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Knighthawks Get a Rare NLL Double
Big Ten Pride
Daring personnel moves by general manager Curt Styres and the lineup orchestrations of head coach Mike Hasen have brought the Rochester Knighthawks to where they are today: 2012 and 2013 NLL champions — the fi rst team in 10 years to do the double. Rochester overcame an 8-8 regular season to win three playoff games and hoist the NLL Champion’s Cup after an 11-10 victory over the Washington Stealth May 11 in Langley, British Columbia. At the March trading deadline, Styres sent legend Casey Powell to Colorado in a deal that freed up playing time for others on the right side of the offense. Mike Accursi and Craig Point had been healthy scratches at times. Point scored four goals in the 12-10 win over Minnesota in the East Division fi nal. Dan Dawson, acquired from Philadelphia in a preseason trade, scored four goals in a 10-8 win over the Wings in the fi rst round. Rochester ended by winning seven of its last nine games.
— Neil Stevens
CSU, Tommies Repeat as
MCLA Champs
Colorado State took a shutout into the fourth quarter of the MCLA Division I championship game and beat archrival Colorado, 7-2, to win a second straight national title on May 18 in Greenville, S.C. CSU (21-0), which won a record- setting sixth title in team history, handed Colorado (18-3) all three of its losses this season. Austin Fisher, a
Highlands Ranch, Colo., native and two-time fi rst-team All-American attackman, won the Godekeraw Award as the MCLA Division I Player of
the Year. His 51 goals for the year and 189 for his career were
key in CSU’s back-to-back titles. In the MCLA D-II title contest, St. Thomas
beat Westminster 9-7 to claim its second straight championship and fourth in the last fi ve seasons. The Tommies fi nished 17-0. St. John’s senior defenseman Steve Johnson, whose Johnnies team fell in the semifi nal round, was named the Godekeraw Award winner as the top D-II player in the country.
22 LACROSSE MAGAZINE July 2013>> Conference to sponsor
lacrosse starting in 2015 By Corey McLaughlin
Big Ten men’s and
women’s lacrosse will be a reality come the spring 2015 season. The conference’s council of presidents and chancellors on June 2 unanimously approved the addition of Johns Hopkins as an affi liate member in men’s lacrosse to bring the league to six teams, with current Big Ten programs Michigan, Ohio State and Penn State and new additions Maryland and Rutgers for 2015.
The next day Johns Hopkins held a press conference on campus publicizing the move, and simultaneously the Big Ten announced the formation of a six-team women’s lacrosse conference for 2015. It will include powerhouses Maryland and Northwestern, Ohio State, Penn State, Rutgers and Michigan, which begins varsity play this season.
The Johns Hopkins
women’s program is playing its fi nal season in the ALC in 2014, and plans to remain independent for one or two seasons after that, athletic director Tom Calder said, although Big Ten conference commissioner Jim Delany said he would welcome the Johns Hopkins women as an affi liate member as well if asked. The move to the Big
— Rudy Jones
Ten was a historic one for the Blue Jays men’s
Johns Hopkins and archrival Maryland will be part of the Big Ten’s first season of lacrosse in 2015.
A Publication of US Lacrosse
program, which has operated for 130 years as an independent, but sought the chance to claim an NCAA tournament automatic qualifying berth — via a conference championship — in a Division I men’s lacrosse era of increased parity. “The game of lacrosse is changing,” Johns Hopkins coach Dave Pietramala said. “We felt [this] would be very benefi cial to all those involved.”
The feeling was
mutual. “We wanted it to happen,” Delany said. “It’s a world-class institution with an iconic sport, playing Division I… We have a lot of Big Ten grads living in D.C, and Philadelphia, Baltimore and New York. We think they’ll follow it naturally. We truly want to be in this corridor.”
Somewhat ironically, archrival Maryland was
the school to kick-start the process of the Blue Jays joining the Big Ten. When it was announced in November 2012 that the Terps were joining the league, their lacrosse conference future immediately became uncertain. Shortly after, Maryland athletic director Kevin Anderson reached out to Calder and Delany to gauge the possibility of Hopkins joining the Big Ten as a sixth men’s lacrosse member, creating the number needed to sponsor a conference championship. There was little
negotiation between the sides. Johns Hopkins’ current contract with ESPNU though 2017 will remain in place, but ESPN and the Big Ten Network will likely negotiate for the right to air games played on Big Ten campuses, Delany said. In the end, Johns Hopkins became the fi rst Big Ten affi liate member in any sport — and two new lacrosse leagues were born. LM
©LEE WEISSMAN (JHU); ©CECIL COPELAND (MCLA); ©CLINT TRAHAN (NLL)
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