The first semifinal, on August 21st at 12 p.m., will be between the Bayhawks and the Cannons. It will be aired live on ESPN2. Then, the Denver Outlaws and Long Island Lizards will battle it out in the second semifinal at 3 p.m. The finale championship match will be aired by ESPN2 on August 22nd at 1 p.m.

Here is a look at two of the teams:

Long Island Lizards

7-5 season record. Features: Matt Danowski, the second highest MLL scorer with 47 points from 25 goals and 18 assists in 12 games; Parker McKee, who was drafted fourth overall, played in 7 games with 1 goal and 4 assists for 5 points, and received 20% of the vote on the MLL Rookie of the Year ballot; Mike Ward, who scored 9 points from 4 goals and 5 assists in 12 games; and Zack Greer, the fourth highest scorer on the team with 17 goals and 3 assists for 20 points in 10 games.

Boston Cannons

8-4 season record. Features: Max Quinzani and Brad Ross. Max was named Boston Cannons Rookie of the Year after leading all rookies in scored goals (14). He finished with 19 points and received 20% of the MLL Rookie of the Year votes. Brad Ross scored 21 points from 12 goals and three assists. He was ranked second for two-point scores in MLL.

The intense rivalry between the Adanacs and the Shamrocks remains strong, with the Shamrocks snatching victory away. The match marked the first game of the playoffs, with four teams competing for the championship. The final score was 13-8.

The second game for the sports betting favorites, Shamrocks pitted them against the New West Salmonbellies. An excellent showing by Kurtis Green produced a hat trick. Cody Cook provided solid goaltending all game long. The two stars of the game led the Shamrocks to an 8-5 victory.

The two wins gave the Victoria club a guaranteed spot in the final game on Monday. A few players earned their rest for the upcoming championship, in order to be ready. The game between the Shamrocks and the Port Coquitlam Saints was a close loss of 9-8.

However, the two teams met once again on the following day as competitors for the championship. While the Shamrocks had initially held and lost the lead in their first meeting, the game played out a bit differently in the championship. The Saints had raced out to a five goal lead approaching the game’s final fifteen minutes.

The Shamrocks mounted a furious comeback, scoring an incredible nine thrilling goals in the last fifteen minutes. The Saints had no answer whatsoever. The final score turned out to be 14-10. The Shamrocks received the 2010 title in exciting fashion.

The Canadians got two goals apiece from John Grant, Dan Dawson, Zack Greer, Kevin Huntley, Corey Small and Shawn Williams in the win, while Garrett Billings, Kevin Crowley, Rhys Duch and Jordan Hall scored singles. The win wrapped up the round robin portion of the tournament for Canada.
Canada was dominating England before a third-quarter rain storm slowed the action.

If everything goes according to plan, or at least predictions, in the semifinals, then Canada will face the United States in the final on Saturday. The way it appears now, coach Dave Huntley’s squad could play Japan in the semifinals Thursday, but the Canadians won’t know for sure until after the play-in games Wednesday.

Against England, it was 5-2 after one quarter and 11-3 at halftime before the rain came. Each team scored twice in the third and, after the rain stopped, Canada increased its lead in the fourth quarter. Lewis Ratcliff and Mark Reynolds scored two goals each for England and Adrian Bennett and Evan Roberts got one each.

The team came upon problems when they were trying to exit the country using passports that were issued by their tribal federation. They were en-route to the sports betting online favorite, World Lacrosse Championship.

When the team initially faced problems with their passports, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton stepped in to help. She agreed to waive U.S. passport regulations in order to allow the team to travel using their Iroquois Confederacy passports. Later, when the team faced problems with the British government, the U.S. promised to expedite their passports as quickly as possible; however, Britain did not budge. The team was not allowed into the country and had to forfeit yesterday’s opening tournament match.

Sadly, not only were the players not able to attend the first match, it is not looking too hopeful for future matches either as they do not want to be forced to use an American passport because they say it does not speak of their true identity.

Due to the issues with travel plans, many of the players have been stranded in New York. They have reported to have incurred thousands of dollars of expenses due to the fiasco. When director James Cameron heard of the ordeal, he donated $50,000 in order to make up for the expenses.

Ironically, the game of Lacrosse originated with the North American Indian tribes and was later adopted by European colonial cultures.

Leading the way in individual achievement is Boston midfielder Matt Poskay, who has scored an astonishing 30 goals, beating out his nearest competitors by ten goals each. Despite the huge goal advantage, he sits only three points ahead of Peet Poillon, the Chesapeake midfielder who has 11 assists to go with his 20 goals. The current assist leader is Boston attacker Ryan Boyle. His 21 assists – many to Poskay – combine with the six goals he has scored himself to tie him for fourth place in the points standings.

There are five games remaining for each team until the start of the playoffs on August 21. On July 8th, the MLL All Stars will take on the US Men’s National Team at the MLL All-Star Game in Boston.

In round one, things went mostly as expected in the top half of the bracket. Virginia, the top seeded team, demolished Mr. St. Mary’s 18-4, while all of the other top seeded teams also advanced. In the bottom half of the bracket we saw a different story unfold.

There were a couple of upsets and a lot of close matches in this bottom half of the bracket in round one. Army and Syracuse played an amazing double overtime match on Sunday May 16th. This match will go down as one of the most exciting matches in tournament history as the two teams went to double overtime before Army pulled off the major upset over the 2nd seeded Syracuse team. The match ended with a 9-8 score in favor of Army.

Notre Dame also came out on top in an upset as they took out Princeton, the number 6 seeded team in a game that ended with a score of 8-5. The excitement wasn’t over there in round one. Cornell pulled off a squeaker of a win against Loyola in a triple overtime battle that ended with a score of 11-10.

Round two continued to provide upset opportunities for the 8 remaining teams. Virginia managed to advance to the semifinals as the top seed. Cornell also managed to advance, stopping Army from producing another upset with a convincing 14-5 victory. Duke hammered North Carolina in an upset in round 2 by a score of 17-9. Notre Dame also managed to continue with the upset magic by taking out the third seeded Maryland team 7-5.

The remaining teams are Virginia and Duke in the upper half of bracket. The bottom half of the bracket has Cornell and Notre Dame remaining. The winner of each half of the bracket will square off for the championship on Monday May 31st.

The basic play of the game is that the offense has to hurl the rubber ball into the opponent’s goal and the defense has to evade this situation. There are three types of Lacrosse played internationally – Field Lacrosse, Box Lacrosse and Women’s Lacrosse.

Occasionally known as the “fastest sport on two feet”, Field Lacrosse is an outdoor men’s sport. This full contact sport is played with ten players on each team. The rules of this form of lacrosse are significantly different from the other two. It is played professionally by Major League Lacrosse also widely known as MLL or MLL Lacrosse.

MLL Lacrosse was founded in 1999 by Jake Steinfeld, Dave Morrow and Tim Robertson. Anyhow it started its regular season play in 2001. In the present day, it comprises of one team in Canada and five teams in the United States. From 2001 till 2005, MLL was divided into two divisions – The American Division and the National Division. It further expanded to form the MLL Western Conference that began playing since the 2006.

It’s about time to start warming up for what should be another great college lacrosse season. I tried to use all new clips for this video without sacrificing quality goals, so I hope everyone enjoys it. Song name is listed at the end of the video. All rights for music go to Three Days Grace & RCA/Sony Music. Clips courtesy ESPN/ILTV
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Yes, yes, yes…here’s the first video off the new Lacrosse album ‘Bandages for the Heart”. It’s fun. It’s great. it’s lacrosse! The song is called “We are kids”.
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