George Huguely trial hangs over start of a new college lacrosse season

CHARLOTTESVILLE — Up and down the Eastern Seaboard, and even in some growing hotbeds near the Mississippi and beyond, this weekend is the beginning of spring, because the college lacrosse season truly gets under way. Most teams ranked in the top 20 of the preseason coaches' polls, men and women, will have played their season openers by the end of the weekend. The march to the NCAA semifinals and final, the sport's biggest celebration — a convention and party wrapped into one, held on Memorial Day weekend — has begun.

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