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…
Week 3 CUFLA Three Stars: Duffy Shines in Win Over Western
First Star: Ian Duffy (Brock University) – The fifth year senior netminder Ian Duffy helped the Brock Badgers pick up the season’s biggest win as the Badgers knocked off the Western Mustangs 8-5. The Ajax,ON goaltender made an outstanding 18 saves, including three highlight reel saves in the third frame. The victory was Duffy’s third win in four starts. Second Star: Leland de Langley (McGill University) – Junior attackman Leland…
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…
Week 3 CUFLA Top 5 Power Rankings: McGill Still Number 1
1.McGill (7-0) Last Week: 1 The McGill Redmen continued their Eastern Division dominance last week as they crushed the Concordia Stingers 23-1 Tuesday night to remain undefeated in Canadian University Lacrosse Association. Junior attackman Leland de Langley led the offensive charge with four goals and six assists for 10 points. Freshman atttackman Spencer Bromley filled the cage five times while adding two assists in his breakout performance. Freshman netminder William…
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…