Archive: April 20, 2008 - April 26, 2008
St. Albans Wins
St. Albans defeated West Genesee (NY), 6-4, today in upstate NY....
By Christian Swezey | April 26, 2008; 11:16 PM ET | Comments (2)
Huge News from Hobart, and an Update on Cannon
Hobart is going back to Division III, according to this release at Laxpower. Hobart was a Division III power under former coach Dave Urick in the 1980s and early 1990s. Speaking of Urick, his current team, Georgetown, may have dodged a bullet today. Leading scorer Brendan Cannon appears to be...
By Christian Swezey | April 26, 2008; 8:35 PM ET | Comments (1)
Bad News for Georgetown
Senior attackman Brendan Cannon, the leading scorer for Georgetown, left the game against Rutgers today in the second quarter with a sprained ankle. Cannon watched the remainder of the game on the sideline, and on crutches. His status for the regular season finale against Penn State is uncertain, though Georgetown...
By Christian Swezey | April 26, 2008; 2:32 PM ET | Comments (1)
Charting Duke's Goals
TFBO2F did this a couple weeks ago and got some great feedback (read: an email from our cousin asking for Final Four tickets and an approving tail wag from the neighbor's dog). So we thought we'd do it again. In a 17-6 victory over North Carolina on Friday, Duke scored...
By Christian Swezey | April 26, 2008; 12:59 PM ET | Comments (1)
Keeping It Hot, 4/26
An Oddity in the Duke-UNC series Duke has won seven in a row over North Carolina. Yet several times in that run, UNC has started the game well. That held true in the ACC semifinals on Friday: Senior longstick defender Tim Kaiser scored following a faceoff to give the Tar...
By Christian Swezey | April 26, 2008; 11:21 AM ET | Comments (1)
Update from Prep-Landon
Georgetown Prep won, 9-8, in four overtimes. Junior Brian Casey scored the winner for the Little Hoyas with five seconds left in the fourth overtime. Also, Duke defeated North Carolina, 17-6, in an ACC tournament semifinal in Charlottesville; Bucknell defeated Army, 8-7, in a Patriot League semifinal; and the American...
By Christian Swezey | April 25, 2008; 7:24 PM ET | Comments (2)
Happy Landon-Georgetown Prep Day
Today is the regular season meeting between Landon and Georgetown Prep. It starts at 4:30 p.m. at Prep. TFBO2F will miss the game--instead, we'll be part of the joyless hysteria that is the ACC lacrosse tournament in Charlottesville. (TFBO2F misses when Prep-Landon was played on a Thursday.) The Bears (13-3)...
By Christian Swezey | April 25, 2008; 8:32 AM ET | Comments (0)
The Headline of Our Dreams
From Laxpower via US Lacrosse: "Tierney, Swezey Are US Lacrosse Coaches of the Week" Needless to say, congratulations to Princeton Coach Bill Tierney and Cathy Swezey of Vanderbilt. And no, we are not related to Cathy Swezey the Vanderbilt coach. Nor are we related to Notre Dame high-scoring, borderline-unstoppable and...
By Christian Swezey | April 24, 2008; 1:55 PM ET | Comments (1)
Keeping It Hot
The Navy women's team has set a record for wins by a first-year program following a 19-8 win over Villanova. The Midshipmen are 13-3 and have advanced to the Patriot League tournament. They face top-seeded American on Friday at 1 p.m. at AU. Navy won the regular season meeting, 13-12.......
By Christian Swezey | April 23, 2008; 7:47 AM ET | Comments (2)
After Further Review: Hopkins-Navy
A CSI: Lax-style look at some trends that emerged from Johns Hopkins's 12-5 win over Navy on Saturday. 1.) Rest is Helping Stephen Peyser Johns Hopkins freshman MF Matt Dolente won 6 of 10 faceoffs against Navy and 3 of 5 against Maryland. Those are important contributions: As we wrote...
By Christian Swezey | April 22, 2008; 10:29 AM ET | Comments (6)
An Alert Reader
Ken from Silver Spring wrote to ask, how did the Denver-Ohio State game draw 29,601 fans? TFBO2F just assumed that the school had made attendance mandatory for the students, a la the Brigade of Midshipmen at the Hopkins-Navy game. And that 29,000 students showed up but the other 21,000 either...
By Christian Swezey | April 21, 2008; 10:26 AM ET | Comments (0)
A Good Day for Yardwork
The schedule for our local teams this week is hitting TFBO2F like the matchup zone Syracuse used to upset No. 1 Johns Hopkins in the 2004 semifinals. Like Bucknell's 10-man ride hit Maryland a few years ago. Like the quarterfinals usually hit Georgetown. Anyway, somehow, incredibly, none of the locals...
By Christian Swezey | April 20, 2008; 12:58 PM ET | Comments (6)
Keeping it Hot
In its game story today, The Washington Times noticed Navy's recent offensive struggles. Hopkins may have won the game against Navy. But The Washington Post hopes that at least the Brigade of Midshipmen had a good pregame barbeque. The Baltimore Sun writes about the current two-game winning streak for Johns...
By Christian Swezey | April 20, 2008; 8:34 AM ET | Comments (0)
