Riggers Drop Defensive Battle With The Rock 2/3/24

February 4, 2024

Calgary, AB – The Calgary Roughnecks were defeated by the Toronto Rock Saturday night at the Scotiabank Saddledome, in the first of a two-game series this season. It was a goal-for-goal game to start with both teams tied at 3 to end the first quarter, with Calgary goals coming from Haiden Dickson, Tyler Pace and Thomas Hoggarth. Toronto pulled ahead in the second notching three while Dickson scored the lone…

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Sock-Trick Win Streak for Toronto Halted by Buffalo Scoring Blitz 1/27/24

January 28, 2024

Shawn Palmer, Toronto Rock Correspondent Lacrosse is Awesome©  Featured Image Photo Credit:  Christian Bender The Toronto Rock (6-1) welcomed back Tom Schreiber to their lineup on Saturday night January 27, 2024, for the first time this year.  They went up against the Buffalo Bandits (4-3) in hopes of continuing their undefeated start to the NLL season.  This was definitely a game of runs as Buffalo held a four-goal lead at…

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Rock Take Down Swarm in Fourth Quarter Comeback to Stay Undefeated 1/21/24

January 21, 2024

Shawn Palmer, Toronto Rock Correspondent Lacrosse is Awesome© Featured Image Photo Credit:  Christian Bender The Toronto Rock (5-0) faced off against the Georgia Swarm (4-3) in Hamilton on Saturday night January 20, 2024, trying to keep their perfect record intact against a team that had only lost twice this season.  Toronto was without their top faceoff player as TD Ierlan was injured last week against Halifax and wasn’t able to…

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First Victory in Halifax for Toronto Improves the Rock to 4-0   1/12/24

January 12, 2024

Shawn Palmer, Toronto Rock Correspondent Lacrosse is Awesome©  Featured Image Photo Credit:  James Bennett The Toronto Rock (4-0) travelled to Halifax to play the Halifax Thunderbirds (3-2) on Friday January 12, 2024, in the hopes of increasing their undefeated streak to start the season to four games.  Halifax was looking to get above .500 on the season and move to 3 – 2.  The Rock jumped out to an early…

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Three & Counting as the Rock Stay Perfect with Win Over the Riptide 12/30/23

December 31, 2023

Shawn Palmer, Toronto Rock Correspondent Lacrosse is Awesome© Featured Image Photo Credit:  Ryan McCullough The New York Riptide (0-3) visited the Toronto Rock (3-0) on Saturday afternoon December 30, 2023.  The Rock wanted to keep their unbeaten streak alive, and the Riptide were hoping to end their two-game losing streak.  The Rock went on a seven-goal run that kept the Riptide off the scoreboard from halfway through the first quarter…

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Toronto Stays Perfect on the Season With Win Over Panther City 12/23/23

December 23, 2023

Shawn Palmer, Toronto Rock Correspondent Lacrosse is Awesome© Featured Image Photo Credit:  Colleen Shaw The Toronto Rock (2-0) travelled to Texas on Friday December 22, 2023 to meet Panther City for the first time.  They were looking to build on their win a couple of weeks ago against the Philadelphia Wings (1-2), the only other game they have played so far this year.  The Panther City Lacrosse Club (1-2) lost…

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Bandits Crumble the Rock’s Hope for the Run at the Champions Cup 5/13/23

May 14, 2023

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…

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Toronto Loses Tough Battle in Banditland in Game One of the Eastern Division Finals 5/12/23

May 13, 2023

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…

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Rock Roll Over Thunderbirds to Advance to Eastern Division Semi-Finals 5/5/23

May 6, 2023

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…

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Bandits Late Three-Goal Rally Puts them Ahead of the Rock and Takes Them to the Eastern Division Title 4/22/23

April 23, 2023

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…

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Rock Second & Fourth Quarter Surge Help Secure Victory Over Wings  4/15/23

April 16, 2023

Christopher Crane, NLL Correspondent Lacrosse is Awesome© Featured Image Photo Credit:  Christian Bender With only two weeks left in the regular season of the NLL and prior to this game, three teams had clinched, four teams had been eliminated from earning a playoff spot which left eight teams fighting for the five spots in March to May.  This weekend in an Eastern Conference matchup that had playoff implications for both…

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Toronto Hops Over the Bandits & Jumps to First in the East 4/1/23

April 2, 2023

 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. …

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