Sunday, October 25, 2009
Monday, August 24, 2009
Philly Lacrosse Showcase Should Be Major Recruiting Event
Philly Lacrosse Showcase Should Be Major Recruiting Event
By Chris Goldberg, phillylacrosse.com
Episcopal Academy in suburban Philadelphia will serve as the host site November 21 for the inaugural Philly Lacrosse Showcase, a major recruiting event that will feature 210 of the top scholastic boys' lacrosse players in the Mid-Atlantic Region and beyond.
The event – which is being sponsored by Phillylacrosse.com – was developed by Andy Hayes, Episcopal Academy head coach and Eastern Pennsylvania Scholastic Lacrosse Association (EPSLA) president. Hayes also co-directed the inaugural EPSLA Showcase in June.
That event brought more than 50 Division I coaches to Philadelphia to watch two All-Star Games and has helped lead to numerous scholarship opportunities for Philly players in the current senior and junior classes.
The overwhelming success of the Showcase caused Hayes to create the Philly Lacrosse Showcase in hopes of further promoting players in the Philadelphia region, while also opening it to players from other areas. This event will feature open registration for any sophomore, junior and senior in the country aspiring to play at the major college level.
The registration process (web site is www.phillyshowcase.com) will open Sept. 1 and close after 70 players, evenly distributed by position, have signed up in each class. Registration costs $130. The players will be guaranteed to compete in three morning games in front of college coaches. The tournament committee will choose the players to compete in the “Fab Forty” All-Star Game for each class in the afternoon.
Friday, February 27, 2009
ESPN To Cover Lacrosse Games in HD
ESPN will offer an unprecedented amount of college lacrosse games in high definition this season, which will include 18 telecasts on ESPNU HD, four on ESPN2 HD and one on ESPN HD, for a total of 23. With the addition of ESPNU HD (launched in August 2008), this will be the first time ESPN has presented a full schedule of regular-season college lacrosse games in high definition.
The HD schedule will feature 12 regular-season games and 11 NCAA Division I Men’s Championship contests, beginning on ESPNU HD this Saturday, Feb. 28, with the Konica Minolta Face-Off Classic. The doubleheader will showcase #11 Princeton vs. #3 Johns Hopkins (noon) and #12 Duke vs. #7 Maryland (2 p.m.) from M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore.
Other regular-season action in high definition will feature the Big City Classic on April 4 that will showcase #4 North Carolina vs. #1 Virginia (noon) and #2 Syracuse vs. #11 Princeton (2 p.m.) from Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. Other highlights will include the inaugural Day of Rivals -- Army vs. #10 Navy and #7 Maryland vs. #3 Johns Hopkins on Saturday, Apr. 11, at 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m., respectively.
In addition, for the third year in a row, the ESPN networks will televise the complete NCAA Division I Men’s Lacrosse Championship. ESPNU will televise four of the eight First Round games in HD, as well as every Quarterfinal contest (May 10 – May 17). ESPN2 HD will televise the National Semifinals (May 23) and ESPN HD will offer the National Championship game on May 25.
The entire ESPN college lacrosse schedule consists of 45 games, including 30 regular-season contests and 15 NCAA Tournament games across ESPNU, ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPN360.com.The full Spring ESPN lineup is here.
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Princeton Men's Lacrosse 2009 - Season Preview
Excerpts Courtesy: Princeton Athletic Communications
Photo Courtesy BKS
The 2009 season will see Princeton shake up its schedule a bit, as for the first time since 1991, there will be no regular-season game against Virginia. Instead, the third weekend of the season will see Princeton travel to UMBC on Friday night and then host Manhattan Sunday afternoon.
The rest of the schedule is basically the same as a year ago, with most of the sites reversed. Canisius will again come to Princeton, though on Feb. 21, for the earliest lacrosse game in school history. Princeton will participate in the Konica Minolta Face-Off against Johns Hopkins for the third straight year, though Duke-Maryland replaces Syracuse-Virginia as the other game at M&T Bank Stadium.
