The NLL’s 2014 awards season saw a tight three-way race for the Goaltender of the Year trophy, with Matt Vinc, Aaron Bold and Anthony Cosmo all making very good cases for the top honor. Bold set a league record for wins (15) and was tops in goals against average (8.73). Vinc was second in wins (12) and GAA (9.56) but had the best save percentage (.798). Cosmo led the league…
2015 All-ACC Team Announced
Eleven student-athletes on the Tewaaraton Award watch list highlight this year’s All-Atlantic Coast Conference Men’s Lacrosse Team, as announced today by the conference office. The team was determined by a vote of the league’s five head coaches. North Carolina and Syracuse each had five student-athletes named to the All-ACC Team. Notre Dame, which went undefeated in league play (4-0) and earned the ACC regular-season title, has four members on the…
Stakes Up for Grabs as Denver Heads To Marquette
Denver and Marquette are both BIGEAST contenders this year and yet they haven’t met since the 2014 season. An exciting weekend is in store as the BIGEAST Tournament presented by New York Life is both still not set and dependent on the outcomes of this weekend’s slate. All the hype is behind DU. They’re currently on a six-game streak after a mid-season loss to Ohio State and sit No. 5…
Lakers Acquire Evan Kirk and Chad Tutton
Peterborough’s Century 21 Lakers have made two trades obtaining defender Chad Tutton from Brampton for goalie Tyler Carson and adding Mann Cup champion goalie Evan Kirk in moves GM Paul Day says are the beginning of putting the pieces together for the Lakers’ season starting June 4 at the Memorial Centre. Tutton is a 6’2” 220 pound Whitby native who lives in nearby Courtice. He was drafted second overall by…
Buckeyes Collapse Against Maryland a Heartbreaker
Have you ever watched a horror movie take place in real life? That was the equivalent of what happened to the Buckeyes in front of about 40,000 fans at the Shoe on Saturday against the No. 3 ranked Terrapins. Down 9-5 with under five minutes to play, Maryland stormed back to tie the game in regulation, where they would clinch at least a share of the Big Ten Conference regular…
Video: Bret Queener Goalie Goal
The lacrosse goalie world rejoiced when Vancouver Stealth ‘tender Tyler Richards scored earlier this NLL season. Now it’s field lacrosse’s turn. On Sunday against the Chesapeake Bayhawks, Florida Launch goalie Brett Queener took things into his own hands and scored a goal. Check out the video below.
Bucknell Storms Past Lehigh in Patriot League Quarterfinals
Bucknell jumped out to a 7-1 lead, the Lehigh men’s lacrosse team pulled within four, but couldn’t get any closer as the Mountain Hawks fell 13-8 at Bucknell in the Patriot League Quarterfinals on Tuesday evening. Junior Reid Weber led Lehigh with a career-high five goals while senior Dan Taylor tallied a goal and two assists to finish his season with 77 points and storied career with 220, good…
NLL Power Rankings: Week 16
Week 16 is completed and the playoff picture is starting to take shape. The Edmonton Rush have clinched first in the west. Colorado is the number two seed, and will face the winner of Calgary vs Vancouver on May 2. In the east, Toronto’s magic number to clinch best overall and the east title is one. Rochester is a No. 2 seed and can move up by winning their final…
MLL: Three of a Kind and a Few of Many
Down by four goals in the fourth quarter and your goalie has over twenty saves. There is another save and he takes a pass back from one of his defensemen and carries the ball into the other team’s zone and dishes it. Typical hustle play in a tough game to try and shift momentum and close the gap and win. Except the goalie cuts to the goal after dishing the…
McDaniels: Florida Disappointing, Lizards Hot
Every team has seen the field now in Major League Lacrosse and a few story lines are starting to take shape. New York is head and shoulders above all other teams after two weeks. The Lizards spread the ball so well and had eight different goal scorers, six with multiple goals. Greg Gurenlian has dominated face-offs once again establishing himself as the gold standard in the MLL. Drew Adams is…