5 Syracuse women’s lacrosse players earn Preseason All-Americans honors

Get the latest Syracuse news delivered right to your inbox. Subscribe to our sports newsletter here. Just over two minutes into the fourth quarter, Dyaisha Fair sized up Yonta Vaughn. The shot clock was winding down and the Orange had gone on a run to get the game to double digits. Fair dribbled into the right side key, stepped back and scored a 17-footer over Vaughn, giving SU a 12-point lead and forcing UVA to call a timeout.

Get the latest Syracuse news delivered right to your inbox. Subscribe to our sports newsletter here. Last Sunday, SU jumped from playing the worst team in the ACC (GT) to playing the league’s best in the No. 13 ranked Duke Blue Devils. The Orange kept affairs close in the first half and trailed by just five points after the opening 20 minutes.

Get the latest Syracuse news delivered right to your inbox. Subscribe to our sports newsletter here. For the second-straight season, Syracuse fell early in nonconference play with disappointing home losses to Colgate and Bryant. But this time around, the Orange rebounded quickly, going on a five-game win streak to end nonconference play, and are 6-4 in Atlantic Coast Conference matchups thus far.

Get the latest Syracuse news delivered right to your inbox. Subscribe to our sports newsletter here. Syracuse lost a faceoff in the offensive zone, springing a fast break by RIT. Lexi Sung received a pass in stride. Sung split Lauren Bellefontaine and Hannah Johnson in the neutral zone. Her wide control with the outside of her stick prevented Johnson from checking the puck away. Sung brought the puck back across her body, in preparation for a shot. The freshman got off an attempt from close range, but Arielle DeSmett sprawled across the ice to deny her.

Get the latest Syracuse news delivered right to your inbox. Subscribe to our sports newsletter here. Hannah Johnson stared down Lindsay Maloney, getting ready for a faceoff. As soon as the puck was dropped, Johnson immediately got her stick on it and flung it behind her to Kambel Beacom in front of RIT’s blue line.

Get the latest Syracuse news delivered right to your inbox. Subscribe to our sports newsletter here. Syracuse now has 10 games left in the regular season, starting the end of an Atlantic Coast Conference stretch that will make or break its postseason. The Orange have come close against the ACC’s best recently, losing by only four points to Miami and UNC. Now, they have the chance to defeat another top ACC team, one they’ve already faced and defeated before.

Get the latest Syracuse news delivered right to your inbox. Subscribe to our sports newsletter here. UNC was the preseason No. 1 overall team. The NCAA Tournament runner-up returned two dynamic starters, Armando Bacot and Caleb Love, while RJ Davis and Leaky Black have seen their roles increase. This Tuesday night game should have simply been another Atlantic Coast Conference win for North Carolina. On paper, it was a road game against a once-dominant program now searching to regain stability following its first sub-.500 season in over half a century. Syracuse would enjoy the chance at a primetime game, the JMA Wireless Dome would fill up for the top-billed matchup, and fans would likely see a game that looked similar to last year’s blowout against Duke.

Get the latest Syracuse news delivered right to your inbox. Subscribe to our newsletter here. In the past, the ice on Hiawatha Lake was consistently a popular spot for the Syracuse community to skate, play hockey and enjoy each other’s company. But the lake’s been relatively vacant in recent years, prompting Tim O’Donnell to revive its past glory.

Get the latest Syracuse news delivered right to your inbox. Subscribe to our sports newsletter here. Lauren Bellefontaine played for Ontario Red during the 2017 Canadian U18 National Hockey tournament. She didn’t let the opportunity to represent her province go to waste, scoring the game-winning goal against Ontario Blue in the final and securing the team’s gold medal.

Get the latest Syracuse news delivered right to your inbox. Subscribe to our newsletter here. With over 1,000 rides per day since its launch in 2021, the city of Syracuse is among the most popular user locations for Veo, an electric scooter and bike rideshare service. But within the bounds of Syracuse University’s campus, Veo scooters aren’t in use at all.

COVID-19 At the time of last year’s address, a surge of the Omicron variant of COVID-19 had pushed up case counts nationwide. On Jan. 23 2022, 400 people tested positive for the virus in Onondaga County — on the same day a year later, 60 people tested positive in the county, according to county data. As of Wednesday evening, 20% of adults in the county have received the bivalent booster vaccination against the virus, according to the organization COVID Act Now Coalition.

Get the latest Syracuse news delivered right to your inbox. Subscribe to our newsletter here. For those looking for a more hardcore evening of music, check out the Lost Horizon on Friday night. The band Amerikan Primitive will be playing its powerful rock music at the local venue. Tickets are available on The Lost Horizon website.

Get the latest Syracuse news delivered right to your inbox. Subscribe to our newsletter here. The Syracuse City School District is working with Syracuse University to ensure opportunities for local students and a diverse student body at SU. This occurs amid hearings of Supreme Court cases which could effectively ban affirmative action.

Get the latest Syracuse news delivered right to your inbox. Subscribe to our newsletter here. After overhearing a meeting at Eggers Café between graduate students about labor concerns in September, Megan Cooper, a third-year undergraduate student at Syracuse University, said she felt she needed to be a part of the conversation.

To support student journalism and the content you love, become a member of The Daily Orange today. The Black Graduate Student Association is a cohesive and responsive organization dedicated to making Syracuse University aware of and responsive to Black graduate students’ needs and concerns. As a professional and social support assemblage, BGSA is vitally concerned with the recruitment and retention of Black graduate students within the university.

Get the latest Syracuse news delivered right to your inbox. Subscribe to our newsletter here. For the past 25 years, local Syracuse photographer Jamie Young has traveled worldwide, focusing his work on establishing a spiritual connection with the natural world. Mindful of the current climate crisis, Young hopes his landscape photography can evoke a sense of change in people.

Get the latest Syracuse news delivered right to your inbox. Subscribe to our newsletter here. Chao Li and Jenny Chen don’t know how to cook. But the couple still made it their mission to share Chinese food and culture through their restaurant, Mr. Noodle and Ms. Dumpling, which opened in December.

Get the latest Syracuse news delivered right to your inbox. Subscribe to our newsletter here. The Syracuse University Environmental Finance Center is among 29 regional centers nationwide selected for a five-year grant from the Environmental Protection Agency, SU’s EFC announced in a press release on Monday. Now, the center...