Good Beginnings

While the sport may be only in the growing stages in this region, it is showing some promising progress. Recently, Indiana Tech formed a new team. Since, they have secured a spot as competitors within the collegiate ranks. Posting a record thus far of 6-2 and with a commanding win over Purdue on March 25th, they have proven with a little community support, good recruits, and developing high school teams in the area that a solid collegiate program can evolve from what seemed to be thin air.

Scores for local high school teams Bishop Luers and Snider have yet to be reported; more on them later. Homestead however, which got off to somewhat of a rough start had solid games on the 25th and 26th of March. With convincing wins over both North Central and Bloomington it may be that they have finally lifted themselves up from being a lower tier team within Indiana.

Lastly and perhaps most promising, the Fort Wayne middle school program, Southwest Lacrosse, had a terrific start to their season. The program has come a long way since its birth only 3 years ago. They began their schedule with games against Carmel of Indianapolis, and Bloomington. There is no doubt Carmel is a dominating force on all levels, however Southwest was able to keep them to only 6 goals, and was able to post 3 of their own. This is the smallest deficit any program from the areas has ever seen against a Carmel team. Lastly, after the loss to Carmel, Southwest was able to manhandle Bloomington to a 15-6 win.

Keep it up gentlemen.