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Manhasset and Yorktown shared the spotlight not only of the tristate but the entire nation with a pair of monumental wins on Saturday. ‘Set held on for a 9-7 win over Garden City in the 123rd Woodstick Classic, snapping a streak of three straight Woodstick wins by the Trojans. Yorktown pulled away for a 12-8 […]

The Big City Classic set for Saturday, April 27 at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J., is rapidly approaching. As part of the event, Inside Lacrosse is providing groups with special perks when blocks of tickets are purchased. 500 Tickets • Opportunity to have kids play on field for 5 minutes at halftime of one […]

It was quite a week for Hudson Valley and Long Island varsity teams and it wrapped up with some interesting outcomes yesterday Now, Connecticut and New Jersey squads are set to get their seasons going this coming week. For more on that, and a look ahead to some of the big games on the schedule […]

Commitments by four New York State standouts — Syracuse University-bound Rye High School junior defender Lazarus Chavez and three sophomores — were the big stories this past week in tristate news. That, along with the latest batch of preseason player perspectives, are among the topics in Joe Lombardi’s latest column for InsideLacrosse.com. Have a recruiting […]

Sophomore verbal commitments to Johns Hopkins and Duke were made by players from two of the top varsity programs in the tristate region — St. Anthony’s (NY) and Mountain Lakes (NY) — this past week. That is among the topics in Joe Lombardi’s latest column for InsideLacrosse.com. Have a recruiting commitment to report? Email us […]

It won’t be long now. With the start of the new year rapidly approaching, it’s time to start looking ahead to how the 2013 boys lacrosse season is shaping up in the nation’s No. 1 hotbed for lacrosse, the New York/New Jersey/Connecticut tristate region. How do defending New York and Connecticut state champions West Islip […]

New Jersey lacrosse is on rise. Anyone who doubts that must not have been paying attention the last week. That’s because six — count ’em, six — boys lacrosse standouts from the Garden State made verbal commitments this past week. That’s among the topics Joe Lombardi covers in his weekly column on tristate lax for […]

Lacrosse has emerged as the hottest sport at the varsity level in much of the nation. That fact was apparent today as both Garden City and Chaminade won football championships on Long Island. Yes, football championships. You see, many of the leading players for both teams are Division I-bound for lacrosse — not football. For […]

Just over two years ago, in October 2010, Syosset goaltender Ryan Feit became the first sophomore to verbally commit to a collegiate lacrosse program when he announced his intentions to attend Johns Hopkins. Feit, now a senior, made his commitment official during Fall Signing Week Nov. 14-21 by putting pen to paper on a National […]

If you have the December, 2012 issue of Inside Lacrosse Magazine nearby, please take a moment to turn to Page 116. There, you will see three pages devoted to techniques in changing directions from behind the cage from none other than former University of North Carolina and current Rochester Rattlers attackman Billy Bitter, a native […]

It was a big week on the lax scene. The announcements by the University of Maryland and Rutgers University that they will be joining the Big Ten Conference got most of the attention. That news came just as National Letter of Intent Fall Signing Week was coming to a close. Joe Lombardi takes a look […]

Who’s No. 1 in Nassau County? We’re going to have to wait more than seven months to find out the answer. But Section 8 coaches have go on record with their preseason rankings by conference. The Nassau County coaches’ rankings, along with the depature of coach Alex Whitten of defending FCIAC champion New Canaan, top […]

When Nolan Callahan transferred to prep school in New Hampshire two years ago, the hockey goalie from Florida contemplated playing tennis in the spring. But he wound up trying lacrosse. Now, the rising junior at Avon Old Farms (Conn.) is headed to one of the nation’s premier D-I powers — Syracuse. Callahan’s intriguing story is […]

A total of eight players from three of the top high schools programs in the tristate area — Massapequa, Chaminade and Yorktown — will remain teammates at the collegiate levels. That’s among the topics Joe Lombardi explores in his latest column on the tristate lacrosse scene for InsideLacrosse.com.  Have a recruiting commitment to report? Email […]

That’s the question Joe Lombardi asks in his weekly column on tristate lax for InsideLacrosse.com. Right now, it’s a heated race between Delbarton (N.J.), Chaminade (N.Y.), St. Anthony’s (N.Y.) and Don Bosco Prep (N.J.). Joe had three separate commit updates yesterday at Twitter.com/joe_lombardi that had big  impacts on that unofficial recruiting race: * Chaminade (N.Y.) […]

It’s 13. And counting. That’s the number of sophomores from the nation’s No. 1 lax hotbed, the New York/New Jersey/Connecticut tristate region, who have committed to Division I programs. The latest was made this past week by Sachem North defenseman Michael Aronow. That was one of the top stories in tristate lax during a week […]

Cornell University-bound defenseman Tony Britton of Darien checks in at No. 35 in Inside Lacrosse’s rankings of the top rising seniors in the nation. The September issue of Inside Lacrosse is out, and that means the Top 50 rising seniors and rising juniors have been unveiled. Needless the say, both lists of rankings are filled […]

LaxLessons.com co-founder Ryan Rabidou is in Cuba. You’re probably a bit surprised. After all, lacrosse and Cuba are hardly synonymous. But the former Somers (N.Y.) High School and Loyola (Md.) College standout was asked to join a group of instructors whose missions is to introduce lacrosse in less than 10 days to a summer camp […]

It’s always interesting to get Inside Lacrosse’s take on who the top high school and incoming collegiate players in the country are. And that’s precisely what we got this week. As you would expect, the Hudson Valley/Long Island/Connecticut region, the nation’s No. 1 hotbed for lax, was well represented.

Former West Islip star Nicky Galasso graces the cover of the recruiting issue of Inside Lacrosse, which will be out on the stands and in mailboxes this week. It will include national rankings of rising seniors and juniors in high school. It also ranks the top incoming college freshmen. To no one’s surprise, Galasso is […]

Hey gang – Inside Lacrosse associate editor Geoff Shannon and I spent some time previewing the Hudson Valley/Long Island/Connecticut region in a podcast that is now up on InsideLacrosse.com.

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 […]