Since I didn’t get around to posting them late last week, a lot of this stuff will be dated, but… here goes.
This is not a link but it is an important thing. If you are the coach (a parent, etc.) of a youth team in the 1st and 2nd grade age range, and are located close enough to Hartland to play their youth team of the same age, drop me a line with your contact information that I can forward along. They are looking for some competition.
Detroit
Detroit preview of Canisius. Video version of same with coach Matt Holtz. Official site recap of the win. GLS Recap.
Joel Matthews was named the MAAC Offensive player of the week. That’s his first honor of the season, and well-deserved after setting a school record with eight points against Canisius.
Scott Drummond rings in the No. 25 slot on Inside Lacrosse’s top freshmen rankings. See?
25. Scott Drummond, M, Detroit (7G, 5A, 7GB in 8 games)
Congrats to him.
Michigan
AnnArbor.com talked a bit of previewin’ for Michigan first game in the Big House, and how excited some of the Michigan natives on the squad were to play in the home of Michigan football.
Official site recap of Michigan’s loss to Bellarmine. Recap from the Knights’ perspective.GLS Recap.
Game photos from lacrosse all-stars.
2012 Michigan FOGO signee Brad Lott had plenty of success to open his high school season.
Davenport
Weekend preview from Davenport. The Panthers suffered their first loss of the season in overtime to St. Thomas. They got back on track by beating Missouri Baptist.
Lots of content out of Grand Rapids this week. A feature on Davenport’s strength of schedule.
You can watch live on the internet as Davenport takes on Dayton Saturday at 3 p.m.
Other MCLA
Grand Valley State took down Siena Heights University over the weekend by a 20-2 score.
If the Michigan State lacrosse twitter account can get to 500 followers by Sunday, admission will be free to the Spartans’ first home game.
High School
The boys high school season got underway yesterday afternoon (if I were a better blogger I would have had some preview material up, but that’s life), so there are a few game articles to link:
Grand Rapids Catholic Central defeated a unified team from a few mid-Michigan schools, 10-8.
Mattawan took down Grand Rapids Christian 15-3. David Stafford had six goals for Mattawan, including three straight in the second quarter.
Ann Arbor Skyline defeated Plymouth 9-5.
Flint Powers opened the season with a 7-6 victory over Novi.
Speaking of the Wildcats… first-year coach (and Friend Of The Blog) Nick Zoroya talks with the Observer and Eccentric about setting high expectations for the team this fall.
Brother Rice will take on Hamburg High School (NY) at the end of April as part of a Coach vs. Cancer benefit. Former Hamburg coach Ed Van Tine recently passed away, and his family has established a lacrosse-related scholarship fund in his name.
This is moderately off-topic, but I hadn’t realized that lacrosse is not a STATE SANCTIONED varsity sport in lacrosse. After seeing how poorly it’s been mis-managed in the state of Michigan since moving under the jurisdiction of the MHSAA, that’s probably a good thing. (Updated for clarity).
The difference between “varsity” and “state-sanctioned” often gets misinterpreted as well as misreported. A state governing body determines what activities are “state sanctioned”. An individual school determines “varsity” versus “club” status. Thus, a given sport can be “varsity” but not “state-sanctioned”, and vice versa.
Yeah, poor choice of words on my part. Obviously there are a variety of varsity and non-varsity programs in Illinois’ non-state-sanctioned system. I’ll fix the wording up a bit.
Tim, did you know that it’s also not state-sanctioned in Ohio? It was supposedly going to be sanctioned in 2010, but was delayed indefinitely for some reason. My understanding of the situation was that there would be a wavier of the state’s 150 team minimum, but that something changed.
Well, considering that the level of play is going up in Illinois and Ohio and either stagnating or going down (by many accounts) in Michigan, it seems like not being state sanctioned is for the best.