Princeton actually plays two games at an NFL venue this year, both of which are ESPNU telecasts. In addition to the Hopkins game, Princeton will play Syracuse at Giants Stadium in the Inside Lacrosse Big City Classic, a tripleheader that starts with North Carolina-Virginia and ends with Hofstra-Delaware. Albany comes to Princeton to complete a home-and-home in a game that will also be on ESPNU.
Friday, February 6, 2009
Five storylines to watch this season
1. Can Syracuse repeat?
It's a question that has been "repeated" since 1998 when Princeton capped a run of three consecutive national championships. But if there's a team poised to join those Tigers, it's this year's Orange, which returns six starters and adds a pair of transfers in senior midfielder Scott Kahoe ( Georgetown) and sophomore defenseman John Lade (Villanova) - both of whom are expected to start. If junior attackman Cody Jamieson (122 goals, 237points in two seasons at Onondaga Community College), a transfer, can clear eligibility, watch out. The key could be finding a replacement for faceoff specialist Danny Brennan, who led the nation with a .667 percentage.2. Maybe this is the year …
… that a school other than the bluebloods - Syracuse, Johns Hopkins, Princeton or Virginia - captures the national title. One of those four programs has taken home the crown each year since 1992. The last team outside those four to win the national championship? North Carolina in 1991. Those Tar Heels, Maryland, Cornell, UMBC and Duke are deserving of mention.3. Princeton on the rise
For the first time since 2005, the Tigers failed to collect an NCAA tournament invitation, but a repeat is unlikely. Why? Princeton has not spent May at home in back-to-back seasons under coach Bill Tierney since 1988-1989. Graduation took a toll on the defense, but the offense might be even stronger than last year's.4. Is there a surprise team on the horizon?
Hofstra returns four starters who scored no fewer than 22goals each. Georgetown is still fuming over being left out of the tournament, and Bucknell and Colgate renew a budding rivalry with Navy. Brown might have a say in determining whether Cornell or Princeton takes home the Ivy League title.
5. Go west
All four teams that make up the Atlantic Coast Conference earned a seed, but the Great Western Lacrosse League didn't fare too poorly, sending Notre Dame, Ohio State and Denver to the NCAA tournament. Notre Dame and Ohio State advanced to the quarterfinals, with the Irish on the cusp of upsetting eventual champion Syracuse. Sending those three teams again could be tough, but not impossible.Original story here.
Baltimore to host lacrosse Final Four in 2010 and 2011
"Every year we've had it in Baltimore, we've set an attendance record," said Ravens president Dick Cass, who helped spearhead efforts to bring the tournament back to town. "So we have a real track record with this event."
NCAA officials cited that track record in explaining their selection.
Full story here.
Baltimore Sun Division I Pre-season Top 20
The Baltimore Sun Division I Top 20
February 6, 2009
(2008 record in parentheses)
1. Virginia (14-4)
2. Syracuse (16-2)
3. Maryland (10-6)
4. North Carolina (8-6)
5. J. Hopkins (11-6)
6. UMBC (12-4)
7. Cornell (11-4)
8. Duke (18-2)
9. Denver (10-7)
10. Navy (10-6)
11 Hofstra (10-6)
12. Brown (11-3)
13. Colgate (11-6)
14. N. Dame (14-3)
15. Ohio State (11-6)
16. Loyola (7-7)
17. Georgetown (9-4)
18. Princeton (7-6)
19. Bucknell (10-5)
20. Towson (5-9)
Original story here.
Monday, January 12, 2009
Rutgers Men’s Lacrosse Announces Coaching Clinic
Source : Scarletknights.com
PISCATAWAY, N.J. – Rutgers men’s lacrosse head coach Jim Stagnitta announced that the program will host a coaching clinic, Sunday January 25. The clinic consists of teaching sessions that emphasize specific topics in the game of lacrosse for the youth/beginning player or the high school/advanced player.
Teaching sessions include one-on-one question and answer periods, along with film analysis and chalkboard breakdowns. The clinic is open to all youth and high school coaches.
The clinic will not only feature RU coaches Jim Stagnitta, James Rogalski and Jason Basso, but also former Rutgers All-American Reid Jackson and Princeton University associate head coach Dave Metzbower.
