Di Miller, PLL Correspondent Lacrosse is Awesome© The Premier Lacrosse League opened up in Denver, CO on Saturday July 27 with an impressive contest, Atlas LC (3-4) opening up against Redwoods LC (4-3) in a massive scoring barrage halting their three game winning streak by the score of 18-15. Atlas would come out firing in the first outscoring Redwoods with a stunning 9-2 differential; and put together another five in…
MLL All-Star Game Ice Cools Fire in OT Thriller 7/29/19
Di Miller, MLL Correspondent Lacrosse is Awesome© Featured Image Photo Credit: Tam Williams On a beautiful Saturday evening in Annapolis, MD Major League Lacrosse held their annual All-Star Game, and this time the teams were Team Fire and Team Ice, with team Captains Rob Pannell for Team Fire and Lyle Thompson for Team Ice. The game brought 6,685 faithful lacrosse fans to the stadium surpassing attendance from 2018 and as…
Rattlers Shake Up the Outlaws 7/21/19
Di Miller, Correspondent Denver Outlaws Lacrosse is Awesome© Featured Image Photo Credit: Di Miller On Sunday July 21, 2019 the Denver Outlaws (6-2) hosted the Dallas Rattlers (1-7) in front of 3,752 die hard Outlaws fans. Sunday was a special day in Denver as another great would have their jersey retired. Matt Bocklet who played his entire MLL career in Denver and was team captain for the Outlaws in all…
Blaze Power Past Cannons 15-12 7/20/19
[BOSTON CANNONS MEDIA RELEASE] Featured Image Photo Credit: Pretty Instant Will Sands five points not enough to take Atlanta at home QUINCY, MA – Despite a 7-7 tie at halftime, the Blaze used a four-goal run in the third quarter to fuel a 15-12 win over the Cannons at Veterans Memorial Stadium. The Cannons pulled it close late in the fourth, but late penalties and turnovers hurt Boston as they go…
Rattlers Come Close but Fall Short Once More 7/16/19
Tom Coyne, Correspondent Dallas Rattlers Lacrosse is Awesome© Featured Image Photo Credit: Pretty Instant In week seven of the 2019 MLL season the Dallas Rattlers (0-7) are still searching for a solution as to how to get their first win of the season. In front of 3,102 die-hard Rattlers fans in the Ford Center at the Star in Frisco, TX the visiting Chesapeake Bayhawks (4-2) would make up a deficit…
Atlanta Drops Another One-Goal Game 7/14/19
Di Miller, MLL Correspondent Lacrosse is Awesome© Featured Image Photo Credit: John Zumbado The Atlanta Blaze (4-4) returned home on Saturday July 13 to host the Boston Cannons (5-2) in the hopes of turning around their two game slide. They had dropped their previous two contests both by one goal in the last few seconds and this game would be no different. Each team was coming off recent losses and…
City of Annapolis Proclaims July 27th as “MLL All-Star Day” 7/9/19
ANNAPOLIS, MD (July 9, 2019) – Ahead of the 2019 Major League Lacrosse All-Star Game, which is being held in the City of Annapolis for the first time, Mayor Gavin Buckley has proclaimed July 27th as “Major League Lacrosse All-Star Day in the City of Annapolis.” MLL Commissioner Alexander “Sandy” Brown was in attendance at the July 8th City Council meeting, where Mayor Buckley made the formal proclamation. The MLL…
Major League Lacrosse Announces All-Star Selections 7/9/19
2019 Major League Lacrosse All-Star Game will feature the best 42 players in the game at Navy Marine Corps. Memorial Stadium, July 27. BOSTON, MA (July 9, 2019) – Major League Lacrosse (MLL) announced today the forty-two MLL All-Stars for the 2019 MLL All-Star Game, set to take place July 27 at Navy Marine Corps. Memorial Stadium. This will be the second time in MLL’s nineteen-year history that the All-Star…
SEVEN DENVER OUTLAWS PLAYERS NAMED TO MLL ALL-STAR GAME 7/9/19
[MEDIA RELEASE] DENVER — Seven Denver Outlaws players have been named to the 2019 Major League Lacrosse All-Star Game, it was announced Tuesday. Attackmen John Grant Jr. and Brendan Kavanagh, midfielders Zach Currier and Mikie Schlosser, defenseman Finn Sullivan, faceoff specialist Max Adler and goalie Dillon Ward will represent the Outlaws on Saturday, July 27, at Navy Marine Corps Memorial Stadium in Annapolis, Md. The game will face off…
2019 NLL Champs Lose Simpson & MacRae in Expansion Draft 7/9/19
[MEDIA RELEASE] Calgary, AB – The Calgary Roughnecks today announced that defencemen Shane Simpson and Dan MacRae have been claimed by the Rochester Knighthawks and New York Riptide, respectively, in the 2019 National Lacrosse League Expansion Draft. Simpson, selected by the Knighthawks in the fourth round, 7th overall, played 10 games with the Roughnecks after joining the team in the 2018 NLL Entry Draft. The Hamilton, Ontario product tallied three…
Toronto Rock Lose Lintner & McArdle in Expansion Draft 7/9/19
[MEDIA RELEASE] Rock Lose Two Forwards As New Teams Take Shape Oakville, ON – The National Lacrosse League Expansion Draft took place on Tuesday afternoon in Philadelphia, PA with the expansion Rochester Knighthawks and New York Riptide each selecting 11 players. The Rock, along with all current NLL teams, each lost two players in the Expansion selection process. Forward Dan Lintner was selected by the Rochester Knighthawks with the first…
Rattlers Still in Search of Win No. 1 7/9/19
Tom Coyne, Correspondent Dallas Rattlers Lacrosse is Awesome© Featured Image Photo Credit: Pretty Instant Well if you are a Dallas Rattlers fan you are wondering when they will get a victory in 2019. On July 7, and six weeks into the MLL season, the Rattlers (0-6) got out to a quick lead against the visiting Boston Cannons (4-1) in front of an audience of 2,773 at the Ford Center, in…