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Message: [QUOTE="Powellfan, post: 2366605, member: 4819"] Figured I would post this here - [URL="http://www.insidelacrosse.com/article/staff-debate-based-on-fallball-who-is-your-dark-horse-team-for-2018/50710"]Staff Debate: Based on Fallball, Who is Your Dark Horse Team for 2018?[/URL] [B]"Terry Foy ([URL='http://www.twitter.com/TerenceFoy']@TerenceFoy[/URL])[/B] Acknowledging our role as “expectation setters” by virtue of producing Face-Off Yearbook, I cruised the message boards to glean which fanbases' hopes are hanging low heading into 2018. Can't call them a dark horse, ever, but the Top 20 team I think will exceed expectations is Syracuse. I can understand Orange fans' concern. First, they won such a high percentage of their one-goal games, they must regress to the mean (wink, wink). Second, they graduated their two most reliable scorers in Sergio Salcido and Nick Mariano, plus a top-flight face-off specialist in Ben Williams and an All-American defender in Scott Firman. Add to that the departure of some young talent via transfer, and there are reasonable questions about the Orange's talent overall. All those concerns were present prior to a fall's worth of missed practices due to a health scare outside the team's control, and it might seem like too much to overcome. But having been to a Syracuse practice in September prior to the suspension of team activities, I saw the seeds of a good team. Austin Fusco has the makeup of a good leader. Nate Solomon has the persona of a burgeoning star, and Bradley Voigt and Stephen Rehfuss have the background of emerging stalwarts. Danny Varello leads a competitive group at the face-off X. There's experience defensively with Tyson Bomberry, Nick Mellen and Marcus Cunningham and at the midfield with Brendan Bomberry, Matt Lane and Ryan Simmons. And the freshmen are fast and athletic." [/QUOTE]

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