Notre Dame Fighting Irish lacrosse (#8, #3 RPI, 8-5) hosts Army West Point (5-7) at Arlotta Stadium this Saturday at 1:00 PM, WatchESPN.
Senior Day
This is the last regular season home game for our graduates. Please pay careful attention to these players who have made us proud during their Notre Dame careers:
Mikey Wynne
John Sexton
Pierre Byrne
Brendan Collins
Austin Gaiss
Patrick Hadley
Alex Hurdle
Carlson Milikin
Owen Molloy
Tyler Ruhl
John Travisano
Jordan Walter
William Young
Thank you very much for representing our University so well!
Game Notes
Just a few notes for our readers for this Senior celebration:
- Keep the momentum. The Irish need to build on their success from the ACC championship and secure and home game in the NCAA tournament.
- Stay healthy!
- Congratulations to John Sexton for being selected as the ACC Defensive Player of the Year. We hope he will also be considered for the USILA Schmiesser Award as the nation’s top Defenseman!
- To leave you with one Notre Dame vs. Army highlight, let’s remember the Ryder Garnsey spin cycle from the 2016 game:
☘Year in Review: #NDTop10 Plays
#7-@NDlacrosse FR Ryder Garnsey’s spin-cycle goal makes #SCTop10
👀@SportsCenter pic.twitter.com/dUw1GUky6r
— The Fighting Irish (@FightingIrish) June 24, 2016
#GOIRISH
Hey ND-Atl – not being an historically astute lacrosse follower, allow me to say how helpful these posts have been for me to follow this team, this year. Merci!
Indeed, the very best to those seniors (seems like a lot of them?), with thanks for all they’ve done and best wishes for their future.
Having been raised way back in the day on the Army rivalry, in f-ball I admit but still, and having taught at the Academy and knowing many, many graduates, let me just say — Beat Army!!!
Wish I could be there, but anyone who can, cheer louder for me!
Thank you, Noise! We have a lot of fun with this are cannot be happier to know people find our musings helpful.
This Army game had become a tradition wedged between the ACC and NCAA tournaments, and it has been a fantastic series. The word is the ACC won’t give us a gap week between tournaments next year, so we hope ND finds a way to keep them on the schedule.
Even though Army is in a down year, this seems to be a completely different Irish squad the past 2 weeks. What changed? Can they keep doing this in the tournament?
Wow — 12 points. Humongous. So, how good/bad is the draw v Denver? And allow me to echo Irish Bandit’s queries just above!
ND v Denver is an annoying draw for both teams. Because of an NCAA rule limiting air travel, the westernmost teams are paired up, while everyone else gets a bus-trip length matchup. For our part, it bothers us that it unfairly isolates the western teams and pairs them up when they probably shouldn’t have been.
Anyway, ND is the hot team in this matchup as you’ve all noticed. This is mostly because for the first time in forever, the top Irish players are all healthy. This hasn’t been the case for at least 4 years. We’d put a healthy Wynne/Garnsey/Costabile/Gleason against anyone, the back D line is no longer an inexperienced group, and D-mid may be the best D-mid line of an entire generation. The last three games show the potential of what happens if they all play well at the same time.
Is the draw more difficult than they deserve? Yes. But they are on fire coming in to tourney, so it’s all good.
Well, we all know being healthy means a ton. So, how do you follow the team? Travel along, or watch on some incredible modern streaming thing, or…?