Bowhunter Cup
By: Stephen Bond
Updated: November 5, 2011
The Bowhunter Cup is an indoor lacrosse exhibition game
between the Iroquois national and USA Men's National teams. The game may be
labeled as an exhibition game but there is no love loss between these two
teams. The Bowhunter Cup features the best of the best indoor lacrosse talent.
Both rosters are filled with local players and many former Syracuse Orange
greats like Joel White. This will be his first Bowhunter Cup and he knows how
good his opponents will be. "You look at their roster and it's kind of
intimidating, you know you look at all these guys and these guys have been
playing the box game for their entire life. So I'm excited to get out there and
test my ability but at the same time get out there and talk a little but to
Cody Jameson and Sid Smith a little bit." Last
year the US team won the inaugural Bowhunter cup in Syracuse, this year the
Oneida Nation hosts their second premier lacrosse event on its homeland and
five year pro Brett Bucktooth knows how much this game means to his team. "You
know it's a great event, myself, Cody Jameson, Sid Smith were able to play in
the all-star game last year so we got a little taste of it but to play for your
national team here on native homelands is really special." Assistant Coach Regy Thorpe played in the event last year
and knows how important it is to both teams. "It's going to be
exciting for the young guys as well as the Iroquois, Iroquois have some veteran
guys, also just a lot of guys that represent the game and what it means on the
Iroquois side and thats pretty special." Former
SU great Thomas Guadagnolo understands what a game like this means to the
lacrosse community. "There's a lot of Iroquois and a lot of people
who back up team USA around here, it's definitely an area that has both sides
of the ball at least fan base wise. So I think this is the perfect area to do
it, we're going to have a great showing, I wouldn't be surprised if this is
sold out and I think the atmosphere is going to be awesome." The Iroquois team will try to win their first Bowhunter Cup
this Sunday, faceoff is set for 6 PM.
