Nothing lax about it
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2006
May
2006
PHILADELPHIA — Gordon Mann and I are at Lincoln Financial Field at the Division III men’s lacrosse championships. Salisbury leads Cortland State 7-6 at the half.
It’s a nice, hot, sunny, hot day here at the home of the Philadelphia Eagles, where the lower bowl is about three-quarters full. It’s been a back-and-forth game, but the Sea Gulls, winners of 69 consecutive games, took the lead late in the second quarter. Mike Felice has two goals and two assists for Cortland, while Jimmy Creighton and Matt Dasinger each have two goals for the Sea Gulls.
The game is broadcast on CSTV for those watching at home. Back down to the field.
May 28th, 2006 at 4:41 pm
Hey, Pat, have you become a LAX fan?
May 28th, 2006 at 5:26 pm
More today than yesterday.
Gordon Mann is sitting next to me and is typing a long message. I’ll let him do the talking.
May 28th, 2006 at 5:29 pm
Cortland 13 Salisbury 12 OT
Mike Felice scores an unassisted goal with two seconds left in overtime to give the Red Dragons their second National championship and first in Division III. Cortland won the Division II 1975 title.
The Red Dragons scored on a fluky goal with less than a minute in regulation to force overtime when the goalie misplayed a bouncing ball that seemed harmless.
The win caps an amazing story for Cortland Head Coach Rick Barnes who took over this program on an interim basis this year. As a high school teacher in a school near Cortland, he planned for this to be his only year.
Since two of the national champs — Keith Greene and Greg Stewart — play football at Cortland, we’ll have more coverage later this week on D3football.com.
May 28th, 2006 at 5:45 pm
To coin a cliche, “How the mighty have fallen.” Cortland did it.
At the same time, Salisbury’s win streak was something else again ….
May 29th, 2006 at 3:10 am
http://www.pictureprints.net/photographers.php?photographer=D3sports
First set of photos posted.
May 29th, 2006 at 8:34 pm
Wow–23,990 fans in attendance, and a 13-paragraph story in the New York Times. Not too shabby. I’d like to see 23,990 at the hoops championship game!
May 29th, 2006 at 8:42 pm
Especially considering that article gave one sentence to the D-II game, which involved a Long Island team.
I think if they held the D-III title game in the same city as the D-I final four, on the off day in between, in a doubleheader with the D-II title game, you might see it happen. However, it seems unlikely Division III presidents would elect to lengthen the season two weeks to make that possible. It’s less of a problem in lacrosse because in most cases, schools have graduated by this point.
May 30th, 2006 at 1:50 pm
I think that format works better for a “niche” sport like lacrosse than it would for basketball or football. Lacrosse fans act as promoters of their sport and therefore support any level going on in front of them.
I’ve always thought the Division III ice hockey championship should pair up with the Division I Frozen Four, for the same reasons. Of course extending the already long hockey season becomes an issue.
May 31st, 2006 at 3:41 pm
Well, would the season have to be lengthened? Is it possible to move down the season (start the season a week and a half later tp only lengthen the season half a week)? 2,018 were in attendance for the women’s d3 national title game, and playing in an arena that seats 20,000 or more would be quite the experience for a D3 final four.
May 27th, 2009 at 9:32 pm
[...] I’ve now been to 10 Stagg Bowls, 10 men’s basketball final fours, one women’s basketball final four, a men’s lacrosse title game and now, a Division III baseball championship. And this was just the second time in the 23 Division III championships I’ve attended that the title was decided on the very last play of the game. (The other was the 2006 men’s lacrosse championship, an overtime win for Cortland State over Salisbury.) [...]