Nobody’s discounting the Rush or Roughnecks, but with the Toronto Rock’s determination and the Rochester Knighthawk’s history, the two game east semi-final is shaping up to be a true epic. The Rock have played this season for Terry Sanderson, their former General Manager who passed away last November. Their determination to bring a championship to Toronto for Terry has been evident in every game they’ve played, and led them to…
Roughnecks and Rush Begin Rematch of Last Year’s Division Finals
The Calgary Roughnecks travel up the road to Edmonton to face the Edmonton Rush in Game 1 of the West Division Finals on Friday night, beginning a rematch of the 2014 Division Finals. Last year the Roughnecks upset the odds-on favourite Rush, splitting the two full games and then convincingly winning the tie-breaking mini-game. This year Edmonton is once again the favourite, but Calgary is looking to once again win…
NCAA Women’s Playoffs: Syracuse and Loyola to Face Off
It’s not about how you play in February or March, but how you play in May. The 2015 NCAA Women’s Lacrosse Tournament is proof that getting hot at the right time leads to NCAA Tournament success. Following an action-packed weekend, three unseeded teams have advanced to the National Quarterfinals. Those teams have combined to win 35 of their last 36 games. Loyola is riding a nation’s best 16-game winning streak,…
NCAA Quarter Finals: Notre Dame vs Albany
We have a rematch this weekend of one of the best lacrosse games to ever take place that was last year’s Albany vs. Notre Dame playoff game. Now these to clubs meet at the same spot in 2015 looking to win and advance to the final four. Lyle Thompson leads Albany with 116 points. When Lyle teams up with freshman Connor Fields, who has 82 points, as a lefty attack…
Launch Taking Off As They Await Thompson
The Florida Launch ran their record to 1-3 following a victory last weekend against the Ohio Machine on home turf. The Launch stay at home this weekend as the Denver Outlaws travel from west to east for a Saturday night affair with the Launch. Launch head coach Stan Ross said his guys were more “motivated” than ever going into Saturday’scontest, and it showed. Florida was very sharp on offense, attackman…
NLL Rookie Report: Playoff Edition
Last weekend the Buffalo Bandits and Rochester Knighthawks kicked off the 2015 NLL playoffs on Saturday night in Rochester with the Knighthawks keeping the dream of four straight NLL championships alive with a 14-11 victory. The Colorado Mammoth and Calgary Roughnecks concluded the first weekend of NLL playoff action on Sunday, as the Roughnecks defeated the Mammoth by a score of 11-6. While three of the four teams competing in…
NLL Season Recap: Colorado Mammoth
After finishing in second place in the NLL West Division the Colorado Mammoth’s season came to an end last weekend with an 11-6 loss to the Calgary Roughnecks in the first round of the playoffs. Following two years where the Mammoth finished below .500, their 9-9 record was certainly an improvement, but the early exit from the postseason has to be considered disappointing. Colorado got off to a torrid start,…
NCAA Quarterfinals: Rematches Galore!
By the end of the afternoon on Sunday, we should know the four teams moving on Championship Weekend in Philadelphia for the semifinals. Three of these four matchups will be rematches from earlier in the season, while Albany-Notre Dame will be a rematch from last year’s quarterfinals. These should end up to be four of the best games of the lacrosse season, as Albany, Denver, Johns Hopkins, and North Carolina…
Onondaga Wins NJCAA Title As Dominance Continues
Onondaga Community College has won their seventh straight national title and tenth as a program. This is a team that has produced the likes of Cody Jamieson Sid Smith and the older Thompson brothers as well as many more amazing players. This year the team was led by its defensemen, Tyson Bell and Oakley Thomas, as well as young offensive players Brine Rice and Matthew Bennett who received MVP honors after…
MLL Power Rankings: Week Five
Ah yes… The illustrious rankings of power. Where figuring out what team belongs were in relation to every other team is an exercise in futility. What do you value more? Stats? The Eyeball Test? Advanced Analytics? (HA! Just kidding. MLL doesn’t really have those yet.) There is only one thing that is clear at this point and that is that the New York Lizards are the king of the mountain…