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…
NLL Three Stars: Playoffs Round One
If the first round of the playoffs is a sign of what’s to come, then we are all in for one fantastic ride through the 2014 NLL Champion Cup Playoffs. The Bandits who came in riding an eight-game losing streak go into Toronto and defeat the Rock 15-13. Out west, the Calgary Roughnecks needed another 1:23 of extra time to defeat a tough Mammoth team 16-15 in overtime. Next weekend…
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…
Launch First Victory A “Great Feeling”
The Florida Launch took off yesterday with an 11-8 win over the Charlotte Hounds for their first win of the season, and the first win in the young franchise’s history. Led by veterans Casey Powell and Kevin Crowley, the Launch found a way to take the victory. “It is a great feeling getting the first win in Launch history,” head coach Stan Ross told us. “It is an exciting time…