It’s become the lacrosse equivalent of a best-of-three series. CHSAA rivals Chaminade and St. Anthony’s square off twice during the regular season, and then, invariably, once more, in the postseason championship game. Neither team has swept a season series since 2006. St. Anthony’s enters the season having won three straight Catholic League titles. Last year, [...]
Ridgefield has never won back-to-back Connecticut state championships. That possible achievement is front and center on the Tigers’ radar as they prepare to start the 2012 season. Leading the way in pursuit of that goal will be senior Eric Scala. The 5-foot-10, 180-pound lefty attackman/midfielder, accepted a scholarship offer from the University at Albany. Now [...]
Those who crave offseason news involving the nation’s No. 1 hotbed for lacrosse, the New York/New Jersey/Connecticut tristate region, weren’t disappointed this week. Sophomore commitments continued to come in. Hen Hud goaltender Eddie Gilman became the Sailors’ second major D-I commit, verballing to North Carolina. Yorktown saw its number of college committed players swell to [...]
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Perhaps the marquee regular-season Section 1 game on the calendar has established its own tradition of late. The Yorktown-John Jay game has become the traditional season opener for the Section 1 season. And this coming season will be no different. The teams will meet Saturday, March 31 at Yorktown’s Charlie Murphy Field at 1 p.m. [...]
Hen Hud will be competing in Class C this upcoming season. The Sailors will certainly have the star power to contend for the Section 1 championship. Just over a month after junior faceoff specialist Matt Ledwin committed to Johns Hopkins, the Sailors saw another standout give a verbal to one of the nation’s top D-I [...]
Lakeland/Panas will be looking to advance to the Section 1 finals for the fifth straight year in 2012. To do it, the Rebels will need to win the possession game. To that end, Chris Monteferante will play a prominent role. Monteferante is one of the premier faceoff specialists in the tristate region. The senior, who [...]
Benny Borgognone brings a football mentality to the lacrosse field. That should hardly come as a surprise. After all, he’s a standout linebacker for Manhasset. Borgognone, a sophomore, describes himself as an aggressive, possession first defenseman. Those are traits similar to his brother, Frank, a senior defenseman for Manhasset, who has signed to play at [...]
Few teams in the tristate area have had more preseason anticipation about the injury status of two of its key players than Darien. As we told you when we launched Year 3 of our preseason “Player’s perspective” feature, Duke University-bound senior attackman Case Matheis has been rehabbing his suffering a torn meniscus in last year’s state [...]
It’s been a busy week for recruiting commitments for one of the nation’s most tradition-rich programs, the Yorktown Huskers. Longstick midfielder/defenseman Austin Fusco, one of the nation’s top sophomores, verbally committed to Syracuse. If you were with us bright and early this morning on Twitter, you learned of another Husker who decided where his destination [...]
The University of Michigan is located in the heart of Big Ten country. But as the Wolverines prepare for their first season of Division I lacrosse, they have established a recruiting pipeline to the East Coast that extends beyond the borders of the three states that comprise the nation’s No. 1 hotbed for lacrosse, New [...]
Yorktown and Smithtown West played one of the most entertaining games of the regular season last year as Smithtown West pulled out a 9-8 win at Charlie Murphy Field. Yorktown’s Austin Fusco and Smithtown West’s Ryan Keenan, who are now two of the top sophomores in the nation, are likely to play prominent roles when [...]
Duke, Cornell, Johns Hopkins, UNC, Maryland, Virginia and Penn State. Those were among the schools Ryan Keenan considered before making his college choice. Keenan, a sophomore lefty attackman at Smithtown West, decided on Penn State. Keenan made an immediate impact on the Bulls’ varsity squad last year, starting after his brother, current Duke freshman Kyle [...]
Yorktown holds the record for most consecutive Section 1 boys lacrosse championship game appearances at 32 straight. And counting. But John Jay also has an impressive streak of its own that’s also intact. The Indians have made seven straight sectional title-game appearances. John Jay enters this season having lost in last year’s Class B sectional final [...]
Since Manhasset moved up to Class B prior to last season, the race for Class C supremacy in Nassau County — and Long Island, for that matter — has been interesting to watch. Cold Spring Harbor outlasted the Friends Academy 8-7 to take the Section 8 Class C title last year. The Seahawks then fell [...]
