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Guest Article by Alex Sellar:


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Farewell Boulder

The Cats finished their trip last week 1-2. After losing to Colorado the team turned around and lay a beating on the Huskers 21-2. Connor McCarthey (Mac) had quite the showing with 5 goals and 1 assist. Flower had 3 goals and 3 assists. Lamay and C-Ry had 2 goals and 2 assists each. The following game against Clemson was a much different game. Although the score was 5-2 the Cats dominated many aspects of the game. The boys came out and showed how New England lacrosse is played by laying down the hammer. Per usual, there were plenty of hits by Potter, Elder Gauvin and Joey. C-Ry joined the list as well with one monster hit. Unfortunately the hard-nosed play wasn’t something that West Coast lacrosse was used too and the Cats spent a great deal of time in the box. The Cats out-shot Clemson 34-28. I will tip my hat off to the Clemson goalie, he had some great saves. Although the game ended in a loss the Cats set the tone for the start of their PCLL season by being a physical, high energy team.
The best part of the entire trip was the realization that we have two jungle book characters on our team. The bickering between the two makes the resemblance even better:

Steven Jordan

Unfortunately, after as much searching as possible I couldn’t find a picture of Coach Small to do justice for Baloo, but I think the Mowgli photo makes up for it.

Wildchats 4

Q: Chinese or Mexican?
A: Wo shi xuexi zhongwen. Wo bu shi Mexico… Ya that’s right I’m studying the china language

Q: If you were an animal what animal would you be and why?
A: One of those lizards that can run across water, closest you can get to being jesus

Q:Best place to eat downtown late-night?
A: Jack Stones without a doubt I heard they have a thing called the Currie’s Final Countdown that brings it’s foes to its knees.

Q: Lax wax or no lax wax?
A: Nice smell. Only comment

Q: Rumor has it you’ve had upwards of 6 concussions, how are you still enrolled at UNH?
A: Well brains are a funny thing memory comes and goes ya know

Q:Philly, Hoco, or Stillings?
A:Philly or die. Unless its Sunday morning at Hoco with Omelet Tom set a tradition

Q:Black or white mid-calves?
A: Only ones that can wear black mid calves are the Fab 5. And Ball

Q: Favorite TV show?
A: The original series on History Channel Swamp People Hurricane Katrina couldn’t put these crazy Cajuns down

Q: What’s the best way to unleash Potter Smash?
A: Me talking to him, looking at him, smiling at him.

Q: If you could punch anyone in the face on the team who would it be and why?
A: Marty. I can’t tell you why but it’s just something about his face.

Introducing Michael Currie



Special thanks to Jake Katz, creator of Wildchats.

Tough Start

The Cats came out with a rough start against the Buffs. With a 14-9 loss the Cats have a few kinks to work out before their games on Friday and Saturday against Nebraska and Clemson. The lack of mental focus, clears, and penalties; combined with the athletics and outside shots from the Buffs cost the game for UNH. Although the game ended in a loss, not all was bad for the Cats’. We played hard, physical and had a never say die attitude. The goal scoring was spread across the board with goals coming from Stohrer, Buckley, Younger Gauvin, Hayward, Currie, MaCarthy, Pratte, Flower and three assists from Gardiner. With a few less mental mistakes and penalties it could have been a whole different ball game.

On a less serious note, The Boys are out in Boulder causing a ruckus. Taking trips to the local establishments and turning heads everywhere we go, standing out as the New Englanders we are. Although the flavorful subs and spicy burritos are a nice change of pace to our clam chowder, I don’t think anyone is enjoying the increase in flatulence (I feel bad for Tom Ball Generazzo’s roommates). Our freshman goalie, Marty, has confirmed the stereotype that all goalies are strange by eating a diet of solely chicken fingers, French fries, rice kipsies and Ritz crackers. The constant video footage covered by Eli Hayward has opened the door for lots of shenanigans and pranks all through the day. Here is a short clip from the many hours of footage of the boys in transit:


There’s more where that came from.

With the Corn Boys coming up and Clemson to end the trip on St. Patty’s day UNH is ready to head out of Boulder with a solid 2-1 record.

Stay tuned.
-Kerrigan

Colorado Bound

Preseason has finally come to an end and all that hard work is about to pay off. Tonight the Cats’ leave for Colorado. Over the past month the Cats’ have played Merrimack College, Springfield College, Southern New Hampshire University and the War Pigs. In all four games the team improved in every aspect of the game.

The team has a few new faces that should be noted before the season starts. Number 17, John Tyler Markley, has returned from his year hiatus in the Orient to play some LSM. New to starting on attack is number 44, Dylan Stohrer, a Freshman transfer from Keene State and Dover local. The next new starting defenseman for the Cats’ is number 33, Kyle Pratt, a transfer from Hofstra University and Manchester local. Keep an eye out for the three this season.

