Lyle Thompson

On Saturday, the University at Albany men's lacrosse season ended with a 14-10 loss to Notre Dame in the NCAA quarterfinal. It was the second straight year the Danes lost to the Irish, but this loss also ended the illustrious career of Lyle Thompson, who ends his career with the most points in NCAA history (400)...

Quite honestly, I didn't like lacrosse. For a long time. I was a college baseball player, and like most baseball and lacrosse players, I enveloped myself in the rivalry of the two sports. It's not so much a rivalry as it is just often a casual indifference from one sport to the other...

With UAlbany and three prominent Section II products in the NCAA lacrosse tournament this weekend, local fans had multiple reasons to be optimistic. But after play concluded and the Final Four was set? Notttt so much. Underdog UAlbany hung tough, and even held a 9-8 lead at one point against top-seeded Notre Dame, but the Danes couldn't pull the upset, falling 14-10...

Here at 104.5 The Team, we are getting ready for UAlbany lacrosse on Saturday (3 PM, ESPN U). The Great Danes take on No. 1 Notre Dame in the NCAA quarterfinal with a spot in the final four on the line. It's also a rematch of last year's NCAA quarterfinal that saw Notre Dame take down UA after being down five goals in the final quarter...

When you have the best player to ever play your sport on your team, you better have a standout game to be named "player of the week." That's exactly what happened for UAlbany lacrosse goalie Blaze Riorden.

Join Armen, Levack, and the rest of the 104.5 staff as we head to City Line Bar and Grill for the the OFFICIAL UAlbany lacrosse viewing party. Need an address? 1200 Western Ave., Albany, N.Y. As you see from the official "DANEger Zone" tweet, you can plan on seeing plenty of other UAlbany fans in attendance...

While we spend a lot of time chronicling the accomplishments of UAlbany lacrosse star Lyle Thompson, we need to not forget the accomplishments of NIskayuna graduate and Syracuse standout Kayla Treanor. Thompson was the co-winner of the Tewaaraton Award last year on the men's side and is a finalist this year...

Once again UAlbany's attackmen Lyle Thompson is up for lacrosse's most prestigious award The Tewaaraton Award.  This is Thompson's third consecutive year, and he seeks to become the first repeat winner in the 15-year history of the Tewaaraton Award...

After winning the ACC tournament, the Syracuse Orange men's lacrosse team earned the No. 2 seed in the NCAA tournament. They'll play this Sunday at 7:30 p.m. against the winner of Bryant and Marist, who play this afternoon. Anchoring the back end of the Orange defense is Shenendehowa graduate Bobby Wardwell...

On Sunday, the Danes learned they would be playing Cornell in the first round of this year's tournament.After beating Stony Brook and winning the America East title on Saturday, the UAlbany men's lacrosse team secured another trip to the NCAA tournament...

The UAlbany men's lacrosse team advanced to the America East final after beating Hartford on Thursday by a score of 15-6 at Bob Ford Field. Lyle Thompson scored nine points in the win, giving him 100 or more for the third consecutive season...

With a dominating 20-9 win over the University of Maryland-Baltimore County on Saturday, the UAlbany men's lacrosse team earned a perfect America East regular season record (6-0). It's the third straight perfect conference season for the Danes, who are now 13-2 overall...