Lacrosse All-Conference Teams Revealed

With the America East tournaments off to a great start, here are the All-Conference teams from another terrific season of America East lacrosse:

Women's:




Men's:

Hartford Reaches First Title Game Over UMBC

WEST HARTFORD, Conn.—The Hartford Hawks will play Stony Brook in the first championship game in program history after defeating the UMBC Retrievers on Wednesday, 14-11 at Al-Marzook Field. The game will be Saturday at 3 p.m. at Stony Brook.
The Hawks (10-6) fell behind 4-1 in the first quarter before riding a 6-0 run to take the lead for good. UMBC (6-7) was never able to recover despite pulling to within a goal midway through the third. The shots were flying with a total of 74 between the teams, compared to just 11 saves.
The game was over when, up 13-10 with UMBC’s goalie Brian McCullough acting as an extra defender, senior Hawk Brendan Marlow pulled a couple moves to get free and scored his first goal of the season, the final of the game for the hosts.
Hartford was led by hat tricks from Ryan Compitello, Jared Franze and Carter Bender, who combined for four assists as well. Retrievers Rob Grimm and Joe Lusgarten led the attack for the visitors with four and three goals, respectively.
Bender leads all Hawks with 30 goals on the season, bringing him to 48 points, which are both good for second in the conference.
Senior Tim Fallon dominated from the face off X, going 19-10 while scooping a game-high 18 ground balls. He also scored in the second quarter with his signature windup to give the Hawks two goals in five seconds and bring the lead to 7-4.
It was a sloppy game that saw the Hawks turn the ball over slightly more than the Retrievers, 21-18.
Hartford will look to clean it up ahead of Saturday’s matchup with a Seawolves team that beat them 10-8 in early April. The Hawks led the game going into the fourth quarter before giving up seven goals.
“Stony Brook is who we wanted all year,” said Hartford coach Peter Lawrence, who brought his team to the title game for the first time in school history. “Now we have to get it together and win it this time.”

Hitting the Links: 5/4/2011

Tonight, the men's lacrosse championship gets underway. A pair of tournament matchups highlights tonight's action as No. 4 Binghamton heads over to Long Island to face No. 1 Stony Brook while No. 3 UMBC looks for a little payback at No. 2 Hartford.

Both games begin at 7 p.m. tonight.

So what exactly are we looking at?

On Long Island, the Seawolves have been on a tear against America East teams over the last two seasons. The Seawolves have not lost to a conference foe since May 2, 2009, when they fell to UMBC in the America East Championship Game. They now begin their quest for a back-to-back conference titles. Part of the Seawolves' success can be attributed to the emergence of junior attack Russ Bonnano.

Fourteen Swimmers Named Mid-Major All-Americans

Boston University senior swimmer Matthew Rickett was named a Collegeswimming.com first-team Mid-Major All-American as announced by the website in a release on Monday. Rickett, who finished 36th at the NCAA Championships in the 100-yard butterfly in March, while he was the only America East swimmer to earn a nod to the first-team, was one of 14 America East student-athletes recognized.

Several America East men and women were recognized as honorable mention Mid-Major All-Americans, including UMBC junior Abbey McKenney, the Most Outstanding Female Swimmer at the America East Championship, and Boston U. senior Kyle Ernst, the Most Outstanding Male Swimmer at the conference meet.

Highlights From The Final Weekend of Lacrosse Action

This past weekend marked the end of the regular-season in both men's and women's lacrosse. Here are some highlights from the final weekend of action:

Women's Highlights:





Men's Highlights:

Hitting the Links: 5/2/2011

And then there were four...each!

The America East lacrosse season has whittled itself down to four men's and four women's teams in the hunt for the conference championship and a spot in the NCAA tournament. So who's in and how did they get there?

The women's quartet took until Sunday afternoon to finally shake out, but we are left with No. 1 Albany, No. 2 Boston U., No. 3 UMBC and No. 4 New Hampshire. Albany continued rolling through its schedule without a loss, topping UMBC, 12-11, on Saturday to lock up the tournament's top seed and an undefeated regular season.