The 2008 MLL opening weekend has came and gone and it was a bitter sweet weekend for every team that played. 3 games were played on Saturday, the Los Angeles Riptide at Denver Outlaws, New Jersey Pride at Boston Cannons, Rochester Rattlers at Long Island Lizards and the weekend ended with Washington Bayhawks at Philadelphia Barrage at Washington Bayhawks and Chicago Machine at San Francisco Dragons. All 3 games on Saturday were at 7 PM home team time, Denver beat their rival Los Angeles 22-12 the Outlaws had a 9 goal 2nd quarter. Boston defended their home field against the Pride 13-9. The team that has 7 all pro NLL players Rochester beat the Lizards from Long Island 16-10. On to Sunday the defending back to back MLL Champs are on to a good start as they beat the Bayhawks 17-12, and the last game of the weekend Chicago won a close game as they beat San Francisco 10-9 Chicago now has half the total wins as they did last year, yeah they only had 2 wins last year. Week 1 is now in the books week 2 is coming up.

05-18-2008