Kyle Pratt

Dylan Stohrer

The Boys leave Manchester Airport at 6:40 and won’t arrive in Colorado until after 11:00 in Denver. The season starts with a game on Wednesday night at 6:00 MST against Colorado University. The Cats’ also play Clemson University at 4:30pm on Friday and University of Nebraska at 7:00pm on Saturday. There will be live twitter update of all three games so in order to stay informed follow the Cats’ at @UNHLacrosse. There will be frequent posts this week in order to keep the fans informed and up to date on UNH Lax.

Rumor Mill: Con Bro Chill May be Making his NH Debut

Sorry, it's been a while since the last post. I've been busy with academics and the like.

That being said, last night I had the fortune/blessing of receiving a Facebook message from the THE Con Bro Chill!



For the uninformed few who don't already know of Con's exploits inside and outside of the lacrosse community – his name is Connor Martin and he is an MCLA hero. Graduating from Chapman University in 2010 as the MCLA Player of the Year, the Oregon native has moved on to be a marquee personality in the both the indoor and outdoor professional lacrosse leagues.


Like they say, a picture is worth a thousand words. I think this speak volumes.

Outside of lacrosse Martin is known for making ridiculous fake news telecasts and equally as absurd music videos. More recently Con has started his own band, Con Bro Chill – this brings me to the point of the message. Con Bro Chill (the band) will be touring/performing/chilling in the Boston Area in mid-March. The band would like to meet up with some east coast club brethren and wants to make a stop in Durham. In terms of scheduling and logistics it is yet to be determined if this going to work out.

Here is what we could be in for:



Looks/sounds pretty righteous.

As far as I know, it is still up in the air as to whether or not this legend of club lax will be making a Durham pit stop on his conquest of the east coast, hopefully we'll find out in the near future.

Stay tuned for next time, I've got another post in the making.

- Stokes

P.S.

He called me “brew”.. awesome.

2012 Spring Season

The Wildcats have two preseason scrimmages against two formidable opponents, Springfield College and Merrimack College. We play Springfield at 10:30 and Merrimack at 1:30 at Merrimack College tomorrow, Saturday the 11th. Come show your support for the Wildcats tomorrow or at any of our future games this season.

Schedule:

March 14th Colorado at Colorado 7:00 PM
March 16th Clemson at Colorado 7:00 PM
March 17th Nebraska at Colorado 2:00 PM
March 30th SUNY Buffalo at Buffalo 7:00 PM
March 31st Virginia Tech at Buffalo 2:00 PM
TBA Stonehill at UNH TBA
April 11th Uconn at UNH 5:00 PM
April 15th Boston University at UNH 1:00 PM
April 18th Boston College at Boston College 8:00 PM
April 21st Northeastern at Northeastern 4:00 PM
April 24th WPI UNH at 7:00 PM
April 28th URI URI at 2:00 PM

Back in Action...Again

Apologies for the winter hiatus but... Looks like it's that time of year again! The 'Cats are back in Durham after a well deserved winter break and ready for a fresh season of lax, academics and consistent blog posts. The boys haven’t been entirely idle over the past month or so – under the direction of our new strength and conditioning Coach Ryan George the team has been getting fit and lean for coming beach season (Learn more about his work here..).


Blogmaster John Kerrigan is looking pleased with his results!

The 'Cats have also hosted their 3rd annual youth lacrosse clinic with over 100 Seacoast Area youth lacrosse players in attendance. At the clinic we were fortunate enough to have Boston Cannons mid-fielder Mike Stone with us. He put on a great shooting demo and helped out with some of the drills as well.


Mike Stone doing his thing.


The most feared defensemen in the PCLL breaking it down for the young ones.

That being said, this week marks the beginning of the spring season and we'll be in the lovely field house for a couple of late night practices. The boys better be sure to bring their A-Game's and some Neosporin® for that track burn.

- Stokes

Team Look-A-Likes

The fall season recap is coming soon, but until then we would like to give our readers some distraction before a dreaded finals week. Originally we planned on doing a Freshman-Look-Alike however there were some guys on the team we just couldn't leave out. So without further adieu, the look-a-likes:


Choice A: Freshman Attackman, Andy Upton and Roger Taney, 1800's Chief Justice of the United States (Ask stokes where he found this one)


Choice B: Freshman Attackman, Hoy Truong and Wan "Short Round" Li from Indiana Jones


Choice C: Sophomore Midfielder, Conor Ryan and Willem Dafoe


Choice D: Sophomore Defenseman, Scott Potter and everyone's favorite action hero: G.I. Joe


Choice E: Junior Defenseman, Drew "Doc" O'Connor and Jonah Hill


Choice F: Freshman Attackman, Alex Whitmore and Hunter Whitmore

Vote for your favorite look-a-like. The poll will close after the semester.

The Blog Is Back!

After the past 6 months of inactivity the UNH lacrosse blog is back up and running. Jake Katz, the old blogboss, has stepped down and moved on into the real world. The blog has now been passed down to John Kerrigan and Adam Stokes.

As our first blog post we decided it would be in the best interest of our readers to introduce each other.

