The Canadian Lacrosse Association has announced the 24 players selected to the Canadian National Men’s Field Lacrosse Team. Team Canada will compete at the Federation of International Lacrosse (FIL) World Championships on July 10-19, 2014 in Denver, Colorado. Team Canada head coach Randy Mearns (St. Catharines, Canisius University) will lead the effort to claim a third World Championship for Canada. “When we started this journey in the summer of 2012,…
Net Impact: NLL Division Finals By the Numbers
The NLL Division Final matchups are now set, with the Edmonton Rush (16-2) taking on the Calgary Roughnecks (12-6) in the West and the Rochester Knighthawks (14-4) facing the Buffalo Bandits (8-10) in the East. So how do these teams stack up against each other? In the West Division, the Calgary Roughnecks have moved on to the next round of the playoffs after earning a 16-15 overtime win against the…
Women’s: Tournament Begins Thursday
The First Round of the NCAA DI tournament begins on Thursday, May 9. There will be some exciting rivalries taking place this week, and it will certainly be a great week for Women’s Lacrosse. Georgetown and Johns Hopkins will take the field at 5 pm on Thursday, in Chapel Hill, NC. This will be Hopkins’ first appearance in the tournament since 2007, and they are preparing to make a statement…
Mammoth Season Comes to Screeching Halt
Photo Credit: Dan Brodie The Colorado Mammoth (8-10) made it to the post-season for the fourth consecutive year. They faced their NLL Western Division Rivals the Calgary Roughnecks on Saturday May 3, in Calgary at the Scotiabank Saddledome. The Mammoth led the regular season series against the Riggers 2-1, both wins in spectacular OT fashion. Although Calgary was the higher seed with a record of 12-6, Mammoth fans were hopeful…
Junior Voyageurs Sign Kurt Hunziker
The Vermont Voyageurs announced on Monday that the club has signed Kurt Hunziker as the first Junior player of the 2014 season. Kurt Hunziker is going into his second season with the Umass Minutemen after a successful first year in 2013. Kurt is a graduate of Masconomet regional high school where he scored a school record of 267 points on 191 goals and 76 assists in just three varsity seasons. Joe…
Tomahawks Situation Remains Unresolved
It has been exactly two weeks since the Kahnawake Tomahawks learned they would not be attending the Ales Hrebesky Memorial in the Czech Republic. Since that time the other Kahnawake team the Rapids have won the championship, the Kahnawake Mohawks won a game to open the Quebec Senior Lacrosse League season and the league told us the Tomahawks will remain in the league. Yet, this story still has no closure. Since…
Ivy League: Harvard Starts with Momentum, UPenn Stole It Away
During playoffs for any sport, it is well-documented that anything can happen. In the past, we have seen sub-par teams defeat top-seeded ones for national championships. In the Ivy League women’s lacrosse championship, this could not have been less true. As most people expected and predicted, the final for this conference featured Princeton and Penn, the two best teams in the league. Penn came into the game with a 12-4…
Speck Blog: Six Nations Slash Season Opens
What’s up ILWT readers? I’m back blogging again, this time for the Six Nations Slash Sr. B lacrosse team as we compete for supremacy in the Can-Am Sr.B loop this summer. So far, we are 2-1 on the young season after we posted an opening day win over the defending Can-Am champs and last summer’s league rep at the Presidents Cup Onondaga Redhawks 16-14 on home floor. Winning that game…
Division III Lacrosse Tournament: RIT, Salisbury Take Top Seeds
All of the games have been played, all the trophies have been handed out, and we are now left with 30 teams vying for the 2014 Division III Men’s Lacrosse National Championship. Leading the way are the usual suspects with RIT getting the top seed and bye in the North Region, while Salisbury sits atop the South. Let’s dive right into this by looking at the best first-round matchups, top…
Montreal Junior Lacrosse League Makes Several Signings
After the first two weeks of signings by both of the Montreal teams in the MJLL, both followed up with multiple signings this weekend. The Montreal Shamrocks signed 6 more players in Cole Byfelds, Cameron McMillan, Matthew Collard, Branden Desormeau, Ian Hebert and Olivier Cater. Cole Byfelds is a solid transition player who played for the Kingston Kings last year in the OLA. Cole attends McGill and will be spending…