http://wagnerathletics.cstv.com/sports/m-lacros/recaps/042908aab.html
Its official! For the third straight season, the Wagner Seahawks lacrosse team has gone winless after losing to Holy Cross 13-5. That makes them 0-45 the past three years. Their last win was in 2005 when they beat first year program Robert Morris 11-6. Robert Morris has since beat them twice. The closest Wagner got to a victory this year was a 7-4 loss to Bellarmine, which was also a first year program in 2005. The only other close call was a 9-6 loss to Mount Saint Mary’s in 2007. They have been destroyed in most of their games the past few seasons.
Wagner really isn’t that bad at all their sports. They have a pretty good basketball team, and their football team has won a few games the past few years. The problem with lacrosse probably lies within the school itself. Its located in the middle of New York City, which doesn’t give much exposure to lacrosse as Long Island and Upstate New York. The school only has 1,900 students. Which is the size of many Division III schools. I couldn’t find any long term record of Wagner’s lacrosse team, but I know they have been around for at least a decade, and they are losing to teams that started programs in the past three years. Fortunately for Wagner’s coach Jason Rife, they don’t seem to care too much about losing. In fact, they hired his wife to coach the womens team. So as long as they can recruit kids willing to lose, then Wagner will continue to live in the basement of Division I lacrosse.
