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

1. NCAA championship weekend starts in 48 hours, and we’re ramping up our coverage — starting with Patrick Stevens’ annual A-to-Z guide to the Division I men’s final four, Merrimack’s second chance at a Division II title in its backyard, the unique perspective of Saint Leo coach Brad Jorgensen and photo galleries from the NCAA Division I men’s and women’s quarterfinals and the Division II women’s championship game.

2. The Nike/US Lacrosse National Top 25 and Regional Top 10s for high school boys’ and girls’ lacrosse came out Tuesday.

Culver Academy (Ind.) remained in the No. 1 spot on the boys’ side despite a loss to Canada’s Hill Academy, which snapped a 40-game winning streak, while Calvert Hall (Md.) and Malvern Prep (Pa.) both advanced in the rankings by claiming MIAA and Inter-Ac titles, respectively.

On the girls’ side, Georgetown Visitation (D.C.), Novato (Calif.) and Bishop Ireton (Va.) solidified their top-10 status with titles.

3. Taylor Cummings has been named the head coach of the McDonogh (Md.) girls’ lacrosse team. The three-time Tewaaraton Award-winning player and U.S. national team member inherits an Eagles team that won 198 consecutive games and spent nine years in the No. 1 spot in the national rankings before getting upset by Notre Dame Prep (Md.) in the IAAM championship game earlier this month at US Lacrosse. “It’s a clean slate,” Cummings, who graduated from McDonogh in 2012 and rejoined the team this year as an assistant coach, said she told the players. “You get to write your own chapter.”

4. US Lacrosse unveiled the Nike uniforms the U.S. men’s national team will don this summer at the FIL World Championship in Israel, with Paul Rabil, Rob Pannell and Tom Schreiber sporting the new threads.

5. Ryan Flanagan, the New York Lizards defenseman and ESPN college lacrosse analyst, said on Twitter that Major League Lacrosse and commissioner Sandy Brown fined him a complete game check for a tweet he posted Saturday night. Flanagan did not say which tweet led to the fine — it’s widely presumed to be this one — but expressed concern over limiting players’ abilities to express themselves and be transparent with fans about their professional lacrosse experiences.

6. Brynn Cartelli, a 15-year-old lacrosse player from Longmeadow, Mass., was crowned the winner of “The Voice” at the end of a two-hour second-part finale Tuesday night. Cartelli was the youngest-ever finalist in the NBC singing competition’s 14-year history.

 

WHAT WE’RE READING

  • Inside Lacrosse revealed the North and South rosters for the Under Armour All-America boys’ and girls’ lacrosse games.

  • Shoot overhand? Overrated. Albany’s Sean Eccles’ submarine shot is just fine, thank you.

  • Great Danes freshman sensation Tehoka Nanticoke is motivated by the memory of his grandparents.

  • Graham Harden, a former national Division I Defenseman of the Year who led North Carolina to the 1991 NCAA championship, continues to battle ALS while remaining on the sidelines at Mariemont (Ohio) High School.

  • An homage to retiring West Genesee’s Mike Messere, arguably the most influential high school coach in the sport’s history.

  • Jacksonville inked third-year men’s lacrosse coach John Galloway to a five-year extension.

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WHAT WE’RE WATCHING

NCAA Lacrosse (@NCAALAX) on Twitter is a must-follow during championship week. On Tuesday alone, the account put out highlights of the top five plays from the men’s quarterfinals, Andy Katz interviews with women’s final four participants Kristen Gaudian (James Madison) and Megan Taylor (Maryland), plus a blast from the past — BJ Prager’s game-winning goal in overtime of the 2001 national championship game to lift Princeton to an emotional win over Syracuse.

It’s not hard to see why everyone — especially aspiring college lacrosse attackmen — loves Albany.

 

WHAT’S ON TAP

  • US Lacrosse will announce the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame Class of 2018.

  • Another round of stories featuring the lucky few playing on the season’s last weekend.

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