For more information and details on the clinic, please visit: www.mxplaxcamps.com
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
Pennington and O’Dougherty Selected as Preseason All-Americans
Source: ScarletKnights.com
BALTIMORE, Md. – Junior midfielder Justin Pennington (Flemington, N.J.) and senior defenseman Chris O’Dougherty (Kinnelon, N.J) were selected as preseason All-Americans by Inside Lacrosse. The duo garnered third team honors in the annual Face-Off Yearbook Preseason All-America list.
Pennington, who was named the 2009 ECAC Preseason Offensive Player of the Year last week, led Rutgers in both points and assists in 2008. The midfielder tallied 32 points on 22 goals and 10 assists a year ago. Additionally, he ranked 11th in the country, averaging 5.15 groundballs per game. An honorable mention All-American in 2008, Pennington was recently ranked No. 7 by Inside Lacrosse in the magazine’s list of the Top-10 midfielders in the country.
O’Dougherty, who joined Pennington on last season’s All-ECAC First Team, anchored an RU defense that ranked Top-30 nationally in both scoring defense and man-down defense last spring.
The Scarlet Knights, who finished third in the ECAC in 2008, will begin their season on Saturday, Feb. 7 with a home matchup against Villanova at RU Turf Field.
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Schmidt Added to Coaching Staff
PISCATAWAY, N.J. - After a stellar playing career at Rutgers, Nick Schmidt returns to ‘the Banks’ as a volunteer assistant coach on the Scarlet Knights staff in 2009. He will focus primarily on player development, working directly with the attack. He’ll be focusing on teaching fundamentals with shooting and dodging and analyzing practice and game film to help teach proper techniques. . .
See the full press release here.
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Rutgers Announces 2009 Schedule
Rutgers men's lacrosse head coach Jim Stagnitta has announced the Scarlet Knights schedule for the upcoming 2009 season. The slate includes matchups with three teams that advanced to the 2008 NCAA Tournament, including defending national champion Syracuse.
Full story and schedule here.
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Big East Lacrosse Debuts in 2010
PROVIDENCE, R.I. – The BIG EAST Conference will formally begin sponsoring the sport of men's lacrosse beginning in the spring of 2010. The announcement about the Conference adding its 24th sport was made today by Commissioner Michael Tranghese following a unanimous vote by the league's 16 Directors of Athletics during their recent annual spring meeting.
The seven conference schools that will participate in the newly formed league are Georgetown, Notre Dame, Providence, Rutgers, St. John's, Syracuse and Villanova. The teams will play a six-game single round-robin regular season schedule. The BIG EAST will apply for an automatic bid to the 16-team NCAA Championship field.
Syracuse won the 2008 NCAA Men's Lacrosse national title, the program's 10th, after earning an at-large bid as a Division I Independent. Notre Dame also garnered a berth into the national tournament as an automatic qualifier from the Great Western Lacrosse League. Currently, Georgetown, Rutgers and St. John's are part of the ECAC, Providence is a member of the MAAC and Villanova plays in the Colonial Athletic Association.
"We are looking forward to the excitement that men's lacrosse will bring to the BIG EAST Conference," said Commissioner Tranghese. "We have schools with established and successful programs, which want to come together and compete under the BIG EAST brand."
Men's lacrosse will be the BIG EAST's 11th men's sport while the Conference conducts 13 women's sports.
Sunday, April 27, 2008
Dartmouth 11, Princeton 9
Source: Princeton Athletic Communications
The Dartmouth men's lacrosse team celebrated as if it had won a championship. The Princeton men's lacrosse team still might. Princeton's 11-9 loss to Dartmouth Saturday afternoon at Scully-Fahey Field carried with it a huge consolation prize for the Tigers: The Ivy League's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament is still Princeton's to lose. With one week to go in the regular season, it's a pretty good prize to still have.
Princeton never led in the loss to the Big Green, and Philip Killian's goal with 10:31 remaining snapped a tie game and thwarted a big comeback attempt as the Big Green defeated the Tigers for the first time since 2003 and the eighth time in 56th all-time meetings.
