Good morning. Here’s the latest from around the lacrosse world:
1. Richmond withstood an early onslaught from Virginia in men’s lacrosse and beat the No. 2 ranked Cavaliers, 17-13, for the first time in school history behind four goals and three assists from Dalton Young on Saturday.
DOWN GOES VIRGINIA @SpiderMLAX get goals from Young and Lanchbury to down @UVAMensLax 17-13 in the state’s capital. pic.twitter.com/snZvCLcM7p
— USA Lacrosse Magazine (@USALacrosseMag) April 2, 2022
Some other notable men’s results from Saturday:
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No. 8 Yale and No. 6 Penn played another classic with the Bulldogs coming out on top 12-11 on Chris Lyons’ overtime winner.
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Jake Taylor made his first career start for Notre Dame and proceeded to score a school-record eight goals in the Irish’s 22-6 win over Syracuse.
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Dylan Watson scored six times as No. 3 Georgetown won a road game at Denver 17-9.
2. The Pac-12 had a banner day on Sunday in women’s lacrosse, picking up two key victories with Arizona State upsetting Rutgers and USC knocking off Michigan. Colorado and Stanford also won within the league and in a nonconference showdown at USA Lacrosse, Jacksonville rallied for a 10-9 win over Cornell.
3. Saturday’s women’s schedule included 40 games, including Duke scoring seven straight goals to beat Virginia 13-8 for the Blue Devils 13th victory of the season. Maryland star Auroro Cordingley scored twice in her return to Johns Hopkins, but Libby May (four goals) and Emily Sterling (12 saves) stole the show in a 17-6 win for the Terps. Top-ranked North Carolina crushed Notre Dame with Taylor Moreno making a save you simply must see (keep scrolling).
4. On Saturday much of the sports world was focused on Duke-North Carolina for basketball reasons, but the two school got together in men’s lacrosse as well. Duke won this battle behind monster games from Brennan O’Neill (seven goals) and Mike Adler (19 saves). Chapel Fowler was on site in Chapel Hill.
5. Northwestern opened a big weekend in Pennsylvania with a convincing win at Penn State on Friday night and Stony Brook picked up a win that got bigger as the weekend went along.
WHAT WE’RE READING
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Faceoffs and goaltending is the key to many successful men’s lacrosse teams and St. Bonaventure is using that recipe in fine fashion.
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Give and Go with Jacksonville’s Molly Brock, and her adorable friend.
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The Tewaaraton Foundation added 13 men’s players and seven women’s players to its watch lists.
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James Madison has learned to put 60 minutes together during its recent surge.
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After a rough start, Panther City no longer considers itself an NLL expansion franchise and instead has its hopes set higher.
WHAT WE’RE WATCHING
If a picture is worth a thousand words, how many words is a video worth? I present North Carolina goalie Taylor Moreno.
TAYLOR MORENO INSANE
— USA Lacrosse Magazine (@USALacrosseMag) April 2, 2022
The @uncwlax goalie might just find herself on #SCTop10. pic.twitter.com/bil2xeX8Qi
Let’s keep the goalie love going. How about Harvard’s Kyle Mullins saving the Crimson’s 7-6 win over Colgate.
KYLE MULLIN SAVES IT.@HarvardMLax holds on to beat @ColgateMLax 7-6 in the final seconds. pic.twitter.com/WR8UZgbHum
— USA Lacrosse Magazine (@USALacrosseMag) April 2, 2022
And one more: a jaw-dropping 21 saves for Siena’s Chris Yanchoris while allowing just one goal in a 10-1 win over Monmouth.
You know it’s a good day when you makes saves and only allow .
— USA Lacrosse Magazine (@USALacrosseMag) April 2, 2022
Chris Yanchoris was unconscious for @SienaLacrosse. pic.twitter.com/FEARRUASpz
WHAT’S ON TAP
The latest Nike/USA Lacrosse NCAA rankings drop today.