Pat Young will be transferring out of UMBC and will be joining Maryland University’s lacrosse team for his final college lacrosse season. Since Young’s first days as a Retriever, he has been one of the best players at UMBC and of the top players to watch in the American East Conference and NCAA lacrosse. In just his freshman year in 2013, Young recorded 39 points and was the American East Rookie…
MLL: Setting the Table for Playoffs
For the second week in a row the New York Lizards took the best punches from a team with a losing record and came away with an 18-11 win over the Florida Launch. Florida led at the end of the first quarter, but New York tied the score to the end first half. While the Launch kept the score close in the third, the Lizards’ offense put in eight goals…
Implications of Women’s Lacrosse Shot Clock
The recent announcement that the NCAA women’s lacrosse rules committee added a 90-second shot clock could be a game-changer, literally. Assuming the NCAA playing rules oversight panel formally approves in July, the game of women’s lacrosse will undergo a revolutionary change in a major way beginning in 2017 (for Division I) and 2018 (for Division II and III). Unlike the men’s game, which has a 30-second shot clock after the…
MLL Power Rankings: Week Ten
Some teams are struggling while others are surging, but one thing remains clear: MLL is a perpetual logjam. This week I considered getting a set of playing cards, pulling out Ace through 8 of one suit, blindfolding myself, drawing a card, and writing a team name on it, then removing the blindfold to see what the rankings were, but I was on vacation last week and didn’t have time to…
Matthew Dinsdale’s Impact on the Rush
Matthew Dinsdale was acquired by the Edmonton Rush from their arch-rivals, the Calgary Roughnecks, at the trade deadline in exchange for a third round draft pick later this year. Little did either team know that Dinsdale would go on to score the Champion’s Cup winning goal in Game 2 of the finals, sealing the Rush’s first ever title. That goal capped what turned out to be the best season…
MLL At The Break: Denver Outlaws
Halfway through the 2015 MLL season the Denver Outlaws are limping into the All-Star break. At the beginning of the season it seemed that Denver would function more like their mascot and simply reload this season. Yes, Lee Zink was a big loss, but the rest of the team was pretty much intact. The team just had to survive the absence of its NLL talent and then all would be…
MLL All Star Houston 2015: Best Drafting Of MLL All Stars
Drafting is one of the keys to team building in any sport. There are many examples of this; the current two Stanley Cup teams, the Tampa Bay Lightning and Chicago Blackhawks, have had some of the best drafting in the NHL to get to this point. In the National Lacrosse League, the champion Edmonton Rush built their team around first overall picks Ben McIntosh and Mark Matthews. Major League Lacrosse…
Six Nations Slash Season Off to Terrific Start
So far, the Six Nation Slash have had a great start in their Can-Am Senior B lacrosse season. The season started off with a tough overtime game, which the Slash lost 7-5 against the Onondaga Redhawks but the Slash came back in the second week and beat Pinewoods 10-9, which started a six game win streak. In the streak, Tuscarora, Native Sons, Allegany, and Buffalo Creek were the teams the…
Cannons Suffer Tough Loss Before Break
The Boston Cannons had an opportunity to separate from the pack with a win in Rochester this weekend. Instead, it was the Rochester Rattlers who did just that with a 13-6 victory over Boston. Rochester is now tied with Ohio for second place in the league behind undefeated New York. The Cannons are now 4-4, tied with the Chesapeake Bayhawks and slumping Denver Outlaws for the final playoff seed. Jordan…
OLA Jr A Three Stars: Week Five
Third Star- Bryce Keats- Toronto Beaches- Beaches rookie Bryce Keats had a big weekend, netting a goal and eight assist for nine points in two wins. The West Durham Rockmen grad now has 15 points in seven games with the Beach. Keats has played a ton of lacrosse already this summer with six additional games with the Ironheads Jr.B. In those six games he’s netted eight points. Second Star- Zach…