Lacrosse Insider: Here are the Top 50 in our inaugural Tristate Top 100 preseason rankings

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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: Bonafede, Chaminade will have a tough act to follow in 2014

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The 2013 season will be remembered for a long time in Mineola. The Chaminade Flyers completed a rare 3-0 season series sweep of archrival St. Anthony’s, with the final win, a 7-5 victory, coming in the much-awaited CHSAA (N.Y.) Nassau-Suffolk AAA title game. Chaminade finished 15-2 with the losses coming against Hudson Valley (N.Y.) power […]

St. Anthony’s sophomore Ella Bonafede decides on Duke

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Growing up in a lacrosse-playing family, Ella Bonafede has never had to search long to find someone to practice with. “I’ve been playing lacrosse in my backyard with my three brothers for as long as I remember,” said the sophomore midfielder for St. Anthony’s (N.Y.), which ranked No. 3 in the latest Nike/US Lacrosse national […]

Chaminade’s Bonafede, one of nation’s top rising juniors, reflects on his choice of Princeton

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Sam Bonafede is not only one of the most multidimensional midfielders in the nation, but one of the best. The Chaminade High School rising junior was ranked No. 4 last fall on Inside Lacrosse’s Top 20 Young Gun Sophomore Watchlist. So it should as no surprise that the 5-foot-8, 165-pound righty had his pick of […]