Sean Foley is doing his part to keep traditions alive. No program in Connecticut has churned out as many college recruits the last decade as Darien. Foley, a dodging midfielder, is now the latest — and the Blue Wave’s first junior Division I-bound commit. The 5-foot-11, 165-pound right-hander made a verbal commitment to attend Lehigh […]

Alex Weber, an All-America attackman at Fox Lane who finished as the third-leading scorer at Penn his senior year in 2009, is pursuing a career in acting. He’s already racked up some impressive gigs. In addition to appearing in several commercials, including Doritos’ “Crash the Super Bowl,” he also had cameos on NBC’s “The Tonight […]

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Sticks for Soldiers, a benefit tournament for wounded troops in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, has become a Thanksgiving weekend tradition. The sixth annual edition of the 7-on-7 event was held Saturday in Connecticut at Fairfield Ludlowe High School and drew 30 teams from Connecticut. All proceeds benefit Brendan Marrocco, 23, an Army specialist […]

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We’ve focused primarily in this space on lacrosse in the nation’s No. 1 lacrosse hotbed, the Hudson Valley/Long Island/Connecticut region. Within the region, varsity teams routinely cross county and even state borders to play against one another, resulting in some of the best matchups each year in the nation. Just to the west of this […]

The Briarcliff Manor Youth Lacrosse second annual Fifth/Sixth Grade Turkey Day Jamboree is set for Saturday, Nov. 26. In addition to Westlake, New Rochelle and host Briarcliff, Harlem Lacrosse & Leadership’s Middle School B team will be competing in the event, which will be held at the new Club Fields at 25 Scarborough Road in […]

While the number of participants in lacrosse continues to increase rapidly, the number of college programs adding teams has remained relatively stagnant. So it’s noteworthy whenever a college adds a program. That was the case this week when Mount Olive in North Carolina announced it would be fielding a men’s team starting with the 2013 […]

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There’s no shortage of contenders to the claim: * Two-time New York State champion Garden City. * West Islip, the eight-time defending Suffolk County champions. * Darien, which had won six Class M Connecticut state titles, before being denied a seventh straight last year. * Always powerful CHSAA heavyweights St. Anthony’s and Yorktown. * Yorktown, […]

Northport is on a roll when it comes to recruiting. As we told you last week, attackman Brian Cannon, one of the nation’s top sophomores, committed to North Carolina. Another Tiger standout has also made a verbal commitment to a Division I program. Junior John Glancy announced his intentions to accept a scholarship offer from […]

Josh Oliver first started playing lacrosse as a youngster because his father thought it would be something he could do during the summer. Nine years later, Oliver has parlayed his lacrosse skills into a college scholarship. The attackman, a Canadian native now attending the Vermont Academy, signed a National Letter of Intent last week to […]

Whether in football or lacrosse, twin brothes Nick and Anthony Grasso have been playing together their entire lives. The Fox Lane seniors, who all played together on the Prime Time travel team, will have one more season as teammates this spring. After that, they’ll be going their separate ways in college. Well, not exactly. You […]

The Fall Early Signing Week is an eight-day window for seniors bound for most Division I and Division II conferences to sign National Letters of Intent. Signing Week ended last week, but senior commitments continue to come in for Division III-bound players. One of the first ones we’ll be taking an up close look at […]

Among the players who signed National Letters of Intent this past week were Trinity Pawling players Dalton Lundy (Hartford, second from left)  and Jimmy Joe Grantino (Loyola, second from right). They were joined by Trinity Pawling head coach Nic Bell (far left) and Headmaster Arch Smith. The National Letter of Intent Fall Early Signing Week […]

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 […]

We spent the better part of the last week-plus updating you folks on senior commits as the National Letter of Intent Fall Early Signing Week came and went. Then, on Thursday, the day after the eight-day window for seniors to sign with Division I and Division II college programs ended, came news that one of […]

We have a while to go before various media preseason polls will be released. But, as is an annual late-fall tradition in Long Island, we can now get a rundown of who the coaches think are the best teams. Below are the Nassau and Suffolk seedings, as voted on by the coaches. NASSAU Conference 1 […]