After a very disappointing 2007 season that saw the Orange miss the NCAA tournament, the Syracuse men stormed back in 2008 to take the school’s record 10th NCAA D1 lacrosse title with a 13-10 win over Johns Hopkins on Sunday in Gillette.
The championship game wasn’t as close a contest as the semi-final game that Syracuse had to take into double-overtime against Virginia. The Blue Jays of Johns Hopkins actually started out with a 5-3 lead on the Orange, but after the score was knotted at 5-5, the Orange never trailed and pretty much dominated the game. The Hopkins netminder was absolutely brilliant, stopping a couple of point-blank shots that by all rights should’ve scored but for his amazing play.
So while Boeheim’s boys can’t seem to buy their way into the field of 64 and the football team is trying to stay out of the bottom 10 teams in all of D1, it’s good to know that there’s at least one thing that remains constant - the men’s team at Syracuse remains the dominant program in NCAA D1 lacrosse.
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Congrats to the Orange! I’m glad - after watching my Blue Devils fall to the Blue Jays in the Final Four 3 of the past four years - that SOMEBODY out there beat them!
Duke lost in the semis by one goal, and also had their women fall one goal short in the women’s semi-finals, in OT. Heartbreaking losses both.
Duke gets a very small measure of redemption by having Matt Danowski named National Player of the Year for the second straight year.
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