Christopher Crane

Knighthawks Sneak Past FireWolves 12/17/22

December 18, 2022
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Christopher Crane, Rochester Knighthawks Correspondent Lacrosse is Awesome© Featured Image Photo Credit:  V. Strobel This week the Rochester Knighthawks (3-0) were on the road to take on the Albany FireWolves (1-1) at MVP Arena.  It began as a fast-paced matchup where both sides were able to keep up with each other’s transition game until Albany’s John LaFontaine (1g 1a) was able to sneak behind Rochester’s defense at 12:39 to put the…

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Rochester Rolls Past the Rock to 2-0 Start 12/10/22

December 11, 2022
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Christopher Crane, Rochester Knighthawks Correspondent Lacrosse is Awesome© Featured Image Photo Credit:  M. Veluvolu The Rochester Knighthawks (2-0) played host to the Toronto Rock (1-1) in an Eastern Division matchup at Blue Cross Arena on Saturday December 10, 2022.  Rochester would look to continue their momentum from their week one win over the Georgia Swarm (0-1) and the Knighthawks defense with their netminder Ryan Hartley who would have a career high…

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Rochester’s Late Surge Comes Up Short – 2/5/2022

February 6, 2022
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Christopher Crane, NLL Correspondent Lacrosse is Awesome© Featured Image Photo Credit:  Bill Wippert In this weekend’s NLL action, we got to see I-90 rivals in action.  The Rochester Knighthawks (2-5) travelled to the KeyBank Center to take on the Buffalo Bandits (6-0) in front of a crowd of 9,371.  It seemed as if the Bandits were going to control the tempo of the game as they would hold the Knighthawks to…

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Knighthawks Force Game Three 6/2/18

June 3, 2018
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Christopher Crane, Beat Writer Rochester Knighthawks Lacrosse is Awesome In this week’s only NLL action we saw the Rochester Knighthawks play host to the Saskatchewan Rush in must win game two in a best of three series for the NLL Championship. In game one at the Sasktel Center, the Rush took a commanding win over Rochester. However, in front of 9,174 fans at the Blue Cross Arena, the Knighthawks had…

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Win and Play On: Final Weekend East Rivalry 4/28/18

April 29, 2018
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Chris Crane, Beat Writer Rochester Knighthawks Lacrosse is Awesome Saturday night’s games in the NLL were must watch TV for the fans, and a must win for the teams.  The Rochester Knighthawks (10-8) hosted the Buffalo Bandits (8-10) in a game where the winner would have a chance at the post season, and the loser would have to wait until next year to take the turf again.  The rivalry between…

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Rochester Beats the Best in the West 2/17/18

February 19, 2018
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  Christopher Crane, Beat Writer Rochester Knighthawks Lacrosse is Awesome   On Saturday, February 17, the Rochester Knighthawks (4-6) played host to the Saskatchewan Rush (8-2) at the Blue Cross Arena on Native American Heritage night.  The Knighthawks were looking to build on last week’s win over the Swarm but faced a tall task against the team with the best record in the NLL.  In the end, they proved they…

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Rochester Gets Their Second Win of 2016

June 6, 2016
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Chris Crane, Beat Writer Rochester Rattlers Lacrosse is Awesome On Thursday June 2, the Rochester Rattlers (2-3) played their second home game of the season against the red hot Ohio Machine (5-2) at the Wegman’s Sports Complex in front of a crowd of 1,010.  Rochester would also pick up their second win of the season as they downed the Machine 13-9. The first quarter of play would be a back…

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Rochester’s Late Rally Falls Short 4/9/16

April 11, 2016
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By: Chris Crane, Beat Writer Rochester Knighthawks Lacrosse is Awesome On April 10, the Rochester Knighthawks (6-8) took on their rivals the Buffalo Bandits (10-4) at the First Niagara Center in front of a crowd of 17,397.  Final Score:  Buffalo 14—Rochester 12. The first period would be dominated by the Bandits as they would quickly score the first two goals of the period in less than one minute of play. …

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Can Rochester Bounce Bank Against Calgary on 3/5/16

March 4, 2016
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CAN ROCHESTER BOUNCE BACK? March 4, 2016 By: Chris Crane, Beat Writer Rochester Knighthawks Rochester Knighthawks (3-4) look to bounce back in the win column Saturday March 5, against the Calgary Roughnecks (3-6) as Rochester is in the home stretch of their four game road trip before returning home March 12th. Rochester can still grab the top spot in their division as they are still two games out of first…

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Rochester Rattlers MLL Collegiate Draft Picks 2016

By: Chris Crane, Beat Writer Rochester Rattlers Although the NLL season is still fresh from just having kicked off the season no more than three weeks ago, the MLL started business with their Collegiate Draft on January 22nd. Before we get in depth of when and who the Rochester Rattlers took in this year’s draft, a big congratulations is due to Myles Jones a midfielder from Duke being drafted first…

January 31, 2016
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