The Nittany Lions are ready to take on Michigan this Saturday in State College. The faceoff will take place in Holuba Hall at 1 pm. Penn State Men’s Lacrosse program is excited and ready to compete in their first home game of the season. After warming up with two exhibition games last week, the Lions are hopefully going to build off the momentum from those games and take down rival…
U.S. Men’s National Team Announces 30-Man Roster for FIL World Championship
BALTIMORE, Feb. 5, 2014 — Following a tryout process that included 98 players and spanned seven months, US Lacrosse has named the U.S. Men’s National Team 30-man roster for the FIL World Championship, July 10-19 in Denver. The team was selected from a 51-player training roster that last took the field at Champion Challenge, a US Lacrosse event, in Orlando on Jan. 26 for a Blue-White exhibition game, which has…
Duke Hires Ben DeLuca for 2014
After a chain of ripple effects caused by transitioning college coaches, Duke University Men’s lacrosse hired Ben DeLuca today as the volunteer assistant coach for the 2014 season. For those who don’t remember, DeLuca was the head coach at Cornell University, where he is coming off a 2013 season of 14-4 and a 6-0 Ivy League title. In the fall, Cornell fired him after incidences of team hazing were reported…
WLA Draft Preview: King Looks To Be Top Pick
Thursday night the WLA draft will take place with the Coquitlam Adanacs having first pick. The rest of the pick order is as follows: 2. New Westminster Salmonbellies 3. Maple Ridge Burrards 4. Coquitlam Adanacs 5. New Westminster Salmonbellies 6. Victoria Shamrocks 7. Nanaimo Timberman With the draft order set here is a look at some of the top players in this year’s draft. Jesse King King made his WLA…
Looking Ahead to NCAA Week One
A busy slate of games starts the unofficial opening weekend of the 2014 season. It’s the unofficial opening weekend, because while you were on the checkout isle buying guacamole for the Super Bowl last Saturday, Delaware defeated High Point 10-3 and Lehigh beat Furman 13-6 to start the 2014 season. My game of the weekend will be on TV Sunday on ESPNU, as Johns Hopkins attempts to rebound from not making the…
Brendan Chamberlain’s Projected Team USA 30 Man Roster
GOAL (3) KIP TURNER JOHN GALLOWAY DREW ADAMS DEFENSE (6) LEE ZINK MICHAEL EVANS JOE FLETCHER BRETT SCHMIDT TUCKER DURKIN MITCH BELISLE LSM (2) BRIAN KARALUNAS KYLE HARTZELL SSDM (3) MATT ABBOTT JEFF REYNOLDS STEPHEN PEYSER MIDFIELD (8) NED CROTTY PAUL RABIL MAX SEIBALD JEREMY SIEVERTS STEVEN BROOKS BEN HUNT MATT STRIEBEL DREW SNIDER FACEOFF (1) CHRIS ECK ATTACK (7) MATT DANOWSKI BRENDAN MUNDORF…
Rock Acquire Hostrawser
Toronto Rock General Manager Terry Sanderson has announced a pair of transactions. The first of which is the acquisition of defender Bill Hostrawser from the Vancouver Stealth. The second is the release of defenceman Stephen Hoar. To obtain the gritty Hostrawser, the Rock parted with a 3rd round pick in the 2014 NLL Draft and a 4th round selection in the 2015 NLL Draft. Hostrawser was originally selected by the Stealth in…
Team USA: Predicting the Final Roster
The Team USA roster is expected to be released tonight at 8 pm on The Lacrosse Network’s YouTube channel in their conclusion of the Road to the Rockies. As the timing gets closer, here is my list of who should be taken for the 30 guys to represent Team USA this summer at the 2014 FIL Championship in Denver, Colorado. Attack (6) Matt Danowski, Charlotte Hounds Marcus Holman, Ohio Machine…
Will Pitt lacrosse ever move from MCLA to NCAA?
Pitt is one of the top competitors in the MCLA Division 1. With a 2013 record overall of 11-7, the Panthers were ranked No. 25 in the MCLA preseason coaches’ poll. This ranking is three spots lower than Pitt was ranked going into the 2013 season at No. 22. The Blue & Gold are looking forward to a challenging 2014, but one question remains: Will Pitt ever make the transition…
NCAA Injury Report: Week One
We are heading into the first week of the NCAA lacrosse season, and already have a ton of injuries to report. To start, Loyola sophomore Zach Herreweyers will miss the entire season. He missed their preseason game against North Carolina last weekend. Jimmy Bitter sat out this weekend with an injury for North Carolina but he is expected to play this week against Furman. The same goes for Joey Sankey….