What can be said about the emergence of Eric Law in the last 12 months? A high school All-American, Division III midfielder, a third option on a good attack line, field quarterback for an NCAA Semi-Finalist, a regular on a stacked Denver Outlaws rosters, and now making the cut to 52 for the United States World Team. That might be the definition of a journeyman. I had a chance to…
ELL Operator Ondrej Mika Speaks on Third Tournament
The third tournament of the European Lacrosse League season is set to kick off, and Ondrej Mika caught up with us to tell us what’s new this week.
Bandits Will Struggle to Replace Harasym
The Buffalo Bandits since entering a one year contract in 2009 have held high reliance and respect in Jon Harasym. Four years ago, the Bandits signed the most players at once in recent history. Some of the other names included Jon Arnold, Darryl Gibson, Isaiah Kicknosway, Brian Coswell and Scott Komer. Among them and others contracted, Harasym continued to thrive, and created himself into one of the (if not the)…
Swarm Draft Sets Them Up Long Term
With the NLL entry draft long behind us anticipation is rising to see if the amount of first-round draft picks that Minnesota had will be enough to lead them to the championship game this season. Having four first-round draft picks, the Swarm have really added to the talent on their team. These top picks on their team are sure to lead them to greatness in the coming years. As expected,…
Where do Outlaws go Without Stagnitta?
Coach Stagnitta only held his position as the Head Coach of the Denver Outlaws for two years, but what a two years it was. The 2013 Outlaws were the first team in MLL history to post an undefeated regular season only to lose in the semi-final game of playoffs. Coach Stagnitta was named Coach of the Year this year due to his contribution to that undefeated season. In Stagnitta’s first…
This Week in Fall Ball- NCAA
Alex Urquhart The fall ball season is well underway and there’s still a lot of fall left tell the first snow and the end of the fall season. This will be another big week in the college fall scrimmage and tournament tours. The two big Classics/ Series are the Nicholas Colleluori Fall Classic and the Play for Parkinson’s Series. The Colleluori Classic will be held at Ridley High School…
NCAA Growing Women’s Game, Too
UMass-Lowell has started their new women’s lacrosse program by hiring Carissa Medeiros as the new head coach. Being that it is UMass first year in Division I, Medeiros coaching background (she spent the past six years at Bentley) should help the team really get off their feet in what is a very tough division. While this program is not set to begin until 2015, this early hire shows the preparedness…
Ten Stories to Watch Heading into Fall Ball
NCAA Tournament Expands to 18 teams – The addition of two teams for the NCAA tournament will include two play in games for the four teams that received the lowest AQ seeds. Expanding the tournament is to keep a balance between AQ and at-large bid teams. There will be 10 AQ teams, with eight at-large squads, which the AQ squads will be knocked down to eight after the two play-in…
Syracuse-Israel Scrimmage Recap
On Sunday, the Syracuse lacrosse team got a preview of what to expect from their 2014 team as they participated in scrimmages with the Israeli and Iroquois national teams. Originally, the Orange were not slated to participate in the scrimmages as Cornell was supposed to take part on Sunday. However, Syracuse replaced Cornell after the hazing allegations canceled Cornell’s fall ball season. The first opponent Syracuse faced was the Israeli…
Mitch Jones Brings Lefty Depth to Banits
Second year transition player Mitch Jones was acquired by the Buffalo Bandits on September 17th during the 2013 NLL Draft in Oakville, ON. The Bandits traded their 20th overall pick in 2013 and a fifth round selection in 2015 from the Vancouver Stealth. In 2013, Jones suited up for three games for the Stealth scoring one goal and three assists. The Delta, BC native was picked 21st overall in the…