{"id":53007,"date":"2014-01-15T20:28:15","date_gmt":"2014-01-16T01:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=53007"},"modified":"2014-01-15T19:30:26","modified_gmt":"2014-01-16T00:30:26","slug":"raiders-name-three-senior-captains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=53007","title":{"rendered":"Raiders Name Three Senior Captains"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"COLGATE<\/a>Ryan Named for Second Season; Joined by Lawrence, Boyle<\/p>\n

By John Painter<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

(Hamilton, NY \u2013 Jan. 13, 2014)\u00a0Colgate head coach Mike Murphy announced\u00a0Monday\u00a0his three captains for the 2014 men\u2019s lacrosse season.<\/p>\n

Jimmy Ryan is back for a second tour in a leadership position, and he\u2019s joined this year by fellow seniors Bobby Lawrence and Kevin Boyle. It\u2019s the first time in Murphy\u2019s Colgate tenure that all three captains are seniors.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve typically had a junior captain, and we had some excellent lead candidates this year as well,\u201d Murphy said. \u201cBecause the voting was so close for a third captain, we were going to just go with Jimmy and Bobby.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut both of our junior candidates actually came to me and said Kevin should be the third pick, so that shows you what a great job Kevin has done leading his peers. He has gained the support of his teammates and the coaching staff, and I have no doubts that our senior leadership from Jimmy, Bobby and Kevin will be outstanding.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ryan was an All-Patriot League first team selection last year after finishing with 23 points on 15 goals and eight assists. He compiled 13 groundballs and five caused turnovers, and was the Patriot League\u2019s Offensive Player of the Week after scoring four goals \u2013 including the game-winner \u2013 in a 14-13 overtime triumph at Bryant.<\/p>\n

\u201cJimmy does an outstanding job on both ends of the field for us in his midfield position,\u201d Murphy said. \u201cHe was a great captain for us as a junior along with Peter Baum and James Queeney. Now that those two guys have graduated, Jimmy will take on that lead role.\u201d<\/p>\n

Preseason All-American<\/b><\/p>\n

Lawrence also was an All-Patriot League first team choice last season and earned the team\u2019s Tyler Kopp Memorial Award as Defensive MVP. He posted 62 groundballs and caused 33 turnovers. Lawrence\u2019s goal count was just one, but it happened to be the game-winner in a 14-10 victory at Lafayette.<\/p>\n

\u201cBobby has been a great player in our program for three years and we\u2019re excited for him and his senior year,\u201d Murphy said. \u201cBobby is a preseason All-American and will lead our defense once again this year, and we\u2019re excited to see him take on more of an overall team leadership role.\u201d<\/p>\n

Boyle finished last season with 43 groundballs and 15 caused turnovers from his defensive position. He also scored two goals, including one to spark the Raiders\u2019 10-7 win over Michigan at Citi Field.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd then we\u2019re very excited that the guys selected Kevin as our third captain,\u201d Murphy said. \u201cThroughout the course of the fall and in our training, his leadership has really come to the forefront and I\u2019m excited for Kevin to wear the \u201cC\u201d on his chest.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been very impressed with Kevin on and off the field in different leadership roles. He\u2019s a vocal guy, and all three of our captains have a different but effective leadership style.\u201d<\/p>\n

Colgate opens its 2014 regular season with four of the first five games at Andy Kerr Stadium. The opener is\u00a0Feb. 8\u00a0against Bryant in a\u00a01 p.m.\u00a0start. The Patriot League opener is\u00a0Feb. 22\u00a0at Lafayette.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have a schedule that features five NCAA tournaments teams \u2013 six if you count our preseason scrimmage against Albany,\u201d Murphy said. \u201cMy hope is that as we get ready for the new Patriot League, with the additions of Loyola and Boston University, our guys will be battle-tested.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Ryan Named for Second Season; Joined by Lawrence, Boyle By John Painter (Hamilton, NY \u2013 Jan. 13, 2014)\u00a0Colgate head coach Mike Murphy announced\u00a0Monday\u00a0his three captains for the 2014 men\u2019s lacrosse season. Jimmy Ryan is back for a second tour in a leadership position, and he\u2019s joined this year by fellow seniors Bobby Lawrence and Kevin […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[94],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-dMX","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}