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wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Sat Mar 18, 2023 9:52 pm

The UVA - Maryland game was great

This was OT. Maryland has a freshman in the goal

wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Sun Mar 26, 2023 6:00 pm

Dartmouth broke 35 game conference losing streak on a rebound slap in goal.

Post by **Shirley** » Sun Mar 26, 2023 8:13 pm

wlu_lax6 wrote: Sat Mar 18, 2023 9:52 pm The UVA - Maryland game was great

This was OT. Maryland has a freshman in the goal

Missed this post. Yeah, that was an amazing sequence. I was watching it and was sure UVA was going to score. I thought they had on the last one because the net moved!

UVA got their revenge indirectly this weekend by waxing #1 Notre Dame 15-10 in South Bend.

wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Sat Apr 22, 2023 6:51 pm

Maryland vs. Hopkins is a instant classic. 125th matchup between the teams (if you go with the JHU definition). No team has had more than a 1 goal lead all game. Physical. Skillful. Just a great one.

Nonlinear FC · Post by **Nonlinear FC** » Wed Apr 26, 2023 11:14 am

Yeah, I watched a replay of it. Incredible game.

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Wed Apr 26, 2023 11:38 am

Thankfully, no scores here so I can look up the replay to see who won.

Nonlinear FC · Post by **Nonlinear FC** » Wed Apr 26, 2023 11:39 am

[+] spoiler: We are all winners, as fans of lacrosse, having seen such a fine sporting match down on the field.

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Wed Apr 26, 2023 11:55 am

Nonlinear FC wrote: Wed Apr 26, 2023 11:39 am
[+] spoiler
We are all winners, as fans of lacrosse, having seen such a fine sporting match down on the field.

[+] spoiler: Thank you.

wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Wed May 03, 2023 11:47 am

Just learned that Mariano Rivera's youngest son is a D1 lacrosse player.
https://gojaspers.com/sports/mens-lacro ... ivera/8494

DSafetyGuy · Post by **DSafetyGuy** » Thu May 18, 2023 2:33 pm

wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Sun May 28, 2023 4:21 pm

Both semi-finals yesterday went to overtime. But on closer review in the first game, the winning goal should not have counted as the Duke player had his foot in the crease.

Duke versus Notre Dame tomorrow

Post by **Shirley** » Sun May 28, 2023 5:33 pm

The Virginia loss hurt. They had that game, but a couple of late bad possessions on both offense and defense left the door open and Notre Dame marched through it.

wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Mon May 29, 2023 2:16 pm

The head ref in this game (red arm band) is a guy I ref with during the year (elementary school gym teacher). He is also an ACC football ref and did XFL games this year. The short guy on the crew is from Baltimore/JHU lacrosse royalty. He is an SEC football ref (did the Las Vegas bowl this past year) and a firefighter.

wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Wed Jun 21, 2023 11:55 am

World Championship start tomorrow. All games are on ESPN family (mostly ESPN+ but there are some good ones on the ESPN2)

If you don't care about Latvia v. Ireland or such maybe watching games at 1, 4, 7, and 10 every day won't move you. But tomorrow night you have USA v. Canada on the Deuce. It will be a great game (As the likely rematch in the finals). When both those teams take on the Haudenosaunee (coached by UVA's Lars Tiffany) it will be good ones. Australia, England, Germany, Israel (who have a guy named Ronen Abromovich), and Japan are that 2nd tier that will be fun to watch when they play each other. Jamaica, Wales, and Ireland will be okay because of the heavy US influence on those teams.

https://www.worldlax2023.com/landing/Game_Schedule

wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Wed Jun 21, 2023 11:34 pm

Shoot was off by a day US beats Canada in the opener.

Nonlinear FC · Post by **Nonlinear FC** » Mon Jun 26, 2023 6:22 pm

Not sure where to put this... https://www.usalaxmagazine.com/college/ ... demic-year

Cabrini, winner of the 2019 men's D3 title, getting shutdown/bought by Villanova.

wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Mon Jun 26, 2023 8:07 pm

Nonlinear FC wrote: Mon Jun 26, 2023 6:22 pm Not sure where to put this... https://www.usalaxmagazine.com/college/ ... demic-year

Cabrini, winner of the 2019 men's D3 title, getting shutdown/bought by Villanova.

Folk are thinking there may be a tipping point for a bunch of small liberal arts schools that don't have the academic/brand (i.e. US News rankings). The kids at Cabrini don't even get admission to Villanova. They are getting placed into one of 3 other schools in the area (Eastern being one).

