Thursday, 5/30: Section 1 vs. Section 2 opening-round state tourney tripleheader in Albany features Yorktown vs. Niskayuna, Mamaroneck vs. Shenendehowa; Stepinac vs. St. Mary’s Stepinac vs. St. Mary’s play for “A” downstate title

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Before we get to today’s schedule, let’s look ahead. Opening-round games were completed in Connecticut yesterday, and quarterfinal-action is set for Saturday, June 1. Among the June 1 matchups: Greenwich at Staples (Division L) and Wilton at Darien (Division M). Check the brackets and full schedule here. Group champions were crowned in New Jersey yesterday, […]

Coach’s Corner: With Final Four coming up, some crossovers from hoops to lacrosse

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Tony Vallance has been coaching at the college level for the past 11 years including stops at Dean Junior College, Muhlenberg College, Bellarmine University and most recently Fairfield University.  Originally from Maryland, he played goalie at Penn State University where he graduated in 1998.  He is currently the Director of Lacrosse Instruction at the House of Sports, located […]

NJ two-way sophomore midfielder Smith verbals to Virginia

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Possession is the name of the game in lacrosse. And the perfect way to describe David Smith’s game. Faceoffs and groundballs are the specialty of the sophomore from Shawnee High School in New Jersey. He’ll be taking those skills to the major Division I level after verballing committing this past week to the University of […]

NJ HS squads will be featured at Konica Minolta Big City Classic

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Now that the Konica Minolta Face-Off Classic is one for the books, we can look ahead to the Konica Minolta Big City Classic. The Face-Off Classic, played Saturday, March 23 at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore, started with a 6-5 win for Garden City’s boys varsity team over Loyola-Blakefield (Md.). High school teams will also […]

News & Notes: Rabil is first ‘million dollar’ lacrosse man; more headlines

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The lacrosse world has its first million dollar many, according to Bloomberg.com. It should come as no surprise that it’s Paul Rabil, thanks to an array of endorsement deals and more than 100,000 combined followers on Twitter and Facebook, coupled with an increase of 37% in lacrosse participation nationwide since 2008. In a sidenote, Rabil, […]

You make the call: Who will win the Yorktown-John Jay game?

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Are you getting set for Showdown Saturday? Among the matchups on March 30: La Salle (Pa.) at Gardem City, Chaminade at West Islip and Yorktown at John Jay. The 7 p.m. Yorktown at John Jay game marks the first meeting between the teams since Yorktown pulled out an 9-8 overtime win in the 2012 Section […]

Epic Moments: Bobby Rushton, former West Islip (NY) and Sacred Heart University (CT) midfielder

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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. West Islip High School has become synonymous with boys lacrosse success. Both in terms of New York state championships won. Bobby Rushton knows all about both. The 2005 WI graduate helped build […]

You make the call: Who will win Chaminade-West Islip clash?

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In less than a week we’ll have our first Showdown Saturday of the regular season. Among the matchups on March 30: La Salle (Pa.) at Gardem City, Yorktown at John Jay and Chaminade at West Islip. The high noon Chaminade-WI game is a rematch of a 7-6 Chaminade win last year — which proved to […]

Sophomore girls commit, big boys rivalry games top lacrosse news

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Sophomore verbal commitments by boys lacrosse players have become more and more frequent But they remain rare on the girls side. That’s why it was especially big news when Ella Bonafede, a midfielder on the top-ranked girls team in the tristate region, St. Anthony’s, decided on Duke. For more on that, and a look ahead […]

Today on TV: Face-Off Classic doubleheader on ESPNU

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Those who checked out the Princeton-Yale game yesterday on ESPNU likely were not disappointed as Princeton pulled out a dramatic 10-9 win. Lax fans are hoping more drama is in store today as both games of the Konica Minolta Face-Off Classic at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore can be seen on ESPNU. It will be […]

Saturday, 3/23: Garden City has big battle in Baltimore; Four state champs converge in Darien; Red/Gray Classic features St. Anthony’s, Niskayuna, Don Bosco, Section 1 powers

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It’s the first stacked Saturday of the season, folks. In some cases, the preseason. First, let’s start with the big headline. Garden City, the defending New York Class B state champions, has a huge test when it faces Maryland power Loyola-Blakefield in an 11 a.m. game at M&T Bank Stadium. The Trojans, who started the […]

Today on TV: Princeton hosts Yale in Ivy League battle

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There’s lots of March Madness on the airwaves these days, but there will also be some good lacrosse matchups today and throughout the weekend. Today, you can watch an Ivy League battle between visiting Yale and Princeton at 5 p.m. on ESPNU. Tomorrow, both games of the Konica Minolta Face-Off Classic at M&T Bank Stadium […]

