Locust Valley (NY) Madsen twins have Port Washington seeing double in Game 1 upset

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Photos by Dave Anderson/MaxPreps.com Top: Mike Madsen, who had five goals in Locust Valley’s upset win over Port Washington. Above, twin brother Joe Madsen. It didn’t take long for there to be a major upset in the nation’s No. 1 hotspot for lacrosse, the NY/NJ/CT tristate region. It happened on Wednesday as Locust Valley, coming […]

Bethpage (NY) junior Biasi will take his size, speed to St. John’s

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A combination of size and stick skills are two of the most ideal attributes Division I coaches crave in a defenseman. Put checks in both columns for Nick Biasi. The Class of 2015 Bethpage High School (N.Y.) standout checks in at 6-foot-4, 210 pounds. A natural righty, he is equally strong with either hand. So […]

Player’s perspective: Ohio State-bound Blohm hopes to help Syosset (NY) reclaim Nassau County lacrosse crown

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Syosset fell short in its bid to in a second straight Nassau County (N.Y.) Class A title in 2013, so expect the Braves to have nan extra sense of purpose as the 2014 season draws near. Syosset fell to Port Washington 11-9 in the Section 8 semifinals last spring after beating Massapequa in the 2012 […]

Player’s perspective: Notre Dame-bound Walter eager to help Cold Spring Harbor (NY) reclaim Nassau County crown

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Cold Spring Harbor is looking for a reversal of fortune in 2014. The Seahawks have advanced to the Nassau County (N.Y.) Class C championship game five straight seasons, losing each time, most recently last spring, when they fell to the Friends Academy 9-4. CSH last won a county crown in 2008, when it beat Manhasset […]

Player’s perspective: Fuchs, Hewlett hope to stay in the hunt in Nassau (NY) Class B

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Hewlett hopes to stay in the hunt in one of the nation’s most competitive conferences. The Bulldogs played in Section 8 Class B, also known as Nassau County on Long Island, home of the two-time New York state champion Garden City Trojans. GC ended Hewlett’s 2013 season with a 12-3 win over the Bulldogs in […]

Shifty, speedy Cold Spring Harbor (NY) attackman Ian Laviano becomes UVa’s first 2017 tristate verbal

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It didn’t take long for Ian Laviano to make his mark at Long Island power Cold Spring Harbor. He became just the second eighth-grader to ever make the CHS varsity last spring. (Greg Peyser was the first in 1998.) The 2017 attackman has now decided where he”ll make his mark in college, giving a verbal commitment […]

Fall Signing Week: UNC-bound McCormick’s big day was two years in the making

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The decision came almost two full years ago. That’s when Pat McCormick, a versatile lefty attackman from Hicksville High School (N.Y.), verbally committed to the University of North Carolina. With the accelerated recruiting process that started when we first reported that Syosset (N.Y.) goaltender Ryan Feit became the first-ever sophomore to verbally commit back in […]

Massapequa 2015 attackman Dilena is Marist’s latest LI commit

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Marist College’s recruiting splash on Long Island added some ripples earlier this week when the Red Foxes picked up a verbal from one of Long Island’s top attackmen. It came when Paul Dilena of Nassau County Class A champion Massapequa verballed to coach Keegan Wilkinson’s program, a commitment first reported when it was made by […]

Nassau County All-Americans

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Two players from two-time New York Class B state champion Garden City — Eddie Blatz and Justin Guterding — were among the 10 players from Nassau County named US Lacrosse All-Americans. Just two of the recipients — Craig Berge and Will Sands — are juniors. Below is the complete list, which was first reported earlier […]

Tuesday, 5/28: Nassau title tripleheader at Hofstra; Shoreham-Wading River vs. Bayport-Blue Point in Suffolk C final

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We are now in state tournament play throughout the nation’s No. 1 hotbed for lacrosse, the New York/New Jersey/Connecticut tristate region. For updated brackets for all three states, click here. Long Island, however, still has to crown its county champions prior to the Long Island Championships (state quarterfinals) on Saturday, June 1 at Stony Brook […]

You make the call: Who will win Woodstick 2?

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What do you think the result of Woodstick 2 – the Nassau County Class B final between No.1 Garden City and No. 2 Manhasset on Tuesday, May 28 – will be? That’s our latest poll question. Manhasset won the teams’ regular-season meeting — the 123rd Woodstick Classic — 9-7 on April 27. What will be […]

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 […]

Player’s perspective: Matt Cortese, Garden City (NY) goaltender

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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 […]

Player’s perspective: Brian Badgett, Garden CIty (NY) midfielder

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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 […]

Hicksville, Garden City, Manhasset win Nassau titles

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Though all three favored teams wound up winning, there was plenty of drama tonight in the Nassau County championships at Hofstra University.

Championship Week: Nassau finals

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Garden City attackman Brian Coleman. (Photo by Jim Stout/MaxPreps.com) Two No. 1 seeds (Garden City in Class B and Manhasset in Class C) are alive and well as we get set for today’s Nassau County finals. But we do have one casualty. And it’s a big one. In Class A, Farmingdale was ousted in the […]

Nassau County playoff brackets set

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Attackman Ryan Hunter of defending Nassau Class A champ Syosset. (Photo by Jim Stout/MaxPreps.com) The seedings and matchups are out for the Nassau County playoffs, folks. There are some interesting matchups needless to say.