We’ll know a lot more about how the Suffolk County Class A race shapes up after today. Unbeaten Ward Melville (9-0) visits one of this season’s surprise teams, Northport (9-1), in a 4:30 p.m. game at Veterans Field in Northport. Smithtown West (8-2), coming off one-sided losses to Ward Melville and Northport, looks to bounce [...]

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A pair of state championship coaches caught in the stands at a big game in Suffolk County last week (at left) are among the items in Joe Lombardi’s “Lombardi on Lacrosse” column for MSGVarsity.com. The coaches are (from left) Shoreham-Wading River’s Tom Rotanz and Garden City’s Steve Finnell. The main focus of this week’s column [...]

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Defending Section 1 (N.Y.) Class A champion Mamaroneck hosts White Plains in a 7 p.m. game. In other Section 1 games, Route 9 rivals Sleepy Hollow and Irvington meet in a 5 p.m. game at IHS and Hen Hud faces North Rockland at 5 p.m. at Mercy College in Dobbs Ferry. It’s a busy day in [...]

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MaxPreps photo by Jim Stout Matthew Montanez  of Fairfield Ludlowe shoots and scores over Norwalk’s Andy Lovo during Ludlowe’s 11-5 FCIAC win on April 20. Click here for the complete photo gallery. MaxPreps photo by Jim Stout Dylan Bass of Rye County Day, left, looks to circle out from behind the net during his team’s [...]

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The nomination process for the 2013 Under Armour All-America Boys/Girls Senior Games ends tomorrow. Selections will be announced in mid-May. Both the boys and girls teams will have 44 players. The Under Armour All-America Games are set for July 6. For more information, check this link at UnderArmourLacrosse.com. LAXLESSONS Links New iPhone/iPad app * Download [...]

Do you like surprises? Then the 2012 high school lacrosse season in the tristate region has been to your liking. After all, there have been plenty of them. That’s among the topics in Joe Lombardi’s latest column for InsideLacrosse.com. Have a recruiting commitment to report? Email us at info@laxlessons.com. LAXLESSONS Links New iPhone/iPad app * [...]

No. 19 Johns Hopkins hosts No. 9 Penn State in a collegiate women’s game at noon on ESPNU today. LAXLESSONS Links New iPhone/iPad app * Download for free the new LaxLessons’ playbook iPad/iPhone app in the iTunes store. * You can subscribe to LaxLessons.com’s playbook, featuring animated drills and plays for your team, by clicking [...]

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The season is nearing the midway point, and, with that in mind, our latest poll question asks what varsity team do you think has been the biggest surprise in the NY/NJ/CT tristate region? Here are some candidates with their records and signature wins. To vote, go to the right panel of this page. Then, scroll [...]

The annual rivalry game between Navy and Johns Hopkins highlights today’s action. You can watch it at 4 p.m. on ESPNU as the 11th-ranked Blue Jays visit Navy. Also on ESPNU, No. 19 Villanova plays at No. 3 Notre Dame at 2 p.m. The day’s college action begins at noon when No. 15 Bucknell visits [...]

It’s a stacked Saturday of wall-to-wall varsity action today in the nation’s No. 1 hotbed for lacrosse, the New York/New Jersey/Connecticut tristate region. Defending New York Class B state champion Garden City takes a 6-1 record into a 1 p.m. showdown at unbeaten Ward Melville (8-0). You can watch the game live on MSG Varsity [...]

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Just weeks after men’s basketball coach Mike Rice was fired for abusive behavior with players, Rutgers University is investigating allegations of verbal abuse made against its men’s lacrosse coach Brian Brecht. Brecht has been suspended with pay during the investigation, according to a report today by the Newark Star-Ledger. In other headlines from this past [...]

Here’s a rundown of links to the most update national high school and collegiate rankings: * Under Armour/Inside Lacrosse national high school boys power rankings  * Nike/US Lacrosse national high school boys rankings  * Nike/US Lacrosse national high school girls rankings * Latest collegiate men’s national rankings * Latest collegiate women’s national rankings * Nike [...]

Ivy League postseason tournament spots will be on the line today as 12th-ranked Princeton hosts Harvard. You can watch the game at 6 p.m. on ESPNU. Both teams are tied in the Ivy League standings at 2-2 and fighting for berths in the four-team Ivy League Tournament. The winner of the tournament earns an automatic [...]

It will be state champ vs. state champ as defending Connecticut Class L state champion Fairfield Prep hosts Massachusetts Division 1 champion Duxbury today at 1 p.m. at Alumni Field on the campus of Fairfield University. Duxbury has won nine state titles since 2002. Also of interest in Connecticut, Brien McMahon hosts Joel Barlow at [...]

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The Syracuse University women’s lacrosse team is ranked fifth in the latest IWLCA Division I coaches’ poll. And the Orange are also making their mark when it comes to recruiting. Earlier this month, we told you Syracuse landed a commitment from sophomore midfielder Mary Rahal of Queensbury High School (N.Y.). Today, we have news of another [...]