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Mon Jun 26, 2023 8:23 pm

wlu_lax6 wrote: Mon Jun 26, 2023 8:07 pm
Nonlinear FC wrote: Mon Jun 26, 2023 6:22 pm Not sure where to put this... https://www.usalaxmagazine.com/college/ ... demic-year

Cabrini, winner of the 2019 men's D3 title, getting shutdown/bought by Villanova.
Folk are thinking there may be a tipping point for a bunch of small liberal arts schools that don't have the academic/brand (i.e. US News rankings). The kids at Cabrini don't even get admission to Villanova. They are getting placed into one of 3 other schools in the area (Eastern being one).

Eastern what?

rass · Post by **rass** » Tue Jun 27, 2023 6:38 am

The D3 college where my dad was a professor for decades (he's been retired for years) got gobbled up by Delaware State University a couple of years ago. Not sure if they had lax but their football program was pretty good.

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Tue Jun 27, 2023 6:59 am

sancarlos wrote: Mon Jun 26, 2023 8:23 pm
wlu_lax6 wrote: Mon Jun 26, 2023 8:07 pm
Nonlinear FC wrote: Mon Jun 26, 2023 6:22 pm Not sure where to put this... https://www.usalaxmagazine.com/college/ ... demic-year

Cabrini, winner of the 2019 men's D3 title, getting shutdown/bought by Villanova.
Folk are thinking there may be a tipping point for a bunch of small liberal arts schools that don't have the academic/brand (i.e. US News rankings). The kids at Cabrini don't even get admission to Villanova. They are getting placed into one of 3 other schools in the area (Eastern being one).
Eastern what?

Eastern Orange University, obvs.

wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Tue Jun 27, 2023 7:02 am

rass wrote: Tue Jun 27, 2023 6:38 am The D3 college where my dad was a professor for decades (he's been retired for years) got gobbled up by Delaware State University a couple of years ago. Not sure if they had lax but their football program was pretty good.

They had a team...not very good
https://www.insidelacrosse.com/team/wesley/2021

Delaware State has a women's team that made the news last year....
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/c ... 765858002/

rass · Post by **rass** » Tue Jun 27, 2023 7:05 am

wlu_lax6 wrote: Tue Jun 27, 2023 7:02 am Delaware State has a women's team that made the news last year....
https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/c ... 765858002/

Yeah, I think I might have posted that here when it happened. DSU is an HBCU.

wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Tue Jun 27, 2023 7:09 am

Playoffs at the world championship set. US and Canada get buys to the quarter finals.

Puerto Rico could upset England...helps that Puerto Rico has a star from JHU leading the team.
Japan should beat Germany
Australia should beat the Dutch
Jamaica versus Long Island (I mean Italy)....both are heavy on US College players.
Hong Kong/China v. Haudenosaunee...blow out going to the creators of the game.
Ireland v. Israel....Israel (Baltimore/New York/Baltimore and one guy from Tel Aviv) will get a chance to play US

https://www.worldlax2023.com/sports/mla ... 4/schedule

Nonlinear FC · Post by **Nonlinear FC** » Tue Jun 27, 2023 9:03 am

To answer the question raised, Eastern University is a small D3 liberal arts school right down the road from Villanova (and Bryn Mawr and Haverford.)

https://www.eastern.edu/

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Tue Jun 27, 2023 11:29 am

Nonlinear FC wrote: Tue Jun 27, 2023 9:03 am To answer the question raised, Eastern University is a small D3 liberal arts school right down the road from Villanova (and Bryn Mawr and Haverford.)

https://www.eastern.edu/

Thanks

Nonlinear FC · Post by **Nonlinear FC** » Tue Jun 27, 2023 2:12 pm

(They had a really good goalie that almost singlehandedly beat national power Messiah a few years ago. He promptly got picked up by a D1 program.)

wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Tue Jun 27, 2023 3:01 pm

Nonlinear FC wrote: Tue Jun 27, 2023 2:12 pm (They had a really good goalie that almost singlehandedly beat national power Messiah a few years ago. He promptly got picked up by a D1 program.)

Assume you are talking soccer because Messiah is not a national power in lacrosse.

rass · Post by **rass** » Tue Jun 27, 2023 3:17 pm

This is as about as testy as the swamp gets these days, buckle in guys!

Nonlinear FC · Post by **Nonlinear FC** » Tue Jun 27, 2023 3:17 pm

wlu_lax6 wrote: Tue Jun 27, 2023 3:01 pm
Nonlinear FC wrote: Tue Jun 27, 2023 2:12 pm (They had a really good goalie that almost singlehandedly beat national power Messiah a few years ago. He promptly got picked up by a D1 program.)
Assume you are talking soccer because Messiah is not a national power in lacrosse.

