Utah outlasted Marquette 12-11 in Milwaukee this afternoon, in M-Lacrosse

[PhiladelphiaUte]

After building up a comfortable 4-1 lead midway thru the 1st-Qtr, Utah (2-1) inexplicably let the Eagles back into the game.  At one point during the match, Marquette (1-2) even took the lead.  

Marquette managed to find the back of the net with 36-sec to play, to close the gap from 12-10 to 12-11, but Utah clamped down on Defense, and held on for the win.

Utah’s win over MU marked our first win over a ‘major conference’ opponent.  Just as the SEC and BigTen are the big dogs in football, the lacrosse world is ruled by the ACC, BigTen, and Big East.

Up next:  #15 Jacksonville, on the road.  Big game!

GO UTES!!!

[PhiladelphiaUte]

Interesting factoid in that game:  One of the officials’ names was “Rick Majerus”.  He has to be some nephew or cousin of our Big Rick — who for the record was a Milwaukee native, who’d played on Marquette’s freshman team back in 1967, before converting to a student assistant and coach.

[Ute2]

Go utes!

Super stoked to see that!!!!!

In related news, this was a thing today:

https://mobile.twitter.com/UtahLacrosse/status/1497678440979329024?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet

I mean, I know what we’re trying to do here. And I support it.

[PlainsUte]

Because I am a big Majerus fan and was collecting quotes from Majerus in the media I have a Google Alert active for “Rick Majerus”.  There is a guy who worked for the Cass County Sheriff’s office in Fargo, North Dakota with the same name who would periodically show up as making a bust or commenting to the media on some issue.   Turns out he retired in 2017.  I have no idea if he’s related to the late great Big Rick.

https://www.valleynewslive.com/content/news/Cass-County-Sheriff-Chief-Deputy-is-retiring-after-nearly-42-years–439916013.html

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