SWLL Playoffs (Southeastern Women's Lacrosse League)

[scuwlax]

Can anyone shed some light on the SWLL playoffs. Are they this weekend or next? Location, format, seedings and matchups?

Thanks,
Brendan

[adamw12]

Each full member team of the SWLL is required to play 6 conference games. The conference is split into 2 regions and there are 7 teams in the North region and 6 teams in the South region. Each team is required to play 4 games within their region and 2 cross regional games. For example: South Carolina's 4 regional games are Georgia, Georgia Tech, Emory, and Clemson. Their cross regional games this year were against Central Florida and Florida. Although South Carolina is a very strong team in the conference this year, they had some very tough mandatory conference games which leaves them to have an at best 3-3 record (still has 2 games left to play). This will put them as a lower seed if they finish 3-3 which should allow them to sneak into the tourney. As you can see, some teams from the north and south can end up with tougher mandatory opponents which usualy makes for an interesting seeding each year. On the flip side, a team like Auburn has had a great year in the conference but did not have to play traditional strong SWLL opponents such as UCF, UF, UGA etc. and they finished 5-1 in mandatory games so they are looking at a high seed this year which is what they deserve for having a great season.

We take the top 8 teams based on their 6 game record. If there are any ties, then we look at head to head matchups and goals against to break the tie.

The seedings have not been finalized as there are still a few games with seeding implications to be played this weekend. Format is: 1v8, 2v7, 3v6,4v5. Winner of 1v8 plays winner of 4v5, etc...

The championship tournament will be played at Milton HS in Alpharetta, GA (nuetral site) on April 18th and 19th. They've done a great job hosing for the last 2 years and we look forward to bringing the tournament back there next weekend! The 4 quarterfinal games are played on Saturday morning and the 2 semifinal games are played on late saturday afternoon/evening. The championship game is played on Sunday and there is NO 3rd place game.

I will release the seedings once they are finalized.

On an unrelated side note - South Carolina is a really good team. They are loaded with raw talent from traditional lacrosse hot beds Maryland/Virginia/NY. I am kicking myself now for not extending them an invitation to the A-Town Throwdown. I've already spoke with their team about traveling and scheduling non-conference games for next year as they are a very young team and can make some noise over the next few years and possibly climb into the rankings in the future.

Let me know if you have anymore questions.

Adam Weinstein
Head Coach, University of Georiga Women's Lacrosse
Vice President, Southeastern Women's Lacrosse League

[laxmomucf]

Does anyone have any news on the SWLL playoffs? ......rankings or seeds? Their site says it will be posted "soon". Hopefully before Saturday!

[adamw12]

Waiting on Clemson/USC game to be played tomorrow night. Game had to be rescheduled multiple times due to weather. This will determine the last 2 seeds in tourney. Will post seeds and games tomorrow night after CU/USC game is over.

patience is a great virtue

-Adam

[adamw12]

Here are the seeds:

1. Central Florida (6-0)
2. Florida (5-1) 39 goals against
3. Auburn (5-1) 50 goals against
4. Georgia (4-2) 41 goals against
5. Florida State (4-2) 57 goals against
6. Miami (4-2) 59 goals against
7. South Carolina (3-3) 43 goals against
8. South Florida (3-3) 82 goals against

Here is the schedule:

Saturday's Games:

Quarterfinals

Game 1
Field 1 at 9:00am: #2 Florida vs #7 South Carolina

Game 2
Field 2 at 9:00am: #3 Auburn vs #6 Miami

Game 3
Field 1 at 11:00am: #4 Georgia vs. #5 Florida State

Game 4
Field 2 at 11:00am: #1 Central Florida vs. #8 South Florida

*Lunch will be provided at the hospitality tent on field 1 for all players and coaches from Mad Italian Restaurant. All-Conference awards will be announced after the last quarterfinal game is finished.

