Iroquois Nationals Are Gunning for the World Championship

The Iroquois Nationals are on a roll in the World Indoor Lacrosse Championship. The Thompson Brothers are dominant. It’s a beautiful thing.

From HuffPost Sports:

With a flick of the wrist, Iroquois Nationals lacrosse players passed the ball up, down and across the box, displaying deft stickhandling and a lethal scoring touch, on the way to a commanding 13-9 win over visiting Team USA in front of a sellout crowd Friday night at the War Memorial Arena in downtown Syracuse, New York.

Opening ceremonies for the tournament before the Iroquois-USA match featured traditional Haudenosaunee singing and dancing, as well as a re-enactment of the Haudenosaunee creation story and the origins of lacrosse.

“It’s our lifeblood,” Oren Lyons, faithkeeper of the Onondaga Nation, told HuffPost. “I mean, it’s beyond a game. It’s part of our cosmology, it’s part of our history, it’s the beginning of our lives. It’s played on the other side of the stars while this earth was still full of water—that’s how old the game is with us.”

They’re in the semifinals. Team Canada is favored to win; they’re the defending and undefeated champions. The Canadian team already handed the Iroquois Nationals their only defeat in group play, but the Iroquois gave them a good run and they may well have a chance for revenge in the medal round.

Here’s to ’em!