Josh Oliver has had a change of course. The 6-foot-3, 195-pound Canadian native, who committed to Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Conn., this past November, has decided to head further south. Much further. The senior attackman at the Vermont Academy is now bound for a Division I program that’s as far south as it gets, Jacksonville [...]
No matter what happens in his senior year at Somers, or in the Division I collegiate career that will follow, Kevin Cousin will have a tough time topping what he did during a late-season stretch last season. The attackman scored the game-winning goals in victories against two of the three 2010 Section 1 champions in [...]
Trinity Pawling has sure been in the spotlight this week. The private school in New York’s Hudson Valley has seen three junior standouts commit to Division I colleges (shown in photo below, from left): midfielders Julian Garritano (Sacred Heart), Gianni Bianchin (UMass) and Bryce Jurk (Sacred Heart). We’ve gotten the reactions of Garritano and Bianchin. [...]
It didn’t take long for Dino Lavalle to show he can play with the big boys. The Manhasset junior made that pretty clear a couple of years ago. Lavalle, an attackman, has been a standout on the Long Island Sting since the ninth grade. “Dino was the only ninth-grader we let play up on our [...]
It’s been quite a windfall for Trinity Pawling. The private school in Pawling, N.Y., saw three of its junior midfielders make Division I commitments this past week as we told you over the weekend on Twitter. All three are natives of Ontario who played for the Edge Junior Elite team. We’ve already profiled one of [...]
The number of current high school sophomores making college commitments is at an all-time high. The latest came over the weekend as Sachem North standout defender Michael Aronow verballed to Penn State. The 5-foot-11, 160-pound Aronow, a sophomore, is an unselfish, team-first player with strong skill skills who has been developing his lacrosse skills since [...]
If you’ve been following us here and on Twitter the last few days, there has been no shortage of commitments. This morning, we reported that Manhasset junior attackman Dino Lavalle verballed to Brown. Lavalle, who committed on Sunday night, has been a standout on the Long Island Sting since the ninth grade. Over the weekend, we [...]
Thirteen sophomores from the region have already made college commitments. (You can check the rundown below.) Two of those commitments have come in the last 24 hours. As we told you yesterday here and today on InsideLacrosse.com, Liam Blohm, a longstick midfielder from Syosset, opted for Ohio State. As we reported earlier today on Twitter, [...]
There was a definite Ohio State feel in the hallways of Syosset High School today. The fact that Ryan Hunter was wearing a red Ohio State T-shirt and Ohio State baseball cap hardly came as a surprise. After all, the senior attackman committed to play at OSU back in October, 2010. But the newest Brave [...]
Suffern is no stranger to the Section 1 championship. In addition to having hosted the event (including last season), the Mounties have also played in it quite a bit – a total of nine times. The Mounties last appeared in the final in 2003, losing to Lakeland/Panas 11-7. If they are to make it back this [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
