All games will be played Tuesday, May 28 at Hofstra University’s Shuart Stadium. Class B No. 1 Garden City vs. No. 2 Manhasset, 3:30 p.m. Class C No. 1 Cold Spring Harbor vs. 2 Friends Academy, 6 p.m. Class A No. 1 Massapequa vs. No. 3 Port Washington, 8:30 p.m. Semifinals Class A Massapequa 13, [...]
MSG Varsity, Cablevision’s 24/7 Emmy Award winning high school network, will provide live HD coverage of the 123rd Annual Woodstick Classic between Garden City HS and Manhasset HS, the oldest uninterrupted public school lacrosse rivalry in the nation, this Saturday, April 27 starting at 7 pm on MSG Varsity, Optimum TV Channel 14. The Woodstick [...]
Four defending state champions will be on display on Saturday, March 23 at the annual Darien Lacrosse Preseason Jamboree. They include defending New York state champions West Islip (Class A) and Shoreham-Wading River (Class C) and defending Connecticut state champs Fairfield Prep (Class L) and Darien (Class M). Here’s the schedule: Darien vs. Shoreham-Wading River, [...]
LaxLessons.com and Epoch Lacrosse have teamed up for a new feature at LaxLessons.com in which lacrosse standouts share their epic high school memories. A two-time All-American for New York State’s current reigning Class B champion Garden City, Dean Gibbons managed to more than equal his lofty accomplishments at the Division I level. Gibbons, an attackman [...]
Craig Berge’s abilities on the field made him a target recruit of many of the nation’s top programs. The midfielder at Massapequa High School (N.Y.), one of the top juniors in the nation, became even more appealing to elite college programs because of his proficiency in the classroom. He sports a 3.73 grade-point average. So [...]
High school lacrosse fans in the New York/New Jersey/Connecticut tristate regions may be the first ones to set their clocks ahead this weekend when Daylight Savings Time starts at 2 a.m. on Sunday. After all, with some of the big early season matchups set for the opening weeks of the season, who can blame them? [...]
Photo above by Newsphoto.com The eyes of the lacrosse world will be focused on Baltimore on March 23 for the Konica Minolta Face-Off Classic at M&T Bank Stadium. Colgate faces Navy in Game 1 at 2 p.m., followed by a 4:30 p.m. clash between Virginia and Johns Hopkins. The day begins with a premier high [...]
Mark it down. Massapequa will be one of the teams playing in the Nassau County Class A title game. That may be a bold prediction to make, but then again, when you look at what’s happened the last three years, it may considered a pretty safe pick. That’s because the Chiefs have in the the [...]
Garden City has no shortage of players who helped the Trojans win the Long Island Championship in football this past fall, but whose focus has now shifted to winning a second straight New York State title in lacrosse. We’ve heard from one of them, Boston University-bound senior midfielder Brian Badgett. Matt Cortese is another. A [...]
We’ve been asking in our “You make the call” feature and our rotating poll questions who you think will win some of the major 2013 tristate conference races. Our first poll centered on the always competitive Nassau County (Section 8, N.Y.) Class A race. Your choice to win? Syosset. The Braves, of course, are the [...]
Hicksville averaged 13 wins a season in the three years prior to last season. But the Comets are coming off an uncharacteristic 7-9 season. Will Hicksville be headed back to the winner’s circle in New York’s Section 8 (Nassau County) Class A in 2013? For more on that, we turn to Pat McCormick. One of [...]
Matt Borges is part of the next generation. Borges is a defenseman/long-stick midfielder for defending New York State Class B champion Garden City. Twelve seniors on that team are currently playing on college team. Seven current GC seniors and two juniors have committed to play at the next level. There are more on the way. [...]
Manhasset is looking to return to a familiar place. After winning back-to-back state titles, the Indians have not returned to the state tournament the last two seasons. That stretch coincides with Manhasset’s move up to Class B, where rival Garden City has won Nassau County titles in both 2011 and ’12 and the state title [...]
Garden City hopes to build off last year’s breakthrough season. After falling in the New York Class B state title game two years in a row, the Trojans coasted to an 11-4 win over Irondequoit in the final at Middletown High School after beating Yorktown 14-4 in the semifinals at Hofstra University. The championship capped [...]
Few players in the tristate area are as entertaining to watch as Chandler Kirby. The senior defender/long-stick midfielder for Jericho High School (N.Y.) goes at it with a level of intensity and energy few can match. It’s one of the reasons the 5-foot-7 dynamo will be taking his all-out style of play to Cornell. But [...]
