Shoreham-Wading River’s Lutjen signs with Siena
Siena College is off to a new start. Brian Brecht, who served as the Saints’ head coach for the last seven seasons, left Loudonville to take over the Rutgers program. Enter John Svec. The new Siena head coach had been an assistant an assistant at Hobart. Despite the transition, there’s little doubt Svec will follow […]
Ridgefield’s Gollogly will take his size, speed to Siena
Defending Connecticut Class L state champion has its fourth senior college commit. Neil Gollogly, an athletic midfielder who excels in unsettled situations, has committed to Siena College. Following his junior season at Ridgefield, the 6-foot-2, 175-pound Gollogly helped Team Superstar 2012 Blue finish 29-2 over the summer, with wins in the Maverik Bigtime Shootout and […]
Siena turns to Svec as new head coach
Brian Brecht built Siena’s men’s lacrosse team into a perennial MAAC champion and NCAA tournament participant. After Brecht left the Saints to take over the program at Rutgers, Siena was charged with finding someone who could build on that momentum. The Saints are hoping former Hobart and Albany assistant John Svec, a former standout at […]
Rutgers selects Siena's Brecht as head coach
Brian Brecht promises to use the same formula that produced so much so much such during his tenure at Siena. The newly named Rutgers head coach is expected to recruit heavily from the New York/Connecticut/New Jersey tristate area in a bid to reestablish the Scarlet Knights as a national power. For more on Brecht’s appointment […]
Surging Siena hauls in Hudson Valley windfall
Just two years after winning the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference championship and advancing to the NCAA tournament, and just a year after playing Johns Hopkins to an overtime game at Homewood Field, the Siena Saints continue to show they’re a program on the rise. Siena head coach Brian Brecht, a former varsity assistant at Yorktown, […]
Commitments continue: Rye’s Bonsall bound for Siena
Brian Brecht spent a season as an assistant coach on the Yorktown varsity lacrosse team. Though most of the seventh-year Siena College head coach’s current players hadn’t even picked up a lacrosse stick at the time, it did provide the Long Island native and former Springfield College player familiarity with the Hudson Valley region. That […]
Somers’ Donohue selects Siena
Quick question, gang. Especially those of you in the Hudson Valley region. Name the Section 1 program that has produced the most Division I recruits the last two years. If you guessed Somers, you are correct. Senior attackman Kieran Donohue became the sixth Tusker player who is or will be continuing his career at the […]
Hopkins survives scare vs. Siena 8-7
Mike Kimmel’s extra-man goal with 49 seconds remaining lifted Johns Hopkins to an 8-7 win over upset-minded visitor Siena in a game today at Homewood Field in Baltimore in another game that demonstrates the increased parity in collegiate lacrosse Hopkins senior goalie Brent Herbst of Plainview had to come out of the game with just […]
