Sun May 16 2021 | Matt DaSilva | College
PHOTO BY JACK DEMPSEY
Loyola goalie Sam Shafer makes a save on Denver s Alex Simmons with five seconds left to preserve the Greyhounds 14-13 NCAA tournament first-round win Sunday at Peter Barton Lacrosse Stadium.
Sam Shafer is 6-foot-3, 235 pounds. Loyola’s senior goalie needed all his big body frame to make the last-second save that will go down as one of the most clutch plays in recent NCAA men’s lacrosse tournament memory.
Shafer denied Denver’s Alex Simmons on the doorstep before time expired to preserve Loyola’s 14-13 win Sunday over the seventh-seeded Pioneers, exasperating the sold-out 40-percent capacity crowd at Peter Barton Lacrosse Stadium and sending the Greyhounds to the NCAA quarterfinals. It was Shafer’s 16th save of the game.
There are a lot of similarities between Jackson Morrill and his father, Mike.
Both grew up in Baltimore to US Lacrosse Hall-of-Fame fathers. Both are and were stellar attackmen. Both played with a high IQ to outsmart opponents and earn big roles. But one similarity came to fruition only this past season when Jackson made the decision to spend his fifth year of eligibility at Denver to play for coach Bill Tierney, who coached Mike as an assistant coach at Johns Hopkins in the 1980s.
Tierney and Mike won the 1985 and 1987 national titles with those dominant Blue Jays teams. Now, Jackson is going into the first round of the 2021 NCAA Tournament looking for his second ring. For that chase to be under the same coach who helped his dad get two of his own isn’t lost on just how incredible that would be.
Wednesday April 28th, 2021 8:45am
(Photo by Nat LeDonne/Duke Athletics)
A draft class of 32 of the most accomplished players of their respective programs joined the PLL ranks on Monday night. From Tae Kwon Do black belts to water polo goalies, many of them have other talents off the field too.
From IL feature stories to the gold mine that is team player bios, here is one fact about each 2021 PLL College Draft selection.
1. Jeff Teat, Atlas: IL’s first-ever No. 1 recruit (in the class of 2016) from Canada became just the third player ever to be selected first in both outdoor and indoor professional drafts, joining Kevin Crowley in 2011 and Lyle Thompson in 2015.
PLL Draft Recap: Possibly the Deepest Draft in Pro Lacrosse History
Tue Apr 27 2021 | Nelson Rice | Pro
If for some reason you needed more proof of the absurd level of talent on the field every weekend this spring, look no further than last night’s Premier Lacrosse League College Draft.
The advent of the NCAA’s blanket eligibility waiver last spring in light of the COVID-19 pandemic created one of the most exciting college lacrosse seasons in recent memory. It also made this year’s draft class one of the deepest in pro lacrosse history maybe even the deepest.
In a sign of the times, all 32 players selected were either fifth-year seniors or graduate students.
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