Men's Lacrosse beats Cleveland State 15-5

Submitted by twotrueblue on

Michigan beat Cleveland State today, 15-5 to get the first win of the season. Noseworthy had 5 goals and Buckanavage ended with 3 goals and 3 assists. Next week Michigan plays Bellarmine (0-1) on Tuesday afternoon before traveling to play Penn (0-0) on Saturday. Bellarmine should be win on Tuesday (they lost 15-7 to Robert Morris today), but Penn will be more of a close game.

Here's the rest of the stats:

http://www.sidearmstats.com/umichigan/mlax/

 

Elsewhere in the Lacrosse World today:

#7 Ohio State beat #20 Boston University, 15-9

#15 Virginia wins in double overtime over #10 Loyola, 13-12

#13 Johns Hopkins plays #14 Towson tonight at 6:00 on ESPNU

twotrueblue

February 10th, 2018 at 3:18 PM ^

It's kind of like hockey in that there are multiple lines of midfielders (usually 3). But since there are 10 players allowed on the field, you need to double what a hockey roster is (about 25). Plus, there are faceoff specialists which are like kickers. That's all they do, but you need three or four of them. Goalies are the same way. It all adds up.

kevin holt

February 10th, 2018 at 3:28 PM ^

Yep. Plus midfielders specialize even more. A faceoff specialist is a midfielder. Then you have defensive midfielders of two varieties: short stick and long stick (because the rules allow only 4 long-stick players at a time). Then just regular offensive midfielders. That level of specialization alone means your roster is gonna be extensive.

Lampuki22

February 10th, 2018 at 7:02 PM ^

NCAA Division I men's Lacrosse teams have an average roster size of 44 players but only a maximum of 12.6 scholarships to award per team. This means the average award covers less than 30% of a typical athlete's annual college costs. Baseball has 11.7 for about 40.

Title 9 is a farce!

L'Carpetron Do…

February 10th, 2018 at 4:40 PM ^

1-0 is nice.  I listened to the first half and it sounded like there were some typical early season cobwebs/rustiness but they were in control. Good win to start the Conry era and christen the new field - too bad it was in the snow and freezing cold! (I actually thought the announcer kid said there was a 'good turnout' and that there were almost 100 people there. I was like 'yikes - that's not a good turnout, dude').

mtzlblk

February 11th, 2018 at 12:01 PM ^

to most of the game and they sounded pretty dominant..granted they weren't playing the best opponent, but simply comparing to this to their performance against the same team last year seems like an improvement.