BearLaxTraxFax 02.02.2022 by John Nichols

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D-I

Lacrosse season is finally here!  The Ivy League is back and the Big Ten is ready to take on all comers this year.  Mercer and Bellarmine kicked off the 2022 season this past weekend and the coming weekend has a pretty full slate of contests.  Across D-l there are sixteen Bears playing on thirteen different teams.  In both the Ivy League and Big Ten we will be following four teams plus three in the Patriot League.  Here are the D-l Bears of 2022:

Bucknell: Drew Wellington

Dartmouth: Brendan Gallagher and Brett Gallagher

Denver: Ryan Giles

Harvard: Joey Graham

Johns Hopkins: Joey Epstein (Co-captain for 3rd year in a row)

Loyola: Cam James

Maryland: John Geppert and Matthew Kopp

Michigan: Zach Johnson and Graham Hertzberg

Navy: James (JT) Thomas III

Penn: Stephen Bou

Penn State: Nate Buller

Towson: Mo Sillah

Yale: Jake Cohen

We will be covering 148 games in D-I this season and twenty-five of those games have Landon alums on both teams—Bears vs. Bears contests.  There are no Bears vs. Bears contests our first weekend, but next weekend we get Johns Hopkins at Towson and Loyola at Maryland to get things rolling.

THIS COMING WEEK:

Bucknell at Mercer

Denver at Utah

Johns Hopkins vs. Jacksonville

Maryland vs. High Point

Michigan vs. Bellarmine

Navy vs. Mount St. Mary’s

Penn State at Lafayette

Towson at Lehigh

POLLS

USILA Coaches’ Poll

1. Virginia

2. Maryland

3. Duke

4. North Carolina

5t. Notre Dame

5t. Georgetown

7. Yale

8. Penn

9. Loyola

10. Rutgers

11. Syracuse

12. Denver

13. Army

14. Lehigh

15. Cornell

16. Johns Hopkins

17. Drexel

18. Princeton

19. Delaware

20. Penn State

US Lacrosse Magazine/Nike

1. Virginia

2. Maryland

3. Duke

4. Georgetown

5. Notre Dame

6. North Carolina

7. Loyola

8. Yale

9. Penn

10. Rutgers

11. Lehigh

12. Denver

13. Army

14. Syracuse

15. Johns Hopkins

16. Delaware

17. Drexel

18. Cornell

19. Vermont

20. Bryant

Inside Lacrosse Medial Poll

1. Virginia

2. Maryland

3. Duke

4. Georgetown

5. Notre Dame

6. North Carolina

7. Yale

8. Loyola

9. Rutgers

10. Army

11. Penn

12t. Denver

12t. Syracuse

14. Lehigh

15. Cornell

16. Delaware

17. Vermont

18. Drexel

19. Johns Hopkins

20. Bryant

D-III

D-III action has a later start with the first action for teams we follow in D-lll coming the weekend of February 12 and NESCAC (Amherst, Colby and Tufts) games starting on the March 5.  We plan to cover seven teams in D-lll this season:

Amherst: Nicholas Kopp

Colby: Miles Tonkel

Colorado College: Max Becker

Gettysburg: Billy Banfield, Mitch Laughlin

Salisbury: Jace Menendez

Tufts: Garrett Kurtz

Washington & Lee: Will Bou

Our D-lll schedule includes 100 games this year, seven of which are Bears vs. Bears contests.

POLLS

USILA Coaches’ Poll

1. RIT

2. Salisbury

3. Tufts

4. York

5. Christopher Newport

6. Lynchburg

7. Cabrini

8. Franklin & Marshall

9. St. John Fisher

10. Williams

11. Stevens

12. Colorado College

13. Stevenson

14. St. Lawrence

15. Cortland

16. Wesleyan

17. Gettysburg

18. Union

19. Denison

20. Amherst

US Lacrosse Magazine/Nike

1. Salisbury

2. RIT

3. Tufts

4. Christopher Newport

5. Lynchburg

6. York

7. Colorado College

8. Franklin & Marshall

9. St. John Fisher

10. Cabrini

11. Stevens

12. Cortland

13. Williams

14. Illinois Wesleyan

15. Stevenson

16. Centre

17. Denison

18. John Carroll

19. Saint Lawrence

20. Wesleyan

Inside Lacrosse Medial Poll

1. RIT

2. Salisbury

3. Tufts

4. York

5. Christopher Newport

6. Lynchburg

7. St. John Fisher

8. Franklin & Marshall

9. St. Lawrence

10. Cabrini

11. Williams

12. Union

13. Wesleyan

14. Stevenson

15. Colorado College

16. Stevens

17. Hampden Sydney

18. Gettysburg

19. Ursinus

20. Washington & Lee

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