Good morning. Here’s the latest from around the lacrosse world:
1. The Premier Lacrosse League announced the finalists for the awards from its recently completed championship series. One of the more interesting decisions will come at goalie where Blaze Riorden led the event in saves and save percentage, but Kyle Bernlohr led his team to a second straight championship.
The Finalists for Goalie of the Championship Series. @BRiorden10 @kbernlohr35 pic.twitter.com/WzhZrKVFZs
— Premier Lacrosse League (@PremierLacrosse) August 12, 2020
2. The PLL also announced its television ratings for the season, which included a 23 percent increase in viewership for the championship game (340,000 total viewers) and a 33 percent increase over last year’s schedule of games on NBC and NBC Sports Network.
3. Sean Quirk, who led the Boston Cannons to the Major League Lacrosse championship, was named the league’s Coach of the Year.
Sean Quirk has been named the @MLL_Lacrosse Coach of the Year.https://t.co/1WnWSjWXvf
— US Lacrosse Magazine (@USLacrosseMag) August 12, 2020
4. Cabrini women’s lacrosse coach Jackie Neary praises her mentors in the latest IWCLA “Behind the Whistle” blog.
WHAT WE’RE READING
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U19 gold medalist Brianne Gross is eager for her junior year at Vanderbilt to begin.
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Summer Aldred, a club player for Oakland University’s WCLA program, is helping to bring lacrosse to kids in Detroit.
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Due to COVID-19 forcing season schedule changes, boys' and girls' high school lacrosse in North Carolina has been slated to run from January through mid-March, overlapping with several other sports including basketball, football and soccer.
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Meanwhile, the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference has voted to move ahead on schedule with its modified plan for the high school sports season.
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Frank Brown dreamed of playing for the NLL’s Buffalo Bandits. That dream is ready to become a reality.
WHAT WE’RE WATCHING
Zed Williams: Win a title, win the MVP and share the moment with your family.
The first thing Zed Williams did after being named MVP?
— Whipsnakes Lacrosse Club (@PLLWhipsnakes) August 12, 2020
FaceTime his family pic.twitter.com/QKZvHRLbDN
WHAT’S ON TAP
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Major League Lacrosse will announce its 2020 Rookie of the Year this morning.
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Zed Williams is the latest guest on 'Overtime' with Paul Carcaterra.