USAFA, Colo. - In its lowest scoring output of the season, the Air Force lacrosse team dropped a 14-1 contest to 18th-ranked Denver Saturday afternoon at Cadet Lacrosse Stadium. With the loss, the Falcons end their season with a 3-9 overall record and 1-4 mark in the GWLL, while the Pioneers, who head into next weekend’s GWLL Tournament, move to 10-5 overall and 4-1 in the conference.
Denver scored the first goal of the game with 10:23 on the clock in the opening period and held a 4-0 advantage after one quarter. The Pioneers’ lead grew to 6-0, before junior Griffin Nevitt (Charlotte, N.C.) put the Falcons on the board with 5:20 to play in the first half. However, Air Force would not score again, while Denver closed out the second period with three unanswered goals and outscored the Falcons 5-0 in the final two periods.
While Air Force did manage to outshoot Denver for the game, 42-36, the Pioneers’ three goalkeepers combined for 19 saves in the win. The Falcons also had the advantage on face-offs, as senior midfielder Reilly Smith (Scaggsville, Md.) won a career-best 13-of-18 face-off attempts (.722) in his final contest.
Leading the Pioneers’ offense was freshman Jamie Lincoln with five goals.
No. 18 Notre Dame 14, Air Force 1
Notre Dame Scoring:
Goals: Jamie Lincoln 5, John Dickenson 2, Cliff Smith, Dillon Roy, Joey Murray, Charley Dickenson, Brett Koll, Andrew Lay, Ryan Fanning. Assists: Cliff Smith 2, Charley Dickenson 2, Jon Paulson, Brendan Deblois, John Dickenson, Vince Kemp, Joey Murray.
Air Force Scoring:
Goals: Griffin Nevitt.
Archive for April, 2008
DENVER – Two days after re-claiming supremacy in Colorado, Kent Denver staked its claim as the best high school boys lacrosse team in the Western United States.
On a chilly Friday afternoon at Justin DeSorrento Memorial Field on the Kent Denver campus, the No. 2 Sun Devils knocked off top-ranked St. Ignatius Prep, 10-6. With the victory, Kent Denver improved to 13-0 and snapped the Wildcats’ 39-game winning streak.
“It’s a huge win,” Kent Denver junior middie Patrick Murphy said. “It’s nice to now get the recognition to now be the best in the West.”
Together with Colorado Rising Stars Lacrosse, LLC, US Lacrosse will host the first WDIA Youth Clinic this May in Denver in conjunction with the WDIA National Championship Game. The event will be held on Saturday, May 10 just before the WDIA National Championships held at INVESCO Field at Mile High. The clinic will run from 9:30am to 11:30am.
The event is open to youth lacrosse players ages 5 to 14, and provides an excellent opportunity for youth boys and girls to learn from the best collegiate club players in the United States as well as the top coaches in the Denver area. Clinicians will work with youth members of all levels, enabling them to share their personal experiences and promote improvement among all ages and levels of play.
REGISTRATION:
Pre-registration for the clinic is required, and the event will be limited to the first 35 US Lacrosse members to register. To register for the clinic, please click this link or paste in your browser https://secure.uslacrosse.org/i.cfm?a=genWaive&ID=3A209D5C-BDBE-7393-44F53735A378F7BA
The cost of the clinic is $15 and each participant must be a member of US Lacrosse. To become a member, please visit http://www.uslacrosse.org/member ship. If you have questions regarding your US Lacrosse membership status, please call 410.235.6882 ext. 102 or log onto https://secure.uslacrosse.org/m.cfm with your membership number.
Registration will close Thursday, May 8, 2008 at Noon (EST) or when space has been filled, whichever is first.
LOCATION:
INVESCO FIELD at Mile High
Grass Field Area OUTSIDE of the Stadium South Main Entrance
1701 Mile High Stadium Cir#700
Denver, CO 80204
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US Lacrosse, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, is the national governing body for men and women’s lacrosse. To learn more about the organization, please visit www.uslacrosse.org
On behalf of the 2008 US Lacrosse WDIA tournament organizing committee, US lacrosse is accepting applications for hard-working, lacrosse-knowledgeable, and enthusiastic people who are interested in serving as volunteers 2008 US Lacrosse WDIA National Championships in Denver. The tournament will be held at the Dick’s Sporting Goods Park in Commerce City with the championship game at INVESCO Field at Mile High. We will need volunteers from Wednesday, May 7 through Saturday, May 10 . Duties may include scorekeepers, timers, statisticians, ball girls/boys, ticket taking, runners , set-up crew.
