Good morning. Here’s the latest from around the lacrosse world:
1. LAUREN GILBERT SCORED HER SEVENTH GOAL ON A FREE POSITION in overtime and No. 5 Northwestern avenged its NCAA semifinal loss to No. 3 Syracuse with a 16-15 victory in a top-five thriller Tuesday in Evanston, Illinois.
2. CORNELL AND HOBART RESUMED THE OLDEST RIVALRY IN COLLEGE LACROSSE after a two-year hiatus Tuesday. The 13th-ranked Big Red rode separate five- and six-goal runs to a 15-12 victory over the 18th-ranked Statesmen at Schoellkopf Field.
3. WORLD LACROSSE SUSPENDED RUSSIA, becoming the latest international sports organization to sanction the country’s teams and athletes due to its unprovoked aggression in Ukraine.
4. THE ATLANTIC 10 IS SET TO ADD MEN’S LACROSSE, with an announcement expected as early as today, USA Lacrosse Magazine’s Jeremy Fallis tweeted Tuesday. The move would realign A-10 schools Richmond, Saint Joseph’s, St. Bonaventure and UMass with at least two affiliate members. Hobart, Fairfield and High Point are targets, Fallis reported last month.
5. DREW ADAMS IS RETIRING AFTER A DECORATED 14-YEAR PRO CAREER, the Archers goalie and Premier Lacrosse League announced on social media Tuesday. A four-time All-Pro and the all-time leader with 1,966 career saves, Adams won a Major League Lacrosse title with the New York Lizards in 2015. He also played for the 2014 U.S. men’s national team.
WHAT WE’RE READING
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About player-of-the-week performances by Penn State’s Aleric Fyock and Maryland’s Aurora Cordingley.
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Game Ready tips from U.S. team duo Marie McCool and Emily Parros on two-way middie prep and 2020 PLL Defensive Player of the Year Matt Dunn on standing at tryouts.
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Lacrosse Reference’s Zach Capozzi identified 10 players — five men and five women — who have improved drastically by the numbers from 2021 to 2022 and who are poised to become household names.
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“The Rise of Jacksonville Lacrosse,” a post by Lacrosse All Stars.
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Inside Lacrosse’s Amari Pollard synthesized “The Black Experience in Women’s Lacrosse,” a panel with Ashley Holdridge, Tina Sloan Green, Alison Williams Bruno, Jessy Morgan, Zhané Ruffin and Kayla Wood.
WHAT WE’RE WATCHING
Emily Hawryschuk is back — like all the way back. After missing all but one game last season due to a torn ACL, the Syracuse star enjoyed her best game so far of 2022, scoring six goals and adding three assists in the Orange’s 16-15 overtime loss at Northwestern. The performance included this free-position missile.
Blink and you miss this
— USA Lacrosse Magazine (@USALacrosseMag) March 1, 2022
Emily Hawryschuk with a missile from the 8-meter and @CuseWLAX is on in the second half pic.twitter.com/v4mnEsLvTF
Apparently you don’t need to see the goal to score on it. Northwestern’s Erin Coykendall and High Point’s Brayden Mayea proved so with some sorcery Tuesday.
OK, everybody — what are we calling this effort by Erin Coykendall?@NULax up 8-5 over Syracuse at the half pic.twitter.com/MnvOGm4XcX
— USA Lacrosse Magazine (@USALacrosseMag) March 1, 2022
SPIN-O-RAMA!
— USA Lacrosse Magazine (@USALacrosseMag) March 2, 2022
Brayden Mayea tryna get on #SCTop10 again and @HPUMensLax tryna take down another titan on a Tuesday leading Duke 9-8 at halftime. pic.twitter.com/0UkBoHbz58
WHAT’S ON TAP
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Twenty-three NCAA Division I women’s lacrosse games on the slate Wednesday, including a matinee between High Point and No. 8 Michigan at USA Lacrosse in Sparks, Maryland, and a twilight showdown in Philly with No. 9 Loyola visiting Penn.
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On the men’s side, No. 14 Syracuse hosts No. 16 Army, one of three Division I games on the day.