LACROSSE SCHEDULE FOR 2019
Only one senior on the Lacrosse roster, and she's a great one in Tessa Chad. In her first year donned in the Red and Black, she was second leading scorer on the squad with 42 goals. She played in all 17 Louisville Lacrosse matches. Before the Cards, she was with Teeter at Canisius and earned quite a few MAAC honors in two year as a Golden Griffin.
The Blaylock sisters return for their sophomore year. Midfielder Caroline made second team ALL-ACC last season and led Louisville in scoring with 45 goals. Sister Sarah is also a midfielder and had eight scores in the 17 games. Lexie Ball is back to compete for the starting goalkeeper role and her backup Jen Schaaf is back as well. Freshman Shay Clevenger is a name you might want to get to know. She was ranked #32 in the Inside Lacrosse Top 49 Young Gun Seniors for the 2018 season. The defender played at Marriots Ridge high school, where the Blaylock sisters played.
A roster of 24 student-athletes that includes 11 sophomores and nine freshmen. Geographical breakdown of the roster shows nine players from Maryland, four from New York, three from Canada, two each from North Carolina, New Jersey and Virginia and one apiece from Kentucky and Florida.
They'll take the pitch for the home opener on Feb.24th against Mercer. Vandy stops by next on Feb 27th. to close out February action.
March finds the Cards in South Bend to face the Irish of Notre Dame on the 2nd. They'll find out if the Butler did it on March 6th up in Naptown and return home for action against Duke on March 6th. A trip to Pittsburgh will bring a match against Duquesne on the 11th. Back home, the Cards will invite Cincinnati in on the 13th., and Syracuse on the 17th.
A few days with action before they travel to Blacksburg to go gobbler hunting at Virginia Tech on the 23rd. Then, it's back to the Ville for three in a row to close the home part of the schedule...Delaware on the 31st., North Carolina on April 7th., and Ohio State on the 9th.
Louisville concludes the regular season travelling. They'll visit Virginia on April 13th. and Boston College on the 19th. The ACC Lacrosse Tournament is in Boston this year and that begins on April 24th.
We'll cover and report on all the LAX efforts here at the Couple. Go Cards!
FIELD HOCKEY HONORS
Congratulations to three of Justine Sowry's "stick girls", who received NFHCA DI All-American honors! Senior Ayeshia McFerran took first-team accolades, the goalkeeper extraordinaire became the first Cardinal in history to be named to the All-American team for all four of her four years at UofL. The best goalkeeper in the world was named to the third team as a freshman and first team her sophomore and junior years. Her accolades at Louisville would take me a full hour to list here...she is the best to ever step on the Trager Stadium turf and will have a long and successful career playing for the Irish National team now.
We wish all three the best of luck as they continue their skills on the field for Louisville and beyond in 2019!
CAT COMMENTARY
Rest assured that Jared, Case and Jeff will provide much more in the next three days about the annual "Battle of the Bluegrass". Be sure to check back here for their columns. The Sunday contest should be all that's advertised. It is a "red out" so dress accordingly!
CATS GUARDS WILL BE A CHALLENGE
Maci Morris and Taylor Murray run the show out front for Matthew Mitchell's squad and they've been quite successful in helping UK go 8-0 so far. Morris poured in 31 points last time out for UK in a 87-57 win over Morehead. Point guard Murray leads the squad in assists and has 13 against the Eagles. She's showing a brand new confidence out front and has picked up her aggressiveness this season. Backups Blair Green and Jaida Roper are quite capable of providing quality backup minutes. We'll cover another guard below. FRESHMAN FIREPOWER
Rhyne Howard has come in and found instant success. The freshman, who played under Walz on the FIBA Americas squad, leads UK in scoring with 18.1 p.p.g. She's listed at 6'2" and classified as a guard. She also leads UK in three-pointers made (23-45) for 51% and has the highest rebounds per game average at 6.9 a night.
CHAIRMEN OF THE BOARDS
Sam, Kylee and Bionca should prosper.
WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?
The Cats are 8-0 and their wins have come against Alabama St., Southern, Virginia, High Point and Morehead at home. They won the Paradise Jam Tournament with wins over South Florida, UCLA and UNC. A two-point squeaker against the Bruins. Every thing else has been by 10 points or more. They downed the ACC Cavs by 12 and the Tar Heels by 10.They are ranked #19 by the AP. This will be their first top 25 test of the season.
We'll have much more on the match-up in the following days. If you want a sneak peek of UK, you can catch them tonight against Rhode Island in Lexington on the SEC Network tonight at 7 p.m.
(The weekly Paulie Podcast is up and you can hear him ramble at the following link):
Paulie Podcast for 12/6/18
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ReplyDeleteNice awards for Field Hockey. Lacrosse has their work cut out for them in the winter/spring but they got the right guy in Teeter, I believe.
Saw Walz on TV this morning. He was enthused and pumped but Terry Meiners is an idiot. Thought the Cards were playing Rhode Island tonight. Fake news! It's UK who has Rhode Island. Meiners is so concerned about trying to come up with witty one-liner (which seldom work) that he never listens to a guest. He was at his best, and probably still is, on the radio. An embarrassment to morning, local TV.
I can take only small doses of Meiners. They should let Chris Mack, his look-alike, just morph into him completely and let Meiners retire and chase down beer cheese.
Nice Paulie Podcast this morning!
Going in to reply to the Guv's crap from yesterday. I wonder about that woman sometimes. She's ain't right.
Curtis "Drown the Cats in the Ohio. Along with Meiners" Franklin
Yeah, the Guv came in firing and reloading in yesterday's comments. Good comic relief. It's what she does. Unlike a lot of UK fans, though, she will come back in and congratulate us after the Cards win.
DeleteShe actually attends Louisville games from time-to-time. Never wears red though. Always something neutral and doesn't don UK stuff either in the KFC YUM! Center unless the Cats are playing.
She was in Section 103 for awhile but not sure where she sits this year.
Paulie
Wow. Stuff like that deserves a suspension at the very least.
ReplyDeleteNick O.