Photo gallery: Top-ranked Smithtown West (6-0) handles West Islip in Suffolk (NY) clash
Photos by Dave Anderson/MaxPreps.com Smithtown West (NY), the No. 1 team in the LaxLessons Tristate Top 25 rankings, ran its record to 6-0 Thursday by picking up a hard-earned 8-4 win over visiting West Islip. University of Maryland-bound Christian Zawadzki had three goals and two assists. Sophomore Jimmy Caddigan added two goals and an assist. […]
Photo gallery: Smithtown West beats Cold Spring Harbor in opener
Photos by Dave Anderson/MaxPreps.com Smithtown West and host Cold Spring Harbor got the 2014 season started on Wednesday, March 19 at CSH. Smithtown West came away with an 8-5 win. The Bulls outscored the Seahawks 4-1 in the second quarter to take a 6-3 lead at the half. Christian Zawadzki had three goals for West, […]
Player’s perspective: Smidt, Smithtown West (NY) will start 2014 season with great expectations
Great expectations await Smithtown West High School (N.Y.) as it prepares to start the 2014 varsity season. The Bulls, who made final roster cuts this week, enter the season at or near the top in the preseason rankings, beginning with the first released anywhere, the LaxLessons.com Tristate Top 25 preseason rankings. We got our first […]
Lacrosse Insider: Here are the Top 50 in our inaugural Tristate Top 100 preseason rankings
Our first-ever player rankings debuted here Sunday at Lacrosse Insider as we ran down players 50-100 in our listing of the Top 100 varsity players in the nation’s No. 1 hotbed for lacrosse, the New York/New Jersey/Connecticut tristate region heading into the 2014 season. For those just joining us, because we won’t budge in our […]
Player’s perspective: UNC-bound Kyle Mathie, Smithtown West (NY) eye more success in 2014
Smithtown West has emerged as one of the powerhouse programs in the nation’s No. 1 hotbed for lacrosse, the New York/New Jersey/Connecticut tristate region. The Bulls, coming off a 16-3 season that ended with a loss to eventual New York state champion Ward Melville in the Suffolk County Class A title game, have won 15 […]
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 […]
Yorktown sophomore Fusco: ‘Syracuse is the place for me’
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 […]
Smithtown West sophomore Keenan on verbal to Penn State: ‘I knew this was the place I wanted to be’
Duke, Cornell, Johns Hopkins, UNC, Maryland, Virginia and Penn State. Those were among the schools Ryan Keenan considered before making his college choice. Keenan, a sophomore lefty attackman at Smithtown West, decided on Penn State. Keenan made an immediate impact on the Bulls’ varsity squad last year, starting after his brother, current Duke freshman Kyle […]
Player’s perspective: Dodge, Bulls eye return to Suffolk finals
Photo by Gene Morris/Smithtown Patch There has been no shortage of talent at Smithtown West the last few years. Brett Madarasz, Jordan Stevens, Kyle Keenan and James Pannell are just some of the names that come to mind. Alex Dodge knows them all very well. Especially from practicing against them. The dodging midfielder was able […]
