Good morning. Here’s the latest from around the lacrosse world:
1. Maryland did not fall for the Tuesday trap game, jumping all over Marist early and prevailing 13-7 behind big games from big guns Connor Kelly and Jared Bernhardt. Kelly had four goals and a career-high four assists. Bernhardt added five and two, respectively. Their 15 points combined were the most for a Terps duo in a single game since Rob Wurzburger and Mark Douglas achieved the feat in 1991 against Ohio State — a span of 28 years. Maryland led 5-1 after the first quarter and 9-2 at halftime, fueled also by a 16-for-22 faceoff performance by Austin Henningsen.
Tuesday’s scores:
No. 2 Maryland 13, Marist 7
No. 16 Army 14, NJIT 5
Colgate 21, Binghamton 7
Georgetown 15, High Point 5
Mercer 10, Cleveland State 9 (OT)
Michigan 9, Bellarmine 7
UMass 13, Sacred Heart 9
And on the women’s side:
No. 6 Boston College 20, Holy Cross 2
Rutgers 15, LIU Brooklyn 4
2. ESPN’s Anish Shroff, Quint Kessenich and Paul Carcaterra renew their three-way bromance in the booth for ESPNU’s coverage of Denver at Duke on Friday. It seems appropriate on Valentine’s Day to share the best of a hilarious Twitter thread as Shroff fielded suggestions of things likely to be heard on the broadcast to fill out a Friday happy hour lacrosse watch party bingo card.
3. Injuries are mounting just two weeks into the college lacrosse season. Villanova announced Tuesday that goalie Matt Barrett, the Virginia transfer who started the opener Feb. 3 at Penn State, is sidelined indefinitely with a knee injury. Barrett, who sustained the injury just six minutes into the game, will be reevaluated by team doctors in a month. Meanwhile, Maryland’s Steven Shollenberger and Binghamton’s Ben Kocis will miss the 2018 season with injuries, according to an Inside Lacrosse report that on a positive note has Furman’s Lou Yovino returning to action this weekend.
4. Tom Schreiber, the second-year forward for the Toronto Rock, is out for 6-8 weeks with a partially torn PCL. Schreiber caught fire during the Rock’s four-game winning streak from Dec. 30-Jan. 27 and currently ranks fifth in the National Lacrosse League in scoring. He will not require surgery, and the team expects him back well in advance of the NLL playoffs. Until then, Dan Lintner will take Schreiber’s place on the right side of the floor.
5. Loyola again is at vanguard of expanding the sport’s digital footprint. The school announced Tuesday that the Charles Street rivalry game Saturday (1 p.m. ET) against visiting Johns Hopkins will be streamed on Facebook Live — the first college lacrosse game to be broadcast on the social media platform. Last year, the Greyhounds produced the first college lacrosse game to stream on Twitter when they hosted Virginia.
6. Cabrini’s Jordan Krug has been named the Warrior/US Lacrosse Division III Men’s Preseason Player of the Year. The former three-sport athlete certainly has come into his own as a lacrosse player. Now he’s setting his sights on championship weekend.
7. The Major League Lacrosse All-Star Game will pit the U.S. national team against MLL’s best players that either did not get invited to try out for Team USA or were let go during the evaluation process — meaning there will be plenty of motivation on both sides of the ball June 28 at Harvard Stadium in Cambridge, Mass.
8. US Lacrosse Nationals represent a strategic platform to effect positive changes in the quality, safety and integrity of tournaments, writes US Lacrosse president and CEO Steve Stenersen. STEPS Lacrosse, one of several tournament owner-operators partnering with US Lacrosse on this endeavor, started as a grad school project and has become a thriving family business.