Friday, 3/22: Smithtown West, Smithtown East get started

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Is this the year Chaminade unseats St. Anthony’s for the CHSAA title? We’ll get a better idea when the teams clash for the first time during the regular season on April 10. But both squads have jumped out to 1-0 starts. St. Anthony’s downed Kellenberg 12-5 on Wednesday and Chaminade beat 2-12 Nassau County Class […]

Thursday, 3/21: Chaminade opens vs. Massapequa; Defending CT state champ Darien is at John Jay, Yorktown visits Iona Prep, Bronxville visits Smithtown West in scrimmages

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Four-time defending CHSAA Division AAA champion St. Anthony’s got its season started yesterday by beating Kellenberg Memorial 12-5. Now it’s Chaminade’s turn. If you’re just tuning in, Chaminade is ranked No. 2 in the Under Armour/InsideLacrosse.com National Rankings. But Chaminade has lost to St. A’s four straight years in the CHSAA title game. So while […]

Wednesday, 3/20: Defending CHSAA champ St. A’s opens up

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It may have only been Game 1, but defending New York Class B state champion Garden City looked like it was in championship form yesterday in an 8-4 win over Syosset in the traditional marquee season-starter for tristate lax. It was the fifth straight year the two teams have met in the season opener and […]

Monday, 3/18: First full week of regular season gets under way

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There have been a handful of regular-season games already played since last Friday — all on Long Island. Most notably, Sayville edged Connetquot 14-13 and Oceanside outlasted Hewlett 13-11 on Saturday in boys action and Locust Valley pulled away for a 17-4 victory against Bethpage in a girls game. This week, the regular season begins […]

Player’s perspective: Jack Harrington, Greenwich (CT) defender

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Greenwich wrapped up a 9-9 season with a 15-5 loss to eventual Connecticut Class L state champion Fairfield Prep in the first round of the CIAC tournament. For a team whose roster was made up of many underclassmen, the Cardinals’ 2012 finish may actually prove to be the start of something big. After all, those […]

Today on TV: Michigan/Colgate Metro Classic game on ESPNU

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There will be more ESPN coverage today at the inaugural Metroplitan Classic, which feature a college lacrosse doubleheader at Citi Field in Flushing, Queens. It starts with Navy taking on Holy Cross at noon, followed by a 3 p.m. game between Michigan facing Colgate. ESPNU will telecast the Michigan-Colgate game with ESPN3 carrying the Holy […]

It’s time to get the regular season started

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Here we go. There have been a handful of season-opening games the last few days in the New York/New Jersey/Connecticut tristate region the last few days, but the 2013 varsity lacrosse season starts in earnest this week with a marquee matchup getting things going on Tuesday, March 19. For more on that, be sure to […]

Coach’s Corner: Look for simple fix first; Where to watch lax online

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Tony Vallance has been coaching at the college level for the past 11 years including stops at Dean Junior College, Muhlenberg College, Bellarmine University and most recently Fairfield University.  Originally from Maryland, he played goalie at Penn State University where he graduated in 1998.  He is currently the Director of Lacrosse Instruction at the House of Sports, located […]

LaxLessons launches iPhone/iPad app for lacrosse coaches, players

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LaxLessons, home of the premier instruction lacrosse website, today launched a new mobile instruction app. The app features all the animated drills and plays available at LaxLessons.com, but is now available as a free download for both the iPad and iPhone in Apple’s iTunes store. The number of lacrosse players on organized teams in the […]

Epic Moments: Dean Gibbons, former Garden City (NY) and Harvard University standout

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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 […]

Massapequa (NY) midfielder Berge bound for Georgetown

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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 […]

St. Augustine Prep (NJ) FOGO Fox finds the right fit in Fairfield

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Chalk up another one for St. Augustine’s Prep. We reported yesterday that the New Jersey power, which has averaged 17 wins per season the last five years, saw sophomore midfielder James Kitchen verballed to Hofstra. Another Hermits’ player has also decided his Division I future. He’s Will Fox. The 5-foot-8, 185-pound junior faceoff midfielder has […]

St. Anthony’s (NY) sophomore middie Jones headed to Hopkins

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Do you remember the 2005 Division I men’s lacrosse national championship game? Danny Jones sure does. In fact, to say it left a big impact on the sophomore at four-time New York CHSAA champion St. Anthony’s would be an understatement. For starters, it was Jones’ first introduction to lacrosse. He discovered it while flipping through […]