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Brian Langtry, center, who leads the Mammoth with 28 goals this season, looks to lead the Colorado offense against the San Jose Stealth in Saturday’s NLL West Division finale. (Andy Cross, the Denver Post )
Roll dodges and cradles take center stage this weekend on all levels, from the youngsters in the LaxFest, to the collegians at the University of Denver, to the Colorado Mammoth playing Saturday for the National Lacrosse League West Division title.
Boys and girls teams, grades 2 through 8, are eschewing their usual regular-season game sites across the Denver area to play Saturday on 18 fields at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park in Commerce City. With 325 teams, LaxFest starts at 8 a.m. and is the largest youth lacrosse event west of the Mississippi River.
The University of Denver (9-5, 4-1 in the Great Western Lacrosse League) plays its final GWLL game Saturday at 1 p.m. at Air Force Academy (3-8, 1-3).
The 18th-ranked DU women (10-5, 4-0 in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation), fresh off a 13-9 upset of No. 19 Stanford, play a key MPSF contest at California (9-6, 4-0) on Saturday and at St. Mary’s (2-13, 0-4) on Sunday.
The Mammoth (9-6) had its game at San Jose moved to Saturday because of the NHL playoffs. Colorado and the Stealth (8-7) split games this season.
Colorado is riding a two-game win streak after routing cellar-dweller Edmonton by scores of 15-4 and 13-8 last weekend.
Mammoth all-star Dan Carey, still recovering from a concussion, has not played since April 3.
“He’s feeling good, he’s working out and he hasn’t had symptoms in a while,” general manager Steve Govett said. “We’re cautiously optimistic, but we don’t want to put him in harm’s way.”
Jamie Shewchuk has filled Carey’s void with a career-best 24 goals.
Defenseman Jim Moss has recovered from a neck strain and is expected to play, along with defenseman Matt Leveque (back). But speedy transition player Josh Sims (ankle) is doubtful.
Team captain Gavin Prout leads the league with a career-best 65 assists and is ranked second in points with 90. Brian Langtry leads the Mammoth in goals with 28.
The Stealth counter with all-stars Jeff Zywicki and Colin Doyle. Zywicki, the league leader in shooting percentage at .241, ranks third with 45 goals. Doyle has 25 goals and 54 assists.
EDWARDS, Colorado — A 12-2 whomping can do one of two things to the losing team.
It can make the team cower, or it can charge the team up.
Battle Mountain lacrosse, which lost to Aspen by a double-digit margin in a snow-shortened game earlier this year, took coach Bob Daino’s advice and got a bit angry before Wednesday’s rematch in Edwards and came away with a 13-9 win.
“They were psyched, and it was a good turnaround,” Daino said. “(Aspen) thought they were going to come out and walk all over us because of the first game. I told the kids if they weren’t up for it, Aspen was going to stomp on them.”
While some may think that club teams are less competitive and a step below varsity squads, this is not always the case.
In most colleges, sports are dominated by both varsity and club teams. Unlike varsity sports, in which athletes are given scholarships to be on the team, the athletes in club sports pay to be on the team.
Former Colorado club lacrosse player Patrick Janson, who graduated in 2006, beat out lacrosse players from NCAA teams for a spot on the Colorado Mammoths roster.
Although he was released from the Colorado Mammoth’s roster in March, Janson’s jump from a club sports venue to a professional sports team still remains a feat that few are able to accomplish.
Janson said his success in the sport did not come easily.
“The hardest thing was coming out of college and knowing that there was a lot more work to get done,” Janson said.
This weekend the University of Colorado lacrosse teams, both the men’s and women’s, will be playing on the same turf that John Elway once ruled.
The Buffs will be facing the Colorado State Rams in the 2008 Rocky Mountain Showdown at Invesco Field in Denver on Saturday, April 26.The CU women will face the Rams at 5 p.m. and the CU men will battle their RMLC rivals at 7 p.m.
8,000 people are expected to be in attendance and a portion of this year’s ticket sales will go to raise money for the University of Colorado Men’s Lacrosse Program.
For more information, be sure to call or stop into the Breakaway Lacrosse Boulder Store or visit LaxGear.com to order tickets for seats to the game.
To buy tickets, call or visit Breakaway Sports at 303-444-0379. Breakaway is located at 2888 30th St in Boulder.
The season is winding down for the CU men as the RMLC Championships are May 2-3 in Salt Lake City, Utah and the MCLA National Championship is May 12-17 in Frisco, Texas.
Before the CU women face CSU, the Buffs will host Wyoming today at 7 p.m. at Kittredge Fields in Boulder..
