(Photo Courtesy of Jacksonville Athletics)

The Jacksonville Dolphins are the fifth DI program and third in the SoCon to release their 2022 men’s lacrosse schedule, doing so on Wednesday evening. The Dolphins are coming off a 2021 campaign in which they went 7-7 overall (4-2 SoCon) and ended their season in the conference semifinals.

Dolphins’ 2022 Schedule:

Date	Home	Away	Notes
1/29	Jacksonville	Tampa	Scrimmage
2/5	Johns Hopkins	Jacksonville
2/13	Duke	Jacksonville
2/15	Mercer	Jacksonville	Non-Conference
2/19	Jacksonville	Marquette
2/26	Denver	Jacksonville
2/27	Air Force	Jacksonville
3/6	Jacksonville	Utah	Jacksonville Lacrosse Classic
3/12	Bellarmine	Jacksonville
3/19	UMass Lowell	Jacksonville
3/26	Jacksonville	St. John’s
4/2	Jacksonville	High Point	SoCon
4/9	Jacksonville	Richmond	SoCon
4/16	VMI	Jacksonville	SoCon
4/18	Hampton	Jacksonville	SoCon
4/28	Jacksonville	Mercer	SoCon

New Opponents

Denver, Duke, Marquette, Hampton, Johns Hopkins, St. John’s, UMass Lowell, Utah

Team’s Dropped

Navy, North Carolina, Robert Morris

Key Games

2/19 vs Marquette: The Dolphins home-opener comes against a program in which they have a good bit of history with in the Marquette Golden Eagles. Last playing in 2020, Jacksonville came up victorious, 11-9, to break their four-game losing streak against the Big East program. Marquette holds a 4-3 lead in a series that has seen all but two contests decided by one or two goals.

4/2 vs High Point: The Dolphins and Panthers faces each other in their regular-season finale last season with High Point claiming a 16-11 victory. The two then met a week later in the conference semifinals where the Panthers again won, 11-9 to advance to the SoCon title game. Jacksonville trailed in the all-time series, 9-3, and has failed to beat the Panthers each of their past three meetings.

4/9 vs Richmond: While the Dolphins have come close, most notably falling by one-goal, 11-10, in the 2018 SoCon title game, they have never beaten Richmond in program history with an 0-8 record against the Spiders. Jacksonville lost 14-7 to the Spiders last season. As has been the case in recent years, this game could very well be a preview of a postseason meeting with both the Dolphins and Spiders coming into the season with such aspirations.