1. Turner Evans – Peterborough Lakers In his past three games, Turner Evans has been producing at a potent clip, picking up 12 points in three straight Lakers victories. Evans kicked off his week with a three goal performance against the powerhouse Six Nations Chiefs. Evans’ third period goal to complete his hat-trick came at a crucial time, as the Chiefs had gone on a five goal run, pulling within…
WLA Power Rankings: Week Seven
1 Victoria Shamrocks (LW – 1) Record: 11-2-0 Goal Differential: +60 Last Week: 11-6 W vs. Langley, 14-7 W vs. Burnaby This Week: vs. Coquitlam, vs. Nanaimo It was business per usual for the Shamrocks, who beat two tough teams rather handily to push their WLA league lead to three games over second-place New Westminster. It was the defence that lead the charge for much of the night in Victoria’s gritty 11-6 win over the…
MSL Power Rankings: Can Anyone Take Down Chiefs?
1. Six Nations Chiefs (11-2) Despite dropping a narrow 14-13 road game to the Peterborough Lakers last Thursday night, the Chiefs continued to roll this week picking up wins over Kitchener-Waterloo on Tuesday night and the Brampton Excelsiors on Thursday. On Tuesday night the Chiefs got off to a great start with Johnny Powless scoring just 59 seconds into the game, however it wasn’t until late in the second period…
NCAA Team Reviews: Catch Up Here
As we get set to recap the top 25 teams of the 2015 NCAA Division I season, take a look back at the rest of the teams in the nation. As more get published, they will be added onto this page: NJIT Highlanders UMass Lowell River Hawks VMI Keydets Manhattan Jaspers Canisius Golden Griffins Robert Morris Colonials St. John’s Red Storm Wagner Seahawks Binghamton Bearcats Bellarmine Knights Jacksonville Dolphins Furman…
NCAA Team Reviews: St. Joseph’s Hawks
For the better part of four months, many of us watched some exciting college lacrosse, whether it was on TV, online, or in person. There were good games, which included all of Championship Weekend, and there were bad games, such as low scoring affairs and of course, the horrendous winter weather. I take a look back at all 69 Division I teams and how they fared this season and what…
Swarm and Stealth Get Compensatory Draft Picks
The National Lacrosse League has announced the Georgia Swarm and Vancouver Stealth will be awarded compensatory draft selections as a result of losing players to unrestricted free agency prior to the 2015 NLL season. The Georgia Swarm will receive a second-round selection (20th overall) in the 2015 NLL Draft and a conditional selection in the 2017 NLL Draft for losing defenseman Jeff Gilbert, who signed with the Toronto Rock. The…
Lizards Put Up 18 Goals on Outlaws
With a playoff spot locked up, the New York Lizards could have simply taken it easy and rested some of their stars. However, that wasn’t their intentions as the Lizards got off to a hot start against the Denver Outlaws and never looked back on their way to an 18-15 victory. This game was New York’s last home game of the season until the playoffs, so they wanted to send…
Panos Q&A: Swarm, NLL Marketing, WLA
Chris Panos is back this week with his weekly column. Make sure to send questions via social media using #PanosQA. Or, you can email your questions to marisa@inlacrossewetrust.com with the subject line of “Panos Q&A”Q: Which players are your favorite to watch in today’s game? I enjoy watching many players, but a few who I have played with and are still having great careers would have to be John Grant…
Rattlers Making Progress in Playoff Push
In the second part of a Home-And-Home series, The Rochester Rattlers (6 – 5) defeated the Ohio Machine (6 – 5), in front of a great crowd of over two thousand in Delaware this past Fourth of July weekend (sorry guys, it wasn’t Columbus. Heh, My bad!). Led by a five point afternoon for Mark Matthews in just his second game played this season, the Rattlers used a strong second…
MLL Rookie Report: Week Thirteen
Rookies shined in games last weekend, highlighted by eight points from Florida’s Lyle Thompson and six goals from Ohio’s Jimmy Bitter. Here’s the complete rundown. Thompson was the star rookie (and player) in Major League Lacrosse last weekend. On Friday, he tallied seven goals and one assist in Florida’s dominant 19-9 win over Charlotte, the second straight win for the suddenly surging Launch. Thompson’s teammate, and Cornell rookie, Connor Buczek…