MEDIA ADVISORY– Game to be televised at one 1 p.m. MT – Fox College Sports [1/1] Denver (6-0) plays its lone home game in a span of five of six away from Peter Barton Lacrosse Stadium on Saturday when the Pioneers welcome [RV/RV] Ohio State to the Mile High City for a rematch of the 2015 NCAA Quarterfinals at Sports Authority Field.
TOWSON, Md. – The Towson University men’s lacrosse team continued with a top-10 ranking for a second-straight week. All three major polls were released Monday after an action-packed weekend. Denver was the unanimous number one team in the country this week after upending this week’s second-ranked team, Notre Dame, 9-8 in overtime. Syracuse was voted third, followed by Ivy Leaguers Yale and Brown at fourth and fifth, respectively.
By: Marcelo A. Sagüez, NLL Correspondent In what resembled a playoff game, the Toronto Rock beat the Vancouver Stealth 9-6 in Sunday afternoon Lacrosse action. Vancouver (3-6) visiting the Toronto Rock (2-7) in their first meeting in the 2016 NLL season. Vancouver was looking for their first win in three games, while Toronto was looking to redeem themselves after losing 15-10 to Calgary Friday night.
Zach Miller nets extra time winner for second-consecutive year against Fighting Irish SOUTH BEND, Ind. – Junior Zach Miller (Steamburg, N.Y.) scored 1:58 into overtime off a feed from classmate Connor Cannizzaro (Cazenovia, N.Y.) to extend the [1/2] University of Denver men’s lacrosse team’s winning streak to 19 games with a 9-8 overtime win at [2/1] Notre Dame on Sunday night at Arlotta Stadium. Sunday marked the fifth time in…
By: Tom Maguire, Beat Writer Bates College Women’s Lacrosse On a spring like day in Lewiston Maine, the Bates Bobcats Women’s Lacrosse team won a thrilling 8-7 game against the No. 9 ranked NESCAC opponent Amherst College. The victory raised the Bobcats record to 5-0, their best start since the 2001 season. The Bobcats are currently 2-0 in the NESCAC.
By: Di Miller, NLL Correspondent On Saturday March 12, the Saskatchewan Rush (6-3) would play host to the Georgia Swarm (4-6). This would be the first time in the 25 years the Sasktel Centre has been in existence, they expected over 14,000 fans for its First Nations Night; and the first time Saskatchewan have hosted a home game on a Saturday. All the festivities made the atmosphere even more spectacular…
By: Kevin S. Clancy, Beat Writer MIT After a bit of a shaky start for Tech on Saturday March 12, and a few gasps emanating from the Steinbrenner Stadium in Cambridge, Massachusetts during the first period (4-3 UNE), the Engineers scored five unanswered goals in the second to take the lead and not relinquish it against a non-conference but always excellent competitor, University of New England with Tech winning 18-13….
March 12, 2016 BALTIMORE – In a back-and-forth game that featured great defense on both ends and teams taking advantage of miscues, the No. 6 Towson men’s lacrosse team was topped 14-6 at No. 11 Johns Hopkins Saturday afternoon. The setback at Homewood Field was the first of the year for Towson, which sits at 5-1 overall, while the Blue Jays improved to 3-2.
BOSTON – The No. 18/19 Boston University men’s lacrosse team never trailed en route to an 11-6 win over Colgate on Saturday afternoon at Nickerson Field. BU improved to 6-1 overall and 2-0 in the Patriot League with its second straight win over Colgate (3-3, 1-2 PL). The Terriers held a 6-3 lead at halftime and outscored the Raiders, 5-3, over the final two quarters. Talkow went 18-of-21 at X;…
By: Marcelo A. Sagüez, Beat Writer Calgary Roughnecks After losing to the Rochester Knighthawks last week in Calgary in sudden death overtime (9-8), it was time for a road trip to Eastern Canada to play the Toronto Rock. With over eight thousand lacrosse fans at the Air Canada Centre Roughnecks Defeat the Rock in regulation time 15-10. This win broke the Roughnecks four game losing skid (4-7), moves them past…
By: Chris Crane, Beat Writer Rochester Knighthawks Last night in Buffalo, Rochester would end there 4 game road trip. In front of a crowd of 18,751 at the First Niagara Center the Buffalo Bandits (7-4) would hand the Knighthawks (4-5) an unfortunate loss in a very close defensive game. Final Score: Buffalo 13—Rochester 10. Scoring would get started in the first by Dhane Smith (Jones, Brock) at 5:39. Ryan Benesch…
Jones Sets NLL Record in Win; Crawford Named League’s ‘Wingman’ March 10, 2016 Adam Jones wasted little time extending his goal-scoring-streak to 56 games on Saturday night against the New England Black Wolves at Pepsi Center, setting an NLL record for consecutive games with one or more goals. Jones’ first of the night came three-minutes-and-43-seconds into the contest, one of seven he’d score in Colorado’s 14-13 victory.