Knighthawks' Mini-Game Madness
Not even the NLL's new quirky playoff
format could shake the Rochester Knighthawks dynasty. Rochester won its third straight Champion's Cup title with a 3-2 win over the Calgary Roughnecks in a 10-minute, series-deciding mini-game played for the first time this year. Craig Point scored twice and Joe
Walters once in the final three minutes. Calgary won Game 1 10-7 and Rochester claimed Game 2 with a 16- 10 win on its home turf to set up the mini-game immediately following. The new format also came into
effect in both the East and West finals. Rochester and Calgary prevailed after splitting the first two games with Buffalo and Edmonton, respectively. No other team in the 28 years of pro indoor lacrosse has won three straight titles. “This team has come a long way,”
Point said. “[Owner-GM] Curt [Styres] has built this team up for so long. We’ve been together as a family for three to four years. Can’t explain the feeling right now. It’s just so good. It’s an awesome feeling to win three in a row.” — Neil Stevens
Judd Lattimore
Onondaga men, Monroe women reign Onondaga captured its sixth straight NJCAA national championship and finished the season undefeated with a 12-7 win over Nassau. With the win, the Lazers' winning streak now sits at 87. “As exciting as it is [to
have a long streak going], it’s about taking home the national championship,” Onondaga coach Chuck Wilbur said. On the women’s side, Monroe also finished the season undefeated after topping Onondaga 11-8 to win its fourth title in the past five seasons. The Tribunes' winning streak currently sits at 35.
Coaching carousel starts spinning
In the first head coaching hire of the summer, Holy Cross tabbed Judd Lattimore as the next leader of the Crusaders following the resignation of Jim Morrissey. Lattimore spent the last two seasons as the top assistant coach at Penn after spending a season as an assistant at Michigan. Detroit Mercy is looking for a new coach after Matt Holtz stepped down following six seasons at the helm. Holtz compiled a 26-60 record during his tenure and led the Titans to the NCAA tournament in 2013. Former Cornell coach Ben
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DeLuca, Duke’s volunteer assistant this year, said after the Blue Devils won the NCAA title that he is happy to be in Durham, but
his “ears are wide open” about possible Division I coaching vacancies.
Team USA set to face MLL All-Stars The Major League Lacrosse
All-Star Game is set for July 26 at Harvard. The game will feature the MLL vs. Team USA in the last event before the U.S. cuts its roster to 23 players for the FIL World Championship. Visit
LaxMagazine.com for coverage.
Missy Foote to retire; Livesay leaves Trinity Longtime Middlebury women's coach and administrator Missy Foote
Missy Foote
Middlebury, her alma mater. “I am honored that we will stand together on the sidelines at Middlebury this year,” Foote said.
NCAA attendance decline continues Attendance during the NCAA men’s championship weekend continued to drop, as M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore saw a total of 78,234 fans watch the NCAA men’s lacrosse championships, down slightly from the three- day total of 79,179 in Philadelphia in 2013. The Division I semifinals drew the highest crowd at 30,428, while the Division
Wakefield passes away Carole Wakefield, a longtime women’s
editor for Lacrosse Magazine, died May 5 after becoming ill in recent years. She was 88. Wakefield will be posthumously inducted into the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame in October.
will retire in June 2015, following her 37th year with the college. Foote, a 2012 National Hall of Fame inductee, has coached at Middlebury for 34 years and also spent 21 years as the coach of the field hockey program.
Kate Livesay, who has
guided Trinity (Conn.) to three straight NCAA Division III championship games, winning it in 2012, decided to step down and join the coaching staff at
II and III finals saw 22,219 fans and the Division I final had 25,587.
It was the seventh straight year attendance decreased at the sport's marquee event.
Meanwhile, the NCAA Division I women’s lacrosse championship game between Maryland and Syracuse drew a record of 10,311 to Towson’s Johnny Unitas Stadium. Maryland won 15-12.
— Brett Amadon July 2014 >> LACROSSE MAGAZINE 17
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