Shawn Palmer, Correspondent Toronto Rock Lacrosse is Awesome© The Toronto Rock visited the Philadelphia Wings on Saturday night at the Wells Fargo Center in front of 11,164 fans who were hoping to see the first win of the season for the Wings. Through the first three quarters of the game it looked like they were going to go home happy. The Toronto
Justin Ivey, NLL Correspondent Lacrosse is Awesome© Week One: 1-2 Week Two: 2-1 Week Three: 3-2 Week Four: 4-1 Week Five: 4-1 Week Six: 4-3 Season Total: 18-10 What a weekend! Across the board we were graced with exciting lacrosse games. My most erroneous
Shawn Palmer, Correspondent Toronto Rock Lacrosse is Awesome© Featured Image Photo: Paul Sasso, MV Photo Concepts The Toronto Rock hosted the Georgia Swarm on Friday night January 18 at the Scotiabank Arena in front of a disappointing crowd of 7,118. The Rock were hoping to avenge the one goal loss against Georgia two weeks ago. The Rock put together a great defensive strategy that had the Swarm offense off of…
Justin Ivey, NLL Correspondent Lacrosse is Awesome© Week One: 1-2 Week Two: 2-1 Week Three: 3-2 Week Four: 4-1 Week Five: 4-1 Season Total: 14-7 Another perfect week ruined by a struggling home team. Last week it was the Colorado Mammoth, and this week it was the Philadelphia Wings falling to the
Shawn Palmer, Correspondent Toronto Rock Lacrosse is Awesome© Shawn started playing box lacrosse when he was 4 years old and played for 17 years, playing his minor lacrosse in Toronto and Jr. B in Aurora Ontario. After being away from lacrosse for 10 years while playing Roller Hockey for the Canadian National Team he was brought back to the sport when his son was old enough to play. He has…
Di Miller, NLL Correspondent Lacrosse is Awesome© The Colorado Mammoth (0-3) hosted the Toronto Rock (3-1) on 80’s Rock Night in the Mile High City. The 11,678 Mammoth fans were ready to see their team get their first “W” of the season. But as has been in the previous two contests, Colorado couldn’t overcome their woes and would lose their third on the season giving them the worst start in…
Justin Ivey, NLL Correspondent Lacrosse is Awesome© Week One: 1-2 Week Two: 2-1 Week Three: 3-2 Week Four: 4-1 Season Total: 10-6 The Colorado Mammoth ruined my perfect weekend, losing to the Calgary Roughnecks at home on Sunday. They kept it close, but just didn’t seem able to adjust during the game. My score predictions were quite off, and I am
MEDIA RELEASE Adam Jones’ 5th Goal Of The Night Wins It Toronto, ON – Adam Jones scored his fifth goal of the night to power the Toronto Rock (2-1) to an 11-10 overtime win over the Philadelphia Wings (0-3) on Friday night at Scotiabank Arena. Tom Schreiber also scored five goals, with his fifth tying the game with 20 seconds to play and
Justin Ivey, NLL Correspondent Lacrosse is Awesome© Week One : 1-2 Week Two: 2-1 Week Three: 3-2 Season Total: 6-5 Keep it positive. In week three of NLL action I got ABOVE .500, although barely. I did not foresee the low scoring Calgary win against San Diego and I most certainly did not
Di Miller, NLL Correspondent Lacrosse is Awesome© On Friday December 28, 2018 a very busy lacrosse packed night in the NLL, the Toronto Rock (1-1) would open up their season at home in front of 10,123 Rock fans hosting their Eastern Division rivals the Georgia Swarm (2-0). This game would not disappoint the fans as there wasn’t a single minute of down time as the track meet and net-minder battle…
Justin’s Picks Week Three 12/28/18 & 12/29/18 Week One: 1-2 Week Two: 2-1 I was able to reverse my fortunes last week and reach .500 early in the season. The self confidence boost was much needed. Now comes the real test. There are five games in the NLL this week, four on Friday and one on Saturday. Can San Diego stay hot? Will Philadelphia get their first win? Read on…
Justin’s Picks Week Two 12/22/18 Unfortunately, I did not get my picks submitted in time last week for everyone to see. I had all three home teams picked to win and only one of them did, so I enter week two with a much less than perfect 1-2. Week 2 of the NLL season has three matchups, two on Friday and one on Saturday.