Will Men's Lacrosse Win its Fourth-Straight Game at Loyola on April 9?
4/6/2005 9:59:01 PM | Men's Lacrosse
SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- SU is coming off a 9-8 win against Brown, but no one on the team was especially thrilled with the victory, even though it extended the Orange’s win streak to three games and upped the team’s record to 4-3. Coach Desko and his players remarked afterward that it was a "sloppy" game with too many SU turnovers. The Orange will look to limit its number of mental mistakes and unforced errors when it visits Loyola College on Saturday, April 9, for a 1 p.m. meeting against the 4-3 Greyhounds. Syracuse moved up one spot to No. 7 in this week’s Geico/STX Coaches Poll.
Despite a 10-5 win at ECAC rival Rutgers last weekend, Loyola did not appear in this week’s Top 20 poll, but did receive 10 votes. The Greyhounds are led by 1988 SU alumn Bill Dirrigl, now in his fourth season as head coach at Loyola. His team is 4-3 on the season and 3-1 playing at home at Diane Geppi-Aikens Field (5,000). The Greyhounds lost their first three games of the season to Towson (7-5), Penn State (16-14) and Duke (6-5), but have rebounded to win their last four outings against Wagner (13-7), St. John’s (6-3), Massachusetts (6-5) and Rutgers (10-5). Loyola is currently in second place in the ECAC Lacrosse League with a 3-1 record. Georgetown is in first place with a 2-0 mark. This will be the 20th meeting between Syracuse and Loyola in men’s lacrosse. SU owns a 15-4 edge in the all-time series and has won the last three games, including a 13-8 victory last year in the Dome. The last time the Greyhounds recorded a win against Syracuse was April 7, 2001 at Curley Field when Dave Cottle was head coach. His team posted a 14-13 overtime win against the Orange, who were led in scoring that year by freshman Mike Powell.
