Lacrosse

[Gray Fox]

Looks like the Cardinals head out west again for spring break!! They travel to California right after their opening game to take on Whittier-3/24, Occidental-3/25 and Pomona Pitzer-3/27.

Occidental has undefeated so far, including a win over UCLA.

  http://www.oxyathletics.com/sports/wlax/2013-14/schedule

[Vandy74]

Looks like the Cardinals head out west again for spring break!! They travel to California right after their opening game to take on Whittier-3/24, Occidental-3/25 and Pomona Pitzer-3/27.

Occidental has undefeated so far, including a win over UCLA.

  http://www.oxyathletics.com/sports/wlax/2013-14/schedule

Beating UCLA in any sports certainly looks good on the resumé, but the Bruins only play on the club level.  On their schedule they call it a scrimmage and don't give the score. 20-4, was it.  Occidental's 5 wins certainly look impressive especially including victories over Redlands and Pomona-Pitzer.  I also notice they have a sophomore transfer from NESCAC school Wesleyan on the roster.  Their non-conference schedule coming up is interesting.  Franklin & Marshall also plays Middlebury this season.  North Central, you probably realize is the school NCF is affiliated with, her son being a recent graduate.  Colorado College has made some serious noise in the NCAAs within the last decade although they haven't maintained the program at that high level the last 4-5 years.  Good luck to Occidental this season.  They seem to mean business.

[NCF]

Looks like the Cardinals head out west again for spring break!! They travel to California right after their opening game to take on Whittier-3/24, Occidental-3/25 and Pomona Pitzer-3/27.

Occidental has undefeated so far, including a win over UCLA.

  http://www.oxyathletics.com/sports/wlax/2013-14/schedule

Beating UCLA in any sports certainly looks good on the resumé, but the Bruins only play on the club level.  On their schedule they call it a scrimmage and don't give the score. 20-4, was it.  Occidental's 5 wins certainly look impressive especially including victories over Redlands and Pomona-Pitzer.  I also notice they have a sophomore transfer from NESCAC school Wesleyan on the roster.  Their non-conference schedule coming up is interesting.  Franklin & Marshall also plays Middlebury this season.  North Central, you probably realize is the school NCF is affiliated with, her son being a recent graduate.  Colorado College has made some serious noise in the NCAAs within the last decade although they haven't maintained the program at that high level the last 4-5 years.  Good luck to Occidental this season.  They seem to mean business.

Not to mention the fact that Occidental had their first game on January 25th. By the time they play NC, they will have had two months of competition under their belts!!

[Vandy74]

More of the same at Middlebury today.  The women won at Conn. Coll. 12-4 while the men lost to the same school at home 6-3.  That's a second conference loss for the men who were ranked 18th preseason.  Probably not anymore though.  They did beat Plattsburgh an a midweek contest.  I still don't know why lacrosse has begun the season so early.  The usual starting date is still at least a week away.  You could have played hockey on an outdoor pond here today.

[Vandy74]

Looks like the Cardinals head out west again for spring break!! They travel to California right after their opening game to take on Whittier-3/24, Occidental-3/25 and Pomona Pitzer-3/27.

Occidental has undefeated so far, including a win over UCLA.

  http://www.oxyathletics.com/sports/wlax/2013-14/schedule

An interesting inter-sectional match between Occidental and St. Joseph's (ME) on Tuesday.  St. Joe lost to Whittier today 7-6, a team that Occidental handled rather easily earlier this season.  Gray Fox, I hope it is your intention to continue posting on the CSIAC even if it's primarily about the team you root for.

[Gray Fox]

An interesting inter-sectional match between Occidental and St. Joseph's (ME) on Tuesday.  St. Joe lost to Whittier today 7-6, a team that Occidental handled rather easily earlier this season.  Gray Fox, I hope it is your intention to continue posting on the CSIAC even if it's primarily about the team you root for.

I will try from time to time.  Not really a sport I know anything about.  Some posters probably feel I am clueless on other sports as well.  I suspect that having lacrosse is good for overall recruiting.  I know in Dallas the good private high schools all have lacrosse.

