ESPN announces its extensive 2012 college lacrosse coverage across ESPN, ESPNU and ESPN3 with a schedule featuring nationally-ranked programs, top-caliber games and the addition of the ACC Men’s and Women’s and BIG EAST Men’s Lacrosse Championships. The schedule includes 49 total games – featuring 39 regular-season matchups, 37 men’s and two women’s games – plus the crowing of six conference champions on ESPNU and ESPN3. Coverage begins with No. 4 Johns Hopkins hosting Towson on Friday, Feb. 17, at noon on ESPNU.

Bucktooth, a 2011 All-Star, Joins Stealth for 6^th NLL Season: Everett, Wash. – The Washington Stealth made two roster moves today as the team prepares for its upcoming game against the Edmonton Rush on Saturday night. The Stealth placed veteran forward Jeff Zywicki on the physically unable to perform list and signed forward Brett Bucktooth to the active roster. The Stealth has started the 2012 season with a pair of losses, and face the Edmonton Rush at Comcast Arena on Saturday night.

Join us on January 28th for the 2012 US Lacrosse - Washington State Coaches Convention. This year will prove to be another tremendous learning environment for coaches of the boy's and girl's game. There is a full day program running from 9am-5pm with sessions covering mutiple topics. In addition to keynote speakers Jack Emmer (longtime head coach at Army) and Jen Larsen (head coach at Oregon), we will also have Steve Finnell (head coach at NY powerhouse Garden City HS) and Bill Cherry (head coach at NY powerhouse Manhassett HS). More information below:

Back-and-Forth Battle Ends with Wings’ Crowley Scoring Fifth Goal: Philadelphia, Penn. – The Washington Stealth battled back from a three-goal deficit in the first quarter, but lost 10-9 in overtime to the Philadelphia Wings tonight. Kevin Crowley, the top pick in the most recent National Lacrosse League Entry Draft, scored his fifth goal of the night just over three minutes into overtime to give the Wings its first win of 2012, while the Stealth drops to 0-2 for the first time since 2009.

SEATTLE –The Washington State Chapter of US Lacrosse today announced the 2012 schedules for boys and girls high school lacrosse for its 34^th season in Washington state. The spring season for school teams throughout western Washington and the Spokane, Wenatchee, Tri Cities and Yakima areas in eastern Washington gets underway on March 9 and concludes with the girls state championships Saturday, May 19 at The Eastside Catholic School in Sammamish and the boys state championships, Saturday, May 26 at Memorial Stadium in Seattle.

By Claudia Furmanczyk, Washington Stealth beat writer for NLL.com. Coming off a loss at home in their 2012 season opener, the Washington Stealth head cross-country to the Wells Fargo Center on Saturday night, hoping to keep the Philadelphia Wings winless. The two-time West Division champion Stealth fell 13-10 to Calgary last Saturday. Rhys Duch scored four goals, but no other Washington player had more than one.

SEATTLE – Former Seattle-area prep standouts Drew Snider and Greg Mahony became the first high school lacrosse players from Washington state to be drafted by a professional field lacrosse league with their selection on Friday in the 2012 Major League Lacrosse (MLL) collegiate entry draft. Snider, a 2006 graduate of Seattle’s O’Dea High School and fifth-year senior at the University of Maryland was selected 45th overall by the Chesapeake Bayhawks, while Mahony, a 2007 graduate of Mercer Island High School and 2011 graduate of Yale was selected 56th overall by the 2011 MLL champion Boston Cannons.