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2007 Season

Over the course of 7 days, Arizona State played 5 games going 4-1 wth victories over the #1 MCLA team twice. After a loss to #7 Colorado and a win over then #1 Oregon, the Sun Devils move to #11 in the MCLA national poll. Since the poll was released on March 28th, ASU has victories over unranked Cal, new #1 Michigan and unranked Eastern Michigan. The next poll will be released on Wednesday April 11th. | Full Poll

For the 3rd time this season, Sophomore Tyler Westfall was named the Western Collegiate Lacrosse League Player of the Week. With a total of 15 pts in two games inlcluding 8 goals against top ranked Oregon. Tyler remains at the top of WCLL as the leading scorer. | Read

Freshman Eric Nelson and Freshman Ryan Westfall are in the top 10 WCLL scoring leaders. | Full list

(#11) ASU 16 Eastern Michigan 5
The Sun Devils went into their 5th game in 7 days a little beat up but ready to play. Twelve (12) players had a least 1 Goal. Sophomore Tyler Westfall led the way with 5 points, 2G, 3A. Freshman Anthony LaFlam had 3G, 1A and Senior Kalen Rickard had 2G, 1A. Ryan Westfall, Jonathan Sorvino, Kevin Rider, Harrison Frawley, Taylor Mitchell, Austin Gray, Marshall Clayton, Pete Noel and Dave O'Neil all had 1 Goal. ASU will prepare for the University of San Deigo, an important divisional game this Saturday. | Game Stats

(#11) ASU 13 (#1) Michigan 12
For the second time this week ASU took on the #1 ranked MCLA team. And for the second time in the same week the Sun Devils beat the #1 ranked team. ASU only trailed once with a score of 1-0. They went up by 2 goals on more than one occasion with Michigan reeling them back in. Freshman goalie, Clay Tourault (pictured) had 11 saves in the second half giving ASU the win. Sophomore Tyler Westfall had another great performace with 4 goals and 3 Assists. Freshman Anthony LaFlam had 3 goals and freshman Eric Nelson had 1 goal and 2 assists. Junior Pete Noel had his standard 1 goal 3 assist game like clockwork. Game balls went to Clay Tourault and Tyler Westfall. | Game Stats | Story

A 13-12 win for ASU at Michigan is a great victory for this program and a great victory for Coach Hopkins and staff. The loss at Oosterbaan marks the first time the Wolverines have lost at home since a 9-8 loss to St. Vincent (NCAA DIII) on February 19, 2005. Arizona State is only the second MCLA team to beat Michigan at home. The only other one to do it is Colorado State.

(#11) ASU 14 Cal 7
The Sun Devils were a bit sloppy playing their 3rd game in 4 days, but managing to put up 14 goals against the Cal Bears. 11 Sun Devils has at least 1pt in this game with Freshman Eric Nelson leading the scoring with 1G and 3A, Sophomore Tyler Westfall with 4A and Geoff Cook with 2G and 1A. Sophomore Chris Cole was awarded the game ball for scoring his first career goal. | Game Stats | Photos


(#11) ASU 18 (#1) Oregon 17
The Oregon Ducks brought their #1 MCLA ranking to Tempe,AZ and were coming off a 1 goal loss the day before to #7 Colorado. This high scoring game came down the final seconds of the game with Ryan Westfall scoring the game winner with just :22 seconds remaining. Freshman Goalie Clay Tourault came up big with a save in the last few seconds of the game. Tyler Westfall had a huge game with 10 pts. 8 Goals and 2 Assists. Freshman Ryan Westfall had 2G, 4A, Freshman Eric Nelson had 1G, 4A and Junior Pete Noel had 2G, 1A. | Game Stats | Photos

(#11) ASU 9 (#7) Colorado 10
This game went to the wire with Pete Noel tying the game for Arizona State with just :36 seconds remaining. After a timeout Colorado came out and scored the game winning goal from the top right corner with just :5 seconds left in the game. Seven Sun Devils scored at least one goal. Sophomore Tyler Westfall had 1G and 4A, and freshman Eric Nelson has 2G and 2A. | Game Stats | Photos

Upcoming Games

The Sun Devils have 2 games left on the schedule and both are important divisional games. Two wins would secure a home field game in the first round of the WCLL playoffs. NOTE: The final game at U of A is a 7PM start time in Tucson
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HOME: U of San Diego vs. #11 ASU
AWAY: #11 ASU vs. #10 U of Arizona
Saturday April 7, 2007 @ 1PM
Saturday April 14, 2007 @ 7PM

Apparel Available:

Three new T-shirts and sweat pants have been added to the apparel line up. Help support the team by purchasing apparel. | Merchandise



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To Alumni, Boosters, Parents and Friends of ASU Lacrosse,

We are almost half way through our 2007 Season for Sun Devil Lacrosse.  We currently have a record of 5 - 1 and are 2 – 0 in the South Division of the WCLL.  While we have a lot of hard work still remaining, we must prepare now for anticipated appearances in the WCLL and the MCLA playoffs.   If we are in the WCLL Quarterfinal Playoffs, they will be either in Santa Barbara or in Tempe, assuming we win our remaining two conference games.  The WCLL Championship is on April 28 at the University of California – Berkeley.  The MCLA Championship Tournament is May 15 – 19 in Dallas. 

Obviously this takes money, which we need to raise from donations and from increased fees from our players.  We currently estimate that we will need at least $32,000 or approximately $800 per player if we make it to the MCLA Tournament.  Ideally, we would like to solicit donations that would cover all of our playoff costs as indicated above.   Any shortfall will need to come from our players and their families who have already paid $1,700 to $1,800 for the season.  In addition, many friends and parents have already made significant contributions to our 2007 season. 

We need to secure our travel arrangements as soon as possible and need the financial resources to do this.  Please consider a gift to the 2007 ASU Men’s Lacrosse Club.  We need your support now and request any donations by March 31, 2007.  In order to donate, please access the “Support” tab on our website at  laxdevils.com.  Donations may be considered a "charitable contribution.".  Please be sure to specify your gift is for Men’s Lacrosse.  For information about types of outright gifts, pledges, matching gifts, endowment, gift planning or real property gifts, go to: The ASU foundation. 

Alternatively, you can send checks to “The ASU Foundation – Men’s Lacrosse”.  Please mail your checks to ASU Men’s Lacrosse, 11889 East Gold Dust Ave, Scottsdale, AZ  85259.  Please be sure to include your address so we can mail you a tax receipt.   Thank you for your support of Sun Devil Lacrosse.

Adam T. Hopkins
Head Men's Lacrosse Coach
Arizona State University
Hopkins32@aol.com

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