The Saskatchewan Rush and the Rochester Knighthawks will battle in front of the largest home crowd at SaskTel Centre since relocating from Edmonton on Friday night. Over 12,000 fans are expected to fill the building to watch the 2014 (Knighthawks) and 2015 Champions (Rush) fight it out for bragging rights. Both teams sit at a 3-2 record with the Rush losing to Colorado 9-7 while Rochester needed overtime to get…
NLL Power Rankings: Week Seven
1–(LW-2) Colorado Mammoth (6-2) After a slight two game losing streak, the Mammoth swept both their games this past weekend. A 9-7 win over the Rush, followed by a 13-8 win over Calgary. Adam Jones, Callum Crawford and John Grant Jr., are leading the offense, as the Mammoth continue to get stronger every week. Colorado is off this week and will host Vancouver at 5pm February 27th. 2–(4) Buffalo…
WLA Draft: Grading the Teams
The WLA Draft took place in Vancouver on Wednesday, Feb. 10 with all seven teams making selections. There were some interesting strategies employed by some teams – Coquitlam was the only club making a selection in rounds 11 through 17, for instance. A lot of good talent was selected in this draft and could help propel some teams in their hunt to dethrone the Victoria Shamrocks. Here is a quick…
ILWT NCAA Poll: Week Two
Notre Dame Denver Duke Syracuse Maryland Johns Hopkins North Carolina Loyola Yale Ohio State Brown Albany Virginia Cornell Georgetown Navy Towson Harvard Penn State Villanova Receiving Votes: Lehigh, Boston University Offensive Player of the Week: Dylan Donahue, Syracuse Defensive Player of the Week: Nick Mellen, Syracuse Goaltender of the Week: Grant Limone, Loyola Rookie of the Week: Grant Ement, Penn State
Maryland Welcomes Panthers to College Park
High Point is coming to College Park to take on the Maryland Terrapins. The Terps will be opening the season and are eager to start the path back to Philadelphia and the National Final Four. High Point will be on their third game of the season, after competing against Boston University at home. In the Panthers’ opening contest against Duke, they were outrun by a Duke team that will wear…
Boston University Starts 3-0 With High Point Wn
Photo: Reegan Ludd The Boston University Terriers defeated the High Point Panthers 13-10 on Tuesday afternoon to start their season 3-0 for the first time in program history. James Burr scored three times and Sam Tenney scored twice to lead the Terriers despite a banged up roster going into the game. Leading point getter from last season Cal Dearth and leading goal scorer Ryan Hilburn each did not make the…
Weekend Lacrosse Thoughts: Toronto. Rebuild. Now.
Rock Bottom I don’t know how many times I have written about the Toronto Rock this season, but it has been far more often than any other team in the National Lacrosse League. Toronto, now 0-6 following a Valentine’s Day matinee loss at New England, seems to have a new issue every week. Josh Sanderson made his return to an NLL floor when he suited up for the Rock on…
College Lacrosse Weekday Watch: #WhyD3
Weekday lacrosse games aren’t the most exciting on paper, but can provide some good excitement if you tune in to some of these games. And it’s rare that there’s a top five matchup on a weekday. The highlight of the work week comes from Division III, where a top five matchup will take place Wednesday in Maryland, with No. 2 Lynchburg taking on No. 5 Salisbury. This game was originally…
Bryant Women Tops Vermont 11-7 in Season Opener
Originally scheduled for Saturday, the Bryant and Vermont season opener was moved to Monday due to extremely cold temperatures. Senior Lauren Descalzo led the Bulldogs to victory with a hat trick while fellow classmate Nicole Britton picked up two goals and two assists. On the day, seven different Bulldog players registered goals, two coming from freshman Jess DeMeo. Bryant Junior Shannon Sullivan got the Bulldogs rolling with the first goal…
Week 5 CLax Three Stars: Hoggarth Burns the Blizzard
Third Star: Dylan Goddard—Durham Turfdogs Dylan Goddard continued his stellar 2016 campaign, netting seven goals and five assists for 12 points in two games this weekend. The Courtice, ON native tallied a hat-trick and added a helper in the Turfdogs 12-10 loss to the Barrie Blizzard at home on Saturday afternoon. The next day, Goddard had a big eight point performance(4 G, 4 A) to help lift the Turfdogs to…