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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.

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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.

WHAT WE’RE READING

  • A Louisville Courier-Journal writer took umbrage to a snarky tweet by the Michigan men’s lacrosse team managers before Tuesday’s Michigan-Bellarmine game and fired back with this missive.

  • Albany and Syracuse play every season, but it’s always at the Carrier Dome and the Orange are always favored. The Albany Times Union reports that the Danes could soon get their turn hosting in the series, while this Daily Gazette preview positions Albany as the rare favorite. Coach Scott Marr is not buying it.

  • Family, lacrosse and mom’s chicken parm in this month’s “Give & Go” interview with Ohio State defenseman and team captain Erik Evans.

  • Are college athletes forced to take on majors they don’t want to accommodate their sports? The Daily Orange, Syracuse’s student newspaper, reports on a national trend that appears to include the school’s teams, including men’s and women’s lacrosse.

WHAT WE’RE WATCHING

The NCAA’s top plays of the week might just stand as the top plays of the year. These highlights are that good.

Then again, the stick wizards of the National Lacrosse League make such plays look commonplace.

Curling, anyone? Check out Salisbury’s sideline celebration.

A look inside Loyola’s new air dome.

WHAT’S ON TAP

  • James Madison, coming off of a huge upset of North Carolina in its opener, hosts Virginia Tech in another barometer game against an ACC team. The Dukes are ranked No. 8 in the latest Nike/US Lacrosse Division I Women’s Top 20. The Hokies were ranked in the preseason, but dropped out after a loss to USC in their first game. Opening draw is 4 p.m. ET. Other women’s games of note Tuesday include Fairfield at UConn (3 p.m.), Drexel at Johns Hopkins (4 p.m.)

  • Towson also surged in this week’s rankings thanks to a season-opening upset of Penn State. Is this the start of a trend in the CAA? Justin Feil puts these developments into context.

  • NLL teams have unique ways of celebrating exceptional performances. Neil Stevens goes around the league to learn more about zany post-game MVP awards.

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