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

1. Best of Lacrosse (#BestOfLax), recognizing the sport’s top individuals and performances of 2017, concludes today on Twitter. On Thursday, we unveiled the four finalists for Best Women’s Breakthrough: Boston College’s Sam Apuzzo, Towson’s Olivia Conti, Navy’s Kelly Larkin and Team USA’s Michelle Tumolo. Results will be published in the December edition of US Lacrosse Magazine.

2. The November edition hit US Lacrosse members’ mailboxes Thursday. The cover story delves into the lives of the Ohio City kids who will benefit from additional opportunities through the Lacrosse Communities Project, as a new sport captures the imagination of children in one of Cleveland’s oldest and most diverse neighborhoods.

3. Brine Lacrosse appears poised to unveil a women’s version of the Warrior Lacrosse Evo Warp, a men’s stick that has grabbed the attention of lacrosse gear heads with its pre-strung, Kevlar-bonded pockets made of water-resistant polypropylene. New Balance owns both brands. Speculation about a “women’s Warp” arose after US Lacrosse simplified stick stringing specifications to allow non-traditional pockets. Brine tweeted a photo Thursday of Team USA’s Kelly Rabil with an apparent prototype.

A previous exchange Wednesday between Stony Brook coach Joe Spallina, a known progressive type, and Lax Sports Network’s Chris Marshall indicated that several Seawolves are ready to embrace the mesh revolution.

WHAT WE’RE READING

  • The IWLCA named Elizabethtown women’s lacrosse coach Danielle Taylor as the 2017 winner of the Kristina Quigley Scholarship. The award honors former Seton Hill coach Kristina Quigley, who was tragically killed in a bus accident in 2013 while traveling with her team. The bus driver and Quigley’s unborn son also did not survive.

  • The Lehigh men’s lacrosse team quadrupled its fundraising goal this fall in support of the Headstrong Foundation’s “Go Lime” campaign. The $13,339 total was the most money raised by any team or group of teams in the entire campaign.

  • This NLL season will be historic, writes Lacrosse All Stars’ Ryan Conwell.

  • US Lacrosse remembers.

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WHAT WE’RE WATCHING

Georgia Swarm captain Jordan MacIntosh hammered in the Golden Spike at Mercedes-Benz Stadium, where Atlanta United hosted Columbus in a Major League Soccer game Thursday. The tradition honors Atlanta’s history as a railroad city.

Basecrosse, anyone?

Cody Jamieson can walk and do stick tricks at the same time — and the kids love it.

What John Grant Jr. is watching.

WHAT’S ON TAP

  • The final Best of Lacrosse series concludes with finalists for Best Moment of 2017 unveiled on Twitter @USLacrosseMag.

  • Ben DeLuca inherited a potential sleeping giant at Delaware. After how things ended at Cornell in 2013, he’s grateful for a second chance as a Division I head coach. Jonathan Sigal has the story.

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