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

1. The three-beat drumbeat is starting to sound in Charlottesville.

After a strong showing in the USA Lacrosse Fall Classic, the Virginia men’s lacrosse team has returned to Charlottesville, where the Cavaliers will host an alumni game and receive their 2021 NCAA championship rings Saturday. This time, they’re not shying away from talk of a third straight national title, evidenced by this feature on faceoff man Petey LaSalla and this report by CBS19 Sports from Wednesday.

2. The Tufts and Suffern (N.Y.) lacrosse communities are still reeling from the death of Jumbos women’s lacrosse player Madie Nicpon.

A close friend told WCVB, Boston’s ABC affiliate, that Nicpon choked during a hot dog eating contest Saturday — part of the “Play for Pink” breast cancer awareness day organized by the school’s student-athletes. Authorities confirmed to The Journal News that’s what happened. Nicpon died Sunday at Massachusetts General Hospital. She was 20.

WHAT WE’RE READING

• Kenny DeJohn’s fall ball check-in with Navy women’s lacrosse and takeaways from the women’s lacrosse action at the Fall Classic.

• Navy quarterback and former Shoreham-Wading River (N.Y.) lacrosse star left the door open for a return to the sport in an article published by PressBox.

• How Lehigh fared at the American Boy Fall Brawl — and the more substantive lesson the Mountain Hawks learned from the event.

• Lacrosse All Stars on why Syracuse, Duke and Maryland consistently churn out the best midfielders.

• Twenty lessons Whitworth women’s lacrosse coach Noelle Brouillard learned from her unnamed mentor.

WHAT WE’RE WATCHING

College fall ball traditions in motion at Cornell and Lynchburg.

Thank you to Coach Howley and the entire Slope Day Programming Board for another outstanding Slope Day! #bigredbeauties #longredline #family #tradition #together #howley #WD>WS #LGR pic.twitter.com/34vuoRNWTT

— Big Red Lacrosse (@CornellLacrosse) October 20, 2021

Lynchburg Men’s Lacrosse:
Monument Terrace…Friday morning of Homecoming Weekend… The tradition resumes!!! pic.twitter.com/Mv42F2wKvC

— Lynchburg M Lacrosse (@LynchburgMLAX) October 20, 2021

Camden Hay going top shelf one-handed and between the legs during Albany’s alumni game. Wow.

The @UAlbanyMLax Alumni Game went just about how you’d expect it to…

(via @justlaxmedia / IG) pic.twitter.com/jLnwnWVU0n

— TLN (@LacrosseNetwork) October 20, 2021

WHAT’S ON TAP

More college lacrosse fall ball contents from our writers. Check out the schedule to see where teams are playing this weekend.

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