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PREVIEW: Northwestern Women’s Lacrosse vs. UNC – NCAA Semi-Final

WNUR’s Lynden Ostrander previews today’s match-up between the Northwestern University Wildcats women’s lacrosse team and the University of North Carolina Tar Heels as the two teams fight to claim a spot in this year’s national championship game. Coverage of today’s contest begins at 3:30 at 89.3 FM in the Evanston/Chicago area and WNURSports.com worldwide. It’s official: Northwestern has punched their

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What If? Rule changes in women’s lacrosse

WNUR Sports Online Content Director Cameron Songer (@CameronSonger) invents a few changes to the rules of NCAA women’s lacrosse to draw more fans and make the game more exciting. In case you hadn’t heard by now, Northwestern has a really good lacrosse team. Their recent stretch (this is their ninth consecutive trip to the Final Four) receives some publicity around

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Joe’s Corner: Northwestern Lacrosse Series Finale

WNUR Sports Director Joe Misulonas (@jmisulonas) compares the end of Northwestern’s lacrosse season to the end of a TV series. Last week, NBC aired the series finale of “The Office.” A beloved comedy show came to a sweet end which tied up all the character arcs and delivered the bittersweet moments fans expected for the final episode. Series finales are

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PREVIEW: Northwestern lacrosse vs. Penn State

WNUR’s Lynden Ostrander previews tonight’s NCAA lacrosse quarterfinals matchup between Northwestern and Penn State. Northwestern will meet the Penn State Nittany Lions in the NCAA Quarterfinals on Friday for the right to play in the NCAA semifinals. So, you could say this is kind of a big game. Even more so this holds true for the Cats’ seven seniors as

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The NUmbers Guy: Taylor Thornton

Former WNUR Sports Director Jim Sannes (@JimSannes) profiles the career of Northwestern women’s lacrosse’s Taylor Thornton and shows where she ranks among Northwestern’s all-time greats. Sunday, in the second round of the 2013 NCAA Women’s Lacrosse tournament, Taylor Thornton lost her mind. The senior for the Wildcats dodged, ducked, dipped, dove and dodged her way to three goals while picking

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PREVIEW: Northwestern women’s lacrosse vs. Stanford

WNUR Sports’s Lynden Ostrander (@Lynden_O) previews today’s match-up in the second round of the NCAA women’s lacrosse tournament between the Northwestern University Wildcats and the Stanford University Cardinal. Is it any surprise that the Cats’ are a number 2 seed in the NCAA tourney? I mean they’ve only won seven of the last eight championships… yeah, no big deal. Even

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Northwestern lacrosse: ALC Tournament Preview

WNUR’s Lynden Ostrander recaps the regular season for the Northwestern Women’s Lacrosse team and previews this weekend’s ALC tournament in Baltimore, Maryland. The Wildcats finished off the regular season on a strong note in two regards. First, they trounced rival Penn at home 15-8 in their final regular season game. Second, five Wildcat players made the All –ALC team. Erin

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Northwestern Women’s Lacrosse Preview vs. Penn

WNUR’s Lynden Ostrander recaps the past week for the Northwestern Women’s Lacrosse team and preview their upcoming game against no. 16 ranked Penn. After getting walloped by 2nd ranked Florida 22-4, the No. 4 Northwestern Wildcats bounced back with a 10-8 win over 9th ranked Notre Dame on Thursday, heading into Saturday’s game against rival #16 Penn. Yes, the Cats’

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PREVIEW: No. 4 Northwestern women’s lacrosse vs. No. 3 Florida

WNUR’s Lynden Ostrander takes a look at Saturday’s match-up between the No. 4 Northwestern Wildcats women’s lacrosse team and the No. 3 Florida Gators that swept the ‘Cats in their season series last year. Welcome to the second week of my column. Is there even a need for an intro when you’re talking about the seven-time Division 1 women’s lacrosse

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