Here are your Suffolk (NY) All-Americans

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Here are Suffolk County (NY) 2014 US Lacrosse All-Americans. Dan Bucaro, Ward Melville, jr., attack, Georgetown Brian Cannon, Northport, sr., attack, North Carolina Logan Greco, Smithtown West, sr., defense, Virginia Ryan Keenan, Smithtown West, sr., attack, Penn State Kieran Mullins, Islip, sr., attack, Army Justin Reh, Rocky Point, sr., attack, Albany Troy Reh, Rocky Point, […]

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 […]

You make the call: Who should be the preseason No. 1 team in tristate boys HS lax?

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We’re still a couple of months away from the start of the 2014 season, but it’s never too early to look ahead. So let’s do just that. At this point, who do you think should be the top-ranked varsity boys team heading into the season in the nation’s No. 1 hotbed for lacrosse, the New […]

Midfielder McCulloch from NY state champ, nation’s No. 1 team, Ward Melville, commits to Cornell

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The 2013 varsity season was a baptism under fire for Jake McCulloch. And he answered the call. Jake McCulloch earned a starting spot on a midfield line that included two of the tristate region’s Class of 2013 standouts: Duke-bound Jack Bruckner and Rutgers-bound Christian Mazzone. Together, the trio were a big reason Ward Melville won […]

Rundown of recent Long Island commitments

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With the summer now all but over, let’s take a look at some of the major college commitments among top rising seniors from Long Island.

These are New York's Top 10 high school programs

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West Islip celebrates its third state title in the last four years earlier this month in Rochester. (Photo by Mike Janes/MaxPreps.com) At least according to the numbers. Chris Kieser sat down and did some numbers crunching and came up with results I’m sure you will find real interesting. Take it away, Chris.

Final LaxLessons.com Top 25 regional rankings

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Brendan Rotanz helped Fairfield Prep beat  the top-ranked team in Connecticut, Ridgefield,  in the Class L state semifinals. (Photo by Jim Stout/MaxPreps.com) Now we’re locked in. We’ve had plenty of shifts — some drastic, others not — from week to week during the season in our LaxLessons.com Top 25 regional rankings. But now we’re locking […]

Ward Melville puts to rest "down" rumors, frustrates Yorktown

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This was the year it was all supposed to be different for Yorktown. The highly touted ‘Huskers were finally going to slay the dragon that had been their nemesis for 30-plus years. Ward Melville was, by all accounts, supposedly in the midst of a rebuilding phase and simply not the juggernaut of a Long Island […]

Friday's Top 5/Predictions/Score updates

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There’s a battle for the ball during the showdown between Garden City and Lynbrook between GC’s Brian Fischer and Lynbrook’s Alex Maini earlier this week. Garden City pulled out a 5-4 win. (Photo by newsphoto.com. For more photos from the game, click here.) It’s been a season of close calls for Bay Shore, which has […]

Yorktown, Chaminade blast into Under Armour/IL top 10

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Thanks to an impressive start, featuring Kevin Interlicchio’s unheard of 26 goals in just three-plus games, Yorktown rocketed up 11 spots to No. 7 in this week’s Under Armour/Inside Lacrosse power rankings. Yorktown (4-0) was No. 22 in the publication’s preseason poll and moved up four spots last week, but after Saturday’s 14-10 win over […]