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BRIDGE to Team Turkey
Caner “Jon Jon” Newton, a former Lees McRae defenseman whose lacrosse experience started with a North Carolina affiliate of the former US Lacrosse BRIDGE program, will play for Turkey at the 2014 FIL World Championship, hosted by US Lacrosse.
How did you get selected for Turkey? My father told me Turkey started a lacrosse team. Nothing would keep me from playing on that team. I was not born in Turkey. I was born in Wilmington, N.C., but we moved to Turkey after I was born. Turkish was my first language. My father and I were born in America. My mother and brother were born in Turkey. My mother was born in Istanbul. She is my rock. It’s her blood that runs the deepest in my veins.
When did you start playing lacrosse? I stared in eighth grade. I had just
gotten cut from the baseball team, and my father wanted me to play a sport to stay in shape for football. He was the lacrosse coach at my school at the time. He’s played a big part in growing the game here in Wilmington.
How are you preparing for Denver? I’m working out five days a week, skills
training four days a week and I had to change the way I eat. I also watch a lot of college lacrosse to fine-tune my game. The team is not government-funded, so we’re all doing the best we can to raise funds. Each one of us has a fundraising goal of $3,000. Most families in Turkey make an average of $2,000 a month. We want all those who deserve to go, not just the ones who can afford it.
Is it true you quit your job at a car dealership to play this summer? Yes. My boss told me to grow up. He
said, “Men don’t have time for childhood dreams.” He would not let me take time off, and I assured him nothing would stand in my way. — Beau McCaffrey
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Bucknell on two-year probation after hazing The night before a March 22 game against Patriot League foe Boston University, Bucknell
announced that it has placed its men’s lacrosse team on a two-year probation and seven seniors on the team were suspended for the BU game after an investigation found “hazing activities and other violations of the Student Code of Conduct.” The violations included requiring first-year members of the team perform menial tasks and other violation of the school’s student-athletic handbook and team policy.
Bracket? Good luck The expanded 18-team
NCAA Division I men’s tournament figures to be as an exciting a bracket to follow — and fill out — as any. The field will be
comprised of 10 conference automatic qualifying (AQ) champions and eight at- large teams. The wrinkle? For the first time, two play-in games will be held with the winners advancing to play the top two overall seeds in the tournament. The “first four” will be the lowest-ranked AQ teams, as deemed by the selection committee. It’s possible a team like Albany, should it win the America East tournament and be slotted in a play-in game, could end up playing a top-two seed in the first round.
Ty Thompson Throw in the one-year
ACC super conference that will send its conference champion and up to five at-large teams into the field, and it’s a unique year for the selection committee, chaired by Jim Siedliski, the associate commissioner in charge of Olympic sports for the American Athletic Conference (formerly the Big East). “There’s a lot of new, strange things,” Siedliski said. “The one thing that we, as a committee, have been very good at is being able to adapt. The last three years we’ve been consistent with selection criteria and the body of work. Regardless of where the goal posts are being moved, we’ll get the right 18 teams.”
UNC’s Kelly, ND’s Sullivan injured
North Carolina freshman faceoff man and 2012 U.S. U19 team alum Stephen Kelly had surgery to repair a broken right wrist March 24 and will miss the rest of the season. He had won 74 of 121 faceoffs (61.2 percent) filling in for injured senior R.G. Keenan, who returned to action in a limited capacity March 18. In other injury news, Notre Dame junior defender and draw specialist Barb Sullivan was injured March 8 against Louisville and is out for the remainder of the season. Sullivan was the Irish’s youngest-ever first- team All-American in 2013.
May Madness Visit
LaxMagazine.com, the online home
of Lacrosse Magazine, to stay current with NCAA brackets, results and reactions from all men’s and women’s levels. Find it all at
LaxMagazine.com/MayMadness.
The expansion of the tournament from 16 teams was necessitated by conference realignment and maintaining the NCAA tournament guideline that seeks to have at least a 50-50 balance between AQ and at-large teams. Last season, the Division I women’s bracket expanded to 26 teams for the same reason.— Corey McLaughlin
Former Dartmouth player dies unexpectedly Former Dartmouth and Penn Charter (Pa.) lacrosse player Blaine Steinberg fell ill and died suddenly March 7 at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Dartmouth officials said. Steinberg played for one season with the Big Green and also starred in soccer at Penn Charter. She was 20.
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