The Lacrosse Blog- May 19

Lacrosse has always been immensely popular in the state of Maryland.  Unfortunately, I know as much about the sport as Roger Clemens knows about monogamy.  Therefore, my main man Bryan will be hooking you up with the lacrosse knowledge throughout the season.  Here is his latest installment:

Here is the lacrosse recap for an amazing weekend of lacrosse. In division three Salisbury and Cortland State will meet for the third straight year in the national championship game. The two teams took very different routes to get there though. Cortland State cruised into the game with a
16-5 win over Ithaca College yesterday afternoon. Salisbury on the other hand had to work very hard to beat Gettysburg. During the day on Saturday word started to spread that the Sea Gulls’ first and second string goalies had been kicked off the team. According to a letter of apology written by Zach Krissoff the former starting goalie on May 16th he destroyed the personal property of several residents of a Salisbury neighborhood. He is accepting responsibility for his actions and will accept whatever punishment he is given. The players have also been kicked out of school. This situation meant that Nick Fioentino would be making his second career start in the cage for Salisbury. The Sea Gulls ended up with a 11-10 victory in double overtime before 1,411 people. The game winning goal was scored with 2:48 left by Kylor Berkman. Here is a quote from Coach Jim Berkman about his new starting goalie’s play. “I think Nick’s performance today was a tribute to all of the guys that had been on the sidelines over the past 20 years that probably didn’t play as much as they wanted to, but they worked hard every day in practice. It is a reflection of all of the guys that have been behind the scenes that have been integral parts of Sea Gull lacrosse.”  The national title game is next Sunday in Foxborough Mass. Game time is 1:30 and it will be on CBS College Sports.

In division one 17,017 turned out at Navy to see Saturday’s doubleheader. In the first game Maryland led for most of the game but the turning point came when Travis Reed scored to give Maryland an 8-6 lead. The goal ended up being disallowed because he stepped in the crease. Although Maryland got the ball back because of a loose ball push against Virginia they would not score again. Virginia eventually tied the game at 7 then in overtime Ben Rubeor scored the game winner to send UVA to the final four.  In the second game Johns Hopkins held Navy scoreless for 33 minutes to turn a 3-2 deficit into a 8-3 lead and eventually won the game 10-4. Hopkins next opponent will be Duke who beat Ohio State 21-10 yesterday behind 6 goals and 5 assists from Zach Greer.  Virginia will play Syracuse who came from behind to beat Notre Dame 11-9.  So next Saturday in Foxborough it will be Virginia and Syracuse at noon followed by Johns Hopkins and Duke at 2:30. Tomorrow afternoon at 4:30 ESPN2 will have a one hour special to review the season and preview the championship weekend. I will give you my preview of the division one semifinals and division three championship game on Friday.