Will the five one-goal contests Virginia has already played this season help or hurt the defending national champion Cavaliers in this weekend’s Atlantic Coast Conference tournament?
“You’d like to think [those games] are hardening us,” said sophomore attackman Danny Glading, a Georgetown Prep alum who’s second on the team with 26 goals and 14 assists. “We played pretty badly in the two games that we lost so hopefully we can keep that in the back of our minds and come out a little more positively.”
Glading rescued Virginia last weekend with a man-down, game-winning goal for 10-9 win over Dartmouth.
The Cavaliers also received a season-high 12 ground balls in that game from senior Adam Fassnacht (Robinson High), the team’s busiest midfielder (team-high 62 ground balls) and primary face-off man (.542, 109-for-201).
ACC men’s lacrosse semifinals
Today at Duke
No. 2 Virginia (11-2, 2-1) vs.
No. 3 Maryland (9-4, 1-2), 6 p.m.
No. 1 Duke (11-2, 3-0) vs.
No. 4 N. Carolina (9-4, 0-3), 8:30
Favored Hoyas have a new hurdle to NCAAs
The Georgetown women’s lacrosse team carries its seventh straight Big East regular season title into the conference’s first-ever postseason tournament.
But unlike the previous six years, the nationally ninth-ranked Hoyas need to produce two more victories to earn their automatic berth in the NCAA tournament. The first must come against the 12th-ranked Irish, who have won the teams’ last two meetings, including a 13-8 victory in South Bend two weeks ago.
“I think the coaching staff knows how important this game is for us but we’ve haven’t stressed that to the girls,” said Hoyas coach Ricky Fried. “We’ve stressed just worrying about ourselves and doing what we need to do execution wise to be successful this weekend.”
Big East women’s lacrosse semifinals
Today at Syracuse
No. 1 Georgetown (9-6, 4-1) vs. No. 4 Notre Dame (11-5, 3-2), 5:30
No. 2 Syracuse (10-4, 4-1) vs.
No. 3 Rutgers (12-4, 3-2), 7:45
