Dialed In: Your Lacrosse Fix for Wednesday, April 26

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

1. Bryant beat Brown for Rhode Island bragging rights.

The host Bulldogs defeated the Bears 17-12 on Tuesday to clinch the Ocean State Cup and improve to 10-3 under first-year coach Brad Ross.

Your 2023 Ocean State Cup Champions! pic.twitter.com/s4GyqqtZqn

— Bryant Men’s Lacrosse (@Bryant_MLax) April 26, 2023

Bryant led by as many as six, but Brown started the fourth quarter with four unanswered goals to pull within one. That’s when brothers Timmy and Johnny Hackett brought out some backyard lacrosse, with Timmy feeding Johnny and then Johnny returning the favor for a pair of goals to give the Bulldogs breathing room.

Huge goal for Hackett! From Hackett! pic.twitter.com/kggwNnidXC

— Bryant Men’s Lacrosse (@Bryant_MLax) April 26, 2023

This time Johnny finds Timmy!

Bryant leads, 14-11 pic.twitter.com/sazW7ariOX

— Bryant Men’s Lacrosse (@Bryant_MLax) April 26, 2023

2. Xander Dickson aka The Slim Reaper scored his 50th goal of the season in style and Petey LaSalla set the NCAA record for career faceoffs taken as No. 3 Virginia defeated Lafayette 20-11 in a nonconference game Tuesday.

Xander Dickson just became UVA's sixth-ever 50-goal scorer in a single season! Congratulations to the Slim Reaper!#GoHoos pic.twitter.com/2VQWt3G7lZ

— Virginia Men's Lacrosse (@UVAMensLax) April 25, 2023

#GoHoos | @lasalla22 pic.twitter.com/nn1JpfK879

— Virginia Men's Lacrosse (@UVAMensLax) April 26, 2023

Dickson finished with four goals and four assists in a convincing road win for the Cavaliers (10-3).

3. Le Moyne fended off Adelphi 10-9 on Tuesday to claim the Northeast-10 regular season title and top seed in the upcoming conference tournament. Both teams are ranked in the top five of the Nike/USA Lacrosse Division II Men’s Top 20.

The host Panthers jumped out to a five-goal lead, but the top-ranked Dolphins assembled a 9-1 run spanning more than 35 minutes. Adelphi rallied late and missed several opportunities to tie the game in the last five minutes.

Sam Lambert and Joey Pezzimenti each scored three goals for Le Moyne, which finished the regular season with a perfect 14-0 record and will face either Pace or Saint Anselm in the NE-10 semifinals next Wednesday.

4.  Lincoln Memorial upset Limestone in the South Atlantic Conference quarterfinals Tuesday. Josie Tinnerello scored nine goals and Ali Van Der Ziel had eight assists in an 18-15 win for the Railsplitters. They had never previously defeated the Saints, who were the third seed in the conference tournament and ranked 17th in the Nike/USA Lacrosse Division II Women’s Top 20.

5. A drama-free Selection Sunday? The picture won’t be completely sorted out in the next few days. But it’s possible things look unusually clear heading into the final week of the NCAA men’s lacrosse season, according to Patrick Stevens.

6. Syracuse remains the top seed, Hopkins leaps into the field (perhaps permanently) and Richmond slides back into the picture, per Jeremy Fallis’ latest NCAA women’s lacrosse tournament projection.

7. Archbishop Stepinac (N.Y.) paces four new teams in the Nike/USA Lacrosse High School Boys’ National Top 25 at No. 17 on the strength of an eight-game winning streak most recently including a win over New Canaan (Conn.).
National Top 25 | Regional Top 10s

8. Maryvale (Md.) just keeps winning and climbing the Nike/USA Lacrosse High School Girls’ National Top 25. The Lions’ latest feat: a win over Glenelg Country to rise to No. 6.
National Top 25 | Regional Top 10s

9. Jenny Levy and Bill Tierney will be honored at the USA Lacrosse Foundation Gala in June, USA Lacrosse announced Tuesday.

WHAT WE’RE READING

• “Diane’s Story,” our March 2003 cover story on the late Diane Geppi-Aikens, republished in recognition of the 25th anniversary of USA Lacrosse.

• An anti-doping rule violation in lacrosse. The International Testing Agency, leading an independent anti-doping program for World Lacrosse, found the prohibited substance prohibited substance Canrenone in a sample provided by Canada’s Maddy Baxter at The World Games 2022 in Birmingham, Alabama. Baxter, who plays for Syracuse and has 20 goals this season, accepted a six-month ban from international play.

• “From Breaking Records to Making Them,” a cool story from the Marquette Wire about Cole Emmanuel, who is conducting groundbreaking research about faceoffs and also fronts a band that’s signed to a record label.

• Inside NU compared this Northwestern team to previous ones of the Wildcats dynasty, now that they are ranked No. 1 for the first time since 2013.

WHAT WE’RE WATCHING

St. Xavier (Ohio) attackman Khalif Hocker buries a 23-yard jump shot like it’s no big deal.

I mean… wow.

End of the 1st Quarter

Bombers 6
Moeller 4#GoBombers | #AMDG pic.twitter.com/jhSimg77TV

— St. X Lacrosse (@StXstix) April 25, 2023

WHAT’S ON TAP

• The ACC women’s lacrosse tournament continues with quarterfinals today: Duke at Boston College (11 a.m. EST), Virginia at Notre Dame (1:30 p.m. EST), Virginia Tech at Syracuse (4 p.m. EST) and Clemson at North Carolina (6:30 p.m. EST). All four games will be televised nationally by ACC Network.

• Just one Division I men’s game on the slate, as No. 12 Penn visits Albany. The Great Danes are playing their third game in five days, sandwiching a key America East win over Merrimack with non-conference tilts against Ivy Leaguers and NCAA tournament hopefuls Yale and Penn.

• From the vault, our March 2015 magazine feature story on Matt Brown, whom Denver officially tabbed as retiring Hall of Famer Bill Tierney’s successor last week.

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