It was yet another stormy day at the 2014 FIL World Lacrosse Championships. The games were stopped for the second time in two days, with the Team USA vs. Team Australia game being delayed twice due to severe weather. As Team USA came on to the field, they were stoked and had the American Flag held high, while their fans were screaming “USA”. Team Australia entered the field, the excitement…
FIL: England and Australia Need Wins
England and Australia meet on Sunday night in a crucial game that could determine who advances to the Championship Bracket of the World Lacrosse Championship. Australia is 1-1 so far while England is 0-2. Australia’s loss has come to the United States while England has fallen to the Iroquois and Canada. With those three teams separating themselves from the others, this will be the first true test as the teams…
FIL Day Four: Canada and Iroquois Highlight Day
Photo Credit: Ireland Lacrosse Early Games 10am: Wales vs New Zealand 10:30am: Czech Republic vs Poland 11:30am: Thailand vs Switzerland 11:30am: Scotland vs Latvia Game to Watch: Wales vs New Zealand and Poland vs Czech Republic are both fantastic games. The Czechs are a scoring machine and they face a 2-0 Polish team while New Zealand and Wales might be the best two teams not in the Blue Division. Player to…
The Significance of the History of the Philadelphia Wings
There have been far more teams that have folded/relocated in the National Lacrosse League than there haven’t. Currently, those teams are Rochester, Buffalo and Calgary. Colorado is formerly Washington and Baltimore. Toronto comes from Ontario. Edmonton is formerly Ottawa and Syracuse. And Vancouver comes from Everett, WA, San Jose, CA and Albany, NY. The Colorado Mammoth are the oldest franchise as the original Baltimore Thunder. However, the Philadelphia Wings were…
FIL: USA Takes on Australia
Photo Credit: Di Miller It’s Day Three of the 2014 FIL World Lacrosse Championships at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park, in Commerce City, Colorado. Team USA who were the World Champions in the 2010 FIL games, will face-off against Team Australia who placed third in 2010. Both teams were victorious in their opening games, USA defeated Canada 10-7; and Australia took their game against Japan into triple over-time with Australia winning…
New Zealand and Russia Playing Debuts Like Veterans
These two newcomers to the international lacrosse scene are no less prepared or conditioned for a big fight down a long road. Being less affiliated with lacrosse than the ‘blue group’ (USA, Canada, Japan, etc.) means a longer journey to a potential championship; much more exciting also. THE TEAMS New Zealand is a team based around brotherhood and team work. The players have a pre game ritual performing a war…
FIL Day Two: Israel Impresses, Finland Pitches Shutout
Photo Credit: Larry Palumbo Yesterday in the FIL tournament teams made their first marks of the tournament including impressive showings from Israel, Finland and the Iroquois. Netherlands 19 China 4 Scott Janssen led Netherlands with six goals to lead the Dutch past first year China. In their first ever game internationally China only could put up four goals. Tyler Buchan scored four of them. Switzerland 10 Latvia 5 Switzerland opened…
Israel shocks No. 10 Sweden19-4
Photo Credit: Larry Palumbo COMMERCE CITY, COLORADO — Ari Sussman scored five goals and one assist to lead the Israel men’s national team past 10th-ranked Sweden, 19-4, to open the 2014 FIL World Lacrosse Championships on Friday at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park.Sussman scored Israel’s first-ever goal in the World Championship just 42 seconds in, and the blue-and-white never trailed, jumping out to an enormous 13-0 lead before Mattias Eklund finally but Sweden…
FIL: Canada and England Look to Rebound
Photo Credit: Di Miller Team Canada (0-1) and Team England (0-1) will search for their first victory at the 2014 Federation of International Lacrosse (FIL) World Championships when the two nations meet Saturday, July 12 at 10 p.m ET (8 p.m. MT). Canada previously dropped a tournament opening matchup versus rival Team USA, losing the game 10-7. While there were lingering questions surrounding the Canadian squad entering the tournament, offensive…
Bunker Blog: Cannons At the Break
Hi ILWT Readers, First off, I need to apologize for the amount of time between posts. Amid multiple commitments with my full time job and family, I haven’t had the time to truly sit down and recap our recent games. In an attempt to speed up the process, I will list the Cannon’s recent results since my last post: Week 5, 11-10 loss to the New York Lizards Week 6,…