Shawn Palmer, Toronto Rock Correspondent Lacrosse is Awesome© Featured Image Photo Credit: Christian Bender The Toronto Rock hosted the Buffalo Bandits in Hamilton on Saturday night in game two of the Eastern Finals. Buffalo won the first game the night before 14 – 5 and it was a repeat performance on Saturday as the Bandits went on a 7 – 0 run in the second quarter on their way to…
Shawn Palmer, Toronto Rock Correspondent Lacrosse is Awesome© Featured Image Photo Credit: M. Hetzel For the third year in a row the Buffalo Bandits and Toronto Rock met in the Eastern Finals. On Friday night the Rock visited Buffalo for Game One of the finals. Unlike last weekend’s game, the Rock would have their top scorer in the lineup as Tom Schreiber was back. During the regular season the Buffalo…
Shawn Palmer, Toronto Rock Correspondent Lacrosse is Awesome© Featured Image Photo Credit: Christian Bender The Toronto Rock hosted the Halifax Thunderbirds for the second year in a row in the Eastern Division Quarter Finals. This time Toronto would have to play the game without their leading scorer from this season as Tom Schreiber was out with an upper body injury. In front of 8,881 loud Rock fans the game went…
Shawn Palmer, Toronto Rock Correspondent Lacrosse is Awesome© Featured Image Photo Credit: M. Hetzel The Toronto Rock (13-5) visited the Buffalo Bandits (13-4) on Saturday night for the battle to determine the East division champion. There were 16,861 hungry Bandits fans on hand in Banditland just itching for the win. This was Toronto’s final game of the 2022-23 Regular season and the final home game for the Bandits. The winner…
Shawn Palmer, Toronto Rock Correspondent Lacrosse is Awesome© Featured Image Photo Credit: Christian Bender The Toronto Rock (12-4) hosted the Buffalo Bandits (11-4) in a battle for first place in the Eastern Division on Saturday night April 1, 2023. If the Rock were to win they would leapfrog over Buffalo into first place but if Buffalo wins then they would increase their lead for home floor advantage in the playoffs. …
Shawn Palmer, Toronto Rock Correspondent Lacrosse is Awesome© Featured Image Photo Credit: V. Strobel The Toronto Rock (11-4) visited the Albany FireWolves (2-11) on Saturday night March 25, 2023 trying to punch their playoff ticket with a victory, while Albany was hoping to win their first game after losing the last eight in a row. Albany wanted to play the spoiler and pushed the Rock right to the end climbing…
Shawn Palmer, Toronto Rock Correspondent Lacrosse is Awesome Featured Image Photo Credit: Nate Brunt The Toronto Rock (10-4) visited the Halifax Thunderbirds (6-7) on Saturday March 18, 2023 for the second of two meetings on the year between the two clubs. Toronto was victorious in the first meeting in Toronto defeating Halifax 17 – 8 and if they completed the sweep they would clinch a playoff berth. Halifax needed a…
Shawn Palmer, Toronto Rock Correspondent Lacrosse is Awesome© Photo Credit: Ryan McCullough The Toronto Rock (10-3) hosted the Albany FireWolves (2-9) on Saturday night March 11, 2023 and were hoping to start a new winning streak after their last one was stopped at 8 wins in a row courtesy of the Philadelphia Wings. The FireWolves were hoping to get back on track as well after losing two in a row…
Shawn Palmer, Toronto Rock Correspondent Lacrosse is Awesome© Photo Credit: Eric Shewell The Toronto Rock (9-3) came into Philadelphia on an eight game winning streak with the hopes of moving into first place in the Eastern division with another win while the Philadelphia Wings (5-5) were coming off a hard fought victory over New York in their last game and the hopes of getting closer to the final playoff spot…
Shawn Palmer, Toronto Rock Correspondent Lacrosse is Awesome© Featured Image Photo Credit: Christian Bender The Toronto Rock (9-2) hosted the Rochester Knighthawks (8-3) on Saturday night in front of their largest crowd since moving to Hamilton and the 10,229 fans were treated to an epic contest. The Rock didn’t have the lead until halfway through the fourth quarter in this close game which had great defense, goaltending, highlight goals and…
Shawn Palmer, NLL Correspondent Lacrosse is Awesome© Featured Image Photo Credit: S. Rosenthal The Calgary Roughnecks (7-4) visited the Vegas Desert Dogs (4-5) on Friday night February 23, 2023 for their first ever matchup. Vegas comes in winning two games in a row while Calgary has won four in a row. Vegas jumped out to a 6 -1 lead in the first quarter only to see if disappear in the…
Shawn Palmer, Toronto Rock Correspondent Lacrosse is Awesome© Photo Credit: Georgia Swarm On Saturday night February 18, 2023, the Toronto Rock (8-2) hosted the Georgia Swarm (0-7) as the Rock were trying to sweep the season series after their win in Georgia last week and the Swarm were trying to win their first game of the year. Both teams were missing key members. Toronto didn’t dress Dan Dawson or Mitch…