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Good morning. Here’s the latest from around the lacrosse world:

1. The NCAA lacrosse season got off to an early start with Mercer downing Bellarmine 9-4 in the lone Division I men’s game of the weekend. The Bears beat Bellarmine for the first time since 2015.

2. A busy weekend in the National Lacrosse League was highlighted by Buffalo scoring the final four goals of the game, including Chris Cloutier’s smooth gamewinner, to rally past New York 18-17. The Bandits improved to 5-0 for the season.

3. Last week we wrapped up Top 20 team-by-team previews, culminating with a look at the reigning NCAA champions and our No. 1 teams for 2022 – the Boston College women and the Virginia men.

4. Former Merrimack and Virginia star Charlie Bertrand, who had a pair of assists in Rochester’s 12-8 loss to Toronto this weekend, has made a surprisingly quick transition to the box game despite limited experience.

WHAT WE’RE READING

WHAT WE’RE WATCHING

Taylor Cummings coming at you with the double team just doesn’t seem fair.

Would you want to be the guy sliding to Brennan O’Neill in this situation? Me neither.

One of six on the night for Captain America – Tom Schreiber – in Toronto’s win on Saturday.

WHAT’S ON TAP

Jack Goods will have his weekly NLL Notebook later today, looking back at seven games from the weekend.

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