Di Miller, MLL Correspondent Lacrosse is Awesome© Right now, there is a plethora of speculation around the country with regards to how the restructuring of the League is going to affect the fans. Lets face it, it’s the fans who make the league and without those fans, you wouldn’t have a league. Some of the articles we’ve seen are so vague that it’s got people scratching their heads wondering what…
Christopher Crane, Correspondent Rochester Knighthawks Lacrosse is Awesome© Featured Image Photo Credit: Kate Frese The Rochester Knighthawks (1-5) had double duty this weekend as they took on the Calgary Roughnecks in the first game of the doubled up weekend picking up their first win of the season over the Roughnecks. Rochester would then travel south to the Wells Fargo Center on Sunday January 19, to take on the Philadelphia Wings…
[MEDIA RELEASE] (Rochester, NY) – The Rochester Knighthawks (1-4) battled back from a 12-11 deficit with two fourth-quarter goals and held on for the final seven minutes of regulation as they took down the defending NLL champion Calgary Roughnecks (2-3) in thrilling fashion Saturday at Segar & Sciortino Field at The Blue Cross Arena for their first win in franchise history. The 13-12 victory also snaps Rochester’s four-game slide to…
Matteo Nobile, Correspondent Halifax Thunderbirds Lacrosse is Awesome© Featured Image Photo Credit: Trevor MacMillan On Saturday January 18, the Scotiabank Centre home of the Halifax Thunderbirds (5-0) hosted for the first time in their inaugural season, the San Diego Seals (1-5). The Thunderbirds one of two expansion teams in the NLL, are off to a red hot start winning their first four games. They were looking to continue their winning…
Di Miller, Correspondent New York Riptide Lacrosse is Awesome© Featured Image Photo Credit: New York Riptide On Saturday January 18, the New York Riptide (1-5) would face their North Division rivals the Georgia Swarm (2-3) for the first time this season in the hopes that they would finally break that ever present “Goose Egg” on the standings board. On the other side of the score sheet, the Swarm were hoping…
Justin Ivey, NLL Correspondent Lacrosse is Awesome© The forecast in Connecticut on Saturday was 3-6” of snow. Fans still turned up to see the undefeated New England Black Wolves (4-0) host the Philadelphia Wings (3-2) for rivalry night. The 4,084 fans were not disappointed and witnessed some of the best lacrosse played so far this year. In the Black Wolves last action, three weeks ago, they treated the home crowd…
Di Miller, Correspondent Colorado Mammoth Lacrosse is Awesome© Featured Image Photo Credit: ckom.com In a frigid night in Saskatoon, the Colorado Mammoth (4-3) went head to head against their West Division rivals the Saskatchewan Rush (3-2) on Saturday January 18. The Sasktel Centre was packed with 12,542 faithful Rush fans ready to see their team get their first win at home this season. While the Mammoth having just come off…
Shawn Palmer, Correspondent Toronto Rock Lacrosse is Awesome© Featured Image Photo Credit: Sara Schmidle The Toronto Rock (3-2) drove down the QEW highway to visit the Buffalo Bandits (3-1) at the KeyBank Center in front of 12, 026 Bandits fans. Unfortunately, they had to do it without two of their top offensive players as Tom Schreiber and Adam Jones were both out with upper body injuries. They started fast and…
Ron Schell, Correspondent Vancouver Warriors Lacrosse Is Awesome© Featured Image Photo Credit: Di Miller The last time Colorado played Vancouver (1/4/2020), the Warriors (2-4) offence shot out to a 4-0 lead before the Mammoth (3-3) even knew they were in a game. The right side and left side of the Warrior’s offence were synchronized early. Eventually, Coach Pat Coyle called a time-out and then pulled Dillon Ward to get the…
Justin Ivey, NLL Correspondent Lacrosse is Awesome© Standings: Shawn Palmer 19-8 Justin Ivey 19-8 Stephonya Hunter-Penner 17-10 Chris Vale 15-12 As the leader of this group, nothing gets me more excited than a 5-0 weekend with the picks! Finally, I have evened up with Shawn for the group lead. We aren’t going to dwell on last week because this week crazy. Another weekend with EIGHT GAMES scheduled, so let’s get…
Justin Ivey, NLL Correspondent Lacrosse is Awesome© The Saskatchewan Rush (3-1) travelled south to play the San Diego Seals (1-4) in the final game of Week 7 in the NLL on Sunday. The team stat line showed an even match. The Rush outshot the Seals 58-52, but the Seals gathered more loose balls (73-70). Both teams were dead even in the faceoff circle going 12-24. The difference maker was the…
Chris Vale, Correspondent Buffalo Bandits Lacrosse is Awesome© Featured Image Photo Credit: Kyle Hess The Buffalo Bandits (2-1) came off the bye week and headed down to Georgia and took down the Swarm (2-2) by the score of 16-10. One big take away from this game was the return of Bandit’s forward Chase Fraser (3G, 3A) who had himself a six point night and earned himself the Player of the…