The Penn State Men’s Lacrosse team is traveling to Columbus, Ohio this weekend for the second game of their three-game travel sequence. The Buckeyes just defeated Marquette last weekend to secure the first win of their season, and they are preparing to take on No. 10 Penn State. OSU attributes last week’s success to the successful execution of face offs. The improvement in their face off technique was a weakness…
NLL Predictions Standings: You Gotta Fight, For Your Right, To Party
Half way through the NLL 2014 season, the In Lacrosse We Trust staff have been scuffling amongst each other for the top spot in their predictions race. These midseason standings bring to light not only who predicts the most accurately, but who also gets lucky the most. A win (correct prediction) is worth 2pts. A loss/non participation is a one point deduction per. Di Miller 32 Ian…
Looking At Mid Season NLL Awards
It’s the mid way point of the National Lacrosse League season heading into week 10. Who have the best of the best been thus far? Today, we take a look. Midseason Rookie of the Year has to go to Tyler Digby. Tyler is in some tough competition with rookies this season. He gets my vote as a biased Stealth fan and the fact that he leads all rookies in points…
Hounds Defenseman Ryan Flanagan Named HEADstrong Humanitarian of the Month
Flanagan’s commitment helps grow the sport in underserved communities around Charlotte BOSTON (Feb. 27, 2014) – Major League Lacrosse, the premier professional outdoor lacrosse league, announced today that the first recipient of the HEADstrong Humantiarian of the Month award is Charlotte Hounds defenseman Ryan Flanagan. Read the full story here The HEADstrong Foundation and MLL entered into a partnership in January to help raise awareness about blood cancers to the…
MLL Trade Value: Part 2
If you missed the first part of this Trade Value series, you can find it here. Before I get back to it, some thoughts on the LXM “draft”: Teams started randomly tweeting out their new pickups before the league could make a formal announcement. All of a sudden some draft picks were forfeited unless the Steve Mock trade produces a draft pick for the Lizards in which case a different…
Net Impact: Can Stealth and Swarm Get Back Into Playoff Picture?
With the NLL season halfway over, the Vancouver Stealth (3-7) and Minnesota Swarm (2-7) are languishing at the bottom of their respective divisions. The Stealth only have eight games remaining; the Swarm have nine. Vancouver is a full game out of a playoff spot in the West Division while Minnesota is 2.5 games out of the East Division playoffs. With the clock ticking on their playoff hopes, can either team…
NCAAW Preview: North Carolina vs Notre Dame
The Notre Dame womens lacrosse team will travel to Chapel Hill, North Carolina this weekend for a matchup against the Tar Heels. The Fighting Irish are 2-1 overall this season, and are looking to improve their record this weekend. They are going to bring their best game against North Carolina, because they know that the competition will be fierce. They have a few standouts this season, including freshman attacker, Cortney…
MLL Draft Review: Rochester Rattlers
1st Round Jordan Wolf Attack Duke University The Rochester Rattlers selected Jordan Wolf second overall in the Major League Lacrosse Collegiate Draft. Wolf has compiled 201 points (120 G, 81 A) in 61 career games so far in his run with the Blue Devils. Fifty-seven of his career goals came in the 2013 season, leading Duke to the NCAA Division 1 Championship. He also received USILA All-American Second Team Honors…
Team Canada Player Profile: Garrett Billings
Today our Team Canada player profile will be on a player that has succeeded in every league he has played in and has won numerous scoring titles. Today’s player spotlight will be on Garrett Billings. Billings is a shoe-in to make Team Canada thanks to his impressive statistics in every league from the MLL to the NLL. Billings in his past two NLL seasons has put up 100 plus points…
Choose Wisely- Will Players Have to Choose Between Leagues?
The sport of lacrosse is growing. Two weeks ago, the LXM Pro Tour and the MLL agreed upon a merger to allow players to play in both leagues. It also brought in a couple of new sponsors and companies to help grow the sport as well. With all the recent signings and mergers, it presents an interesting problem though. Will players have to choose between the NLL and MLL before…