Dialed In: Your Lacrosse Fix for Monday, July 31

Good morning. Here’s the latest from around the lacrosse world:

1. Archers on top in the PLL.

In a battle for first place in the Premier Lacrosse League, the Archers outgunned the reigning champion Waterdogs 19-18. Tom Schreiber had a six-point game and Michael Sisselberger won 33 of 36 faceoffs. The Whipsnakes closed out the day with a 17-16 win over Chaos with Mr.Clutch, Will Manny, delivering the game-winner with 8.9 seconds remaining.

.@WillManny_1 CALLED GAME!

Whipsnakes WIN pic.twitter.com/lneSoUEiT3

— Whipsnakes Lacrosse Club (@PLLWhipsnakes) July 30, 2023

On Saturday, the Cannons stayed red-hot, winning their fourth straight game. Marcus Holman had four goals and three assists in a 16-10 win over the Redwoods and Colin Kirst made 17 saves. Trevor Baptiste won 21 of 22 faceoffs and Atlas held off a fourth-quarter rally in an 11-9 win over Chrome.

2. Moreno still dominating

Sam Apuzzo helped her team to an 8-7 win over Taylor Moreno’s squad in the final game of week two of Athletes Unlimited, but Moreno is still dominating the leaderboard with 1,047 points after making 17 saves in the loss.

With 17 saves on the night, Taylor Moreno breaks the single-game save record tonight in game 12#AULax pic.twitter.com/De7ZTQsSgk

— Athletes Unlimited (@AUProSports) July 31, 2023

Apuzzo’s team won three one-goal games for the week, helping her close the gap on Moreno as Apuzzo now has 891 points. Those two will be captains for week three, alongside goalie Kady Glynn and rookie Abby Bosco.

3. Welcome to the future.

USA Lacrosse named 137 boys’ high school players that are coming to the three-day National Team Development Program National Combine beginning today. One of them is returning USA Select team goalie Hunter Keller, who also showed some offensive skills at the Apex 60 All-Star Game.

How did goalie Hunter Keller (2024) secure Defensive MVP of the Apex 60 All-Star Game?

Well, this helped  @ApexLaxEvents pic.twitter.com/oeJgabTUs2

— TLN  (@LacrosseNetwork) July 28, 2023

4. Finding home.

What goes into the PLL’s upcoming selection of home markets? Phil Shore got some of the player’s perspectives.
 

5. Continuing our college lookbacks from 2023

• Cornell men

• Maryland women

• Penn women

• Princeton men

• Stony Brook women

• Yale men

WHAT WE’RE READING

• World Lacrosse and USA Lacrosse issued advisories that events conducted by International Indoor Junior Lacrosse have no affiliation with World Lacrosse, nor do U.S. players represent the national team program.

• Syracuse men’s lacrosse will hire Manhattan head coach John Odierna as its new defensive coordinator. Odierna just finished his first year as head coach with the Jaspers, helping the team rank No. 1 in the country in scoring defense.

• Alex Skvarch has been named as the head men’s lacrosse coach at Thiel College. He had spent the past nine years as head coach at Walsh University.

• Will Corrigan, the son of Notre Dame head coach Kevin Corrigan, has been hired as an assistant men’s lacrosse coach at Air Force. Corrigan had been coaching at Harvard.

• Callahan Kent has been promoted to assistant coach for the women’s lacrosse program at Boston College. Kent spent the last two years working with the goalies and off-field operations for the Eagles.

• Remembering Lucian Li, a Kenyon lacrosse player from Pennsylvania who died in a car wreck in mid-July.

• Hannah Heller, an All-Atlantic 10 player at Massachusetts, is transferring to Florida for her final season. Her twin sister, Emily, finished her career at Florida last year.

WHAT WE’RE WATCHING

Syracuse commit Trey Deere scoring with a wooden stick in the Senior All-America game on Saturday.

Incoming @CuseMLAX freshman Trey Deere, using a wooden stick in the All-America Game, opens the scoring for his team

(via ESPNU) pic.twitter.com/UYiN6XlZ2K

— TLN (@LacrosseNetwork) July 30, 2023

WHAT’S ON TAP

• We’ll have coverage of the boys’ national combine for the National Team Development Program on USA Lacrosse social channels.

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