Oh, what a few weeks can do in the NLL. After a terrible start to the season, the Rochester Knighthawks now look to be one of the more dangerous teams in the league. The Bandits on the other hand, who after looking strong through the first few weeks are now showing signs of weaknesses. That all being said, both teams are tied at 3-3. Last week these two teams played…
Rockhoppers Have Week Off, Face Bombers
The Boston Rockhoppers face the Baltimore Bombers this weekend as the Bombers look to avenge their blowout loss to Boston a few weeks ago. Martin Bowes says they just need to play the same way to beat Baltimore. “To beat Baltimore this upcoming weekend we’ve just got to keep doing what we’ve been doing. Using our athleticism to run on teams, great goaltending, and face off play have been some…
NCAA Rankings: Week One
In Lacrosse We Trust will be putting out our own polls every week with our staff of college writers. Voters this week are Marisa Ingemi, Ian Pierno, Kyle Fletcher, Fago Franklin and Alex Uruqhart. 1. Loyola Greyhounds (3 votes) 2. Maryland Terrapins (3 votes) 3. Johns Hopkins Blue Jays (3 votes) 4. Notre Dame Fighting Irish (3 votes) 5. Denver Pioneers (2 votes) 6. Duke Blue Devils (2 votes) 7….
Nick Rose Knows “Big Test” Comes with Calgary
The Toronto Rock face off with the Calgary Roughnecks this week as the top teams in their respective divisions. Toronto leads the league with five wins but lost last Friday to Minnesota, while Calgary has won four in a row. “We know we have a big test in the Roughnecks coming to the ACC Friday night, so like I said before we need to be ready to play and try…
UMass-Lowell to Add Lacrosse Program
Yesterday, the UMass-Lowell Riverhawks announced they would be going division one in all sports (they only had division one hockey). Today, they announced they would be adding men’s and women’s lacrosse to their program, also in division one. They will be joining the America East Conference. They will have lacrosse for the 2014-2015 season, and are officially a division one school for 2013-2014. UMass-Lowell will be the 68th division one…
MSL Draft Recap: Northmen Dominate
Just like in the regular season, the late arrival of the Six Nations Chiefs delayed the evening. The Major Series Lacrosse draft was slated to begin at 7pm Wednesday night but representatives from the Chiefs did not arrive until closer to 7:30pm, pushing the draft back to 8pm. You can’t really blame Six Nations; they only had two picks in this year’s MSL draft so we’re lucky they even graced…
NLL: Roughnecks Try To Extend Streak in Toronto
The Calgary Roughnecks will try to extend their four-game winning streak this weekend as they take to the road for two games. The first is against the Toronto Rock Friday night in the Air Canada Centre. This is a battle of the two first place teams, with the Roughnecks currently leading the West Division at 4-2 and the Rock leading the East at 5-2. Calgary is coming off a 9-8…
NLL Names Week Six Players of the Week
The National Lacrosse League has announced Player of the Week awards for Week #6 of the 2013 NLL regular season which featured five games this past weekend. Rochester Knighthawks forward Cody Jamieson won Offensive Player of the Week after helping his team get back to .500 with two decisive road wins, Minnesota Swarm transition player Tyler Hass was honored for his three-goal performance, which included the game-winning goal in overtime,…
Knighthawks Starting to Roll
The 3-3 Rochester Knighthawks are finally figuring it out. Since a horrendous 0-3 start, the Hawks are on a three-game win streak and are finally looking like the Championship team they became last season, with the potential to be much better than last year’s squad. The player I’ve been most surprised by and impressed with is #23, Cory Vitarelli. Knighthawks fans knew the player known as “The Dog” was a…
Knighthawks Offense Back in Rhythm
The NLL champion Rochester Knighthawks were not happy with their 0-3 start that left them with 32 goals. However in their last three games, all wins, Rochester has picked up 40 goals including 33 this weekend when they outscored opponents 33-17. “Our offence is extremely talented with players like Cody [Jamieson], [Casey] Powell, and [Dan] Dawson up there it’s pretty incredible to watch what they can do with the ball.”…