Chris Vale, Beat Writer Six Nations Lacrosse Lacrosse is Awesome The Six Nations Snipers had a come from behind win Saturday night February 18, over the St Catherine’s Shock Wave. While being down 6-2 in the second period, Chase Martin took over the goal-tending duties at one point down 7-2 the Snipers came all the way back with great goalie play and an offensive surge to win 11-8 and stay…
Justin Ivey, Beat Writer New England Black Wolves Lacrosse is Awesome Every home game for the New England Black Wolves (3-4) this year has been a nail biter. Yesterday afternoons tilt against the visiting Buffalo Bandits (2-5) was no exception. New England could not hold on to multiple three goal leads, and after an exhausting fourth quarter of back and forth goals, Buffalo would score shortly into the overtime period. …
Di Miller, Beat Writer Georgia Swarm Lacrosse is Awesome The Rochester Knighthawks (2-6) suffer their second loss of the weekend, this time at the hands of the domination of the Georgia Swarm (7-1). Sunday night was Native American Lacrosse Day at the Infinite Energy Arena where the Swarm still can’t draw a crowd. Even though they have the best record in the league, only 4,170 fans would be in attendance. …
Marcelo A. Sagüez, Beat Writer Calgary Roughnecks Lacrosse is Awesome The Calgary Roughnecks (3-4) hosted the Vancouver Stealth (3-5) at the Scotiabank Saddledome. For the second week in a row and at home, the Roughnecks would come up short and remain in last place in the NLL Western Division. With continuing goaltending issues, the Roughnecks went down early putting them behind the eight ball, having to fight the clock and…
Chris Crane, Beat Writer Rochester Knighthawks Lacrosse is Awesome This week in NLL action the Rochester Knighthawks (2-5) took on the Toronto Rock (5-2) in their third match up of the season. Both teams would put on show for a crowd of 5,438 at the Blue Cross Arena. Unfortunately the Knighthawks would fall to the Rock 10-6 giving Toronto a
JJ Seaward, Beat Writer Saskatchewan Rush Lacrosse is Awesome The Saskatchewan Rush (5-2) would continue to build their winning streak at home in front of a sold out crowd of 15,047 at the Sasktel Centre, as they narrowly defeated the Colorado Mammoth (4-4) with a final score of 8-7. The Rush would get off to a hot streak immediately in the first quarter, as they would score three unanswered goals….
Chris Vale, Beat Writer Buffalo Bandits Lacrosse is Awesome Coming off the bye week the Buffalo Bandits (1-5) were ready to regroup and get the win on their home floor Friday night at the Key Bank Center against the New England Black Wolves (3-4). Buffalo has not won a contest since January 21, when they defeated the Vancouver Stealth at home 21-15. New England just came off a tough loss…
Di Miller, NLL Correspondent Lacrosse is Awesome The Georgia Swarm (6-1) headed north to Toronto to face the Rock (4-2) at Air Canada Centre. This was the battle for the best record and first place in the league. Over 8,800 Rock fans were there to cheer on their team after their victory against the Roughnecks the week before. Georgia was coming of their victory over New England as well. This…
Di Miller, Beat Writer Colorado Mammoth Lacrosse is Awesome The Colorado Mammoth (4-3) headed to the Langley Events Centre in Vancouver to face their Western Division rivals the Stealth (2-5). On a rare Sunday game, the two teams would meet up again with the Stealth coming off the bye week and the Mammoth coming off their huge victory over the undefeated Georgia Swarm. The last time these two teams met,…
Marcelo A. Sagüez, Beat Writer Calgary Roughnecks Lacrosse is Awesome Family day in Calgary and the Toronto Rock (4-1) headed to Scotiabank Saddledome to play the Roughnecks (3-3) in a rare matinee game. Toronto came in on a winning path and wanted to keep the momentum going. They did just that defeating the Roughnecks 11-7 in Calgary. The appeal of the suspension to the Roughnecks Greg
Chris Crane, Beat Writer Rochester Knighthawks Lacrosse is Awesome The Rochester Knighthawks (2-4) took on the Saskatchewan Rush (4-2) this week in NLL action at the Blue Cross Arena in front of a crowd of 7,194. Rochester was looking to bounce back from previous week’s overtime loss to the New England Black Wolves. Although the first half wouldn’t disappoint as it was back and forth for both teams, it would…
Justin Ivey, Beat Writer New England Black Wolves Lacrosse is Awesome There was a shootout last night in Georgia and the New England Black Wolves (2-4) lost to the Georgia Swarm (5-1). Unlike the first meeting, the Black Wolves were leading for most of the game, but they could not hold back the high-powered Swarm offense to get the win. Fast paced offense dominated the game that saw a total…