We recently got this comment from "Cheese" -- "Where's the love for CCBC-Essex? The Knights are currently up in NY playing for the NJCAA National Championship. - Go Get Some Boys!!!"

Coincidentally, I just uploaded some great Essex video from that very tournament, Cheese!

The National Junior College Athletic Association tournament was a great event, with Nassau upsetting the big favorite Onondaga in the first semifinal and Essex upsetting Herkimer in the second. Essex uses unsettled situations to their advantage as well as anybody. They are quick passers and unselfish feeders. They really took it to Herkimer, but Nassau was a team of destiny, playing at home at Mitchel Field on Long Island.

Here are highlights of the Essex's 17-10 win over Herkimer in the semifinals:

Watch full highlights of the Essex-Herkimer semifinal on E-Lacrosse.

In the final, Nassau used a great goalie performance by Charles Paar and stellar defense against Andrew Reinhardt and Neal Barthelme, who were on fire in the semifinal against Herkimer. The Nassau offense was erratic and sloppy for most of the day but Bryan Renneisen and Bill Kingston broke through and the Lions got the job done. The key was stopping Essex and they did that very well.

Nassau's coach Richard Speckmann won his 20th national championship, 21 if you include the one he won as an assistant at Nassau.

One thing Essex had that could not be stopped, even by Nassau was mad flow. That's right. I am prepared to declare Essex with the Mad Flow Award (MFA) for 2008 over even top Division I flow teams like Syracuse and Maryland. What is flow, those over 20 may ask? Flow is a critical component of the modern day lax mullet. The flow is the long part of the hair that hangs out of the back of the helmet and curls up around it. I'd say half of the Essex personnel rocked some flow. In the first game I saw the abundant and impressive flow as they walked into the stadium and then the shaved heads and Mohawk cuts of the Herkimer team during the anthem, and I knew right there that, first this would be a game of starkly contrasting hair preferences and that Herkimer had no chance against the flow. Not in 2008. In 2005 the Mohawks and wacky shaved cuts would have crushed but 2008 is the year of the flow and Essex takes the flow crown. Nassau fielded a team with virtually no flow at all at most positions, but their goalie totally trumped the Essex flow with a mad red flow and some great saves too. But one great flow, even a red one and a NJCAA national championship is not enough to win the flow war. That one belongs to Essex!

Highlights of Nassau's 11-6 win over Essex in the NJCAA championship game:

Visit E-Lacrosse for full highlights of the Nassau-Essex NJCAA national championship game and the Nassau-Onondaga semifinal.