Lacrosse Recap- May 18

This weekend marked the end of the men’s college lacrosse season for teams from the state of Maryland. We start the recap with Maryland who lost to Syracuse 11-6. Syracuse led 5-3 at the half and used a 4 goal run in the third quarter to put the game away. The most interesting part of this game was the goalie situation. The normal starting goalie for Syracuse had the flu so he didn’t play and Brian Phipps, the Maryland starter tore his ACL in the first half when he jumped in the air during his protest of a call that wasn’t made and his leg gave out on him. Syracuse advances to play Duke who beat North Carolina 12-11. The other local team ran into a buzz saw. Johns Hopkins lost 19-8 to Virginia. Hopkins scored the first goal of the game but the Cavaliers scored the next 6 straight. They built the lead to 12-4 at halftime and coasted from there. They will meet Cornell who pulled a mild upset on Princeton 6-4. These four games did very well in attendance. The doubleheader at Hofstra drew 11,000 plus and the doubleheader in Annapolis drew more than 12,000 people.

In division three Stevenson lost 12-7 to Gettysburg so it will be Gettysburg and Cortland State in the championship game next Sunday.

I will preview the last weekend of the season on Friday.

Bryan in Annapolis