t remember which) the…
As part of the Syracuse Men’s Lacrosse team, losing to Johns Hopkins two Sundays ago did not go well with anyone on the team. We all had high expectations of making Championship Weekend in Philadelphia and even winning the school’s 12th (if you’re a stickler, 11) NCAA Championship in the sport. But while most of my brothers and coaches headed back home this weekend, I also went back home to…
Third Star- Austin Shanks- Whitby Warriors 2014 was a breakout season for Austin Shanks and in the early stages of 2015 the Courtice,ON native shows no signs of slowing down. Shanks scored a hat trick and chipped in five helpers in the Whitby Warriors 12-8 victory over the Toronto Beaches last Friday. After his season high performance, the Bellarmine Knight has 30 points in five games, good enough for an…
Bergs’ five goals and stellar defense leads Pioneers to first lacrosse National Championship The Denver University Pioneers are Men’s Lacrosse National Champions! These are words that have been wished upon but never spoken. In 2011, 2013, 2014 they made it to the Final Four but get knocked out on the first day. But on this day those words can be heard all the way back to Denver. Senior…
In the most lop sided week of the season, New York finally met someone that could not beat them and the Rattlers are tied for third place without playing a game. Welcome to the craziness of the MLL as teams change their rosters and welcome their draft picks from college and almost all of the indoor players. This transition helped the Denver Outlaws as they returned their line up from…
It was a feeling that many Denver players couldn’t describe. Some of them didn’t think that it was possible winning a national championship. But they did just that. For the first time in NCAA Division I Lacrosse history, the Denver Pioneers claimed their first ever National Championship with a 10-5 victory over the Maryland Terrapins. The victory gave Head Coach Bill Tierney his seventh national championship, his previous six came…