Mount Fan Blog: Syracuse back in the Final

Saturday, May 24, 2008

Syracuse back in the Final

The Syracuse Orangemen are back in the NCAA Lacrosse Final.

Mike Leveille's fifth goal of the game gave the Orange a thrilling 12-11 double overtime win and pushed it into the final versus Johns Hopkins on Memorial Day.

The Orange rallied from down three goals at the start of the fourth quarter just to force the extra session.

The berth in the final is the fifthteenth in program history and comes just one year after the Orange had missed the tournament for the first time since the 1980's. Syracuse is looking for its tenth national championship. The last time the Orange won the crown was 2004.

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The Mount FanBlog is hosted by Ryan Raffensperger, a sports fan of all types and a Mount Basketball fan forever.

Raffensperger has loved the Mount as long as he can remember, which basically means 1981 - and remembers the true #GloryDays of Memorial Gym. He remembers the players from those days to the athletes who play at Knott Arena today. And if it's a #MountMayhem day, it's going to be a good day.

He holds a Syracuse University degree in broadcast journalism. He has broadcast high school, college & minor league levels of all sports in his past and regularly covered high school football for his hometown paper. So the blog does make a little sense.

Raffensperger worked professionally as a CPA for many years, but the chronic inflammatory immune disease Sarcoidosis made it impossible to continue that in a manner he found acceptable. Since then, he has spent more time around the Mount St. Mary's basketball program and values Coach Dan Englestad, his staff, and the players' impact on him. The blog was much more active, but the advent of Twitter (follow @themountfanblog) has made writing a little less important. But he hopes that the balance swings back in favor of more traditional content soon.