PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 Philadelphia\u2019s professional lacrosse team won its league title last weekend in New Jersey.<\/p>\n
Last year, CJ Kirst scored six goals to propel Cornell to its first championship in a half-century. Last Sunday, he led the Premier Lacrosse League\u2019s Philadelphia Waterdogs to glory with five goals and two assists.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou obviously don\u2019t want to treat it like just any other game, you know the stakes. Just take the moment in, and try to enjoy it, rather than be nervous and think too deeply about it,\u201d Kirst said.<\/p>\n
After scoring more goals than anyone in men\u2019s D-I history, Kirst said he\u2019s never been surrounded by players this good. So, there\u2019s more focus on catch-and-shoot.<\/p>\n
\u201cA lot of my goals have been off-ball, and I think part of the reason why some of my teammates have scored is because some of us are working harder off-ball,\u201d the League MVP said.<\/p>\n
Philly\u2019s defense held Denver scoreless in the second half of a 14-4 win Sunday.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe intensity that [the defense] played at was unmatched. It really gives us confidence on the offensive side of the ball, because you know that our defense is going to do whatever it takes to get a stop,\u201d Kirst said.<\/p>\n
Along with leading the Waterdogs, Kirst wants to help bring the PLL to prominence. One goal is eventually dropping the current format of rotating venues each weekend, allowing each team to play more home games.<\/p>\n
\u201c I definitely see us playing in Philadelphia more, and playing in front of the Philadelphia crowd. And hopefully that can happen sooner rather than later,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 Philadelphia\u2019s professional lacrosse team won its league title last weekend in New Jersey. Last…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294603,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[32063,121912,69,71,70,83038,121914,121913],"class_list":["post-294602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-lacrosse","tag-men-s-lacrosse","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-philly-sports","tag-pll-championship","tag-premier-lacrosse-league"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}