Week 5 preview: Key stats, players for Redwoods homecoming

Week 5 of the 2025 Premier Lacrosse League season is connected tap, with Redwoods homecoming play successful San Diego.

Four games are connected the docket Friday and Saturday, with the Redwoods playing 1 crippled each day.

Read connected for details connected each crippled including however to watch, storylines and cardinal stats courtesy of the PLL.

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Denver Outlaws vs. California Redwoods

Friday, 9 p.m. ET | ESPN+

Injury report:

Outlaws: SSDM Ryan Terefenko questionable (left knee)
Redwoods: D Cole Kastner questionable (physically incapable to execute list), A Chris Kavanagh questionable (medical), SSDM Chris Merle injured reserve (ACL tear), G Jack Kelly retired (PUP), A Wes Berg retired (PUP), SSDM Marquez White retired (PUP)

This matchup is Round 2 of Kavanagh vs. Kavanagh, arsenic Pat's Outlaws instrumentality connected Chris' Redwoods. Chris and Woods won Round 1, volition they besides get the triumph Friday?

Outlaws

The victor of the 2021 Tewaaraton Award, Jared Bernhardt is backmost to lacrosse this play aft playing wide receiver successful the NFL. Last week's crippled was his 3rd lax contention successful 4 years, and Bernhardt scored 4 goals. What does helium person successful store this weekend?

The Outlaws are moving a caller "hippo offense," arsenic Pat Kavanagh mentioned successful the property league past week. The conception is that players are not allowed to person the shot for much than 3 seconds. Denver's walk full has accrued each week from Week 1 (155) done Week 4 (248).

Redwoods

The 6-7 Cole Kastner is acceptable to marque his pro debut this play for California, aft increasing up successful Palo Alto. Notably, aft 3 years of lacrosse astatine Virginia, helium utilized his last twelvemonth of eligibility to play hoops astatine Stanford.

Chris Kavanagh learned however to drawstring sticks arsenic a kid, and has present go the Redwoods' "stick doctor" on with teammate Andrew McAdorey. His instrumentality doctoring included moving connected member Pat's instrumentality anterior to team's matchup earlier this season.

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Logan Wisnauskas scores a goal

Logan Wisnauskas scores a goal

Utah Archers vs. New York Atlas

Friday, 11:30 p.m. ET | ESPN+

Injury report:

Archers: A Matt Moore retired (right hip), G Nick Washuta retired (PUP), A Devon McLane retired (PUP), M Tre Leclaire retired (PUP)
Atlas: M Jake Stevens questionable (right wrist), A Jeff Teat questionable (left Achilles), M Max Krevsky questionable (right groin), D Gavin Adler questionable (right groin)

The goaltending matchup successful this crippled could beryllium a preview of U.S.-Canada astatine the Los Angeles Olympics; New York's Liam Entenmann (USA) and Utah's Brett Dobson (Canada) are beardown candidates to correspond their countries successful that tournament.

This volition besides beryllium a showdown betwixt 2 of the game's champion faceoff specialists: New York's Trevor Baptiste and Utah's Mike Sisselberger. In 49 vocation head-to-head faceoffs, Baptiste has a flimsy borderline with 26 wins (53.1%) to Sisselberger's 23 (46.9%).

Archers

Graeme Hossack is gathering a beardown antiaircraft subordinate of the twelvemonth candidacy, holding his matchups -- Rob Pannell, Asher Nolting, Ryder Garnsey and Brennan O'Neill -- to an astounding 2-for-29 shooting and 3 assists, portion they committed 11 turnovers.

Atlas

Will the Atlas nutrient different MVP this season? Attackman Jeff Teat won past year's award, portion Baptiste won the grant successful 2022.

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Jeff Teat scores a extremity for New York Atlas

Jeff Teat scores a extremity for New York Atlas

Philadelphia Waterdogs vs. California Redwoods

Saturday, 6 p.m. ET | ESPN/ESPN+

Injury report:

Waterdogs: SSDM Charlie Hayes questionable (left hamstring), A CJ Kirst retired (PUP), SSDM Christian Scarpello retired (PUP), D Liam Byrnes retired (PUP), A Zed Williams (PUP)
Redwoods: D Cole Kastner questionable (physically incapable to execute list), A Chris Kavanagh questionable (medical), SSDM Chris Merle injured reserve (ACL tear), G Jack Kelly retired (PUP), A Wes Berg retired (PUP), SSDM Marquez White retired (PUP)

Both of these teams person awesome rookie classes that person contributed from Day One -- and the Waterdogs' No. 1 wide pick, CJ Kirst, has yet to instrumentality the field. For fans of the aboriginal of the sport, this is simply a can't-miss contest.

Waterdogs

Of the PLL's apical 10 astir communal passer-shooter extremity combos, Michael Sowers is the passer successful 3 of them: Sowers to Thomas McConvey (four goals), Sowers to Kieran McArdle (four) and Sowers to Jake Taylor (three).

Redwoods

Zach Currier is closing successful a important milestone. Only 1 short-stick, non-faceoff midfielder has eclipsed 400 groundballs for their vocation -- Matt Abbott, with 465. Currier presently has 385, and is connected gait to scope the 400 people this season.

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Waterdogs travel up with stupendous instrumentality prevention to contradict definite goal

The Waterdogs' Ben Wayer makes an unthinkable instrumentality prevention to rob a definite extremity from the Atlas.

Boston Cannons vs. Carolina Chaos

Saturday, 8:30 p.m. ET | ESPN+

Injury report:

Cannons: SSDM Bubba Fairman IR
Chaos: M Chris Aslanian IR (torso), SSDM Ray Dearth questionable (right foot)

Cannons

Marcus Holman continues to pursuit past this season. He needs 1 constituent to articulation the 500-point club, and is 5 goals down Paul Rabil for 2nd connected the all-time goals list. With 3 much groundballs, helium would go the archetypal subordinate ever with 300 points and 300 groundballs.

The Cannons needed to adhd a left-handed enactment up beforehand successful the draft, and did conscionable that successful landing Coulter Mackesy. So far, he's proven to beryllium a favourite people of playmaker Asher Nolting's, with the seasoned assisting connected Mackesy's chapeau instrumentality this past weekend.

Chaos

The Chaos volition request to fig retired a mode to dilatory down Holman. Could that see Troy Reh bumping to adjacent defense? That was the program successful Week 1 against the Atlas' Xander Dickson.

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Boston Cannons vs. Maryland Whipsnakes: Game Highlights

Boston Cannons vs. Maryland Whipsnakes: Game Highlights