[Vandy74]

An interesting inter-sectional match between Occidental and St. Joseph's (ME) on Tuesday.  St. Joe lost to Whittier today 7-6, a team that Occidental handled rather easily earlier this season.  Gray Fox, I hope it is your intention to continue posting on the CSIAC even if it's primarily about the team you root for.

I will try from time to time.  Not really a sport I know anything about.  Some posters probably feel I am clueless on other sports as well.  I suspect that having lacrosse is good for overall recruiting.  I know in Dallas the good private high schools all have lacrosse.

Anything you care to post here will be welcome.  Not very many posters on this board.  It's good to hear that the game is drawing some interest in Texas even if only at the private school level.  I was required to learn something about the game since my sister-in-law is the longtime women's coach here at Middlebury.  I assume you have some rooting interest in Occidental since you mentioned their early season success.  They recently went 1-1 against St. Joseph's (ME) and Franklin & Marshall I see.  A solid win over the Maine school and a 19-5 loss to F&M, one of the better D3 programs.  The game with North Central on the 25th should be a good one.   

[NCF]

An interesting inter-sectional match between Occidental and St. Joseph's (ME) on Tuesday.  St. Joe lost to Whittier today 7-6, a team that Occidental handled rather easily earlier this season.  Gray Fox, I hope it is your intention to continue posting on the CSIAC even if it's primarily about the team you root for.

I will try from time to time.  Not really a sport I know anything about.  Some posters probably feel I am clueless on other sports as well.  I suspect that having lacrosse is good for overall recruiting.  I know in Dallas the good private high schools all have lacrosse.

That's for sure-just the three of us and a few wayward strays from time to time. Don't worry, as the sport grows, so will the participants on the board.

Anything you care to post here will be welcome.  Not very many posters on this board.  It's good to hear that the game is drawing some interest in Texas even if only at the private school level.  I was required to learn something about the game since my sister-in-law is the longtime women's coach here at Middlebury.  I assume you have some rooting interest in Occidental since you mentioned their early season success.  They recently went 1-1 against St. Joseph's (ME) and Franklin & Marshall I see.  A solid win over the Maine school and a 19-5 loss to F&M, one of the better D3 programs.  The game with North Central on the 25th should be a good one.

[FCGrizzliesGrad]

An interesting inter-sectional match between Occidental and St. Joseph's (ME) on Tuesday.  St. Joe lost to Whittier today 7-6, a team that Occidental handled rather easily earlier this season.  Gray Fox, I hope it is your intention to continue posting on the CSIAC even if it's primarily about the team you root for.

I will try from time to time.  Not really a sport I know anything about.  Some posters probably feel I am clueless on other sports as well.  I suspect that having lacrosse is good for overall recruiting.  I know in Dallas the good private high schools all have lacrosse.

Anything you care to post here will be welcome.  Not very many posters on this board.  It's good to hear that the game is drawing some interest in Texas even if only at the private school level.  I was required to learn something about the game since my sister-in-law is the longtime women's coach here at Middlebury.  I assume you have some rooting interest in Occidental since you mentioned their early season success.  They recently went 1-1 against St. Joseph's (ME) and Franklin & Marshall I see.  A solid win over the Maine school and a 19-5 loss to F&M, one of the better D3 programs.  The game with North Central on the 25th should be a good one.

That's for sure-just the three of us and a few wayward strays from time to time. Don't worry, as the sport grows, so will the participants on the board.

Perhaps if the thread moved to the board with all the other orphan sports. I've always thought it was a little awkward that the lacrosse thread was up here on it's own

[Gray Fox]

Perhaps if the thread moved to the board with all the other orphan sports. I've always thought it was a little awkward that the lacrosse thread was up here on it's own

Maybe Pat is thinking of it since it is under "sports we should add boards for".

