The Daily Orange

Syracuse men's lacrosse capped a 12-2 regular season by earning the No. 3 seed in the NCAA tournament, announced Sunday night. The Orange will play Canisius in the first round of the tournament Sunday at 7:30 in the Carrier Dome (ESPNU). The matchup will be the first ever between the two schools.

HAMILTON, N.Y. - The entire Colgate bench swarmed the field in a tidal wave. They hurled helmets and sticks into the air and raced to their cage to meet in a massive mosh pit. Syracuse players dotted the field in still-frame - complete shock - as the white and maroon jerseys flew, triumphant after the Red Raiders 12-11 win.

A Syracuse men's lacrosse recruit was charged with second-degree murder Monday, an Ontario police official told The Daily Orange. Kent Owen Hill, also known as Kent Squires-Hill, was arrested and charged with second-degree murder in connection with the strangling death of 21-year-old Tashina General, said Rocki Smith, the Six Nations deputy chief of police.

Four years ago a week from next Sunday - graduation day of the senior class, by coincidence - marks what was supposed to become a new era of Syracuse sports. The Orangemen and Orangewomen became the Orange, an artificial creation of something so arbitrary but in hindsight, a date that serves as a tipping point in Syracuse sports.

When Kenny Anderson committed to Georgia Tech instead of Syracuse in 1988, making him one of the first flashy New York City guards to turn down Jim Boeheim, legend has it one of his family members provided a simple reason why. "That city's cold, and that man is, too.

It's almost over. They can feel that now, all those on the Syracuse men's lacrosse team who walked out to midfield at the Carrier Dome with their parents Saturday for Senior Day. Some, like Greg Niewieroski and Pete Coluccini have an extra year of eligibility left.

Going into the weekend, the Syracuse softball team knew it needed either two victories or a Villanova loss to secure a spot in the Big East tournament. The Orange didn't need help. SU swept Pittsburgh and took care of business on its own. "We knew that we needed two (wins)," Syracuse head coach Leigh Ross said.

When Chris Fox found out the Syracuse cross country team was nationally ranked for the first time in school history last fall, he hoped it would be the foundation of a special year for the SU track and field program. So as Fox watched distance runner Kyle Heath become the third man to cross the finish line of the 4XMile relay event at the Penn Relays in Philadelphia Saturday, he saw it as a culmination of something that had been brewing since that time: the arrival of Syracuse onto track and field's national stage.

Every point counts. They add up to the difference at the end of the day. So it was in her team's best interest that Kris Sanford would disregard all rosters, start from the scratch for the last meet of the season. "We were looking at it from the standpoint of points.