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2012 All-ACC Men’s Lacrosse Team is Void of All Close Defenders

By Lacrosse Playground | April 18, 2012 |
GREENSBORO, N.C. – Six 2012 Tewaaraton Trophy nominees highlight this year’s All-ACC Men’s Lacrosse Team as announced today by the league office. The team is determined by a vote of the league’s four head coaches. Maryland leads all conference teams with four players recognized. Junior midfielder Jesse Bernhardt, who is on the Tewaaraton Watch List, is joined by teammates John Haus, Joe Cummings and Niko Amato. Cummings and Amato both repeat as members of the All-ACC Team. Read More...

Queens University of Charlotte Goes Pro with GoPro

By Lacrosse Playground | April 18, 2012 |
On a beautiful, sunny Saturday, Queens University in Charlotte attached a GoPro camera to TC Whaley. TC and the boys had a little more fun than they usually do, which is evident by the video. It just so happened to be a scrimmage day and the footage turned out phenomenal. Read More...

Bon Jovi’s Son Plays Lacrosse with a Blaze of Glory

By Lacrosse Playground | April 18, 2012 |
The “I’ll be there for you, These five words I swear to you” rocker has offspring who stirs the tea at the face-off X for his high school team. Jesse Bongiovi is Poly Prep's FOGO and apparently crushes it. The New York Post recently ran an article about the Runaway. Read More...

Army Lacrosse Attendance Climbs To Record Highs

By Lacrosse Playground | April 18, 2012 |
WEST POINT, N.Y. – Due in large part to drawing a Michie Stadium record crowd of 10,192 for last Saturday’s lacrosse game, Army’s historic program continues to climb the national ranks when it comes to attendance figures. The Black Knights currently rank fifth in the nation averaging just over 2,300 fans per home game. Read More...

Watch the Best Lacrosse Play You’ll See All Day

By Lacrosse Playground | April 17, 2012 |
The Lacrosse Network captured Whittier's Robert Bazlen as he comes up with an incredible superman save against Chapman. Read More...

Colgate Men’s Lacrosse 2012 Player Blog: Lunch Has Been Cancelled Today Due to Lack of Hustle

By Lacrosse Playground | April 17, 2012 |
After coming off a big Lehigh win, we couldn’t let ourselves get complacent for Lafayette. Coach reminded us consistently throughout the week how he doesn’t care about their record, but about the fact that if we win this game, we’re in the Patriot League Tournament. Read More...

LAX OUT Cancer Game – Shoreham-Wading River vs. Garden City

By Lacrosse Playground | April 17, 2012 |
The Shoreham-Wading River boys lacrosse team is hosting Garden City on Saturday, April 28th. It is a rematch of the 2011 Long Island championship game and is an MSG Lax-Live televised game. Last year, they raised over $21,000 from the event. This year's goal is to raise $30,000 with your help.Read More...

Citylax To Sponsor Major League Lacrosse Exhibition Game On April 21 At Poly Prep Country Day School

By Lacrosse Playground | April 17, 2012 |
Major League Lacrosse Teams the Long Island Lizards and the Charlotte Hounds will face off in the FIRST professional lacrosse game to ever be played in New York City. Admission is free and the game will be played under the lights at Poly Prep Country Day School. Read More...

Takeaways from Rivalry Weekend

By Lacrosse Playground | April 17, 2012 |
As Quint Kessenich said on Twitter Sunday, “Sometimes teams are coached to win games in March, but that ultimately costs them games in April.” The question is, who are those teams? If we weren’t sure headed into this weekend, we at least have an idea now. Duke dominates Virginia, Maryland shuts down Hopkins, the Tar Heel offense continues to gel and improve, and Loyola sits atop the national polls after a gritty win against growing power Denver. Read More...

Behind The Scenes Video: This is Lehigh Lacrosse

By Lacrosse Playground | April 16, 2012 |
Junior Dante Fantoni rifled a shot past Kyle Feeney with just 14 seconds remaining to give the #11 Lehigh men’s lacrosse team a thrilling 9-8 win over #18 Bucknell in front of a facility-record 2,096 fans on Saturday night. The Mountain Hawks (11-2, 4-1 Patriot League) continually fought back from deficits until Fantoni’s goal put Lehigh up for good. Today, Lacrosse Playground gives you an exclusive look behind the scenes from the thrilling win over Bucknell. Read More...

Wildcats Defeat Brophy in Matchup of top Teams from West Coast at the Jerry Langkammerer Lacrosse Classic

By Lacrosse Playground | April 16, 2012 |
Despite a strong comeback in the four-quarter, including two goals by Senior and Bucknell commit Brock Ghelfi, the Broncos of Brophy Prep fell to St. Ignatius 6-8 in the final game of the Jerry Langkammerer Classic this past weekend. The matchup brought together two of the top teams in their respective states of California and Arizona and proved to be an exciting game. Read More...

Spring Lax is Here, Summer Lax is Coming, Are You Playing?

By Lacrosse Playground | April 16, 2012 |
Now that the Spring 2012 Lacrosse is in full swing, I can't help but start to think about the upcomming Summer Club Lacrosse season. A lot of planning has been done by Clubs, Future's programs and even the town and HS programs in regards to tryouts, roster size, uniforms, schedules, hotel reservation, fan wear including custom gloves, helmets among other things to not only promote the future of their Club, but try and give their Members a good, positive experience in the hopes that they will come back not only next Summer, but this Fall and Winter. Read More...