Laxcats on prowl for right to host tourney

Brian Foster Arizona Daily Wildcat Senior midfielder Max Webber fakes a Loyola Marymount defender out of his shoes for one of his four goals over the weekend at Wildcat Field. The Laxcats defeated LMU 14-10 Saturday and UCSB 12-9 Sunday.

The Arizona Lacrosse club team had perhaps its biggest weekend of the season, coming out with an impressive sweep. They beat their division rivals, the Loyola Marymount Lions, 14-10 on Saturday and the fifth-ranked Santa Barbara Gauchos 12-9 on Sunday.

"I knew the LMU game was huge because they beat us in the fall and we were missing two of our big guns in Danny (Price) and Josh Sfara, but we stepped it up a notch," Laxcat senior midfielder Max Webber said.

UA got needed help from its veterans. Webber combined for four goals and four assists on the weekend with midfielder Chris Stinson doing the same.

The Laxcats opened up a 7-1 lead and then LMU caught fire and started putting the ball in the net. Before many fans knew it, the score was just 9-8 in favor of the Laxcats.

"I knew the more experience players would be able to take over," UA head coach Mickey-Miles Felton said.

The win over LMU put the Laxcats in position to host the quarterfinals of the WCLL playoffs on April 18.