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For the first time in program history, the Lenoir-Rhyne Men’s Lacrosse Team is heading to the NCAA Division II National Championship Game thanks to an 18-10 win over Wingate in the Regional Final on Sunday afternoon. The men’s lax team joins the 2013 Football squad as the only two LR programs to advance to the National Championship game in the NCAA era. Senior Eric Dickinson led Lenoir-Rhyne with six goals on the afternoon and became just the sixth player in Division II history to reach 200 goals. Dickinson came in with 196 and netted number 200 early in the second half. For the second st...

Release the McCracken. Freshman Colten McCracken delivered the most dramatic finish of the weekend, sending Lenoir-Rhyne to the Men’s DII Semifinals with 16-15 overtime comeback win Sunday. He dodged to outside the hash marks, and with two Tampa defenders on him rolled inside to his left and scored with four seconds left in overtime on a jumping twister while taking a hit.  His teammates came storming onto the field, running around their home Moretz Stadium after capping a comeback that saw the Bears down as many as five goals. Eric Dickinson (2G, 4A), Kyle Hatcher (4G), Bryce Reece (4G) a...

PUSHING THE TRANSITION Long before arriving in the NCAA’s Division II ranks, Reece was mentored by an expert marksman — his father. Tony Reece was a 1983 NJCAA All-American midfielder at SUNY Cobleskill who later played at Cornell under coach Richie Moran’s leadership from 1984-85. Amidst a lacrosse legacy and years of lobbying by his father, Bryce Reece began playing with Mount Laurel’s youth program when he was 12. “My father was my biggest inspiration for playing and why I want to be successful in the sport,” Reece said. “I continue to play the sport today because of him and ...

Dasera, a Sunnyvale, Calif.-based data security company, raised $6m in seed funding. The round, which brought total capital raised to date to $9m, was led by Sierra Ventures, with participation from Saama Capital, One Way Ventures, Sand Hill Angels, and security professionals and angels including Mark Weatherford and Andy Chou. The company intends to use the funds to accelerate sales and product development to launch a new SaaS offering. Co-founded by serial-entrepreneurs Ani Chaudhuri and Noah Johnson, Dasera enables safe use of sensitive data by automatically securing the full lifecycle of...

DAVE MOSIER/ independent editor Three people were sentenced, and four people entered changes of plea during criminal hearings held this past week in Van Wert County Common Pleas Court. Noah Johnson, 32, of Elida, was sentenced to 12 years in prison, with credit for one day already served, on a charge of attempted gross sexual imposition, a felony of the fifth degree. Johnson was also classified as a Tier 1 sex offender and will have to register every year for the next 15 years. Amy Blatteau, 43, of Van Wert, was sentenced to one year of community control, to include 60 days in jail, beginning...