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The NCAA announced the field for the 2022 NCAA DIII Women’s Lacrosse National Championship tournament on Monday morning. Just as the Roanoke men experienced last night, the Roanoke women would hear their name called as an at-large selection into the Championships.
Roanoke College will make the trip to Gettysburg (Pa.) to begin play in the 48-team tournament this Saturday, May 14. The Maroons wrapped up the 2022 ODAC Tournament with a finals loss to Washington and Lee yesterday and go into the NCAA’s with a 15-4 overall record. Each of the Maroon’s losses this season were to teams that would earn a berth into the 2022 NCAA DIII Tournament, W&L (2x), York, and Catholic. Roanoke will begin the trek to try to get back to Kerr Stadium for the NCAA DIII Final Four in late May with a matchup against the Colonial States Athletic Conference (CSAC) Champion, Bryn Athyn. The Maroons will play the Lions on Saturday (time TBA) with the winner facing Gettysburg on Sunday afternoon.
Bryn Athyn comes into the matchup with Roanoke off a season that would see them win the CSAC Championship, 15-7 over the College of Notre Dame (Md.), while completing the season with an 11-2 overall record.
From Roanoke College Athletics: The NCAA announced the field for the 2022 NCAA Men’s Lacrosse National Championship Tournament last night. The Roanoke College men’s lacrosse team was named as one of the at-large invitees to the 38-team tournament.
The Maroons finished the season with a 13-6 overall record, 8-2 in Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC) play. They were defeated in the ODAC semifinals by the eventual champion Lynchburg and along with the Hornets and Washington and Lee would be one of three ODAC teams to make the field. Roanoke will begin tournament play on Saturday, May 14, in Carlisle, Pa. when they take on Centennial Conference runner-up Gettysburg. The Bullets, ranked #18 in the country, fell to host Dickinson College, 10-9, in overtime of their conference championship game.
Roanoke will face Gettysburg, renewing a series that sees the Maroons with a 6-5 mark. Each of the last three meetings came in the national playoffs, all won by RC with the most recent coming in the 2011 championships.
Roanoke will travel to Dickinson College over the weekend to face Gettysburg at 3:00pm on Saturday with the winner advancing to the round of 16 matchup scheduled for Sunday, May 15th in Carlisle.
(Roanoke, Virginia) Berglund Center and City of Roanoke Parks & Recreation are proud to announce the final installment of the Bud Light’s Vinyl Vault concert series at Elmwood Park! The Whitesnake Farewell World Tour, comes to Roanoke in concert on Friday, September 9 at 7:30pm. This concert is presented by Bud Light, iHeartRadio stations 104.9 Steve FM and WROV, and WSLS-10. Founded in 1978 by singer and Rock & Roll Hall Of Famer, David Coverdale, the band have earned multiplatinum albums, including TROUBLE, LOVEHUNTER, READY AND WILLING and COME AN’ GET IT, through to the explosive hard rock of the revamped SNAKE sound with the multi-platinum SLIDE IT IN and having just celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2017, 1987’s self-titled mega-million-selling smash-hit album, WHITESNAKE. From these albums came multiple top 10 hits worldwide, including 2 number 1 singles with “Here I Go Again” and “Is This Love,” as well as the unforgettable hammer of “Still Of The Night,” all leading to virtual 24-hour domination of MTV around the globe. Tickets go on sale this Friday, May 13, 2022 and will be available at henritzedentaltickets.com, by phone at 1-866 -HDG –TICKETS, and the Berglund Center Box Office.
Event Details:
Event: September 9, 2022 | Elmwood Park
Show Time: 7:30pm
Tickets: $49 In Advance, $54 Day Of, $708 VIP Table
The Roanoke Rail Yard Dawgs lost in overtime tonight 3-2 to the Peoria Rivermen, which claimed the SPHL championship 3 games to 1. Roanoke led for most of the contest before Peoria tied it at 2-2 in the third period and then won it early in the first 15 minute overtime period, in front of 3500 in attendance at the Berglund Center The 8th seeded Dawgs “weren’t supposed to be here,” said broadcaster Mitch Stewart, after the Rail Yard Dawgs beat the top two seeds in the SPHL playoffs before bowing out tonight in front of loyal fans that chanted “lets go Dawgs,” as Peoria celebrated their first league championship on the ice.
The “original party with a purpose” is back on the streets of Roanoke this weekend, and it’s expected to be the first of more than ten this summer, WFIR’s Camden Lazenby has more.PEORIA, IL. – The Rail Yard Dawgs dug an early hole for themselves and never recovered, losing 7-3 to the Peoria Rivermen in Game Two of the President’s Cup Final on Friday night. Nick Ford, Brady Heppner, and Travis Broughman scored for Roanoke, and Peoria leads the best-of-five series 2-0.
The Dawgs allowed three rebound goals within five minutes from the 2:30 mark to 7:20. That chased Sammy Bernard from the Roanoke net for Austyn Roudebush. Bernard stopped 2-of-5 shots, and Austyn Roudebush saved 19-of-23 in relief. Both teams went 2-for-6 on the power play.
The Rail Yard Dawgs will host Game Three of the President’s Cup Final on Monday, May 2 at Berglund Center at 7:05 p.m. EST.
The Tennessee Titans traded up to select quarterback Malik Willis with the No. 86 overall pick on Friday during the third round of the 2022 NFL Draft. In two years as a starter, Willis threw for 5,107 yards, and 47 touchdowns.(from Liberty.edu) Willis became the ninth player in program history to be selected in the NFL Draft when the Tennessee Titans picked him in the third round, earlier tonight. He is the first Flame selected in the draft since wide receiver Antonio Gandy-Golden was taken in the fourth round in 2020 (142nd overall pick).
Willis comes the second-highest NFL Draft pick in program history. The Flames’ top NFL Draft pick was Eric Green, who was selected in the first round (21st pick) by the Pittsburgh Steelers in 1990.
Liberty’s other previous NFL Draft picks include Fred Banks (1985/Round 8/Cleveland Browns), Kelvin Edwards (1986/Round 4/New Orleans Saints), Richard Shelton (1989/Round 10/Denver Broncos), Green (1990/Round 1/Pittsburgh Steelers), Donald Smith (1990/Round 10/Minnesota Vikings), Rashad Jennings (2009/Round 7/Jacksonville Jaguars), Walt Aikens (2014/Round 4/Miami Dolphins) and Gandy-Golden (2020/Round 4/Washington Redskins).
Willis had an award-winning season in 2021. The quarterback was a semifinalist for the Davey O’Brien National Quarterback Award and the Maxwell Award and a top 10 candidate for the Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award.