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A steady stream of customers rolls through the Medfield Mini Mart at Falls Road and Roland Heights Avenue on a humid Friday afternoon. One elderly man asks the store’s new owners, Nepali husband and wife Chandra and Chunne Bishwokarma, if they’ll have sno-balls for summer.
Baltimore -- With his offensive linemates garnering national attention and highlight goals on social media, Syracuse senior attackman Stephen Rehfuss entered Saturday's contest against Johns Hopkins as a forgotten man. Though Rehfuss started 2020 scoring eight points in the season opener against Colgate, in his last three games he notched just five points.
Duke - in typical Blue Devil fashion - has started to peak heading into the season's postseason push. The Blue Devils have won eight straight, including a big win against Virginia, as they go into this weekend's ACC Tournament. In the March issue of Inside Lacrosse , Geoff Shannon looked into how John Danowski leads the team, with sometimes unusual methods.
November 29, 2004 Geoffrey Shannon [email protected] Michael DeMocker For more than 140 years Bruning's Seafood Restaurant has operated from the same location on the shores of Lake Pontchartrain. For the last 43 of those years, co-owner Jimmy Bruning Urrate (A&S '74) has helped maintain this Louisiana culinary tradition.
Erica Evans is already an All-World talent. Now at Maryland and healed from an ACL tear, she has an NCAA title in her sights. Canisius midfielder Erica Evans could see the finish line. It was the fall of 2017.
"We have a very global game now, and I've recruited overseas at all the stops that I've been at," says Coach Ryan Odom. "Not to say you fill a full roster with players from abroad, but you like to sprinkle that in. You can find some really good players."
Margraff built Johns Hopkins into a top Division III football program on the "Pride & Poise" mantra, winning 221 games and 14 league championships over 29 seasons. Though the Blue Jays produced winning seasons most years, the program hit another level in the last decade, making the NCAA Tournament every season since 2011.
This article appears as part of a commemorative June issue featuring Mike Messere. Order a print subscription to Inside Lacrosse, and your subscription will start with this issue as a special bonus. West Genesse (N.Y.)'s Mike Messere is one of the most successful and influential high school coaches in the sport.
August 4, 2005 Geoffrey Shannon Michael DeMocker It is a crisp Sunday afternoon in early April, and the Green Wave men's baseball team has just finished a three-game sweep over conference foe University of Alabama-Birmingham. The 3,000 fans are heading for the exits while a gaggle of toddlers run the bases, a Sunday tradition at Turchin Stadium.
Like many college freshmen, Cathy Reese struggled to pick a major. "I switched it three times. I had all these ideas," says Reese of her early days at the University of Maryland. "I thought maybe I'll be an engineer, maybe I'll be a lawyer. I had no idea what I wanted to do."
It was a small play, one few people would ever notice watching the game from the stands. For Boston University coach Ryan Polley, though, it was a quintessential moment from his star sophomore attackman Chris Gray. In the middle of a tight February contest against Sacred Heart, Boston U.
John Grant Jr. had to catch an early flight out of Atlanta on a Sunday morning, the day after he became Major League Lacrosse's all-time leading scorer. At the airport, TSA flagged Junior's bag when security couldn't identify an item on the X-ray. The unidentified object?
BALTIMORE - Johns Hopkins coach Dave Pietramala knows his team isn't perfect. It's a gritty crew, though, ready to tussle when necessary. That showed up Saturday in the Blue Jays' 15-13 victory over No. 18 Rutgers during Homecoming Weekend at Homewood Field.
Loyola University clinched the Patriot League regular season title before ever facing off Friday evening, earning the championship after Navy upset Boston University in the first game of a long evening of conference lacrosse. It's the Greyhounds' fourth regular season championship since joining the Patriot League six years ago.
PRINCETON, N.J. - Virginia freshman goalie Patrick Burkinshaw learned Thursday afternoon before practice that he would start in net for the Cavaliers in Saturday's matchup against Princeton men's lacrosse. Though ranked IL's No.
( Courtesy of Patriot League on Twitter ) Army-West Point rode its defense through two tournament games into Sunday's Patriot League championship, so it was no surprise that the D stepped up again in a 11-7 victory over No. 2-seed Lehigh to win the conference crown.
As the 2019 season begins, Inside Lacrosse is previewing several of the top teams in the country. Video interviews were conducted in December at the IMCLA Convention, and some content appears in part in the 2019 Face-Off Yearbook - available for purchase while limited supplies last.
BALTIMORE - Maryland's women's lacrosse dynasty continues. Behind excellent defense and opportunistic scoring, the No. 1 seeded Terrapins beat No. 2 seed Boston College, 12-10, in front of a sold-out crowd of 9,433 at Homewood Field. The win marks the program's 14th championship and first since since 2017.
PHILADELPHIA - Virginia men's lacrosse coach Lars Tiffany tried to speak to the media during a post-game press conference, but it was hard to hear him. Next door, the 2019 men's Division I lacrosse champion Cavaliers were rocking out the locker room, singing homegrown lyrics to 'Rock and Roll Part 2.'
PHILADELPHIA - For the first time in almost a decade, Virginia men's lacrosse is back in the NCAA Title Game. The No. 3 seed Cavaliers clawed back against No. 2 seed Duke, scoring the game's last three goals, including the double-overtime winner, to defeat the Blue Devils 13-12 in the NCAA Semifinals at Lincoln Financial Field.
Virginia solidified its resurgence as a historic lacrosse power Saturday with a dominant 10-4 win over Notre Dame to claim the 2019 ACC championship. The Cavaliers' defense suffocated Notre Dame for the entire game, at one point holding the Irish scoreless for 42 minutes.
PHILADELPHIA - For the first time in more than 30 years, Penn is going to the NCAA Quarterfinals. Senior attackan Simon Mathias explodedly offensively in crucial moments, posting a game-high five points, while junior face-off specialist Kyle Gallagher dominated possession for the No. 4-seed Quakers in a 13-8 win against Army at Franklin Field.
There's a tremendous amount on the line when No. 4 seed Penn and No. 5 seed Yale meet. A spot in the Championship Weekend is the biggest pride, but rivalries, bragging rights and Ivy League dominance are also on the line. Though low on the accomplishment totem pole, a unique record is also at stake.
Days before the start of the 2019 season, Virginia coach Lars Tiffany's father, Bradford, passed away at age 85. A former marine, restaurateur and rancher, Bradford was known throughout Upstate New York, but especially in the LaFayette area where he raised his family, in the heart of Iroquois lacrosse country.
Attackman Jules Heningburg practiced with Redwoods L.C. for the first time last Friday, a day before his eight-point breakout game in Week 4 of the Premier Lacrosse League's inaugural season. During an early drill, Heningburg busted to the sideline for a groundball and grabbed it before it hit the endline.