Led by No. 2 West Islip, teams from throughout the region are represented prominently in LaxPower.com’s boys rankings for the 2009 season. Our friend George Baldassare, LaxPower’s director of high school boys lacrosse, just sent along the links to the  final boys and girls rankings. • Final Under Armour/Inside Lacrosse national rankings • Final LaxLessons.com […]

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West Islip celebrates its third state title in the last four years earlier this month in Rochester. (Photo by Mike Janes/MaxPreps.com) At least according to the numbers. Chris Kieser sat down and did some numbers crunching and came up with results I’m sure you will find real interesting. Take it away, Chris.

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Before we get set to start Week 3 of our LaxLessons.com all-region team voting and the defense position, let’s check out the final vote tally for the midfield position.

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Wilton has spent the better part of a decade chasing ghosts. First-year coach John Wiseman puts it more diplomatically. “Expectations,” he says, “weren’t aligned with reality.”

Hey gang – We’re starting a new feature here at LaxLessons.com. We’d like you to send along video highlights of any memorable games from the past or recent summer league or alumni games — whatever you want to share with all the folks who check this blog each day. To submit your video, just click […]

We’ve unveiled USILA all-Americans for the Hudson Valley and Connecticut. Now, we have our list of honorees for Long Island.

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The all-section dinner will be held tonight at Colonial Terrace in Cortlandt Manor. Here’s the list of this year’s honorees, which I just obtained this morning.

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Brendan Rotanz helped Fairfield Prep beat  the top-ranked team in Connecticut, Ridgefield,  in the Class L state semifinals. (Photo by Jim Stout/MaxPreps.com) Now we’re locked in. We’ve had plenty of shifts — some drastic, others not — from week to week during the season in our LaxLessons.com Top 25 regional rankings. But now we’re locking […]

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Action in the Sound Shore Adult Men’s League starts tonight with five games. This is the league’s 30th season. Teams that compete are from Westchester, Rockland, Putnam and Fairfield counties.

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It was a long process last year, but the Yorktown ‘Huskers are ready to do it again. Yorktown coach Dave Marr told me tonight that Yorktown is planning to petition to compete in Class A for the 2010 season. • Report on Monday night’s Section 1 exceptional senior all-star game

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Dan Kaiser, the president of the Hudson Valley Chapter of US Lacrosse, furnished me with the names of the Section 1 players named academic all-Americans and scholar-athletes.

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University of Virginia-bound attackman Matt White of Ridgefield has been named Connecticut player of the year and five-time Class M state champ Darien has been honored as the state’s team of the year. FCIAC finalists Ridgefield and Darien each had three players selected as USILA all-Americans.

The Section 1 exceptional senior game is set for tonight at Yorktown High School’s Charlie Murphy Field. Here are the rosters, along with the colleges the respective players will be attending. • Update: For a report on Monday’s game posted just after the Red team beat the Blue team 13-9, check Joe’s report in comment […]

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Here are the rosters for tonight’s Connecticut senior all-star games at Branford High School.

The high school season is over, but there’s plenty going on lax-wise throughout the region, starting today. And we’ll be updating you on all of it.

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