With or without Bayhawks, MLL Finals are coming to Annapolis
The Bayhawks beat Chicago last weekend. Now they're rooting for the Machine this weekend.
The Bayhawks enter the final week of the season with a chance at postseason life. They had to beat the visiting Chicago Machine last Saturday to get to this point and they did, in overtime on a Matt Abbott goal. Now they need Chicago to beat Long Island this weekend while they must beat the Cannons, Thursday in Boston, which is not so easy. The Bayhawks travel to Boston for a Thursday night showdown with the Cannons. If these two things occur, the Bayhawks would make their first championship weekend appearance since they won it all in 2005.
Whether the Bayhawks make the championship weekend or not, it will be held in Annapolis Aug. 22-23. Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium is a great place for the games and the Baltimore crowd will have a chance to redeem itself as a lacrosse-supporting town. These will be the best four teams in world, loaded with local talent, playing for a title in what is the infancy of pro lacrosse. When history is made, the people living through it rarely know it’s happening around them. Early NFL and baseball championships are now legendary, and so will some of these early MLL finals 50 years from now, regardless of what pro lacrosse league exists then. Baltimore is the lacrosse town. The fields around town have been alive with summer leagues all season and there are tons of lacrosse people not going to the beach that weekend, especially since the Ocean City Lacrosse Classic tournament is the weekend before. Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium is just 30 minutes away from Baltimore and tickets are pretty cheap at $21-30 for a weekend package, plus $10 for parking each day in the stadium parking lot. You’d pay that $10 even if you wanted to park there to shuttle to the Naval Academy or walk around Annapolis. You can buy tickets here.
The crowd at the last game against Chicago was, for the first time I’ve seen, mostly kids. There were kids everywhere having a great time. The Bayhawks will be in Annapolis again next year and they have a special 2010 season ticket deal going right now for less than $100. Now that’s recession proof. Plus, if you buy twop tickets now, you’ll get a Bayhawks autographed ball. To reserve your tickets, contact the Bayhawks at 866-99-HAWKS (42957) or by visiting the Bayhawks website.