[Vandy74]

Perhaps if the thread moved to the board with all the other orphan sports. I've always thought it was a little awkward that the lacrosse thread was up here on it's own

Maybe Pat is thinking of it since it is under "sports we should add boards for".

That might be a solution for now.  Although lacrosse is the fastest growing collegiate sport it is only established in the northeast and mid-Atlantic regions.  In time a more nationwide fan base will develop.  Two other problems with the single board format is that that lacrosse has some significantly different rules for men and women.  It is really two different games in some ways and few are huge fans of both.  Also the established sports have conference based boards.  Here I'm NESCAC, NCF is MWLC/CCIW and Gray Fox is CSIAC.  There is no basis for the kind of friendly trash talk between us that keeps the other conference based boards active and entertaining until the post season.  The MWLC begins it's season next weekend.  Augustana, Carthage and North Central return as the top three teams.  They won and lost to each other by single goals when they played.  Next season they will leave the MWLC to form a very competitive nucleus for the CCIW as it becomes a playing conference in the sport.  The NCAC had a similarly close race between four teams to represent the league in post season play.  It would seem that some very good rivalries are being established.  Maybe it will generate some posting here by the fans when play begins.

 

[NCF]

Perhaps if the thread moved to the board with all the other orphan sports. I've always thought it was a little awkward that the lacrosse thread was up here on it's own

Maybe Pat is thinking of it since it is under "sports we should add boards for".

That might be a solution for now.  Although lacrosse is the fastest growing collegiate sport it is only established in the northeast and mid-Atlantic regions.  In time a more nationwide fan base will develop.  Two other problems with the single board format is that that lacrosse has some significantly different rules for men and women.  It is really two different games in some ways and few are huge fans of both.  Also the established sports have conference based boards.  Here I'm NESCAC, NCF is MWLC/CCIW and Gray Fox is CSIAC.  There is no basis for the kind of friendly trash talk between us that keeps the other conference based boards active and entertaining until the post season.  The MWLC begins it's season next weekend.  Augustana, Carthage and North Central return as the top three teams.  They won and lost to each other by single goals when they played.  Next season they will leave the MWLC to form a very competitive nucleus for the CCIW as it becomes a playing conference in the sport.  The NCAC had a similarly close race between four teams to represent the league in post season play.  It would seem that some very good rivalries are being established.  Maybe it will generate some posting here by the fans when play begins.

Not to mention, that if you don't like football or basketball, for example, you may not ever take a look at the boards in the first place.

[madzillagd]

Well apparently I'm now following lacrosse.  Found out through a Facebook picture post that my niece is playing lacrosse for Linfield which was a surprise.  I knew she was my niece, I knew she is a frosh at Linfield, the playing lacrosse part was the surprise.    She did not play at all in high school but her younger brother (now a sr in hs) has been playing the last 3 years so maybe they figured they found somebody who at least knows how the game is played so she got recruited to join the team.  They haven't won a game in the last 2 years so there's only one way to go.

[NCF]

It has arrived!!!

[Vandy74]

Well apparently I'm now following lacrosse.  Found out through a Facebook picture post that my niece is playing lacrosse for Linfield which was a surprise.  I knew she was my niece, I knew she is a frosh at Linfield, the playing lacrosse part was the surprise.    She did not play at all in high school but her younger brother (now a sr in hs) has been playing the last 3 years so maybe they figured they found somebody who at least knows how the game is played so she got recruited to join the team.  They haven't won a game in the last 2 years so there's only one way to go.

Welcome to the club Madzillagd.   Lacrosse is a great game.  My sister-in-law is the longtime women's coach at Middlebury so I sort of had to develop an interest to keep peace in the family.  I worked the time clock at her home games for a few years.  A niece I helped to raise for 8 years played in high school and is headed to Amherst in the fall but I don't think she is good enough to play at that level.  The men's game is more physical than the women's game.  I prefer watching the women play.  Much more athleticism and finesse is required.  With the exception of swimmers I expect the women LAX are the best conditioned athletes on campus.  Middlebury hosts Bowdoin in about an hour.  Gotta go!