The MCLA National Tournament brackets have been announced and now it is time to play with the teams to find the winners before the games. Although not always correct, this comes from in-depth research and film watching of each team. *Winners will be in bold. #1 Arizona St. (SLC AQ) vs. Indiana (GRLC AQ) This year we have a new No. 1 overall seed in Arizona St. from the SLC….
The New Westminster Salmonbellies finished second last in the WLA last season with 7-10-1 record. One of the biggest bright spots during New Westminster’s 2013 season was the play of rookie Logan Schuss. Schuss had 29 goals and 27 assists for 56 points. Schuss also was awarded the WLA rookie of the year award. In his first year in the NLL Schuss has been putting on a show as he…
The Canadian Lacrosse Association has announced the 24 players selected to the Canadian National Men’s Field Lacrosse Team. Team Canada will compete at the Federation of International Lacrosse (FIL) World Championships on July 10-19, 2014 in Denver, Colorado. Team Canada head coach Randy Mearns (St. Catharines, Canisius University) will lead the effort to claim a third World Championship for Canada. “When we started this journey in the summer of 2012,…
The First Round of the NCAA DI tournament begins on Thursday, May 9. There will be some exciting rivalries taking place this week, and it will certainly be a great week for Women’s Lacrosse. Georgetown and Johns Hopkins will take the field at 5 pm on Thursday, in Chapel Hill, NC. This will be Hopkins’ first appearance in the tournament since 2007, and they are preparing to make a statement…
Photo Credit: Dan Brodie The Colorado Mammoth (8-10) made it to the post-season for the fourth consecutive year. They faced their NLL Western Division Rivals the Calgary Roughnecks on Saturday May 3, in Calgary at the Scotiabank Saddledome. The Mammoth led the regular season series against the Riggers 2-1, both wins in spectacular OT fashion. Although Calgary was the higher seed with a record of 12-6, Mammoth fans were hopeful…
The Vermont Voyageurs announced on Monday that the club has signed Kurt Hunziker as the first Junior player of the 2014 season. Kurt Hunziker is going into his second season with the Umass Minutemen after a successful first year in 2013. Kurt is a graduate of Masconomet regional high school where he scored a school record of 267 points on 191 goals and 76 assists in just three varsity seasons. Joe…
It has been exactly two weeks since the Kahnawake Tomahawks learned they would not be attending the Ales Hrebesky Memorial in the Czech Republic. Since that time the other Kahnawake team the Rapids have won the championship, the Kahnawake Mohawks won a game to open the Quebec Senior Lacrosse League season and the league told us the Tomahawks will remain in the league. Yet, this story still has no closure. Since…
During playoffs for any sport, it is well-documented that anything can happen. In the past, we have seen sub-par teams defeat top-seeded ones for national championships. In the Ivy League women’s lacrosse championship, this could not have been less true. As most people expected and predicted, the final for this conference featured Princeton and Penn, the two best teams in the league. Penn came into the game with a 12-4…
What’s up ILWT readers? I’m back blogging again, this time for the Six Nations Slash Sr. B lacrosse team as we compete for supremacy in the Can-Am Sr.B loop this summer. So far, we are 2-1 on the young season after we posted an opening day win over the defending Can-Am champs and last summer’s league rep at the Presidents Cup Onondaga Redhawks 16-14 on home floor. Winning that game…
If the first round of the playoffs is a sign of what’s to come, then we are all in for one fantastic ride through the 2014 NLL Champion Cup Playoffs. The Bandits who came in riding an eight-game losing streak go into Toronto and defeat the Rock 15-13. Out west, the Calgary Roughnecks needed another 1:23 of extra time to defeat a tough Mammoth team 16-15 in overtime. Next weekend…