Pittsburgh Lacrosse Legends Enter The Sixes Prize League: A Consummate Professional and a Big East Star Put The Boys in Contention For Prize Money
The greatest lacrosse players to walk around Western, Pa., in the last 20 years are playing in the Sixes Prize League during Season 3.
These two players are minted with experience and lore at the highest levels, which makes everybody better on the field and the game more exciting to watch.
Andy DeMichiei and Tyler Digby join the Sixes Prize League, placing their team, “The Boys,” in immediate contention to win the championship.
The Boys “started my sophomore year of college, so like 2015,” Andy remembers. “And won the Summer league every year except 2023.” The team has been dominant. Winning eight of the last nine Summer League titles and a Fall Ball title on the side, The Boys prevented another team win a post-collegiate championship for seven years straight.
The Boys have always been a collective of Pittsburgh's all-area all-star lacrosse players, and the constants seem to be DeMichiei and Digby.
DeMichiei went to Hampton High School, winning two WPIAL titles, and was named a two-time All-American. He graduated to join the early greatness of a new Marquette University lacrosse team, winning back-to-back Big East Championships in 2016 and 2017. He set the former program record for goals scored in a game (7) and he made the All-Big East Team during his senior year at Marquette. To this day, DeMichiei remains in the top 10 in points and top five in assists in program history.
Digby is a different breed. Digby is a Canadian football-playing lacrosse player who landed in The Steel City via Robert Morris University’s lacrosse and football teams in the 2010s. His college career was decent. In his senior season, he scored four touchdowns off 17 receptions at Tight End. He scored points on the lacrosse field every year on campus, putting up a 30-piece his last year in 2013.
Digby blossomed as a pro. He was drafted 36th overall in 2013 to play in the Canadian Football League. At 6’3” 225, he could play anything. So he was also picked 20th overall by the Vancouver Stealth that same year in the National Lacrosse League draft. Throughout his 10-year NLL career, Digby had top-five-point scoring seasons for four different NLL franchises, amassing 458 points across 146 games.
Having The Boys in the mix with other formidable teams, like the Barrels Lacrosse Club, creates a competitive ecosystem for Lacrosse Sixes this season of the SPL.
Watch the Sixes Prize League this Fall. You can watch the games live on Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV, Roku, and SixesPrizeLeague.com via the Boxcast streaming app. Three SPL games this season also air on cable TV on The CW via 22 The Point, the regional station in Pittsburgh that carries The CW.