Former Yorktown (NY) All-American Mariano making sudden impact at UMass

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 UMass Athletics You’d have a hard time trying to name a freshman who’s had a bigger immediate impact at the Division I level than Nick Mariano. The attackman at UMass, an All-American for Yorktown last year, is putting up big numbers and is one of the main reasons the Minutemen are 3-0. For more, check […]

Player’s perspective: Palmadesso hopes to help Yorktown make its 35th straight sectional final

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It’s hardly a bold statement to say that Yorktown is one of the leading contenders for the New York Class B state championship in 2014. The Huskers, after all, have made 34 straight Section 1 title-game appearances. Last season, Yorktown dealt previously unbeaten Chaminade, then the consensus No. 1-ranked team nationally, its first loss, defeating […]

HS photo gallery: Images from an eventful week

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Photos by Jim Stout/MaxPreps.com Brunswick held on to beat the Deerfield Academy 9-7 on Saturday. In this sequence with the score tied at 6-6 in the fourth quarter, Brunswick goalie Tommy Heidt, right, stops Virginia recruit and Canadian U-19 National team member Joe French of Deerfield in Saturday’s game in Greenwich, Conn.  Click here for […]

Player’s perspective: Trevor Koelsch, Yorktown (NY) defender

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It all starts in exactly two months. That’s when the Yorktown Huskers open the 2013 season. They’ll do it in nearby West Point in New York’s Hudson Valley when they host Columbine High School (Colo.) on March 27 at 11 a.m. Just three days later, on March 30, it’s the annual showdown against John Jay […]

Player’s perspective: Rutgers-bound Cooley eyes a big senior year

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Yorktown has been a big topic of discussion here of late. For starters, Yorktown completed its 2012 schedule. As usual, it is among the most competitive of any high school team from sea to shining sea. The Huskers have also had several recent college commitments, bringing their total number of future collegiate players to 14. […]

Yorktown junior Manning will take his collegiate faceoffs at St. Joe’s

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It’s been a busy week for recruiting commitments for one of the nation’s most tradition-rich programs, the Yorktown Huskers. Longstick midfielder/defenseman Austin Fusco, one of the nation’s top sophomores, verbally committed to Syracuse. If you were with us bright and early this morning on Twitter, you learned of another Husker who decided where his destination […]

Yorktown sophomore Fusco: ‘Syracuse is the place for me’

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Yorktown and Smithtown West played one of the most entertaining games of the regular season last year as Smithtown West pulled out a 9-8 win at Charlie Murphy Field. Yorktown’s Austin Fusco and Smithtown West’s Ryan Keenan, who are now two of the top sophomores in the nation, are likely to play prominent roles when […]

Yorktown junior standout Mariano selects UMass

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The goal that playing Division I lacrosse could very well be a reality moved front and center into Nick Mariano’s mind when the Yorktown attackman earned a spot on the school’s varsity squad as a freshman. Now, just over two years later, it’s become a reality. Mariano has verbally committed to accept a scholarship offer […]