Sachem North (NY) 2017 Brody McCoy realizes dream with commitment to Air Force

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It’s the busiest time of year for major D-I commitments in the nation’s No. 1 hotspot for lacrosse, the NY/NJ/CT tristate region. Get caught up right here, right now. As a youngster, Brody McCoy enjoyed competing in a rare combination of sports — football and gymnastics. But then, he was introduced to lacrosse by his father […]

Photo gallery: Smithtown West beats Cold Spring Harbor in opener

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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

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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 […]

Smithtown East (NY) sophomore star Dan Rooney opts for Ohio State

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Dan Rooney made an immediate impact on the varsity team at Smithtown East, in the tristate lacrosse hotspot of Smithtown in Suffolk County (N.Y.), as a freshman last year. Rooney’s best lacrosse, though, is yet to come. The sophomore attackman, a LaxLessons.com Tristate Top 100 preseason selection, has three more varsity seasons with the Bulls. […]

Ward Melville (NY) goaltender Moore decides on his college destination

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One of the catalysts behind Ward Melville’s consensus national championship season and New York Class A state title in 2013 was the play of Dan Nemirov. A three-year starting goaltender for the Patriots, Nemirov is now a freshman at Cornell University. So one of the main questions surrounding WM entering a brand-new season is the […]

Player’s perspective: Ilchert, West Islip (NY) eager to return to championship form

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West Islip’s mission for 2014 is as clear as could be. After all, the Lions are coming off a 12-6 season in which their run of nine straight Suffolk County (N.Y.) championships and 11 straight Section 11 title-game appearances came to an end. WI’s title run ended with a 12-4 loss to Smithtown East 12-4 […]

Sachem North (NY) 2016 Jacob Giacalone, who first played goalie two years ago, is now headed to Johns Hopkins

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Considering how far he’s come in such a short amount of time, it’s no wonder Sachem North High School (N.Y.) coach Jason Mauro says “the sky’s the limit” for Jacob Giacalone. After all, just two years after first playing the goaltending position, the sophomore has verballed to Johns Hopkins, a commitment first reported by Joe […]

Long Island boys/girls championship (state quarterfinal) game schedules

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BOYS Saturday, June 1 at Hofstra University in Hempstead. Winners play the Section 1/2/9 champion on Wednesday, June 5 in the state semifinals. Class B Miller Place (Suffolk) vs. Garden City (Nassau), 2 p.m. Class C Shoreham-Wading River (Suffolk) vs. Friends Academy (Nassau), 4:30 p.m. Class A Ward Melville (Suffolk) vs. Massapequa (Nassau), 7 p.m. […]

Suffolk County championship game results

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Winners play the Nassau County champion on Saturday, June 1 for the Long Island Championship at Hofstra University. Class A Ward Melville 11, Smithtown West 6 Class B Miller Place 5, Huntington 4 Class C Shoreham-Wading River 18, Bayport-Blue Point 6 Have a recruiting commitment to report? Email us at info@laxlessons.com. LAXLESSONS Links New Mobile […]

Friday, 5/24: Section 1, FCIAC finals, Suffolk Class A semifinal showdowns, Fordham Prep/Iona Prep highlight big day

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The postponement of yesterday’s Section 1 boys and girls finals to today has made what would have already been a big day even bigger. Boys and girls finals will also be awarded in the Fairfield County Interscholastic Athletic Conference in a doubleheader at Brien McMahon High School in Norwalk, Conn. Fordham Prep and Iona Prep, […]

Monday, 4/15: Tristate spotlight is on Suffolk Class A as unbeatens Smithtown West, Ward Melville meet and West Islip hosts Northport; Full slate of action in New Jersey

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The spotlight is on Suffolk County today. More specifically, Class A in New York’s Section 11, one of the nation’s most ultra competitive conferences. First off, a battle of unbeatens between rivals Smithtown West (7-0) and host Ward Melville (6-0) in a rematch of a Section 11 semifinal last year. Ward Melville won that game […]

Player’s perspective: Christian Mazzone, Ward Melville (NY) midfielder

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New York has among the most heated and competitive high school leagues in the country. None more so than Suffolk County Class A. Though West Islip has dominated the last decade, that is not indicative of the fact that there are annually four to five teams within the league that could easily be state title […]

NY state champ SWR’s Cummings commits to Mount St. Mary’s

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At first glance, Tom Cummings wasn’t overly familiar with the Mount St. Mary’s College (Md.) program. But the more he learned, the more he liked. “When I first began to look at where I might have an opportunity to play lacrosse at the college level, I wasn’t really familiar with Mount Saint Mary’s,” said the […]

Huntington’s Kocis, also a football star, bound for Binghamton

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Athleticism, size, outside shot, field vision. Name a skill you would want to see in a Division I midfielder and Ben Kocis has it. The junior at Huntington High School (N.Y.) is coming off a successful football season. The quarterback led the Blue Devils to a 7-3 record and an appearance in the Suffolk County […]

Suffolk coaches: West Islip is still the one

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No Nicky Galasso. No Andrew Hodgson. No problem. At least that’s what coaches in Suffolk County seem to be saying about the 2011 West Islip Lions.

Championship Week: Section 1, Suffolk finals

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Yorktown midfielder Liam McCarthy. (Photo by Jim Stout/MaxPreps.com) Both Somers and Ward Melville stated their case during the regular season. That’s when the Tuskers beat John Jay for the first time since 2003 and the Patriots, who earlier in the season knocked Yorktown from the unbeaten ranks, did the same to West Islip on May […]