Santa Barbara Shootout Features 48 Teams
from press release
SANTA BARBARA, Calif. -- The schedule for the
22nd annual Santa Barbara Shootout has been announced. Ninety-five
games will be played over three days by 48 teams across four
divisions of play. Thirty college teams will participate in an
expanded WDIA Division, while the remaining 18 teams are in the
Super, Competitive, and U-19 divisions. The Shootout has a set
schedule with pre-determined match-ups, which provides teams from
all over the country the opportunity to play arranged games.
For the first time, La Playa Stadium at SBCC will host some
Shootout games, courtesy of the SBCC Athletic Department and the
new SBCC Women's Lacrosse Club. La Playa has seen lacrosse before,
back when it was a grass facility. It was a location for the Semana
Nautica 7 A-Side Co-Ed Lacrosse Tournament in the 1990s. Notably,
the Friday 6:30 pm game featuring SBCC and Marymount College of
Palos Verdes is the first California community college versus
community college women's lacrosse game. It is also the first CC
versus CC women's lacrosse game west of the Mississippi.
UCLA and Michigan will warm up the turf at 5:00 pm before SBCC and
Marymount take the field at 6:30 pm. Following the community
college game, Colorado will play Texas at 8:00 pm.
At the same time all this history is being made at SBCC, games
will also be contested at UCSB. Eight teams open play at 3:00 pm on
Storke Field before UCSB faces Lindenwood in a 4:30 pm match-up in
Harder Stadium. The Gauchos are the defending champion of the WWLL,
and Lindenwood is the defending champion of the WCLL. Four night
games on the UCSB Rob Field turf wrap up the 12 Friday games that
kick off the Shootout.
Men's lacrosse fans even have something to look forward to on the
weekend of the Shootout. The UCSB men's lacrosse team will host
rival Cal Poly SLO at 1:00 pm on Saturday at the UCSB Lacrosse
Field (aka The Pit). Then on Monday, both UCSB teams will take on
BYU in a double header, with the women squaring off at 11:00 am and
the men facing off at 1:00 pm.
"If you're one of those people who can't get enough lacrosse,"
says UCSB head women's lacrosse coach Paul Ramsey, "then this is
the weekend to be in Santa Barbara."
The full schedule for the event can be found at the UCSB Web site.