Cornell, meanwhile, defeated Brown 11-7 in Ithaca, giving the Big Red a share of the Ivy League championship with the winner of next week's game between Princeton and Brown in Providence. A win by Brown would give Cornell the automatic bid to the NCAA tournament; a win by Princeton would give the Tigers the automatic bid. Brown cannot win the automatic bid to the tournament.
Click here for the full press release and here for the box score.
Friday, April 25, 2008
Ivy League Crown on the Line as Tigers travel to Dartmouth
Courtesy: Princeton Athletic Communications
The Ivy League men's lacrosse race comes down to this: Princeton, Brown can win the championship outright, any combination of those two plus Cornell can finish as co-champions or all three can finish as tri-champions. And all of this will be resolved by the results of three games.
The first two are this Saturday, when Princeton is at Dartmouth (1, WPRB FM 103.3) and Brown is at Cornell. The third game is next Saturday, when Princeton is at Brown.
Princeton's win over Cornell last weekend left the Tigers and Brown at 4-0 in the league, with Cornell at 4-1. The other four teams have been mathematically eliminated.
Click here for the full breakdown.
Sunday, April 20, 2008
Defense Leads Rutgers to 8-4 Win Over Penn State
Courtesy: Rutgers Press Release
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. The Rutgers men's lacrosse team jumped out to an early 3-0 lead and put forth an exceptional defensive effort en route to an 8-4 ECAC win over Penn State Sunday afternoon at Jeffrey Field.
The Scarlet Knights improve to 5-6 overall and move into a tie for third place in the ECAC with a 3-2 league mark. Penn State, coming off an 8-7 victory over No. 9 Bucknell Tuesday, drops to 5-7 overall and 1-5 in conference action.
Sophomore Hunter Burnard (Binghamton, N.Y.) led the Scarlet Knights with a season-high four points on two goals and two assists, while classmate Justin Pennington (Flemington, N.J.) also tallied two goals.
Click here for the full press release and here for the box score.
Friday, April 18, 2008
Princeton Hosts Cornell 4/19/08 4pm
Source: Princeton Athletic Communications
The site: Powers Field at Princeton Stadium • Princeton, N.J.
The date: Saturday, April 19, 2008 • 4 p.m.
TV: ESPNU
Radio: WPRB FM 103.3; www.goprincetontigers.com
The rankings: Princeton: No. 17 (USILA)/No. 19 (Inside Lacrosse)
Cornell: No. 3 (USILA)/No. 4 (Inside Lacrosse)
The records: Princeton: 6-4 (3-0 Ivy League)
Cornell: 9-2 (4-0 Ivy League)
The coaches: Princeton: Bill Tierney (24th season overall, 258-88)
Cornell: Jeff Tambroni (eighth season overall, 83-28)
The series: Princeton leads 35-30-2
Last meeting: Cornell defeated Princeton 10-6 • April 21, 2007
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Ducks Defeat Elmira, 18-4
Source: Stevens Press Release
HOBOKEN, N.J. (April 16, 2008) – Senior attacker/midfielder R.J. Ancona won 76.9 percent (20-for-26) of the faceoffs and collected nine ground balls as the Stevens Institute of Technology men’s lacrosse team routed Elmira College by the final score of 18-4 during Senior Day on Wednesday at the De Baun Athletic Complex in Hoboken, N.J. Meanwhile, sophomore attacker Josh Holmes and sophomore attacker/midfielder Alex Couture scored three goals apiece as the Ducks won their third game in a row to improve to 8-3 overall.
Click here for the full press release and here for the box score.
MSU defeats NY Maritime 14-6
MSU Press Release
Montclair, NJ (4/16/08) – Junior attack A.J. Bachman (Montville, NJ /Mountain Lakes) scored five of his six goals in the second half as Montclair State outscored New York Maritime 10-0 over the final two periods en route to a 14-6 triumph in a Skyline Conference Men’s Lacrosse matchup at Sprague Field on Wednesday evening.
Click here for the full press release.
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