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11/08/2025

11/08/2025

11/08/2025

In the second Semi Final Game, for the Baggataway Cup, another big comeback gives the Nipissing Lakers a commanding 13-8 victory over the Queen's College Gaels.

Kevin M. Neibauer
LaxPhilly

OPENING SEGMENT:

Queen's seemingly came out on a mission by hitting twine three times in just ove three minutes with Dean Falwthrop (1g), and Engineering Major, Kai Faller hitting twine twice.

"Despite being a first-year student, Kai quickly earned the respect and praise of everyone on the team," said Queen's Men's Lacrosse Head Coach Connor Kearnan. "He is always willing to do whatever is needed to help the team win. "A natural attack-man, Kai was asked to transition to midfield, a challenge that he embraced and excelled in—earning himself a spot in the CUFLA All-Star rookie game."

Despite falling behind, the Lakers kept battling and were rewarded by Jason Knox (3g,2a) followed by a
Nick Hulbert (2g,1a) marker with the help of Zach Tarr to cut it to a 3-2 score.

Reed Allen (2g) for Queen's matched two minutes later on a Tarr to Knox goal ended the opening portion with a 4-3 Queen's edge

SECOND:

Knox set up Ben King (3g,1a) to even the score but, The Gael's shook it off with Ryan Gonsalvez (2g) followed seventy nine seconds later by Drew Cairns (1g) took it to the half with Queen's seemingly in control with a 6-4 lead.

THIRD:

Gonsalvez stretched the lead but, the Lakers would swim back courtesy of Knox, Zach Tarr (3g,4a) and capped by Ben King for a 7-7 contest

FINAL SECTION:

After neither squad could hit net until the 8:21 mark, Reed Allen notched an unassisted goal.

Sadly for the Gaels, that would be their final highlight of the tournament as the Lakers took complete control with Ben King, Jack Quinn (1g).with the help of Knox, Zach Tarr, Nick Hulbert, Hulbert helping on the third for Tarr and, with 1:03 remaining, Carter Tait closed the scoring on the 13-8 game.

SCHTUFF:

° Nipissing moves on to challenge MCGill for the right to play for the Baggataway Trophy

° A relatively clean game would only yield seven penalties with four owned by Nipissing with neither squad taking advantage

° Connor O'Toole got the "W" with Garrett Thomson coming out on the short end.

LaxPhilly Three Stars:

3- Kai Faller (Queen's) 2 goals
2- Jason Knox (Nipissing) 3 goals 2 assists
1- Zach Tarr (Nipissing) 3 goals 4 assists

11/08/2025

In the First Semi Final of the Baggataway Tournament, a Game That Had Nearly something for Everyone, penalties, extra man goals (5), a man down marker and an edge of seat huge comeback that would force extra time before the Brock Badgers outlasted the Trent Excalibur by a 13-12 score.

Kevin M. Neibauer
LaxPhilly

OPENING SEGMENT:

Trent would draw First Blood courtesy of Nick Fournier (4g) collecting an unassisted marker at the 7:46 mark.
Brock countered thanks to, Jaden Patterson (2g,3a) aided by, Jack Parker 48 seconds later followed with Guerin Jennings being the playmaker for Jackson Shabot (2g,1a) at the 3:55 mark.

Trent would match the back to back goals with Mason Tardiff (3g) finding twine at 3:02 and his second forty two ticks later with both coming unassisted to end the opening stanza with Trent in front, 3-2.

SECOND:

Guerin Jennings (3g,1a) would level the goal sheet with another unassisted marker after 82 seconds.
Neal Adamson would be flagged for a one minute penalty whick Trent would use to jumpstart a three goal rally initiated on the EMO goal set up by Dallyn Rai for his first of three consecutive and fourth on the game

Tardiff buried his 7th of the tournament followed by Fournier at 4:09 to escalate Trent to a 6-3 edge
Shabot interrupted the uprising with his 3rd only to be matched.on the 4th of the game and 6th for Fournier which gave him.a second stanza hat trick with the goals coming in a nine minute span to end the half with Trent looking to be in great shape with a 7-4 edge.

THIRD QUADRANT:

Things would get wild in this seg.ent with a flurry of not only EMO goals but, a scrum that would result in five players acquiring nine minutes in penalties resulting in three EMO goals and one man down goal.

But, before I get to that, Noah Simonelli (2g) with the assistance of Jack Parker cut the deficit to.two goals.

Trent stormed back with a five goal flurry supplied by, Rai helping on a Jordan Dool (1G,1a) net bender for his 3rd, Reed Chamberlain (1g,3a) notching his 2nd, the first for Will White and a pair from Connor Curtis for his first two of the event with his first scored on a man down.

Getting back to the histrionics, at the 6:48 mark, the aforementioned scrum broke out which resulted in Nate Allen (2 minutes)!and Nick Fournier (3 minutes) for Trent and for Brock, Andrew Kidd (1 minute), Guerin Jennings (2) and Kaylan LaComptev (1) all cited...once some sanity came back, the Badgers embarked on a breathtaking three stanza eight goal rally fueled by, Colton Armitage (2g,1a), Jack Parker (2g,2a) and Jaden Patterson (3rd) all hitting on the Extra Man.

