In the Hunt

Riptide rookie Huntley propels team into Championship Weekend

By Dave Thorpe, Daily News (8/22)

The Los Angeles Riptide went through a significant turnover of its roster since last season, when the team reached the Major League Lacrosse championship game, which it lost to the Philadelphia Barrage 16-13.

Nearly a dozen new players joined the Riptide this season. As a result, the team struggled early on, as the new players tried to mesh with the returning players to form a cohesive unit.

Rookie Kevin Huntley was one of the new players who eventually started to feel comfortable in L.A.'s offense. When he did, he emerged as the top scoring threat he was at Johns Hopkins University, and the team started clicking in time to take second place in the Western Conference behind the Denver Outlaws and earn a bid to MLL Championship Weekend at Harvard Stadium in Cambridge, Mass.

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