We’ve been bringing you the news of postseason awards the last month or so as those selections have been made. Now, here’s a quick look back at players named to the United States Lacrosse All-America teams from the nation’s No. 1 hotbed, the Hudson Valley/Long Island/Connecticut region. Here’s the rundown: Connecticut Case Matheis, A, Darien [...]
Marist has a new head coach. Keegan Wilkinson, the Red Foxes’ top assistant for the last four years, has been tabbed to take over the school’s men’s lax program. Wilkinson takes over for Scott Nelson, who accepted the head-coaching job at Binghamton in mid-May. Nelson was named 2011 MAAC coach of the year after leading [...]
A total of 15 players from the nation’s No. 1 hotbed for lacrosse, the Hudson Valley/Long Island/Connecticut region, have been selected to play for the North team at the sixth annual Under Armour All-America Lacrosse Classic. The game, which will be broadcast on ESPNU, is set for Saturday, July 2 at 8 p.m. at Towson [...]
The FCIAC champion Darien boys lacrosse team’s efforts to support troops in Afghanistan is among the topics we discuss in this week’s Sunday column on the tristate region for InsideLacrosse.com. You can check it out now by clicking here. In case you missed MSG Varsity’s hour-long season tristate review special that premiered Tuesday night, you [...]
Summer officially started on Tuesday. The summer travel season began a few days before that. Now, it’s kicking into high gear. We shared with you the rosters for Team Suffolk and Team Nassau earlier this week. On Thursday, they played their first game in the Long Island Showcase at Dowling College. Suffolk won both the [...]
Darien boys lacrosse players (from left) JP Walsh, Tim Murphy and Graham Maybell stand alongside coach Jeff Brameier with boxes of items that were sent to Delta Company in Afghanistan. The FCIAC champion Darien boys lacrosse team has been busy both on and off the field the last few months. Working through America Supporting Americans, [...]
The Top 205 Camp is under way at Towson University in Maryland for rising seniors and rising juniors. The rising sophomore camp is set for Goucher College in Baltimore July 2-5. For more info, including schedules, click here. In case you missed MSG Varsity’s hour-long season tristate review special that premiered Tuesday night, you can [...]
A total of 16 teams from New York, New Jersey and Connecticut comprise the 25 teams in the final Under Armour/Inside Lacrosse Top 25 High School Power Rankings. But a team from Pennsylvania, Haverford, completed a trifecta of sorts by being ranked No. 1. The Fords also drew the top spot in both the LaxPower.com [...]
Ohio State University-bound Ryan Hunter of Syosset is among the standouts on Team Nassau. Rising senior, junior and sophomore teams representing Nassau and Suffolk are set to take the field. Those teams will be playing this week in the Long Island Showcase at Dowling University’s Brookhaven Campus on Thursday. Here’s the schedule of games featuring [...]
A Wall Street Journal story that we recently linked to here explored the nationwide growth of lacrosse, particularly in urban areas. That story cited a 48 percent increase in the number of lacrosse players nationally over the last five years. Southern California is an area in which the growth is especially evident. Columnist Chris Erskine [...]
Photo by Richard Rector/MaxPreps.com Haverford’s Will McNamara battles Darien’s Brandon Coley during the host Fords’ 11-5 victory at the third annual Checking for Cancer Classic in Hanover, Pa., on April 18. The high school season is now over everywhere, with the final round of state title games held this past weekend in the few remaining [...]
This past weekend marked a transition as we moved from the end of the high school season to the start of the summer travel season. That’s among the topics we discuss in our latest Sunday column for InsideLacrosse.com. You can check it out by clicking here. Meantime, we will mark the end of the high [...]
It hasn’t taken Stony Brook long to find a replacement for Rick Sowell. Just over a week after Sowell left Stony Brook for the head coaching job at Navy, Stony Brook is set to name a successor. Colgate’s Jim Nagle is the Seawolves’ choice, according to a report by John Jiloty of Inside Lacrosse. To [...]
With the state championships ending the high school season a week ago today in New York and Connecticut and the Tournament of Champions title game wrapping up the season in New Jersey, today marks the first weekend of the summer travel season. And Cantiague Park in Hicksville and Lehigh University are the places to be. [...]
Who’s No. 1 in Connecticut? According to the final New Haven Register poll of the season, it’s Wilton. The Warriors, of course, ended Darien’s run of six straight Class M state titles with an 11-3 state semi win before beating New Canaan 12-2 in the final during a season in which Villanova-bound Mike Francia (above) [...]