Guerin Jennings buried an Armitage feed at even strength to end the third with a 12-9 Trent edge

FOURTH:

Continuing to storm the beach, Jennings (9th) on the EMO, Parker (7th) and, at 5:20 Armitage ended 4th to get it deadlocked at 12-12 to send it extra time.

Patterson found Noah Simonelli for his second of the game and third of the format to complete the unworldly eight goal run and put Brock into a semi final match up with Guelph in November 8 with a 2:00 face off

THINGZ:

° Brock kept the Excalibur off the score sheet for the final thirty one minutes.

° The goaltending match had Callan Baker for Trent and Connor Scott in the Brock nets.

° A major back story in this one was the special teams highlighted by Brock converting on 4 of 5 EMOs compared to Trent cashing in on just 1 of 7 but, they did score a short handed goal.

LaxPhilly Three Stars:

3- Nick Fournier (Trent) 4 goals
2-.Jaden Patterson (Brock) 2 goals 3 helpers
1- Guerin Jennings (Brock) 3 goals 1 assist

11/08/2025

More Moves with Signings and Subtractions.

The Buffalo Bandits re upped Cam Wyers and Steve Priolo.

The Georgia Swarm have released, Nathan Powers but signed Mason Tarbell, Jacob Mickey and Toron Eccleston.

The Seals signed Zach Currier as well as Matt Wright.

Staying in the West and Vancouver who have signed Jack Suboch and Reid Bowering while releasing Ben Gagnon and Jaden Laberge.

Rochester continued to put the pieces in place by inking Ryan Smith, Brad Gillies as well as Tyler Biles.
Ottawa signed Will Johnston and activated Kevin Brownell from the injured list.

Despite signing Johnston, they subsequently released him as well as, Kieran McKay, Max Skene and Bauer Swyston and placed Vaughn Harris on Injured Reserve.

Philadelphia re upped Mike Sowers and signed former NFL player, Casey Rogers

The NLL preseason starts tonight and LaxPhilly will recap the opening rounds of the playoffs in the Baltimore Indoor League and the Baggataway Cup.

11/08/2025

OFFICIAL: Dave Cottle has been named General Manager of the .

Cottle is a 3x MLL Champion with the Chesapeake Bayhawks and the winningest coach in Loyola history

The Philadelphia Waterdogs are now the third PLL team to add a GM to the staff.

11/08/2025

11/07/2025

Busy night for LaxPhilly...BILL, NLL.preseason games and Baggataway kicks off ..

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11/07/2025

A big Pack welcome to our new goalie coach, Aaron Bold!

11/07/2025

11/07/2025

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11/06/2025

The Stage is Set, and, All the Players are in place for the 2025 Baggataway Tournament with the Guelph Gryphens Defeating the Western University Mustangs by a score of 10-5 in action at the University of Guelph.

Kevin M. Neibauer
LaxPhilly

OPENING QUADRANT,:

Western would dominate the scoring in the quarter despite being outshot by a 10-5 margin with both goals potted by Christopher DaSilva (2g,1a) with the first coming at the 12:09 mark and his second with 4:30 left.

SECOND:

Guelph would snap their twenty one minute scoreless streak thanks to a Brandon Orr tally set up off a nice Liam Aston feed.

Fifty nine seconds later DaSilva found Blake Booth to put the two goal advantage back in place.

Guelph finally would get their offense in gear courtesy of Jesse Gonzalvez hitting Liam Aston (2g,1a) followed with an unaided goal notched by Robert Baxter with 3:54 remaining in the half that would be the final goal with the clubs heading to their rooms and a 3-3 score.

THIRD PORTION:

Much like the opening stanza belonged to Western, the third was a turning point with Guelph netting all four goals.

The party kicked off after four minutes and forty four seconds when Will MacLeod (3g,1a) converted an Aston set up.
It would continue with the roles reversed with MacLeod setting up Aston. MacLeod would become the main focus by hitting twine at 3:07 and his third at 1:30 to take it to the final stanza with a 7-3 Guelph lead.

FINAL QUADRANT:

Troy MacDonald (1g) ended the near twenty one minute Western scoreless streak but thirty seven seconds later Connor Murphy had a reply on the EMO.

Guelph wasn't quite finished with Ethan Lee and Ethan Brown finding the back of the net to provide the final tallies in the 10-5 victory.

SCHTUFF:

° Shots on net leaned the way of Guelph, 30-23

° Guelph was Shutout in the EMO on 11 chances while Western notched the only goal on their 8 attempts.

° Fischer Stolz stopped 20 of 30 (.667) in the Western nets.

° Logan Pagano took the "L" with 18 saves (.782).

° The Action commences Friday November 7th at the Terry Fox Stadium in Brampton, Ontario with Trent (East) taking on Brock (West) followed with
Nipissing (West) taking on Queen's (East).

° November 8th has the winner of the Trent-Brock game facing Guelph and the winner of the Nipissing-Queen's match facing McGill with the Championship slated for Sunday, November 9th.

LaxPhilly Three Stars::

3- Christopher DaSilva (Western) 2 goals 1 assist
2- Liam Aston (Guelph) 2 goals 1 assist
1- Will MacLeod (Guelph) 3 goals 1 assist