Christopher Crane, NLL Correspondent Lacrosse is Awesome© Featured Image Photo Credit: Bill Wippert In this weekend’s NLL action, we got to see I-90 rivals in action. The Rochester Knighthawks (2-5) travelled to the KeyBank Center to take on the Buffalo Bandits (6-0) in front of a crowd of 9,371. It seemed as if the Bandits were going to control the tempo of the game as they would hold the Knighthawks to…
Justin Ivey, Co-Editor and NLL Correspondent Lacrosse is Awesome© Featured Image Photo Credit: Kyle Hess The Albany Firewolves (4-3) and the Georgia Swarm (3-5) faced off against each other twice this weekend in back-to-back nights. Friday, the Swarm hosted before the teams jumped on a plane to play Saturday night in Albany. The weekend home and home was circled for both teams on their calendars as the teams only play…
Shawn Palmer, Toronto Rock Correspondent Lacrosse is Awesome© Featured Image Photo Credit: Heather Berry The Toronto Rock (4-3) traveled to Philadelphia on Saturday February 5, 2022 hoping to build on their win last week and move closer to the Wings (5-4) in the standings. Head Coach of the Rock, Matt Sawyer who last week became the longest serving Rock coach in the team’s history said that the team would need…
Di Miller, NLL Correspondent Lacrosse is Awesome© Featured Image Photo Credit: Christian Bender On Friday February 4, 2022 the New York Riptide (1-6) headed to Hamilton, Ontario the home of the Toronto Rock to face the Halifax Thunderbirds (4-1) who have been given the “thumbs up” to play this and their next home game at the First Ontario Centre due to restrictions still in place in Nova Scotia. Alas, there…
Christopher Crane, NLL Correspondent Lacrosse is Awesome© Featured Image Photo Credit: Spencer Kagan To close out this weekend’s NLL action the Buffalo Bandits (5-0) would travel to the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum to take on the New York Riptide (1-5) in front of a crowd of 4,051. This matchup between the two Eastern Division opponents would be a “Battle of the Half’s”. The Bandits would end up controlling the first…
Marcelo A. Sagüez, Correspondent Calgary Roughnecks Lacrosse is Awesome© Featured Image Photo Credit: Mike McGinnis After six weeks off, the Calgary Roughnecks (1-3) were finally back on the floor on Saturday January 29, 2022 and would meet their nemesis, the San Diego Seals (5-1) for the second time this season after having lost to them on December 17, 2021 by the score of 17-12. There is no love lost between…
Shawn Palmer, Toronto Rock Correspondent Lacrosse is Awesome© Feature Image Photo Credit: Christian Bender The Toronto Rock (3-3) hosted the Rochester Knighthawks (2-4) on Saturday night January 29, 2022 in Hamilton and it was their second home game in a row without fans. Both teams came into the game looking to get back into the win column after both had dropped their last two contests. The game was a back…
Di Miller, NLL Correspondent Lacrosse is Awesome© Featured Image Photo Credit: Philadelphia Wings The New York Riptide (1-4) headed to the Wells Fargo Center on Sunday January 29, 2022 to face their Eastern Division Rivals the Philadelphia Wings (4-3) for the second meeting of the two teams this season. The last time these two teams met on December 10, 2021 the Wings would be the victors by the score on…
Christopher Crane, Rochester Knighthawks Correspondent Lacrosse is Awesome© Featured Image Photo Credit: Heather Barry In this weekend’s NLL action the Rochester Knighthawks (2-3) would have double the workload after not playing since mid-December due to continued postponements and unknown schedules on an almost weekly basis due to COVID. After having battled hard the night before at home against the Georgia Swarm (2-3) only to come out on the short end…
Shawn Palmer, NLL Correspondent Lacrosse is Awesome© Featured Image Photo Credit: Micheline V The Rochester Knighthawks (2-2) hosted the Georgia Swarm (2-3) at the Blue Cross Arena in front of 3,157 fans on Friday night January 21, 2022. Rochester had not played in over a month and Georgia was trying to snap a two game losing streak. In a game where Georgia’s third leading scorer, Shayne Jackson, was placed on…
Di Miller, NLL Correspondent Lacrosse is Awesome© Featured Image Photo Credit: C. Conigliaro On Saturday January 15, 2022 the New York Riptide (0-4) hosted the Panther City Lacrosse Club (1-4) at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Hempstead, NY in front of 3,401 Riptide fans who were happy to finally see their team back in action. Last night’s contest would be the first victory for one of the two winless teams…
Shawn Palmer, Toronto Rock Correspondent Lacrosse is Awesome© Featured Image Photo Credit: Ryan McCullough Due to the COVID restrictions put forth by the Ontario government the Toronto Rock (2-3) hosted their first ever professional lacrosse game in front of no fans on Saturday January 15, 2022 at the First Ontario Centre in Hamilton. This was also the first game in over a month for the Halifax Thunderbirds (3-0) due to…