With two games left on their regular-season schedule, the Fort Lewis College lacrosse team secured the No. 2 seed in the Rocky Mountain Lacrosse Conference playoffs with a pair of wins in Utah last weekend.
Fort Lewis LAX defeated Utah Valley State 15-11 in Orem, Utah, then beat regional rival Utah State 16-6 in Logan, Utah, the next day.
Tyler Pousson scored eight goals for the Skyhawks’ in their four-goal victory against Utah Valley State. Chad Murphy had three goals and five assists, and Matt Lindsley had two goals and three assists.
Fort Lewis led 8-5 at halftime, but Utah Valley State took a 10-9 lead in the third quarter.
Tom Ross tied the game at 10 for FLC, and Pousson gave the Skyhawks a 12-10 advantage after three quarters.
Fort Lewis outscored Utah Valley State 3-1 in the fourth quarter.
Saturday, April 26, 2008 - #18 Denver at Air Force, 1 p.m. - Cadet Lacrosse Stadium (1,000)
Game Overview
Denver enters the weekend after having their season-high six-game winning streak come to a halt to No. 11 Ohio State on Saturday, April 19, with a 20-13 loss. Freshman Jamie Lincoln (St. Cathariens, Ontario) recorded four goals in the loss, making him the all-time leading freshman goal scorer in Pioneer history. The Pioneers and Buckeyes battled in front of a NCAA regular season record crowd of 29,601.
Air Force has lost three straight games, including a 13-5 loss to Great Western Lacrosse League foe No. 7 Notre Dame on Tuesday evening. Air Force has just one win in GWLL play.
The Series vs. the Falcons
This is the 31st meeting between the two teams and 13th consecutive season they have played, with the Pioneers trailing the all-time series 14-26. DU has dominated the series 8-1 since both squads turned Division I in 1999.
Freshman on Top
Freshman Jamie Lincoln (St. Cathariens, Ontario) recorded his 12th multi-goal game against No. 11 Ohio State, when he scored four. Lincoln has 39 goals on the season, the best effort by a Pioneer freshman and the Division I record by a DU player. Lincoln is the leading freshman scorer in the national.
Upping His Efforts
Sophomore Dillon Roy (Denver, Colo.) is arguably DU’s top defender with 38 ground balls and 19 caused turnovers. Roy also leads the team with 12 penalties for 10 minutes.
Streak Ended
The Pioneers saw their season-high six game win streak come to an end against No. 11 Ohio State, when DU lost 20-13. It was the longest win streak by a DU team since the 2006 squad pieced together a seven-game winning streak.
Getting on the Board…Quickly
Senior Jon Paulson (Flemington, N.J.) recorded a goal 13 seconds into the game against Bellarmine, marking the 10th fastest goal scored in NCAA Division I history.
National Exposure
The Pioneers are ranked in the top-56 in all seven of the NCAA categories. Denver is ninth in scoring offense, averaging 11.29 goals per game and in the top-20 in man-down defense (16th-75.6%), win percentage (17th-64.3%), man-up offense (18th-34.2%) and face-off win percentage (20th-52.9%).
Individually, four pioneers are ranked in the top-50, led by Lincoln, who is seventh in the nation in goals per game (2.79) and 34th in points per game (3.07). Sophomore Ben Wahler (Denver, Colo.) ranks second nationally in ground balls per game (6.86) and 21st in face-off win percentage (54.7%). Junior Austin Konkel (Aurora, Colo.) and sophomore Charley Dickenson (Dallas, Texas) rank among the top-50, as well.
Game Winners
The Pioneers have gotten game-winning goals from five different players this season. Junior Cliff Smith (Surrey, B.C.) leads the team with three, while sophomore Charley Dickenson (Dallas, Texas) and Ilija Gajic (Burnaby, B.C.) have two apiece.
The Assist Goes to
Sophomore Charley Dickenson (Dallas, Texas) is the team leader with 16 assists on the season, part of 21 points on the year. Dickenson had six assists in all of 2007.
Overtime Thrillers
DU is 2-0 in overtime games this season after the 10-9 win over Harvard on March 29, when junior Cliff Smith (Surrey, B.C.) recorded the game-winner with 1:03 remaining in the overtime period. Senior Brett Koll (Fort Collins, Colo.) scored the game-winner against Penn on March 9.
Ranked Opponents
Denver is 2-4 against ranked opponents this season, defeating then-No. 16 Colgate and then-No. 7 Notre Dame, and losing to then-No. 9 North Carolina, then-No. 20 Towson, then-No. 7 Cornell and then-No. 11 Ohio State.
