Dialed In: Your Lacrosse Fix for Monday, Aug. 7

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

1. Tom Schreiber is clutch.

The USA star kept the Archers on top of the Premier Lacrosse League with an overtime tally, giving the Archers a 14-13 victory over Atlas.

.@TomSchreiber26 ENDS THIS THING IN OVERTIME!! pic.twitter.com/VCt49aQes6

— Premier Lacrosse League (@PremierLacrosse) August 5, 2023

Elsewhere in the PLL over the weekend, the Cannons stayed hot, winning their fifth straight game. Colin Kirst made 16 saves and the Cannons scored six points in the fourth quarter for a 12-8 win over last year’s champs, the Waterdogs. The Whipsnakes won their second straight, blowing out Chrome 12-5 and Chaos rallied in the fourth for a 14-12 win over the Redwoods.

2. Apuzzo and Moreno ready for another showdown

Taylor Moreno and Sam Apuzzo went down to the wire for the individual title in last year’s Athletes Unlimited season, and they’re right there again. On Sunday, Moreno’s team rallied for a 9-6 win over Apuzzo’s team as Charlotte North scored five goals, including a two-pointer. Ally Kennedy had the finisher.

Kennedy with an unreal rebound goal#AULax | #BeUnlimited pic.twitter.com/FBkme789yQ

— Athletes Unlimited (@AUProSports) August 6, 2023

Heading into the season’s final weekend at USA Lacrosse headquarters, Moreno leads the league with 1,301 individual points and Apuzzo is close behind with 1,241.

3. A blockbuster in the NLL.

A three-team trade involving 10 players was announced by the National Lacrosse League on Friday, including Trevor Baptiste going from Philadelphia to San Diego.

4. Here come the girls.

Nearly 150 of the nation’s top high school girls’ lacrosse players will be at USA Lacrosse beginning today for a three-day national combine as part of the National Team Development Program.

5. Age is just a number.

An inspiring love of the game from 84-year-old Roger Barth, a former Princeton defenseman who continues to play the game on a regular basis.

6. What happens out West after football departures?

The recent, and not so recent, defections from the Pac-12 driven by TV money for football leave a number of women’s lacrosse programs in limbo. Oregon is now following USC to the Big Ten. Colorado and Arizona State are going to the Big 12, leaving those two programs without a women’s lacrosse home. The remaining Pac-12 programs for 2025 would be Cal, Stanford and affiliate members San Diego State and UC Davis.

WHAT WE’RE READING

• Notre Dame boosted its already strong offense with the addition of Arden Tierney as a grad transfer. Tierney scored 94 points for Richmond last year and finished her career with the Spiders with 239 points.

• Le Moyne women’s lacrosse coach Liz Beville with a touching tribute to her father, longtime men’s lacrosse coach Steve Beville, who retired from Cortland after the 2023 season.

• COVID impacted Eastern Mennonite’s brand new women’s lacrosse program in 2020. Now the Royals are looking to get back into one of the tougher D-III leagues in the country.

• Le Moyne has hired former Colgate assistant Justin Schneidman as an assistant men’s lacrosse coach.

WHAT WE’RE WATCHING

Blaze Riorden’s start as a goalie was born of necessity — he broke his own goalie’s hand with a shot in practice.

From shedding tears in the woods to becoming a @PremierLacrosse All-Star, Blaze Riorden shared his origin story on @PaulRabil's "PLAYERS ROUNDTABLE"

FULL Episode  https://t.co/RQ667c8rIM pic.twitter.com/wvqbZSxAIP

— TLN  (@LacrosseNetwork) August 4, 2023

WHAT’S ON TAP

• We’ll have coverage of the girls’ national combine for the National Team Development Program on USA Lacrosse social channels.

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