Liberty to play Lynchburg College

by **John Westfall** on Tue Feb 15, 2005 2:57 am

The Lynchburg College Coach contacted us and we are working on setting up a game with Lynchburg College's Varsity squad. Lynchburg is a ranked D3 program in the NCAA. When we put together a date and we have more details I will let everyone know.

I feel we can compete with them but I'm realistic that it is more of a developmetal game for us to play some really great competition that can develop our skills.

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by **AppStateLax** on Tue Feb 15, 2005 5:18 am

Good luck! I remember playing Roanoke, VMI, Limestone, Pfieffer, Lees McRae, and Radford in the mid 90's (at VT) when they were I, II, or III. Most we beat but Roanoke showed us a lesson that we were not the top guys, even though we went to St. Louis 2 straight years.

I also know it is a very good learning experience for the team. I believe, especially a scrimage, should be played against the toughest competition. In fact our team this year only played SELC-A schools in the fall.

Just as FSU played D1 schools in the fall, Lynchburg College is a great game for your kids (experience, sometimes humility) and for the future of the SELC (competition, exposure).

by **Coach Dave** on Tue Feb 15, 2005 11:26 am

Coach Westfall, I wish you the best of luck with getting this game scheduled. It will be huge for your program. If you can do this on a regular basis it will help you draw more players to your program.

by **the lax** on Wed Feb 16, 2005 10:01 am

Please schedule it. I'd love to get a scouting report on the Lynchburg.

Try to schedule it at Lynchburg as their home field advantage is a unique experience.

by **John Westfall** on Thu Feb 17, 2005 12:14 am

We are working on it. We will play them at Lynchburg College. But our facility is much better then theirs. I should have this thing taken care of in the next day or two.

by **thedarkestblood** on Sat Feb 19, 2005 10:04 am

[quote]But our facility is much better then theirs[/quote]John Westfall

i just looked online, lynchburg colleges facilities are a lot better than libertys, liberty doesnt even have fully marked lines on their field. this is one game im going to drive up to see. you cant hang with them

by **Bill Kendall** on Sat Feb 19, 2005 11:11 pm

thedarkestblood wrote:
But our facility is much better then theirs
John Westfall

i just looked online, lynchburg colleges facilities are a lot better than libertys, liberty doesnt even have fully marked lines on their field. this is one game im going to drive up to see. you cant hang with them

So who do you play for? Or are you just gonna lurk and not let us know from where the retorts come?

by **the lax** on Sun Feb 20, 2005 2:12 am

Liberty's facilities are much better than Lynchberg's aka Jerry Fallowell's (sp) school.

I'm not concerned with the facilities as much as I am Liberty's ability to contain the Hornet's 6'8'' freshman attackman.

by **thedarkestblood** on Sun Feb 20, 2005 10:03 am

woah the lax,
am i reading this wrong or are you writing it wrong, liberty is jerry fallowells school, and lynchburg isnt, lynchburgs field has their own lines, and for a field only used for lacrosse. Im guessing liberty just used the football stadium, no lines, but turf. i'd take a real lax field any day over a turf football field with no lines. im curious how they do on that 6'8 attackman too, their whole team is freshmen basicly. they beat st mary's yesterday like 13 to 8. either way im driving up for it.

by **Bill Kendall** on Sun Feb 20, 2005 11:13 am

the lax wrote:Liberty's facilities are much better than Lynchberg's aka Jerry Fallowell's (sp) school.

I'm not concerned with the facilities as much as I am Liberty's ability to contain the Hornet's 6'8'' freshman attackman.

Should be interesting, our defensemen are all 6" and over. but 6'8", ain't that illegal?? LOL!

by **Hugh Nunn** on Sun Feb 20, 2005 12:24 pm

The only thing you can do is live by the lift check, slide early, and not give hm an uncontested shot.

As for facilities, I have heard nothing but good things about Liberty's. Homewood field has footbal, soccer, and field hockey in addition to men's and women's lacrosse lines painted on. I guess we'll all just have to do our best with what we have.

Obviously Liberty will have an uphill battle against a D-III opponent.

"You can't hang with them"...you're a Rhodes Scholar, aren't you?

by **The Big Hurt** on Sun Feb 20, 2005 12:40 pm

For me, I really don't care if we can "hang" with them or if they have a 6'8" attackmen or not. No one on our team doubts their ability to play or how good they are. We are hoping for a great learning experience and adding this game will help keep us warm during our month break between games. As for facilities; grass, turf, lines or not, lax isn't about where or who you play, it's about getting out their and loving the game.

by **Bill Kendall** on Sun Feb 20, 2005 2:16 pm

Hugh Nunn wrote:The only thing you can do is live by the lift check, slide early, and not give hm an uncontested shot.

As for facilities, I have heard nothing but good things about Liberty's. Homewood field has footbal, soccer, and field hockey in addition to men's and women's lacrosse lines painted on. I guess we'll all just have to do our best with what we have.

Obviously Liberty will have an uphill battle against a D-III opponent.

"You can't hang with them"...you're a Rhodes Scholar, aren't you?

Hugh,
You hit the nail on the head. How much stock or attention should we really give someone (darkestblood), who doesn't have the intestinal fortitude to back up his posts with who he is and who he plays for. Probably is the capatain of the tiddlywinks team for Our Lady of the Immaculate Reception...oh well, we all have oopinions and we know the old saying about opinions...

by **attr4life** on Sun Feb 20, 2005 2:29 pm

the bigger they are the harder they fall. saw the game yesterday vs lynchburg and st mary's. the giant scored 4 times, but he's not unstopable, he got shut down pretty good most of the time. Get em' flames. just watch your fouls, lynchburg scored on every man up opportunity but 1.

by **Coach Dave** on Sun Feb 20, 2005 3:34 pm

I have to say that any SELC program that can schedule a dIII or any NCAA game should jump at the chance. Regardless if you win or lose. I encourage Liberty to play this game. It has no bearing on their SELC standings.

As far as arguing over what field is better is really not important. Sounds like this darkguy is trying to bait a few people and drag them down to his sorry little level of life.

The best thing to do is not to respond any of his comments.

I have not seen Liberty play this year. They are 3-0 and nobody has put that many points on them. So what if one guy is scoring all their goals. No one as of yet has stopped him.