Good morning. Here’s the latest from around the lacrosse world:
1. College lacrosse, the 2017 edition, is over. Maryland swept the NCAA Division I men’s and women’s lacrosse championships, leading to lots of love in and around College Park — especially for the men, who ended their well-documented 42-year national title drought. Our remedy for your post-Memorial Day hangover includes the best of Lacrosse Twitter and the top photos from the games in Foxborough, Mass., and Salem, Va. And for the sake of posterity, here are links to coverage from all six NCAA championship games of 2017.
2. Ludacris, a three-time Grammy Award-winning rapper from Atlanta, will perform during halftime of Game 1 of the National Lacrosse League finals Saturday at Infinite Energy Arena in Duluth, Ga. The host Georgia Swarm and two-time defending NLL champion Saskatchewan Rush will play the first game in a best-of-three series. It will be streamed live on Twitter. “The chance to secure a world-class artist while playing for a championship in front of a national audience does not come around every day, and we're looking to make the most of it,” Swarm co-owner and president Andy Arlotta told the Atlanta Business Journal.
3. The Nike/US Lacrosse high school rankings are winding down. MIAA champion Calvert Hall (Md.) and New England newcomer Franklin (Mass.) headlined the National Top 25 for boys’ and girls’ lacrosse, respectively.
4. The IWLCA released its final polls for Divisions I, II and III women’s lacrosse. NCAA champions Maryland, Adelphi and Gettysburg earned all first-place votes in their respective polls. Unsurprisingly, Cinderella stories Boston College and Navy made the largest leaps since the end of the regular season, ranking No. 2 and No. 6 — up from No. 14 and unranked, respectively — following their run to the final four.