Bowhunter Cup Was Canceled.

A day after it was announced that the U.S. would not participate in the Fifth Annual Bowhunter Cup, the Iroquois Nationals said on Thursday that the international exhibition game scheduled for Saturday at Buffalo's First Niagara Center is now cancelled due to the U.S. team dropping out. The game was announced less than a month ago, which is the latest in the series that annually pits the Iroquois against a team representing the U.S. The First Niagara Center will host the final rounds of the 2015 FIL World Indoor Lacrosse Championships next September.

U.S. Lacrosse took over running the indoor team recently, announcing Sept. 15 that Tony Resch would be the head coach, helped by a strong staff of Adam Mueller, Chris Schiller and Tim Soudan. Previously, independent groups have led the U.S. Indoor Team, including Graham D'Alvia and former head coach Tom Ryan. Last year, the Iroquois beat the  U.S. Developmental Team in the Bowhunter cup at Six Nations, their third straight victory in the series over the American team
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With U.S. Lacrosse now running the indoor team, a tryout date hasn't yet been announced, though sources tell that some big-name Americans such as Casey Powell, Paul Rabil, Kyle Hartzell, Brendan Mundorf, Drew Westervelt, Brian Langtry, Max Seibald and Mitch Belisle from the bronze-medal winning U.S. Team from 2011 are interested in participating. U.S. Lacrosse said Wednesday that they made no commitment to participate in this year's Bowhunter Cup.

"U.S. Lacrosse had no communication with and made no commitment to the organizer of the Bowhunter cup to participate," said U.S. Lacrosse CEO Steve Stenerson. "We were aware of the event, but the timing of the transition made the possibility of our participation unrealistic." So because of the U.S. team withdrawing and not participating in this Lacrosse Cup, it created this small mass of problems that caused the cup to be canceled and cause players and people to wait until next year.