Joseph Nardella College: Rutgers 5’10, 190 pounds Drafted by Boston Cannons 5th Round, No. 36 overall 2014: Nardella continued his strong play at the ‘X’ for Rutgers in his junior season. He posted his second consecutive season with a faceoff win percentage above 62 percent and developed into more of a threat in transition than the previous season. In 2014, he won 63 percent of his faceoffs which ranked…
Powless Has Arrived for Stealth Offense
It may have took four games for it to happen, but fans and management of the Vancouver Stealth both had reasons to leave the Langley Events Centre happy campers on Saturday night. The 21-year-old Powless shone when given operating duties of the offensive gameplan, looking dangerous all game as both a facilitator and a scoring threat in the Stealth’s 16-13 win over the Colorado Mammoth. The win snapped a three…
NLL Three Stars: Week Five
Another exciting weekend for indoor lacrosse action in the National Lacrosse League. Joe Walters has a career night, Dan Dawson hits double digits in assists, and Johnny Powless gets more touches as the Stealth rest a star player. Week 5—Three Stars 1—Dan Dawson (ROC). The Dangerous one was just that: DANGEROUS. Dawson recorded 11 assists and picked up seven loose balls in Rochester’s 17-11 victory over the Buffalo Bandits. Dawson is…
Rob Hellyer Breaks Out At Right Time
It has been well documented that the Toronto Rock are without some of their top offensive players for most of this season. Yet the Rock are still in first place in the east by 1.5 games over each of the other teams, who are each at .500. Toronto defeated the 0-4 Calgary Roughnecks last night to improve to a 4-1 record, half a game better than Colorado for the best…
Rock Stay Hot, Roughnecks Lose Fourth Straight
The Calgary Roughnecks and Toronto Rock entered Saturday night’s affair in much different positions. The Rock were leading the East Division with a 3-1 record, while the Calgary Roughnecks were sitting in the West Division’s basement with an 0-3 record. While the Roughnecks put forth a much better effort on Saturday night, they once again found themselves on the losing side of things, dropping the game by a score of 12-11. While the Roughnecks…
Stealth Get Back in Win Column, Top Undefeated Mammoth
Photo: Garrett James Only a week had passed since the Colorado Mammoth put their 20-9 pounding on the Vancouver Stealth at the Pepsi Center. Last night the Stealth had not only the challenge of beating the Mammoth on their home floor, but to also put the embarrassing performance behind them, as well as end their 3 game skid. With Lewis Ratcliff seeing his second consecutive season with a healthy scratch…
NCAA Season Preview: Hofstra Pride
The Hofstra Pride had a great 2014 season as they went 11-5 and finished the year ranked 13th in the country. After starting the season with two straight losses, the Pride found their groove as a team as they went 10-2 to close out the season. That included two winning streaks of four and six games. The Pride even reached the CAA Final where they lost a heartbreaker to Drexel…
NCAA: UVA Can’t Catch a Break
During this past offseason the Virginia Cavaliers released Danseglio (defense) from both the team and the school. He transferred to Maryland. Now, in their final preseason exhibition match, sources are claiming other defenseman Tanner Scales injured his Achilles tendon enough to sit him out the rest of 2015! Scales was going to be the one to step up and take over the command void left by Danseglio. Now that it’s…
MLL Rookie Focus: John Glesener
John Glesener Attack Army Bio: 6’3, 214 pounds 2014 stats: 57 points, 43 goals 13 assists, USILA Third Team All-American and First Team All-Patriot League for the second-consecutive year 2015: Inside Lacrosse Second Team Preseason All-American, enters 2015 on a 28-game point streak Recapping 2014: John Glesener was an absolute, bonafide stud for Army last season. Glesener was one of the best scorers in the nation last season as his 43 goals ranked…
Knighthawks Soar Past Bandits
After coming away with the huge Eastern Division victory over the Minnesota Swarm Friday night at the First Niagara Center, the Buffalo Bandits were faced with the difficult challenge of making it two wins in a row when they faced off against their Thruway rivals the Rochester Knighthawks at the Blue Cross Arena Saturday night. In their second of four back to back games on the schedule, the question tonight…