Hayward Howard plays at only one speed -100 miles an hour. He is very fast and outstanding between the lines. Hayward creates havoc with his tenacity. Brian Burke has improved his strength. He's one of the top stick handlers on the defensive end with a tremendous ability to clear the ball. |
He has a good knack at scoring in tight. Michael has tremendous quickness and is a tough rider. |
It's one of those things where you've got a fifth-year kid who has done everything we've asked of him and has worked extremely hard and has had a couple weeks in a row of tremendous practices. We inserted him in the starting lineup, and he was great. And he deserved it, just because of everything that he's done. |
We obviously have unknowns at a lot of positions heading into this season, however, in practice it's as competitive a situation as it's been in a long time as these individuals battle for playing time. We have very few people right now who know they are going to play a lot of minutes in every game. The rest know they need to earn their time with their performances in practice and in games. |
We wanted to try to kill the penalty to get back to even strength. It got over to him, and he was having his way with his defender. He took him to the goal and put it in the net for us. He was so confident in what he was doing that he was tough to handle at that point. |
You can't give up 21 goals and expect to win a lacrosse game. Not against the University of Virginia. |