Adam “Stokes” Stokes


• Sophomore WSBE – Finance and Marketing Major
• Lacrosse: Midfield/Attack (Depends on how Clark is feeling that day)
• Favorite part of lacrosse: line drills
• Most chill kid on the team
• Has a freakish knowledge of all youtube videos
• The only human on earth to “hate” Seinfeld
• Spends 85% of his day napping in bed
• Eats strictly food covered in Franks Red Hot sauce

John Finley Kerrigan


• Sophomore WSBE Student: Majoring in Finance and Minoring in Math
• When he’s on the field he plays defense. When he’s on the dance floor …strictly offence.
• Known for his many illustrious nicknames: Afroman, Kool-Aid Man, Palmdale, Jim Kerrington, Little Samurai, Poo Bear and more recently Good Ol’ Iron Jaw.
• John is the forgotten middle child in a family of four.
• However, it’s quite possible he has the highest GPA on the team (besides any Communications Majors).
• He also has great quads (even ask Jordan Gauvin).
• Lastly, he’ll probably be doing more blog posts than me this season

PLAYOFFS?!?!?!?!

The UNH wildcats are going to the playoffs baby. Following a 9-5 win over Northeastern we snuck in as the 6th seed and have a rematch we Boston University on Wednesday night in their barn.

The Northeastern game was an exciting back and forth contest until we opened it up in the fourth quarter. Joe Gardiner put the team on his back netting 5 goals and adding an assist. The defense played well the entire game, forcing a lot of turnovers and letting our offense dominate time of possession.

Goal Scorers : Gardiner 5 Conor Ryan 1 Milano 1 Buckley 1 Mark Cochrane 1




Lastly, there is literally an elephant in the proverbial room for our Lacrosse team, but as a journalist I have a duty to report the truth. Here it is : STA alumns are straight killing it.

Joe Gardiner- Leads the team in goals and 2nd in assists
Zach Goodwin- 16/18 in faceoffs against Northeastern
Chris Morse- Transition sparker for the defense and has a pretty impressive post-goal-stick-spiking celebration
The Blogfather- Leads the team in saves and time spent in cut off sweat pants
Big Dog Barry Katz- Leads the league in Winnebago's owned and pulled pork sandwiches

See you at BU

P.S. It was senior night

Win or Go Home

Well as my good friend and musical inspiration Rebecca Black said: " Gotta get down on Friday." Well the mens lacrosse team has no choice but to get down tonight. With our final game of the regular season, we have to beat Northeastern to make our conference playoffs. So have a few pops, enjoy the weather and come to the game tonight at 7. Go Cats


P.S. I visit Northeastern very frequently and have gone to a number of basketball games. Last year when the Huskies were playing VCU I got selected to participate in the free throw shooting contest to win 5 free hotdogs from Spike's. Well any third grade girl can shoot free throws so I decided to back up and take some NBA range 3 bombs. After I schwaped a few to take a healthy lead on my overmatched opponent I backed up to the half court and absolutely BURIED the half courter sending the crowd of about 40 into a frenzy. Whats my point? The coolest thing ever to happen at Northeastern was done by a Wildcat. A Spike's hotdog has never tasted so sweet

God Bless

Wildcats go down to Buffs by 1

Siiiiiiiiiigggh. The UNH wildcats fell to the University of Colorado Buffalos last night 9-8 to lose their fourth game of the year by 1. We came out of the gates flying and enjoyed an early 2-0 lead. The Buffs then played like a top 10 team in the country and scored 6 un-answered goals. We then had a little rally of ourselves to make the game 6-5 at half time. An even second half led to a see-saw game with back and forth goals. Once again we had one last chance to win it but the clock struck midnight with the final score Colorado 9 UNH 8.

Goal Scorers: Joe Gardiner 3 Mark Cochrane 2 Evan Flower 1 Dan Milano 1 and Connor Murphy 1

Zach Goodwin went 10 for 16 on faceoffs which is a good sign for things to come.


We have our last regular season game this Friday against Northeastern. This is essentially the first playoff game for us because if we win we sneak in as the 6th seed in the conference playoffs and have the distinction of being the one team that no one wants to play. We have lost 5 conference games by a combined 7 goals. Yes Johnny Mcenroe ...we are serious.

Happy Easter

I just wanted to take the time to wish all the readers a happy and healthy Easter Sunday. If you strayed off from your hunt and somehow landed on this site I wanted to treat you with something extra special.

This is a picture of yours truly on the right, and your starting Long Stick Middie Chris Morse on the left, circa 1997 for Cocheco Lacrosse. Here are some observations from this amazing photo.

1) I think its safe to say that helmet technology has come along way. I think if we just tied a bunch of pillows to our head it would have been safer. Its amazing I can remember Spanish vocab words after all the head shots I took in third grade.

2) My father was angry at me this week/year. How else could you explain him making me wear those dapper goggles. I don't care how important vision is that is just inexcusable.

3) Look at Morse's chinstap. "Play Lax." That is a top notch slogan for a Lax helmet.

4) I was always taller and more handsome than Morse.

Enjoy the photo and your chocolate bunnies

All Stick

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