{"id":630312,"date":"2026-04-26T18:27:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T18:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/630312\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T18:27:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T18:27:14","slug":"promising-season-ends-for-saskatchewan-rush-in-quarterfinal-loss-against-the-toronto-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/630312\/","title":{"rendered":"Promising season ends for Saskatchewan Rush in quarterfinal loss against the Toronto Rock"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Saskatchewan Rush’s season came to an end on Saturday night, as they fell short 16-13 in the National Lacrosse League quarterfinals to the Toronto Rock. <\/p>\n

This loss, which was the first time the clubs faced each other in a playoff match, officially eliminates the Rush who previously led the NLL standings this year. <\/p>\n

Austin Shanks led the scoring for Saskatchewan with seven points, three goals and four assists, followed by Robert Church who made three goals and three assists. <\/p>\n

Goalie Frank Scigliano also moved into the tenth all-time in playoff minutes played for an NLL goalie. <\/p>\n

LISTEN | After some lean years, the Saskatchewan Rush are back atop the National Lacrosse League standings:<\/p>\n

Saskatoon Morning5:33After some lean years, the Saskatchewan Rush are back atop the National Lacrosse League standings<\/p>\n

Host Candice Lipski talks with the CBC’s Scott Larson, who looks at how the Saskatchewan Rush has returned to the top of the standings, thanks to some talented youth and a veteran whose been with the team since they came to Saskatoon.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, the Rush beat the Rock during overtime in the regular season finale, with Brock Haley scoring the game winning goal. <\/p>\n

The win secured the Rush Saturday night’s home playoff game. <\/p>\n

Promising season ends <\/p>\n

Last year the club advanced to the league finals for the first time since 2018, but lost to the Buffalo Bandits in Game 3, dropping the championship series 2-1. <\/p>\n

\"FourThe Saskatchewan Rush celebrate their win over the Buffalo Bandits in game 2 of the National Lacrosse League finals in Saskatoon, Sask., Sunday, May 18, 2025. The Rush defeat the Bandits 11-10. (Liam Richards\/The Canadian Press)<\/p>\n

The Rock face off against the San Diego Seals in Game 1 of the best-of-three NLL Semifinals series next weekend. <\/p>\n

The Rush now head into the offseason, until the NLL draft in September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":630313,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194291],"tags":[49,48,3302],"class_list":{"0":"post-630312","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-toronto","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-toronto"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=630312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/630313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}