Saying a game was a “tale of two halves” might be cliche, but Saturday’s matchup between Springfield College and No. 10 Nazareth was truly a tale of two halves. The Pride jumped out to a 7-2 halftime lead before letting the Golden Flyers back into the game, only to pull just far enough ahead to score an 11-10 win in Rochester. Springfield’s halftime lead, sparked by three first-half goals from…
QSLL Bringing Two New Teams In
The Quebec Senior Lacrosse League kicks off their season in a couple of months, and when they do there will be two new teams. Currently, the league has three teams with the Vermont Voyageurs, Capital Region Axemen and the Kahnawake Mohawks, and they play the Three Nations Lacrosse League teams during their schedule. Capital Region is the former Montreal Phoenix and they started playing in Ottawa last season. This season,…
Swarm Rookies Struggling to Find Scoring Touch
Photo Credit: Dan Brodie The Minnesota Swarm has struggled with offense and scoring this season, and as a result has only garnered one win. While very few players on the team are lighting up the scoreboard so far this season, they drafted several highly touted rookies with high draft picks. There was a lot of focus on these picks going into the season, and while not many players are scoring…
NLL: Mac Allen Suspended One Game
The National Lacrosse League has announced a summary of discipline stemming from incidents occurring during Week 8 of the 2014 NLL regular season for games played on Friday, Feb. 14 and Saturday, Feb. 15. Rochester Knighthawks defenseman Mac Allen has been assessed a Match Penalty and suspended one game stemming from a boarding incident on Toronto Rock player Garrett Billings at approximately the 13:06 mark of the third quarter of their game on February 15. No penalty was called on the…
NLL Preview: Roughnecks Host Knighthawks
The Rochester Knighthawks (5-2) travel across the continent on Saturday to take on the Calgary Roughnecks (4-3) in a battle between second-place teams hoping to strengthen their positions. Photo Credit: Dan Brodie The Knighthawks are on a two-game winning streak and are coming off a decisive 17-9 defeat of the Toronto Rock, so they have momentum working for them. Their smothering defense and superb goaltending have kept opposing teams under…
NCAA Preview: Stony Brook @ Duke
STONY BROOK SEAWOLVES (1-1) AT DUKE BLUE DEVILS (2-0) This will be the first meeting between the teams since 1993. Duke leads the series 2-0. This is Stony Brook’s first road game of the season. The Skinny: SeaWolves: Stony Brook is coming off an 18-10 victory over Lafayette on Tuesday. With the game tied four apiece in the second quarter, the SeaWolves would score 10 of the next 11 goals…
Staff Debate: Pushing Back the NCAA Season?
A debate this week has been college lacrosse being played in the winter months. Lacrosse Magazine ran an interesting feature on it with quotes like “You’re missing a huge opportunity to generate interest in the sport when you’re playing all of these games, and they might as well be played in Siberia,” from ESPN analyst Eamon McAnaney. Albany coach Scott Marr also said, “Sure, we can play our sport…
NLL Stories to Watch in Week Nine
Only five teams are in action this week with three games, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t plenty of interesting stories to look at this week in the NLL. Number Five- Chris White Returns The Toronto Rock made a few defensive moves this week as Chris White will be activated off of the injured reserve to play in his first NLL game of 2014. The Rock demoted Dustin Dunn and…
Cyclops Look for Second Win, Face TurfDogs
The SouthWest Cyclops (1-2) and the Durham Turfdogs (1-3) will battle each other for the second time in seven days Saturday, February 22 at the Iroquois Lacrosse Arena. In the previous meeting between the squads, SouthWest notched their first win as a CLax franchise defeating Durham 12-9. The Cyclops trailed for a majority of the game before mounting an outstanding comeback that saw the Turfdogs outscored 6-0 in the…
NCAAW: Syracuse Takes on Virginia
This Sunday, the undefeated Syracuse will head to Virginia to take on the Cavaliers in weekend NCAA lacrosse action. What can only be described as a lopsided match-up, Virginia could be staring a record of 1-3 right in the face against the Orange. After a 0-2 start, Virginia captured their first win of the season this past Wednesday against Richmond. They lost their first two games by a narrow margin; leaving some…