Sorry, yeah, important detail. I'm a D3 soccer nerd, lax, not so much.

rass · Post by **rass** » Tue Jun 27, 2023 3:22 pm

OH SNAP

wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Wed Jun 28, 2023 7:18 am

wlu_lax6 wrote: Tue Jun 27, 2023 7:09 am Playoffs at the world championship set. US and Canada get buys to the quarter finals.

Puerto Rico could upset England...helps that Puerto Rico has a star from JHU leading the team.
Japan should beat Germany
Australia should beat the Dutch
Jamaica versus Long Island (I mean Italy)....both are heavy on US College players.
Hong Kong/China v. Haudenosaunee...blow out going to the creators of the game.
Ireland v. Israel....Israel (Baltimore/New York/Baltimore and one guy from Tel Aviv) will get a chance to play US

https://www.worldlax2023.com/sports/mla ... 4/schedule

England over Puerto Rico in O.T.
Japan over Germany (but game was close for a bit)
Aussie dominate the Dutch
Jamaica "upset" Italy. Jamaica's star is a rising Junior from Umass-Lowell and the Salisbury school
Haudenosaunne win
Israel beats up on the Irish.

Today
Australia vs. England, 10 a.m. PT (SDSU Sports Deck)
Haudenosaunee vs. Japan, 1 p.m. PT (SDSU Sports Deck)
Canada vs. Jamaica, 4 p.m. PT (USD Torero Stadium)
United States vs. Israel, 7 p.m. PT (USD Torero Stadium)

wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Wed Jun 28, 2023 9:26 pm

USA 2-Israel 1 after 1 quarter. Israel playing good D and getting good goalie play from a former Terp backup. Robert Kraft's grandkid (Tufts player) also getting lots of p.t.

wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Sat Jul 01, 2023 7:41 pm

1 goal game on ESPN 2. Canada and US for the gold. About 8 left in the fourth quarter.

wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Sun Jul 09, 2023 4:58 pm

Dave Pietramala....legend player and coach is moving on from Syracuse to UNC (Assistant in both cases after the firing/not resigning/whatever you want to call it from JHU 2 years ago). Oh his twin boys will start their 2nd year with the Tar Heels this fall. Much like Gait and Petro being friend/teammates/opponents, UNC's coach was part of that generation (teammates on club and national teams).

Post by **Shirley** » Wed Oct 04, 2023 9:17 am

UVA just signed the #1 player in the 2025 class, Brendan Millon. His older brother, McCabe Millon was also the #1 player in his class and is now a first-year at UVA.

While two brothers each being #1 in the country is amazing enough, I learned that their parents are BOTH in the lacrosse hall of fame. That's a pretty fucking incredible family legacy. I can't think of anything quite like it.

https://247sports.com/college/virginia/ ... 217434907/

Nonlinear FC · Post by **Nonlinear FC** » Wed Oct 04, 2023 9:57 am

The Stanwick family is in that orbit.

wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Wed Oct 04, 2023 1:51 pm

Mark Million was a star. Not just a Hall of Famer, but maybe the best attackmen of all time. Also his brother Tony was a Towson star and 15 year pro.

The Million kids are good, but right now you also have the Kirst Family (3 or 4 of them are d1 players...3 made the US indoor training team that just won a big tournament) and Spallinas (dad Joe is Stony Brook Coach, Joey is going to his 2nd year at Cuse..starter as a freshman and got the famed 22 jersey and big NIL deal, another one just committed to Cuse, and one more in high school)

Dave Pietramala (Best dman of all time) has 2 kids playing at UNC who are very good.

Billy Dwan (associate coach for Petro at JHU) kid plays at Cuse (and his uncle is associate head coach at Loyola)

Henry Ciccarone (hopkins legendary coach) had all 4 of his kids play for Hopkins and his grandkids have a collection of college players.

rass · Post by **rass** » Wed Oct 04, 2023 2:15 pm

Yeah but are any of those moms in the HOF?

wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Wed Oct 04, 2023 2:42 pm

Not sure but the star lax married couples are not unique. A few come to mind.
Kellie Amonte Hiller (Northwestern Head Coach ...and yes her brothers are the NHLers) is married to a multiple time National Teamer. She is a HoFer...one their daughters is a state champ wrestler.

Another national team duo is Courtney Martinez Connor (tippy's daughter) and Casey Connor from Maryland.

Post by **Shirley** » Wed Oct 04, 2023 4:18 pm

I know there are lots of lax families. Other sports too. But both parents in the sport's hall of fame and both brothers ranked as the #1 recruit in the country? That's pretty fucking amazing.