“Tough to play worse than that,” said Ryder Garnsey.

And Not Just Whipsnakes

Despite the jaw-dropping 20 goal effort, the Whipsnakes weren’t the most prolific offense to take the field on Friday evening. In fact, they weren't even the most prolific offense from Maryland to take the field on Friday evening. That title belonged to the Maryland Charm, who secured a spot in next month's WLL championship with their 21-17 win over the Boston Guard. The Charm dished out 15 assists in the win (a new WLL single-game record), and in the true spirit of payback weekend, ensured that the Guard, who eliminated Maryland from playoff contention during March’s Championship Series, could no longer reach this summer’s title game.

Kirst Powers the (Boston) Offense

The Boston Cannons avenged their Week 5 loss with Sunday’s 15-13 win over the New York Atlas, and they did so thanks in part to Connor Kirst, who not only went 3-of-5 on face-offs, but tallied a goal and two assists, his first multiple-point effort of the season.

“It’s been coming,” said an unsurprised Brian Holman. “I gave him s–t in practice yesterday, I was like, ‘come on man, get one’ and he went from zero to three points, like, overnight. He has played some very, very good lacrosse for us this year…underrated, unnoticed, not really noticed, doesn’t score, but wonderful leader. But it’s been coming. If you watch the films close enough, he’s had some really cool opportunities. He’s really slick off-ball when he gets in there, and smart, so, I didn’t know he’d have three points, but I felt like a goal or something was coming soon - we all did.”

From attempting 10 shots in his professional debut, to tallying three points in each game since, Boston’s Jack Regnery has never appeared to question his ability to compete with the best the PLL has to offer. The Cannons’ final selection in the 2026 college draft, Regnery plays with a sense of confidence that’s impossible to ignore. And no, that’s not “confident for a DIII guy,” or “confident for a rookie,” he’s confident confident, fearlessly attacking his matchups like someone entirely unfamiliar with the mere concept of failure, let alone the possibility.

“He’s a killer,” said Marcus Holman following the team’s 15-12 win over the Redwoods. “He does not care, he’s going to go at anybody.”  Granted having Regnery’s split dodge must do wonders for one’s self-esteem, but what’s the true source of his honey badger-esque approach to the game?

“I think I’ve always had it,” he said. “Something I like to talk about is intrinsic confidence. It doesn’t come from any external sources, you always have it. I’ve never thought that I couldn’t do it, so why would I change my thoughts now? It’s a different league, sure, but [I’ve] just always had confidence, and it’s a big part of my game.”

Regnery recorded his first career hat trick in Sunday’s win over New York, his third goal ultimately proving to be the game-winner. He set up at X and attacked once the Atlas sent a pole to cover him, again proving Holman’s diagnosis to be 100% correct.

Ridiculous Stat of The Week

Of Logan McNaney’s 14 saves in the Denver Outlaws’ 10-8 win over the Carolina Chaos, 13 were clean, a career-high giving the reigning Goalie of the Year a 92.9% clean save percentage on the afternoon. McNaney almost recorded a 14th clean save, but a Shane Knobloch shot rolled around in his pocket before jumping out the side and landing in the goal behind him, which he found funny in hindsight but likely much less so at the time.

The Sound of Silence

After scoring seven goals in the second quarter and jumping out to an 11-5 lead, the New York Atlas were kept off the board for roughly 15 minutes of game time, a fourth quarter goal by Matt Traynor halting a seven-goal Boston run. Following the game, Head coach Mike Pressler cited a trio of third quarter penalties as the reason behind the drought:

“The penalty box, that was it,” he said. “We scored two goals in the second half. We didn’t have the ball, and we spoiled an incredible return by Trevor Baptiste.”

Finally, despite outshooting the Denver Outlaws 48-40, and having the ball in their sticks for over eight more minutes, the Carolina Chaos went scoreless for a span of just over 31 minutes during Saturday’s loss.

“At the end of the day, when we go back and watch film, we had great opportunities and great looks, and it’s the bottom line, we just need to be better shooters,” said head coach Steven Brooks.

Quote of the Week

“We played like s–t, there’s no way to sugarcoat it.”

Michael Sowers, following Philadelphia’s 18-8 loss to the Utah Archers. 

Just one week after Andrew McMeekin was named king of the two-piece (if you didn’t read last week’s Wrap-Up, a “two-piece” is the potentially temporary term for when a team scores a goal, then its face-off specialist records either a second goal or an assist no more than ten seconds after the last), Maryland’s Petey LaSalla threw his hat in the ring, recording the first of his career during Friday’s win over the Redwoods. After a TJ Malone goal gave the Whipsnakes a 10-5 lead in the third quarter, LaSalla popped the next face-off forward to himself, ran the ball up and fed Joey Spallina for the goal, the whole situation playing out in just five seconds. LaSalla went for the ultra-rare three-piece on the next face-off, but his spinning backhanded shot sailed wide.

No Surrender, No Mercy

With Brendan Lavelle leading a defensive charge that held CJ Kirst to just one goal, the Utah Archers defeated their opponent by at least ten goals for the second straight week. Also for the second straight week, the Archers scored a goal in the game’s final 20 seconds despite their gargantuan lead. Necessary? Oh, absolutely — when it comes to a team’s position in the standings, score differential is the first tiebreaker, meaning these last-minute goals could ultimately be the difference between reaching the postseason or watching from home. When the Archers step in the ring, they keep swinging until they hear the bell, as all teams should.

Tre, Mac and Sam

Not sure if Tre Leclaire really loves or really hates weather delays, but the All-Pro midfielder was effectively unstoppable following the roughly ninety-minute break during halftime of Saturday’s Utah-Philadelphia game. Leclaire (3G, 2T, 2A) finished the game with a career-high nine points (eight were scored in the second half), and his two assists give him seven this season, equaling the total from his first five seasons combined.

“I think you always kind of want to grow your game,” said Leclaire. “So for me, I kind of wanted to focus on [feeding] this year, but props to the other guys on this team. They’re always getting open, just making it real easy for me. You can find Kinger anywhere out there.”

Leclaire found Kinger, aka Sam King, out there once on Saturday (and impressively so)

but despite giving “props to the other guys on the team,” he may be referring to a much smaller percentage of the Utah roster: Eight of Leclaire’s last nine assists have gone to Mac O’Keefe (working theory is that Tre actively favors other people with three-letter first names, so heads up Cam Wyers and/or Leo Johnson), making that pass to King the first time he set up anyone other than O’Keefe since 2023. O’Keefe scored a pair of goals in the win, and is currently third in the league with 13 assisted goals this season — six from Leclaire.