[Lax]: SU @ CU

[ben03]

C'mon convert on this damn EMO!

[ben03]

We've gotta take some risks and go get it!

[ugarte]

Powell is crazy good. Gets the hat trick.

[ben03]

sick

[ugarte]

2:19 left ... we're within 2.

[ben03]

C"mon boys ... you can do it!!!

[Tom Pasniewski 98]

We're gonna beat the hell out of you.....

[ugarte]

1 minute remaining.

[ugarte]

Damn. Close game. Good job, Red.

[ben03]

Great game by both teams ... WAER Syracuse webcast was excellent, much appreciated boys.

[Jim Hyla]

[Q]ben03 Wrote:

 Great game by both teams ... WAER Syracuse webcast was excellent, much appreciated boys.[/q]
They better be good, that's where many of your next national sportscasters are learning their trade. It is a trade and not a profession, isn't it?;-)

[jkahn]

[Q] Great game by both teams ... WAER Syracuse webcast was excellent, much appreciated boys.[/Q]
I've just passed on the compliments to Jason Benetti, WAER sports director and lacrosse play-by-play guy, who is a real good friend of my son Adam (who ironically attends a different trade school, where the team which previously beat us in lacrosse before Syracuse is).   Unfortunately, I wasn't able to listen to the webcast nor did I realize Jason was doing it until checking the WAER site after reading this thread.
I spoke with Jason during spring break his freshman year (he's now a junior) and remember him saying that he didn't know anything about lacrosse (there are no teams out here in the Chicago area - or at least in the south suburbs) and that he was going to have to get up to speed real fast.  Apparently he has.

[Erica]

Last year on marathon Monday it was cold and threatening to rain the whole time. Not much fun, but great running weather. It started getting warm towards 11 or so, which for most marathoners is about 15 miles into the race.

[Jay Fisher \'90]

[Q]I spoke with Jason during spring break his freshman year (he's now a junior) and remember him saying that he didn't know anything about lacrosse (there are no teams out here in the Chicago area - or at least in the south suburbs) and that he was going to have to get up to speed real fast. [/Q]

When I was in high school in the Northwest suburbs of Chicago in the eighties I had never heard of lacrosse.  Now my high school has a boys and girls lacrosse team.  There are over thirty high schools playing lacrosse in Illinois, see http://www.ihsla.org/teams.shtml

You are right that none seem to be in the true south suburbs.

Lacrosse is a growing sport outside the Eastern seaboard.

Jay Fisher '90

[billhoward]

[Q]


Lacrosse is a growing sport outside the Eastern seaboard.[/q]

Cornell was a lacrosse powerhouse in the late 1960s under -- zero degrees of separation from Cornell hockey here -- Ned Harkness. But the old boy network always awarded the championship to a southern school: Hopkins, Maryland, NC, Virginia, occasionally Navy took turns. Finally, and perhaps about 3 years too late for Cornell to have started running up some Princeton-in-the-1990s streak, the NCAA instituted a playoff in 1971. Cornell edged Army 17-16 in a thrilling semifinal game at Army and then romped 12-6 over Maryland. The big gun for Cornell was Alan Rimmer from (surprise) Canada, a precursor to the arrival of Mike French four years later. Cornell's Rimmer-led NCAA title solidified the notion that a) Long Island HS lacrosse (Cornell was full of them) was equal to southern lacrosse, b) upstate NY lacrosse (Cornell recruited heavily upstate; at this point Syracuse was a joke in lax, Jim Brown having moved on some years previously) would have to to be reckoned with, c) lacrosse was Canada's national sport (you can look it up) and thus there were good players to be had, and d) when Ned Harkness and then Richie Moran (Maryland '60 or '59) argued the Cornell teams were as good as the ones who won the polls in the late 1960s, they were right.

And now lacrosse is spreading. It's huge here in NJ public schools. Illinois is pickng it up. It's big in Massachusetts schools and UMass has done amazingly well yet never won it all. Just wait until California logs on to the program. Lacrosse is both violent and yet not so dangerous as football, so parents who'd never want their kids on the gridiron are okay with them picking up lacrosse. I believe I saw it was the HS sport with the biggest runup in number of schools adding it (HS) from 1990 to 2000, albeit the huge increase was due to the small starting numbers nationwide.