The United States looks to continue its impressive run in the FIL World Lacrosse Championships when it faces Australia on Thursday at 6:30 p.m. ET. The U.S. has been dominant, especially over its last three games, outscoring opponents by a combined 59-9 highlighted by its most recent 18-5 win over the high-powered Iroquois Nationals. Australia gave the United States one of its tougher games, falling 16-7 in each team’s second…
FIL: Australia Ends Israel’s Dream Run
Australia’s Tom Vickery made three saves in the final minute to hold off Israel, 9-8, in the quarterfinals of the 2014 FIL World Lacrosse Championships on Wednesday. Advancing to the semis felt promising early on, as the blue-and-white took early 2-0 and 4-1 leads on the third-ranked Australians. However, the Sharks held Israel scoreless for the entire second quarter as they chipped away, trimming the deficit to 4-3 at the half….
FIL: Recapping the Blue Division
Photo Credit: Di Miller We’re at Day Seven of the FIL 2014 World Lacrosse Championships. As of Wednesday July 16, each team in the Blue Division: Team USA; Team Canada; Team Australia; Team Japan; Team Iroquois Nation; and Team England have all gone head-to-head. At this point, Team USA sits atop their division with an impressive 5-0 record, and Team Canada is number two with a record of 4-1. Let’s…
FIL: Japan Takes on Scotland
In early afternoon play the Scotland coming off their first loss of the games, faces Japan. Japan coming off of two straight wins over England and New Zealand, just may have the momentum to take the upset win. Showing true grit in an their overtime win over England and their dominating performance against New Zealand team Japan is hitting their stride. Japan started the tournament playing what could be considered…
MLL: The Stretch Run Has Arrived
With the attention of the lacrosse world on the World Lacrosse Championships in Denver (rightfully so), it’s easy to forget that Major League Lacrosse returns to action this weekend. Rochester travels to Chesapeake on Thursday night for the first MLL game in 12 days. Two games are set for Saturday while Florida travels to Denver on Sunday. Many wonder why games are scheduled during the world championships. I don’t know…
Scotland Battles Iroquois Led by McBride
At 4 pm MDT an undefeated Scotland team takes the field to play the Iroquois Nationals. In what some would consider a mismatch of talent, this game could turn out to be one of the best in the tournament. Scotland is led by some great players known in the lacrosse ranks, Jordan McBride, and Kyle Buchanan. Jimmy McBride adding another threat to the teams somewhat potent offense as well. Scoring…
Germany Blog: Germans Fall to Israel
We opened up day one with Belgium who we ended up beating 12-4. That game was mostly about us building chemistry against another helmet and got us going on the right track. Day two we moved on in the group against Austria who we beat 20-2 in all around great performance by all. Day three was the Red Division championship game against Hong Kong who was 2-0 and we came…
Japan Takes on Undefeated New Zealand
Day 7 of the FIL tournament will prove to be exciting as a competitive match ensues between New Zealand and Japan. Last time around, New Zealand finished 15th and Japan finished 4th. This year, the level of play on both sides of this matchup have dramatically increased since the last time we saw them compete. New Zealand, although not as experienced as Japan and the rest of the blue division…
USA Dominates Iroquois to Finish Pool Play 5-0
Photo Credit: Di Miller The most anticipated game of the 2014 World Lacrosse Championship Games took place on Tuesday July 15, when Team USA (4-0) would go head-to-head against Team Iroquois (3-1) at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park. It was another stormy day in Commerce City, Colorado and the afternoon games were stopped again due to severe weather. The game was delayed by one hour and 45 minutes, but fans from…
WLA Players of the Week: Cayle Ratcliff Shines for Timbermen
1st star Coming into this week the struggling Timbermen were 2-1 in their last three games and looking to find some positives on a weak season for them (4-9-1), and last week Cayle Ratcliff did exactly that. Although only potting 1 point (1G) early in the week, he exploded for a 9 point (4G, 5A) effort in Coquitlam and carried the team on his back against a Adanac’s team fighting to stay…