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Photo by Jim Stout/MaxPreps.com Nassau County Class C champion Cold Spring Harbor is among the teams from the region in a pursuit of a state title. State tournament action is on hold in New York and Connecticut till Saturday. New Jersey’s Group championships are today. So we thought this would be a good time to […]

Photo by Ray Nelson/MaxPreps.com Junior attackman James Pannell, who is bound for national champion Virginia, and his Smithtown West team, coming off an impressive 15-7 Suffolk Class A semifinal win over Ward Melville, now battle the county’s King of the Hill, West Islip. We’re halfway there in Long Island, gang. The Nassau County championship games […]

Photo by Jim Stout/MaxPreps.com Notre Dame-bound Jack Near is one of two Bronxville seniors named to the All-America team, along with Georgetown-bound Charlie McCormick. All-American in lacrosse is one of the most prestigious honors a high school athlete can achieve. In the next week or so, we’ll be finding out who earned that honor from […]

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Photo by Jim Stout/MaxPreps.com Johns Hopkins University-bound senior midfielder Tommy Gordon and Garden City will play Round 2 against archrival Manhasset at 6 p.m. today at Hofstra University’s Shuart Stadium in the Nassau County Class B title game. Ever since we passed along the news last fall that Manhasset, the two-time defending Class C state […]

Photo by Ray Nelson Mercyhurst took the Division III national title yesterday by beating Adelphi 9-8. Final Four/National Championship Weekend at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore wraps up today with the Division I men’s national championship game. It will be Maryland vs. Virginia at 3:30 p.m. If you’re not in B-More, you can catch the […]

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Coach Roy Colsey led Ridgefield to its second FCIAC title game appearance in his three years as Tigers’ coach. Ridgefield fell to Darien 10-7. The Tigers beat the Blue Wave in overtime in the 2009 title game. Well, it was quite a week, folks. Conference champs were crowned in Connecticut, and, the state tournament has […]

A total of 15 players from the nation’s No. 1 hotbed for lacrosse, the Hudson Valley/Long Island/Connecticut region, have been selected to play for the North team at the sixth annual Under Armour All-America Lacrosse Classic. The game, which will be broadcast on ESPNU, is set for Saturday, July 2 at 8 p.m. at Towson […]

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Photo by Ray Nelson Denver coach Bill Tierney and his Duke counterpart, John Danowski, shake hands after the teams’ regular-season meeting, won by Denver 12-9. If the teams both win today in the Final Four, it will be a Denver vs. Duke NCAA Division I title game on Memorial Day. Happy Memorial Day Weekend, gang. […]

The CIAC tournament gets under way on Saturday with qualifying-round games. You can check out the brackets for divisions L, M and S below: Class L Class M Class S Here’s a rundown of the defending champions: Class L: Cheshire Class M: Darien Class S: Weston Be sure to weigh in by voting in our […]

Photo by Jim Stout/MaxPreps.com Duke University-bound junior attackman Case Matheis and top-seeded Darien will meet Ridgefield in the FCIAC title game tonight for the second time in the last three years. From start to finish, the Darien Blue Wave have dominated the FCIAC this season. Darien is 12-0 in conference games, outscoring its opponents by […]

Photo by Jim Stout/MaxPreps.com Colgate University-bound senior midfielder Forrest Walter and John Jay are looking to defend their Section 1 Class B title today at 5:30 p.m. when they take on Yorktown. This is John Jay’s eighth straight sectional final and Yorktown’s 32nd straight. It’s time. Time to crown our first sectional champions. Section 1 […]

Photo by Ray Nelson/MaxPreps.com Johns Hopkins-bound Mike Pellegrino during action yesterday for Connetquot in its 10-9 Suffolk County Class A quarterfinal-round win over Sachem North yesterday. We now have our Section 1, Section 9 and FCIAC finalists. And some interesting happenings on Long Island. If you’re just joining us, welcome to Championship Week. Connetquot, the […]

Championship Week is really just getting started. But it will have to go a long way to top what happened yesterday. In what were undoubtedly two of the most memorable Section 1 semifinals in history, defending champions Lakeland/Panas (Class A) and John Jay (Class B) advanced to the finals in the most dramatic fashion possible […]

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