Field 1 at 1:00pm: Georgia Men's vs. Georgia Tech Men's

Semifinals

Game 5
Field 1 at 3:30pm: Winner of game 1 vs. winner of game 2

Game 6
Field 1 at 5:30pm: Winner of game 3 vs. Winner of game 4

Tournament is held at Milton HS in Alpharetta, GA

Sunday's Game

Championship Game

Game 7
Field 1 at 1:00pm: Winner of Game 5 vs. Winner of Game 6

Trophy and Tournament MVP presentations made immediately after the championship game is over.

Tournament is held at Milton HS in Alpharetta, GA.

Please contact me at 678-358-3660 if you have any questions or issues this weekend.

Best of luck to all participating teams!

Adam Weinstein
SWLL Vice President

[adamw12]

All games are full length with 30 minute halves with clock stopping after each goal on every whistle under 2 minutes of each half. 2 timeouts per team per game.

[mdiaz2]

Hello Adam,
What was the final score between clemson and usc ?

[adamw12]

Final Score from Clemson:

South carolina - 15
Clemson - 5

[adamw12]

Final scores from early action at the tourney:

UF - 6
USC - 4

Miami - 14
Auburn - 7

UCF - 19
USF - 5

Georgia - 18
FSU - 9


UF/USC game was a good one!

27 minutes left in the first semifinal game and UF is up 9-3 over Miami. Starting goalie for Miami just came off with a possible broken hand. And miami does not have a backup goalie so they are switching gear as I type.

UCF vs UGA to play in the 2nd semifinal game at 5:30.

[fllaxer]

Is there a final score for UCF & GA?

[laxmomucf]

UCF 12 - UGA 11 in overtime. They were tied 5-5 at the half and tied 10-10 at the end of regulation time. It must have been an exciting game. Good luck Knights against UF tomorrow. Hooooo Rah!

[adamw12]

It was an incredible game. Felt like championship game actualy.

UGA jumped out to a 4-1 lead. UCF fought back to tie it up at 5-5 going into halftime. UCF went up 7-5 to start the 2nd half, then UGA went on a 4 goal run to go up 9-7 with about 12 minutes left in the game. UCF struck back to make it 9-8, and i think it got tied up at 9-9. UGA took a 10-9 lead with just under 5 minutes to play. UCF scored with under 2 minutes in regulation to force overtime.

UCF struck first early in the first half of OT, UGA fought back and tied it up 11-11 in the 2nd OT. UCF ended up scoring with about a minute left in 2nd half of OT and closed the game out to win 12-11.

Congrats to UCF on the win. They are the real deal!

Should make for a great championship game tomorrow!

[USF-Lax]

what was the final for the UF v. Miami semi-final?

The UGA v. UCF game sounded pretty sick... i hate working on weekends!

[adamw12]

Florida jumps out to an early 1-0 lead in the championship game against UCF.

UCF's best player and SWLL Offensive player of the year Kristin Lorrow gets a yellow card 3 minutes into the game.

As I type, Florida scores again. 2-0 UF

[adamw12]

Penalty released and Kristin Lorrow #4 for UCF is back in the game and scores the Knights first goal with 21 minutes left in the 1st half.

UF up 2-1

[adamw12]

Katie O'Linn scores her 2nd goal of the game. Florida up 3-1 with 16 minutes left in the half

[adamw12]

Bianca Diaz rolls the crease to score for UCF.

Florida up 3-2 with 14 minutes left in the half. And UCF wins the draw comes down on a fast break and Kristin Lorrow assists Becky Reich for the goal

UCF wins the draw again...

UCF 3
UF 3

[adamw12]

Florida causes a turnover and UF on the fast break...

And Kalye Pendley assits Katie O'linn for her 3rd goal of the game...

UF - 4
UCF - 3

12 minutes left in half

[adamw12]

Natalie Schlitt scores on a crease roll to give Florida the 5-3 lead with 11:30 left in the half.

[adamw12]

Kristion Lorrow scores on a free shot with 3:24 in half.

UF wins the ensuing draw on the fast break and jessie Hogan scores to give UF the 6-4 lead