Lax Factor Lacrosse Podcast

Our second LIVE episode in as many shows. In this college lacrosse weekend preview episode, we'll talk about Syracuse heading to Albany for the first time to take on the Great Danes on the road. Maryland looks to stay undefeated against a one-loss team in Rutgers. In other big time ACC action, we see Duke take on Notre Dame while Virginia takes on North Carolina. And the Ivy League teams all play, which means there are officially way too many solid games to watch this weekend.

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It's episode #200 of the LaxFactor Podcast and today I'm going to talk about A LOT of lacrosse, AND I'LL DO IT ALL LIVE.

We're going to talk about Richmond's upset of Virginia, Duke put it on North Carolina, Princeton, Yale, Cornell, Georgetown, Maryland, Harvard and more all picked up wins as well.

I can't thank everyone that has supported this channel and this podcast over the last 3 seasons enough.  It's been great and I'm proud to make it to 200 episodes, thanks to you all.

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Syracuse hosted Duke on Saturday in the Carrier Dome and Tucker Dordevic had himself a day in Cuse's 14-10 win over the Blue Devils netting 5 goals and 2 assists including a bonkers one-handed between the legs finish to give the Orange a 2 goal lead late in the game and ice the Duke comeback bid.

In other action, Virginia handled Notre Dame 12-8 and Connor Shellenberger continued his dominance with a 3 goal, 2 assist effort.

In a big Patriot League matchup, Brendan Nichtern showed why he's one of the best attackmen in the country scoring 3 goals and 4 assists on the day, with 2 goals and 3 assists coming over a 4th quarter stretch that saw Army take the lead and pull away for the win.

The Ivy League has been odd in both their dominance against non-league foes, as well as in how Saturday played out. We saw the two higher ranked Ivies lose to their rivals with Princeton losing to Yale, and Cornell losing to Penn.

We'll talk about these games and many more in todays show.

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The Penn and Princeton lacrosse squads produced an instant college lacrosse classic with Princeton hanging on for an OT victory over their Ivy League rival. It was the Ivy League that put out the most exciting games of the day as Cornell edged Yale by a goal and Harvard held on for a 1-goal win over Brown.

In other action, the Big Ten continued their winning ways over ACC foes as Maryland trounced Virginia 23-12. Syracuse went into the half tied with Stony Brook before Tucker Dordevic caught fire and put up 5 goals and 2 assists over the 3rd and 4th quarters helping the Orange to a victory.

Army and Lehigh did battle in Patriot League action and it was Mike Sisselberger's dominance at the face-off dot, winning 17 of 25 draws that allowed Lehigh to edge Army by a goal. We'll also discuss Loyola getting their 3rd win in a row against Bucknell in other Patriot action.

Georgetown whopped up on Utah, Binghamton did the same to Albany, Rutgers trashed on Hofstra and much more.

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We have the #1 vs #2  matchup this weekend, Virginia vs Maryland and it should be a heck of a game. We also get to see Princeton vs Penn as well as Cornell vs Yale, so the Ivy League matchups this weekend should be very interesting.

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We started the weekend early with a Thursday night ACC showdown between Virginia and North Carolina that saw Connor Shellenberger put up big numbers while helping the Cav's to a big victory over their conference rival.

The Ivy League showed up in a big way, starting with Princeton beating Rutgers (and I forgot to talk about that one) on Friday. But Harvard beat Michigan, Brown took down a very good Stony Brook team and Cornell squeaked one out against Penn State by a goal.

Richmond couldn't handle Georgetown and the same was true for Notre Dame with Ohio State. The Hoyas and the Buckeyes each got themselves a big win against a quality opponent on Saturday.

There are still many quality games to be played today (Sunday) with Syracuse taking on Hopkins, Duke facing Loyola, and Denver doing battle with Yale.

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Another great weekend of lacrosse with some big rivalry games in play starting with Virginia at North Carolina tonight on ESPN. Nothing better than Thursday night ACC Lacrosse on ESPN.

It ends with one of the most storied rivalries in lacrosse, Syracuse will hit the road to take on Johns Hopkins in a battle of two teams still struggling to find some consistency.

Beyond that, we'll talk about some D3 action with both Tufts and RIT playing key games this week, and we'll also dive into Binghamton hosting Fairfield, Stony Brook traveling to face Brown, High Point looking to improve their record against Robert Morris.

Other great matchups include Notre Dame vs Ohio State, Cornell vs Penn State and a big instate rivalry between Princeton and Rutgers. Even better, that won't be it.

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What a great weekend of college lacrosse that treated us to a bunch of really close games, including our first upset of a top three team. Georgetown got dropped by Princeton thanks to an incredible defensive effort by the Tigers lead by goalie Erik Peters 16 saves.

North Carolina and Denver did serious battle for a full 60 minutes and it was Chris Gray scoring his 6th goal of the game that gave Carolina the victory with just over a minute left in the contest.

Notre Dame gave Maryland a good run, but the Terps Kyle Long scored the dagger goal giving Maryland an 11-9 lead late in the fourth quarter and that score stuck.

Rutgers and Stony Brook went back and forth for much of the contest early on before Rutgers jumped out to a 17-12 lead. Stony Brook wouldn't die easily though battling back to within a goal and forcing Colin Kirst to make a huge save on the games final possession holding fort for Rutgers.

Yale took down UMass in overtime, Cornell disrupted Ohio States clearing game and pulled away for a 14-11 win over the Buckeyes, Michigan showed they are a legit team with an 18-8 statement win over a quality Delaware squad.

We'll talk about all of these games and much more.

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In this weeks college lacrosse weekend preview show, we'll start with the Army & Syracuse weekday showdown that saw Army defeat the Orange in the dome ruining a perfectly fine Wednesday evening for me.

But after that we'll get into the weekend previews of games that should be pretty great. The biggest being Notre Dame hosting Maryland. I like the Terps to win, but it should be a heck of a game overall as these two teams match up well all over the field.

Beyond that, other games we'll discuss, Johns Hopkins at Virginia, Ohio State at Cornell, Michigan will show us how good they really are against a very good Delaware, Denver at North Carolina, Richmond at Duke, Princeton at Georgetown, Rutgers hits the road against an undefeated Stony Brook and much more.

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What a weekend of college lacrosse week #3 brought us. In this weeks recap show, we're going to start by talking about how Virginia dismantled Syracuse, partly thanks to Petey LaSalla getting revenge on Phaup. Connor Shellenberger going off for 7 points didn't hurt Virginia either.

The Georgetown defense proved it is every bit as good as advertised by holding off a late Notre Dame comeback bid and beating the Irish and taking their Soda Bread and Irish Stew. Owen McElroy made 24 saves on the day for the Hoyas, 11 of them coming in the 4th quarter to help secure the Gtown victory.

High Point and Navy did battle, and despite Navy holding a small lead through most of the game, Asher Nolting (3g, 5a) and company managed to battle back, take a late lead, hold off Navy's attempts to re-take the lead and Michael Ippolito's 4th goal of the second half ended up being the game winner for High Point.

In addition to all of these great games, we'll also talk about Penn State waking up and defeating Yale, Richmond made a crazy comeback from the depths of hell to beat Towson in 3 overtimes, Duke got dropped by Penn in sudden death overtime, Cornell handled their face-off business in their win over Lehigh and much more.

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