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The high school lacrosse landscape is about to change in the northern tier of Section 1. Add Don Connolly’’s name to the ever-growing list of past Yorktown players taking the reins of a program in dire need of a fresh face and some new ideas. Arlington is a massive school, one of the biggest in […]

Terence Pfeifer, right, and Hicksville will face West Islip in Tuesday’s Class A Long Island championship game. Simply put, any of the three Long Island championship games are almost as big as a state final. This year will be no exception as six schools have emerged from the regular season and sectional wars to get […]

Guys, With the Sections 1, 8 and 11 finals to be held later in the week, I just wanted to throw a quick update out there for each of you in case you are looking ahead to potential state quarterfinal matchups.

In the next few weeks public school state champions in both New York and Connecticut will be crowned. Along the way we’ll also learn who received all-America recognition and respective state, sectional and conference accolades.

Hey guys, Several weeks ago I threw out there an early look at what the rest of New York state has to offer. Well, a lot has happened in that time. Many of the top teams in Sections 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 have made their move and are poised to earn their rightful […]

Anybody laughing now? Reading the comments in this week’s LaxLessons Top 25 regional rankings thread, it became fairly clear that a lot of people weren’t too sure about our selection of Manhasset as the area’s No. 1 team. Nor did it feel like, despite its big win over Putnam Valley on Saturday, many of you […]

Don’t call it a comeback. They’ve been here for years. It just took them a while to find their way. With coach Mark Armogida at the helm, White Plains has begun to rid itself of a stigma that seems to follow every high school lacrosse team located at or south of I-287 — this notion that central or […]

If you do nothing else between now and next season, remember the name Timmy Rotanz. He’s the talented attackman for Shoreham-Wading River, the son of successful head coach Tom Rotanz, and a vital cog in a machine that could very well execute without a hiccup all the way to Rochester come early June. Oh, and […]

Did you know that one of the finest prep school programs in the nation is no more than an hour or so in any direction from any point inside the LaxLessons.com readership area? It’s true, I assure you.

Top photo: Manhasset senior captain John Duvnjak celebrates the Indians’ 8-2 win over Garden City in the Woodstick Classic. Above photo: Matt Rubertone of Manhasset chases after Garden City’s Will Fuller. (Photo by newsphoto.com. For a gallery of photos from the game, click here.)

Sophomore attackman Brian Coleman and the Garden City Trojans have dominated recent meetings in the Woodstick Classic. (Photo by Jim Stout/MaxPreps.com)

This was the year it was all supposed to be different for Yorktown. The highly touted ‘Huskers were finally going to slay the dragon that had been their nemesis for 30-plus years. Ward Melville was, by all accounts, supposedly in the midst of a rebuilding phase and simply not the juggernaut of a Long Island […]

My fellow lax aficionados, In my continuing quest to keep everyone up to date on what the rest of New York state has to offer in each classification as we head toward June, I’m going to add on to the bottom of every weekly “View” column a quick Top 10 with notes on the best […]

Instant classic. Titanic struggle. Flat-out war. Choose your overused cliché because each would be an appropriate summation of today’s “Battle of the Sound” opener between Manhasset and host Darien. When it was over, the Indians celebrated like they had just won a state championship. The Blue Wave, on the other hand, had the look of […]

Hey guys, Syracuse here. Without question, the marquee matchup this weekend in our region is Game 1 of the “Battle of the Sound” doubleheader at Darien, pitting the host Blue Wave against Manhasset at 12 p.m. If you survive that epic, you’re in for more good lacrosse in the second game as two of the country’s most […]

Thanks to an impressive start, featuring Kevin Interlicchio’s unheard of 26 goals in just three-plus games, Yorktown rocketed up 11 spots to No. 7 in this week’s Under Armour/Inside Lacrosse power rankings. Yorktown (4-0) was No. 22 in the publication’s preseason poll and moved up four spots last week, but after Saturday’s 14-10 win over […]

Headstrong, charismatic, supremely confident … all these superlatives sum up Roy Colsey. The new Ridgefield coach opened a new chapter in his illustrious career with a lopsided win over Bridgeport Central on Wednesday. The sky appears to be the limit for his team in 2009. Colsey has some high expectations, desires he says his players […]

As far as Roy Colsey is concerned, his first season as Ridgefield coach will be all about gaining respect. And the former All-American at Yorktown and Syracuse is ready to do just about anything to make sure his team gets it. No, seriously, anything. “We will play anyone,” Colsey said. “This team does not get the credit it […]

Hey guys, Syracuse here. Well, this much is known: Through a handful of games, Yorktown is very much for real. St. Anthony’s may be more hype than actual substance. Manhasset appears to be one of the top teams on Long Island and probably the state and rebuilding John Jay will do whatever is necessary to […]

Hey everybody, Syracuse here. So much love is thrown Joe Marasco’s way — and rightfully so — but if you think this Somers team is a one-man show, think again. Greg Petre is the real deal — and the Tuskers have several others that will make them a very serious threat in the fight for this season’s Section […]

The season is about to begin in earnest in New York, so I figure it’s high time I lay out there who I think will ultimately get to Rochester come June 6. I will stop short of actually predicting a champion in each classification, but I will throw out there four teams in each class […]

Hey guys, Every Sunday I will post some scores from the weekend that we think you will be interested in. Of course, I’m not going to post everything, but feel free to add in any scores you want. • For a look at predictions for this coming week’s games, click here.

To hear Briarcliff coach Al Meola tell it, getting Tim Schurr on his staff was nothing short of a coup. The Bears will have a decidedly different look to them when they take the field in 2009. They lost 13 players to graduation and along with them a lot of the team’s offensive firepower. But […]

So what can we all expect from “A View from the Dome”? Well, I can assure you I won’t spend the scarce available time I have to help out LaxLessons.com with mindless banter about SU lacrosse. Nor will I wax poetic about life on the SU campus. (No, and not the night life either! Though […]

The ground is barely thawed but it already seems like it’s business as usual for Rye. If that’s the case, the rest of Section 1 Class C could once again be playing for second. Rye’s season ended rather unceremoniously last June with a 7-1 state semifinal loss to Mount Sinai. The Garnets then lost some […]