With Marist winning their play-in game over Bryant to start the NCAA tournament, Syracuse now knows who to plan on hosting this Sunday. Marist played well in their 10-6 victory to improve their overall record to 14-3, but they will need to play significantly better if they want to upset the Orange in the Dome. The key to Marist’s victory was jumping out to a 5-2 lead in the…
Play-In Push: Marist, Towson Move On
The NCAA Tournament got underway Wednesday night with two play-in games. MAAC champion Marist won their first ever NCAA Tournament game against NEC champion Bryant 10-6. The Red Foxes will travel to the Carrier Dome to take on Syracuse Sunday at 7:30 PM. In the other play-in game, Towson answered a 5-0 High Point run with eight consecutive goals to defeat the Panthers 10-8. The Tigers will travel to take…
NCAA Tournament Staff Picks
The NCAA tournament is now upon us. To join in the fun, the In Lacrosse We Trust staff has submitted their picks for who they think will (or want to) win the tournament. Here’s the breakdown: Writer Runner Up Champion Score Ryan Conwell 14-12 Chris Jastrzembski 15-14 Chris Vale 10-8 Paul Schwedelson 13-11 Jason Myers 12-11 James Simmons 14-12 Jeff Werner 10-7 Ian Neadle 16-15 Brendan Staudt 17-15…
NCAA Playoffs: Towson vs High Point
Towson started off their season with a great 7-5 victory to upset Johns Hopkins. Since then, they have posted an 11-5 record on the season and are now in the NCAA tournament looking for a National Championship. They ended the regular season off with two tough losses to CAA conference rivals Hofstra and Drexel but came back to beat last year conference champs Drexel 11-8. In the conference championship, the…
NLL 2015 Season Recap: Minnesota Swarm
For the 2015 NLL season, the Swarm failed to make the playoffs for the second year in a row, posting a 6-12 record. Only Vancouver and New England had worse records. The team could not piece together more than two consecutive wins. The bulk of February and March was spent on a seven game losing streak. In March, Kiel Matisz was lost to injury for three weeks; Callum Crawford missed…
Major League Lacrosse Three Stars: Week Four
Games continued to be close this past weekend with a pair of one-goal games and a pair of three-goal contests. Here are my three stars from the weekend that was. 3) Brian Phipps (Ohio) – 14 saves, 6 in fourth quarter Brian Phipps finished Sunday’s 12-9 win at Chesapeake with 14 saves, none bigger than six he made in the fourth quarter to thwart off a furious Bayhawks’ comeback attempt….
McDaniels: Rattlers Fared Well in Thompson Trade
A big trade went down Monday which could prove to be the reason Rochester returns to the Championship Game for a second straight season. The Rattlers sent attackman Miles Thompson and a 2016 4th Round Collegiate Draft Pick to the Florida Launch in exchange for Face-off Specialist Mike Poppleton and the rights to draftee Kevin Rice out of Syracuse as well as a 2016 6th Round Supplemental Draft Pick. I…
Baker: Week Four Action Full of Excitement
The most prominent storyline this weekend without a doubt was Paul Rabil’s and Mike Stone’s return to Boston as New York Lizards while Max Seibald faced his former teammates. Having played in Boston many years ago, I received a crash course on the New York versus Boston sports rivalry. Having played at Auburn I thought I knew about deep rooted rivalries. After all, I believed that Boston and New York…
Panos Q&A: American Indoor, Shamrocks, Florida Lax
Chris Panos is an American lacrosse icon as an NLL veteran, Mann Cup champion, and an NCAA assistant coach. He has carved the path for American indoor lacrosse players in the past decade. He will provide a weekly column based on your questions by using the hashtag #PanosQA What made you come west to Victoria? I was fortunate to play for the Victoria Shamrocks in the summer of 1999, and…
MLL Power Rankings: Week Four
If you thought things were occluded in the MLL ranking hierarchy before then this past weekend’s action didn’t do much to lift the fog. I’ve tried a few new strategies for my prognostication methodology for this week though. Remember the witch from Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves? Yeah, I don’t recommend that. And I thought about trying to channel the Oracle of Delphi, but figured that throwing spaghetti at the…