Riding the momentum wave of a two-game win streak, the Buffalo Bandits (3-1) poured it on in the second half and never looked back to come away with a commanding 16-9 victory over the Colorado Mammoth (1-5) on Saturday during military appreciation night at the Pepsi Center in Denver, Colorado. The win this evening for the Bandits is their second road victory this season and their third win overall in…
Swarm Get First Win, Top Wings
Before I write my review I feel the need to vent. The officials in this game were HORRIBLE. There were calls on both ends that they missed, but some major ones that could have changed the game. 1-Since when is a back body drop legal? In first quarter while there was a scrum by the benches a Swarm player flipped a Wings player over their back. 2-Ryan Ward scores at…
Can Higgins Compete For Swarm Starter?
Tyler Carlson of the Minnesota Swarm lasted just three minutes in net before he was yanked on Saturday after allowing three goals on four shots against the Philadelphia Wings. Carlson has struggled as a starter which has many asking if he would be better suited as a backup goalie. As we saw in the first round of the playoffs last year against the Toronto Rock, he has the ability to stand on…
Penn State Men’s Going Big
WRITTEN BY: NICOLE SULINSKI It has been an eventful few weeks in the Major League of Lacrosse. On Friday, January 10, the league held its 14th yearly collegiate draft in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania during the US National Lacrosse Convention. This attested to be very exciting for many reasons, but proved to be especially important for two Penn State Men’s Lacrosse players, Austin Kaut, and Tom LaCrosse. Kaut, #19, is a senior Goalkeeper…
MLL Draft Overall Recap
The US Lacrosse convention was last weekend and along with it came the MLL Collegiate Draft. With mock drafts completed and everyones predictions set, Friday night at 8:30 pm was upon us. Lots of ideas were running around the room as to who the Ohio Machine were going to pick first. There were GMs and head coaches galore and readily available to pop on to the live pre-draft show. Defense…
Behind the Back: #GrowTheGame
The game of lacrosse has grown exponentially in the last decade and a big part of the growth is from many players who are giving back to the sport that has given them so much. Superstars like Shawn Evans, Brad Self, John Grant Jr and Tracey Kelusky are all involved in developmental camps while draw ball specialist Jordan MacIntosh even has his own face-off camp. Although these guys work at…
NLL Preview: Stealth Look To Extend Streak Against Roughnecks
On Saturday night, the Calgary Roughnecks (1-2) host the Vancouver Stealth (2-1) at the Scotiabank Saddledome. Both teams are coming off Friday night games, but the results were very different. The Roughnecks were soundly defeated by the Edmonton Rush on Friday, by a 15-8 score. Curtis Dickson was held off the scoresheet and Jeff Shattler, who had scored four goals in each of the first two games of the season,…
Stealth Win Thriller in OT
The Stealth needed overtime to beat the Mammoth 14-13 Friday night in a back and fourth game that saw both teams trade goal after exciting goal down to the closing minutes of the fourth quarter and into OT. Vancouver would trail Colorado the entire game but only needed one shot from Lewis Ratcliff in the extra frame to earn it’s second win of the young season. The loss for the…
Bandits v Mammoth: Who’s the Real Underdog?
The Buffalo Bandits (2-1) and the Colorado Mammoth (1-4) will face off for the first of two 2014 NLL regular season matchups Saturday January 18th, 2014 at the Pepsi Center in Denver, Colorado. The last time these two teams met was a 2013 Week 11 battle at the Pepsi Center where the Mammoth emerged victorious with a 16-13 win at home. In Week 3 action last week, the Bandits were…
NLL Preview: Wings vs Swarm Round One
The Philadelphia Wings and the Minnesota Swarm face each other twice this weekend in games that are huge for both teams. The Wings are coming off a back-to-back weekend that saw them drop both games putting their record to 1-2. The Swarm come in at 0-2 and hope to get the offense going. So far in two games the Swarm have only managed a total of 12 goals (5.5 per…