It was quite a week to wrap up a busy month. It included Duke landing a pair of top players from Long Island: Garden City’s Justin Guterding (above) and Chaminade’s Brian Dunne, as well as Ward Melville defeating Suffolk rival West Islip in the title game of the Hot Beds Tournament at the University of [...]
LaxLessons.com co-founder Ryan Rabidou is in Cuba. You’re probably a bit surprised. After all, lacrosse and Cuba are hardly synonymous. But the former Somers (N.Y.) High School and Loyola (Md.) College standout was asked to join a group of instructors whose missions is to introduce lacrosse in less than 10 days to a summer camp [...]
The Sound Shore League men’s league will wrap up its 32nd season of play on Monday night, Aug. 1 with a championship tripleheader at Purchase College. The league is made up of teams from Westchester, Rockland, Putnam and Fairfield counties, as well as high school, youth and masters leagues. Top-seeded No Limit and No. 2-seeded [...]
A strong summer, including a solid outing at Jake Reed Blue Chip, helped cement defenseman Brian Dunne’s status as a target recruit for many of the nation’s premier programs. Dunne, a rising junior from Chaminade High School, verbally committed to attend Duke last week. He joins teammate Greg Rhodes, a rising senior midfielder, as a [...]
Ward Melville won the Battle of the Hot Beds championship for the second time in the last three years, defeating West Islip 8-3 in yesterday’s title game played at the University of Delaware. Ward Melville defeated the Florida Hammerheads 8-3 in the semifinals. West Islip advanced to the title game by pulling out a 5-4 [...]
Photo by Jim Stout/MaxPreps.com It was an unforgettable season for Jack Grass and Bronxville. The Broncos won the Section 1 title for the first time. Grass, meanwhile, set a school record for points in a season with 104 and assists with 45. He finished the year with 59 goals. After two more varsity seasons, Grass [...]
All-star teams for the Battle of the Hot Beds Tournament at the University of Delaware have been selected, and there are lots of players from the tristate area. The games are at 8:45 p.m. and 9:45 p.m. today at University of Delaware Stadium. Here’s the rundown: 2012 teams Blue All-Stars BL 111 Menard, Chris South [...]
Growing up in Garden City has provided Justin Guterding with plenty of real-life examples of what it takes to be a major Division I player. After all, six seniors from last year’s Class B state runner-up squad committed to Division I programs. Next season, the Trojans already have three Division I-bound rising senior recruits. Guterding, [...]
If you checked our “Updated recruiting review and commitment rundown” this morning, you learned one of the nation’s top rising juniors has made his college choice. Bronxville attackman Jack Grass has given a verbal commitment to accept a scholarship offer from Johns Hopkins. Grass, who was recruited by many of the nation’s top programs, had [...]
The list of programs in hot pursuit of Ryan Lukacovic reads like a who’s who of college lacrosse. Among them – Hopkins, Duke, Maryland, and ultimately, his final choice: national champion Virginia. The Chaminade rising junior, one of the nation’s most heavily recruited players, made his decision Wednesday, giving a verbal commitment to accept a [...]
If you’re looking for a player who epitomizes the term “pure scorer,” look no further than Ben Andreycak. The rising senior attackman was the leading scorer for Fordham Prep this past season, finishing with 57 goals and 38 assists for 95 points as the Rams went 13-7, won the CHSAA championship and beat rival Iona [...]
The Champ Camp has gotten under way today in Baltimore. Action lasts through Sunday. You can check out the seedings and brackets by clicking here. One team that especially bears watching — and may be the prohibitive favorite to win it all — is called Got Skillz. It is made up of premier talent from [...]
To say Yorktown’s Frankie Fusco was destined for lacrosse success also since birth would not be an overstatement. The Yorktown High School rising senior’s father, Frank Sr., was a defenseman and captain on the first Yorktown team in school history that advanced to the state championship game. So Fusco, a 5-foot-10 lefty attackman, was immersed [...]
The Battle of the Hot Beds, one of the major events on the summer travel schedule, is scheduled for Sunday, July 24 through Wednesday, July 27 at the University of Delaware. For a look at the schedule, click here. Here’s a rundown of the teams that will be competing: 1763 Lacrosse Club 3D Select 2012 [...]
Seedings and brackets have been finalized for this week’s Champ Camp, which will be played Thursday through Sunday in Baltimore. You can check out the bracket by clicking here. For a look at one of the more talented teams competing, Got Skillz, click here. Top Seeds Dukes 1 (Group A) Tri-State Black (B) FuZe Blue [...]
