Lacrosse Insider: Two-time NY state champ Garden City gets its third 2015 commit
Two-time New York Class B state champion Garden City’s Class of 2015 has picked up another college commitment, and the Air Force Academy has also landed another significant verbal at the same. Prior to this weekend, Garden City’s 2015 verbals belong to a pair of defenders/longstick midfielders: Matt Borges (Ohio State) and Tommy Wright (Penn […]
You make the call: Who will win Chaminade-West Islip clash?
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
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 […]
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
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 […]
Latest college men’s/women’s, HS boys/girls rankings
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 * MaxPreps.com Top 25 boys player rankings (regardless of class) * Latest collegiate men’s […]
Wednesday, 3/20: Defending CHSAA champ St. A’s opens up
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 […]
Marquee LI vs. CT matchups highlight Darien Lacrosse Jamboree
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, […]
Epic Moments: Dean Gibbons, former Garden City (NY) and Harvard University standout
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
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 […]
Player’s perspective: Joe Varello, Smithtown West (NY) midfielder
It was a day Joe Varello and thousands of players from through Long Island had been anxiously awaiting. And it came today. Varsity practices and tryouts officially got under way. For Varello, the 2013 season comes with especially high expectations. After all, the senior faceoff midfielder plays for Smithtown West, which has emerged into one […]
Player’s perspective: William Sands, Friends Academy (NY) attackman
Friends has become a force. In Long Island, Class C that is. Friends Academy has advanced to the Nassau County Class C championship game the last two years, falling to Cold Spring Harbor each time. Can the Quakers break through with a title this year? For more, we turn to William Sands. One of the […]
Player’s perspective: Pat O’Brien, Smithtown West (NY) attackman
It was a race that went right down to the wire. We just wrapped up our latest poll question in our latest “You make the call” feature which asked who you thought would win the always heated race in Section 11 (Suffolk County) Class A. Your choice – defending New York State Class A champion […]
Player’s perspective: Kieran Byrnes, Garden City (NY) attackman
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 […]
Big sophomore commitments, more team outlooks top week’s tristate lacrosse news
Two of the top sophomore standouts in the New York/New Jersey/Connecticut region gave verbal commitments to Duke and Towson. 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 commitment to report? Email us at info@laxlessons.com. LAXLESSONS Links Schedules scanner Links […]
Player’s perspective: Brian Balkam, Smithtown East (NY) goaltender
You never know what’s going to happen when East meets West. As in Smithtown East and Smithtown West, that is. We’ve been talking a lot about the race for the top spot in Suffolk County’s Division 1. And even if Smithtown East and Smithtown West weren’t right in the thick of things — which they […]
Player’s perspective: Brian Masi, Smithtown West (NY) midfielder
Sacred Heart-University bound Brian Masi (third from right) is one of six seniors from Smithtown West bound for Division I programs, along with, from left: midfielder Dillon Gruder (UMass), attackman Pat O’Brien (Army), faceoff midfielder Joe Varello (Navy), defender Frank Briar (Marist) and attackman Eric Joseph (Lafayette). The race for the championship in Suffolk County’s […]
Player’s perspective: Matt Cortese, Garden City (NY) goaltender
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 […]
Chaminade, Fordham Prep looking to unseat their CHSAA rivals
The CHSAA championship races are always interesting. This season should be no exception as Chaminade will look to unseat St. Anthony’s in Division AAA and Fordham Prep will look to avenge last year’s one-goal lost to Iona Prep in the Division AA title game. That is among the topics in Joe Lombardi’s latest column for […]
Player’s perspective: Brian Ward, Bayport-Blue Point (NY), attackman
Bayport-Blue Point was one of the surprise teams in the high school lacrosse universe in 2011, making an unlikely trip to the New York State Class C championship game. Last year, the Phantoms finished 12-6, and again ended the season by losing to the eventual state champion — this time it was against Shoreham-Wading River […]
Player’s perspective: Sam Bonafede, Chaminade (NY) midfielder
Chaminade’s main mission for 2013 couldn’t be any clearer. The Flyers are aiming to win a CHSAA AAA championship for the first time since 2008, when they beat St. Anthony’s 12-11 in overtime in the title game. But the Friars have bounced back big time since then, beating ‘Nade in the title game four straight […]
St. Anthony’s (NY) sophomore middie Jones headed to Hopkins
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 […]
Player’s perspective: Ryan Feit, Syosset (NY) goaltender
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 […]
St. Anthony’s Concannon will make his stops for Hofstra
Jack Concannon’s journey to the world of Division I lacrosse started at age 4 when he first started playing the sport. That early start helped the St. Anthony’s (N.Y.) junior goaltender develop exceptional stick skills and quick hands. When he developed athleticism and size to go with those skills — he’s now 6-foot-2 — he […]
