Lacrosse

The 72d United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association/LaxWorld North-South all-star games for Division I, II, and III seniors are scheduled to be played on Friday at Edith Robb Dixon Field at Cabrini College in Radnor. The Division III game is set for 3 p.m. and the Division I/II game for 5:30. Tickets may be purchased at the field. The Rosters       South Team Division I/II No. Player      Position   School 1 David DiMaria    Attack   Lehigh    2 Jack Rice       Attack   Villanova    3 Tim Schwalje      Midfield   Penn    4 T. Timmerberg   SS Middie   Bellarmine    5 Brennan Bicknese   Defense   Georgetown    6 Brett Schmidt   Attack   Mt.

No.   Name   Pos.   Ht.   Wt.   Class   Hometown / Highschool 1    Chris Daddio    M   5-11   191   Jr.    Purcellville, Va. / Loudoun Valley 2    Kevin Rice    A   5-8   160   So.    Skaneateles, N.Y. / Skaneateles 3    Billy Ward    A   5-8   175   Jr.    Baldwinsville, N.Y. / C.W. Baker 4    Bobby Wardwell    GK   6-0   201   So.    Clifton Park, N.Y. / Shenendehowa 5    Joe Fazio    LSM   6-2   212   Sr.

La Salle's Matt Rambo was surrounded. There was a St. Joseph's Prep defender in front of him. There was another behind him. Another to his left, and another to his right. The senior attack simply drove through the tight defense to score the game's final goal Wednesday night and seal La Salle's 18th Catholic League boys' lacrosse title with an 11-6 win at Plymouth Whitemarsh. "He kept twirling and running and crashing into players until he fired it into the empty net," La Salle coach Bill Leahy said.

In just seven minutes, his team trailed by seven goals. But the coach's plan was working just fine. It was Bill Tierney's first game as coach at the University of Denver in 2010. He wanted the Pioneers to get a taste of big-time college lacrosse and they opened the season with a 15-9 loss at Syracuse's Carrier Dome. The freshmen who were on that Denver team are now seniors. On Saturday, the fourth-seeded Pioneers (14-4) will have a chance to show how far they have come when they meet No. 1 Syracuse (15-3)

EIGHT AREA lacrosse players have been selected to play in the All-America Lacrosse Classic. The games will be played July 6 at Towson University. The girls' game will be played at 5 p.m. with the boys' game at 8. The boys' game will be televised on ESPNU for the eighth year. Here are the players selected (with their college in parenthesis): Malvern Prep goalie Matt Barrett (Virginia); La Salle midfielder Sean Coleman (Harvard); Episcopal Academy defenseman Kevin Gayhardt (Penn)

THE NCAA men's lacrosse Final Four will be held next weekend at Lincoln Financial Field, and the semifinals now are set. Unseeded Cornell will play Duke at 2:30 p.m. Saturday. Top-seeded Syracuse will play fourth-seeded Denver at 5 p.m. Saturday. The national championship game will be played at 1 p.m. Memorial Day. In yesterday's quarterfinals, Eric Law scored with 13 seconds left to cap Denver's big comeback in a 12-11 win over North Carolina in Indianapolis. Denver trailed by as many as six goals and was down five at halftime.

Duke and Denver will join Cornell and top-seeded Syracuse in the NCAA Division I men's lacrosse Final Four this weekend at Lincoln Financial Field. David Lawson scored his career-best fifth goal with 2 minutes, 16 seconds remaining to lift seventh-seeded Duke to a 12-11 win over No. 2 Notre Dame (11-5) in the quarterfinals Sunday in Indianapolis. In their seventh consecutive trip to the Final Four, the Blue Devils (14-5) will play Cornell at 2:30 p.m. Saturday at the Linc. Duke won the national championship in 2010.