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Women s DI Roundup: Jacksonville s Historic Win, OT Thrillers & Char Char North s Big ACC Outing
Saturday March 13th, 2021 6:45pm
(Photo Courtesy: Boston College Athletics)
We re two weeks into March and it feels like we are truly into the full swing of things this lacrosse season. This weekend has been jam packed with great matchups, tight thrillers, and double headers and it’s only Saturday!
While it’s easy to focus your game watching on popular conferences like the ACC and the Big Ten, there were some really special Saturday matchups that should not go unnoticed. If you’re not watching lacrosse on every screen in the house, you are missing out on some awesome lacrosse. Here are my Saturday takeaways:
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Things are different this year. The COVID-19 pandemic has forced major changes in lacrosse and will continue to do so as we near the start of a new season.
Still, each program has the same question in mind: How do we prepare our players to compete at their best while staying safe and healthy?
The answer is simple: Teams that use and leverage technology will communicate more efficiently, train more effectively and set themselves up for greater success.
The matchup
If this game isn’t the ultimate dream matchup between NLL champions, it’s got to be darn close. From the East, we have a Rochester team that averaged 15 goals a game. And from the West, we have a Saskatchewan team that barely allowed 10 per game. That, folks, is a delicious scenario to consider with a high-powered offense taking on one of the stingiest defensive units in league history.
Consider Rochester. On the left you have John Grant Jr. and Shawn Williams. On the right, you have Mike Accursi, Scott Evans and Shawn Evans. Four of those five scored at least 30 goals in 2007 and Accursi was close to making it all five with 26. We ve all heard the pick your poison phrase and having to make defensive decisions against a unit like that defines it to a T. It s that kind of firepower that helped the Knighthawks win their final 11 games of the regular season by an average of 4 goals.
That is not a rhetorical question.
IL Indoor is opening it up to you to vote in a tournament-style bracket to decide which of the team that have captured the NLL championship in the 21st century would win if they were all competing for the title of grand champion.
We have seeded the 20 winners. To do so, we looked at won/loss records, goals for and against differential, where they finished in their division and overall in the NLL, considered all the variables and ranked them from 1 to 20.
Who would win in a fight between . er . a game between the @TorontoRockLax & the @TorontoRockLax?