Sat May 15 2021 | Matt DaSilva | College
PHOTO BY JAMIE SCHWABEROW/CLARKSON CREATIVE
Come for the Pat Kavanagh spectacle. Stay for the Wheaton Jackoboice special.
Sixth-seeded Notre Dame took its first punch of the postseason, surviving a spirited second-half rally by CAA champion Drexel to win 10-8 in an NCAA tournament first-round game Saturday at Denver’s Peter Barton Lacrosse Stadium.
The Fighting Irish (8-3) are hosting the quarterfinals next Sunday in South Bend, Ind., and advanced past the first round for the 10th time in the last 11 seasons. They’ll play the winner of Sunday’s game between Vermont and third-seeded Maryland.
Notre Dame survived. And advanced.
For Notre Dame, the No. 6 seed sent to Denver in the first round hosting the Quarterfinals at Arlotta Stadium, it was Wheaton Jackoboice who scored the goal-ahead goal with 1:19 remaining, and Morrison Mirer iced it late in a 10-8 win over Drexel on Saturday.
Jackoboice led Irish scorers with three goals, Mirer and Pat Kavanagh both scored twice, and Will Yorke added a goal and an assist. The Dragons’ Reid Bowering led all scorers with four goals, while Jack Mulcahy and Sean Donnelly both had a goal and an assist.
The Irish advance to play the winner of Sunday’s matchup between No. 3-seed Maryland vs. Vermont in College Park, Md. Drexel, the CAA champions, end their season 10-3.
PHOTO BY KEVIN P. TUCKER
The son of West African immigrants, Drexel fifth-year faceoff specialist Jimmeh Koita starred at Cardinal Hayes in the Bronx after converting to the position and training with Greg Gurenlian s Faceoff Academy.
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Fri May 14 2021 | Nelson Rice | College
Jimmeh Koita’s timing was perfect.
Late in the fourth quarter of the CAA championship game against Hofstra, the fifth-year senior fired on the whistle. In fractions of a second, he pinched and popped the ball straight to himself to secure possession. In doing so, Koita also sealed the Dragons’ first conference tournament title and NCAA tournament bid since 2014.
Friday May 14th, 2021 8:00am
(Photo Courtesy of DrexelWLax Twitter)
Two teams in mid-May, sitting and waiting in their rec hall to hear their school called out, and then exploding when it did. We know the scene. We’ve seen it play out thousands of times.
No one has ever seen it like this at Drexel at least not until Sunday, when both Drexel men and women learned that they’ll be in the NCAA Tournament together for the first time. The men will be playing No. 6 Notre Dame in the first round of this weekend’s NCAA Tournament and the Drexel women, ranked No. 12 by Inside Lacrosse, will be heading to the tournament for the first time in program history.
Thursday May 13th, 2021 12:12pm
The National Lacrosse League (@NLL), the largest and most successful professional lacrosse property in the world, today announced the 20 nominees for the NLL Hall of Fame Class of 2021 presented by GAIT Lacrosse. Inductees from among the group, which includes 17 all-time great players and three builders, will be announced in June with a ceremony planned for this fall.
The Class of 2021 will represent the first additions to the Hall since 2016. This year’s induction will also celebrate the 15
th anniversary of the Hall’s establishment with the inaugural members inducted in 2006.
“This is indeed an impressive selection of candidates whose contributions to lacrosse and the NLL span several eras and the breadth of North America,” said NLL Commissioner Nick Sakiewicz. “We are honored to be continuing the tradition of honoring the greats and we look forward to selecting the next inductees for the most prestigious individual honor i