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…
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…
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,…
Sunday saw a rematch of the 2014 MLL championship game when the Denver Outlaws visited the Rochester Rattlers. What a difference a year makes though. The Rattlers handed the Outlaws their second defeat of the season by a score of 15-12. Attackman Jordan Wolf tallied a hat trick for the Rattlers, and five other players had at least two goals for Rochester. Mike Bocklet and Greg Melaugh led the Outlaws…
Now that the first round of the NCAA has wrapped up, we can take a look at who moved on, who didn’t, and what to expect this weekend. There are going to be four excellent games as teams are fighting for those four coveted spots at Championship weekend in Philadelphia. Every one of these games is a can’t miss affair since every single one is a rematch of a game…
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 2015 Florida Launch got in the win column with a, 15-12 win Saturday night at FAU Stadium. David Earl opened the score at the 12:17 mark of the first quarter for the Florida Launch(1-3) as they hosted the Ohio Machine(1-3) Saturday night. Following the Earl goal, the teams jogged into their locker rooms as lighting struck in the area. After a lighting delay that ran from, 7:17 to 8:30,…
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…
In a Saturday filled with a ton of excitement, controversy, big goalies running coast-to-coast scoring and setting Twitter ablaze, and upsets, there’s only one thing to follow that up: more excitement! The first half of the first round saw Albany destroy Cornell, Maryland edge out Yale with controversy, Notre Dame coming back against Towson, and Ohio State upsetting Duke. We have four more games on tap today, and here they…
Kevin Rice, attack, Syracuse – Rochester Rattlers Without even playing a single MLL game, Kevin Rice has already been traded. About a week before being named a Tewaaraton Award finalist, the Florida Launch sent him packing. He was traded to Rochester with faceoff specialist Mike Poppleton and a 2016 supplemental sixth-round draft pick. All of that in exchange for Miles Thompson and a 2016 fourth-round pick. Rice will have the…