Sports Journalism instructor Pete Dalliday will be substituting on TSN2 as the play-by-play host for three National Lacrosse League games in February.
Dalliday, who teaches play-by-play courses in the SPJN program, will be winging to Edmonton and Calgary for two Toronto Rock games, and is also slated to cover a Rock home game. Dalliday is filling in for Dave Randorf who’ll be in Vancouver covering the Winter Olympics for TSN.
The TV gig means Dalliday’s streak of calling more than 1,000 consecutive Peterborough Petes’ OHL games will end on Feb. 14. That benchmark began in 1996 on 100.5 Kruz FM radio.
Dalliday joined the Loyalist faculty in September 2008 and juggles his teaching duties with his full-time job at the Kruz FM.
“As a teacher at Loyalist, you are always learning,” he says. “This will be a tremendous opportunity for me. And I’m looking forward to bringing back the experience of calling NLL games and sharing that with our SPJN students.”
Dalliday is no stranger to Canada’s national summer sport. He played junior B and senior lacrosse for the Peterborough Lakers.
Dalliday will call the Toronto Rock at Calgary Roughnecks game on Feb. 14; the Toronto at Edmonton Rush match-up Feb. 21; and he’ll be in Toronto when the Rock host the Orlando Titans Feb. 27. All three games are being televised on TSN2.
