The washington fakehawks are pathetic. attendance #s are a lie. less than 1,000 pd. my how the mighty have fallen. - Mt washintin mike, commenting on this blog last week

Mt washintin mike! Don't be so down on the Washington Bayhawks fans. There were a legitimate 5,000 fans at the last two games I filmed. I miss the Gary Gait Baltimore Bayhawks too, but Baltimore did not support the team either -- not in the numbers needed to really succeed. But the game struggles in most towns. In any case, I watch lacrosse -- I comment on lacrosse. Here goes.

Who’s Good?

Andrew “Buggs” Combs

Combs is an assistant coach at Towson and son of Towson football’s Gordy Combs. He scored eight goals in the Bayhawks' 25-20 loss to the New Jersey Pride Saturday at George Mason University.

Check out video highlights of the Bayhawks-Pride game:

Stephen Peyser

The Johns Hopkins alum scored four goals and had an assist, earning game MVP Honors and my admiration. He was outstanding scoring on the run.

Rob Scherr

The All-Star keeper had a big game in the cage. Also a Hopkins alum, Rob recently began working for US Lacrosse, giving back to the game that he loves.

Merrick Thomson

The MLL's top goal-scorer added five goals and confounded his reputation as a Canadian style player (he is Canadian) with some very American time-and-space long-range goals.

Scott Urick

Scott Urick had an old-school, quick-stick game in college, which we loved, but those are the tools of the finisher trade. Those work when you’re not the best player on the team and the team is winning all the time, but Scott is and New Jersey needed leadership. So Urick changed his entire being on the field. He is a point guard now – a dangerous one. He hasn’t lost his finishing abilities but he starts the ball now and is relentlessly aggressive. The whole team reflected that Saturday. I love his game.

MLL scorers, generally

The score of this game was 25-20. The All-Star game, held in Denver two weeks ago was won by the West, 31-15. And the best goalies in the world are in the cage for these football-like scores. The small amount of teams and the large amount of great shooters means that every team has a bunch and every goalie is in big trouble. Just think about the Bayhawks. They start Connor Gill, Matt Ward and Combs. If this was the NBA, with many more teams, no team could afford both Gilbert Arenas and Dwyane Wade.

Gordy Combs' name was misstated in a previous version of this post. Baltimoresun.com regrets the error.