Toronto Unable to Hold Off Halifax in Back-and-Forth Affair 3/18/23

March 18, 2023

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…

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Rock Start New Streak And Double Up On Albany 12 – 6 on 3/11/23

March 12, 2023

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…

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Higgins Stands On His Head In An 11-10 Wings Victory Over the Rock 3/6/23

March 7, 2023

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…

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Rock Defeats the Knighthawks in Epic Eastern Division Battle 3/4/23

March 5, 2023

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…

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Lucky No. 7 for Toronto Defeating Georgia 16-7 on 2/18/23

February 18, 2023

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…

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Schreiber Paces the Rock with 14 Points in a 22 – 14 Rout of the Riptide 2/4/23

February 5, 2023

Shawn Palmer, Toronto Rock Correspondent Lacrosse is Awesome© Featured Image Photo Credit:  Christian Bender The New York Riptide (1-6) visited the Toronto Rock (6-2) on Saturday night February 4, 2023 in a game where 36 goals were scored between the teams.  The crowd of 9,419 left happy as the Toronto Rock defeated the Riptide 22 – 14 on the back of Tom Schreiber’s 14 point game.  This extended their win…

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Roughnecks Can’t Climb Over Rock in OT Thriller 1/28/23

January 29, 2023

Marcelo A. Sagüez, Correspondent Calgary Roughnecks Lacrosse is Awesome© Featured Image Photo Credit:  Jenn Pierce  The Calgary Roughnecks (3-3) were coming off a bye week, riding a winning feeling decisively beating the San Diego Seals (5-1) at the Saddledome 14-10 on January 14 after having played a complete 60 minutes of relentless lacrosse.  Within the first 30 seconds Calgary opened the scoring and continued the pressure for a five-goal run…

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Rock’s 13 Goal Run & Strong Defense Shut Down the Wings in a 14 – 5 Drubbing on 1/21/23

January 21, 2023

Shawn Palmer, Toronto Rock Correspondent Lacrosse is Awesome© Featured Image Photo Credit:  H. Barry The Toronto Rock visited the Philadelphia Wings for a matinee game on Saturday January 21, 2023 in a game that was originally scheduled for 7:00 p.m.  It was changed once the Philadelphia Eagles play-off game was posted and in order to give Eagles fans a chance to watch the game and attend the Wings game as…

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Rock Win Brawl in Toronto Defeating Thunderbirds 17-8

January 15, 2023

Shawn Palmer, Toronto Rock Correspondent Lacrosse is Awesome© Featured Image Photo Credit:  Christian Bender The Toronto Rock (3-2) hosted the Halifax Thunderbirds (3-3) on Saturday night in front of their largest crowd of the season at 9,304 fans.  In a game that included an expulsion just eight seconds into the game, two fights, two penalty shots for the same player where he scored on both as well as 25 goals,…

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Vinc Shuts the Door on the Rock Offense 12/17/22

December 18, 2022

Shawn Palmer, Toronto Rock Correspondent Lacrosse is Awesome© Featured Image Photo Credit:  Christian Bender The Buffalo Bandits (1-1) visited the Toronto Rock (1-2) at First Ontario Centre on Saturday night December 17, 2022 in a game where both teams were coming in after suffering their first losses of the season.  On a night where the Rock were inviting the 7,730 fans to bring Teddy Bears to toss on the floor…

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Rochester Rolls Past the Rock to 2-0 Start 12/10/22

December 11, 2022

Christopher Crane, Rochester Knighthawks Correspondent Lacrosse is Awesome© Featured Image Photo Credit:  M. Veluvolu The Rochester Knighthawks (2-0) played host to the Toronto Rock (1-1) in an Eastern Division matchup at Blue Cross Arena on Saturday December 10, 2022.  Rochester would look to continue their momentum from their week one win over the Georgia Swarm (0-1) and the Knighthawks defense with their netminder Ryan Hartley who would have a career high…

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Rock Overpower the Warriors on Guaranteed Win Night in Toronto 12/3/22

December 4, 2022

Shawn Palmer, Toronto Rock Correspondent Lacrosse is Awesome© Featured Image Photo Credit:  Christian Bender The Toronto Rock (1-0) opened their 2022/23 season at home against the Vancouver Warriors (0-1) on Saturday night December 3, 2022 which had been called “Guaranteed Win Night” by owner and GM Jamie Dawick.  Based on the way that the Toronto Rock played they wanted to deliver for their owner as they came out of the…

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