Welcome to Championship Saturday, gang. It’s been an interesting and eventful season. Now it’s time to award state titles. We’ll have team coverage of today’s New York and Connecticut state title games, but don’t let that from stopping you from weighing in with your thoughts and insights as the games unfold.
Well, gang. We’re down to just one day. Championship Saturday, when six state championships will be decided in New York and Connecticut.
Call it David vs. Goliath. There’s Lakeland/Panas, coming off its first sectional championship since 2003, winning two of its playoff games in overtime. Then there’s West Islip, the nation’s No. 1-ranked team, which is looking for its fourth state title in five years. The David vs. Goliath storyline is typified by what promises to be […]
If you take a look at nine Hudson Valley All-America recipients, you will notice just one has not yet committed to a college. That would be Lakeland/Panas junior midfielder Conor Prunty.
Is West Islip in line for its fourth state title in the last five years? Be sure to weigh in with your thoughts/prediction on Thursday’s state semifinal vs. Lakeland/Panas at 8 p.m. at Hofstra University in Hempstead. (File photo) We’re almost at the end of the road, gang. On Saturday, both New York and Connecticut […]
Andrew Fazio, who was one of nine players from the Hudson Valley named to the all-America team last night, hopes to help Lakeland/Panas earn a spot in Thursday’s state semifinals today. The Rebels face Section 9 champion Warwick at Middletown High School. (Photo by Jim Stout/MaxPreps.com) In just a few days time, we will have […]
Fairfield University-bound senior midfielder Pete De Salvo, shown in action during the Gaels’ 10-9 win Saturday over Bishop Timon-St. Jude of Buffalo, helped Iona Prep hang on after building a 10-6 lead and win a second straight state title. (Photo by Jim Stout/MaxPreps.com) It was quite an eventful Saturday. So let’s take a quick look […]
St. John’s University-bound Ryan Fitzgerald, who had five goals including the game-winner in Putnam Valley’s win over Rye in the Section 1 Class C title game, leads the Tigers into today’s first-round state playoff game against Section 2’s Glens Falls at 3:30 p.m. at Yorktown High School. (Photo by Jim Stout/MaxPreps.com) You can look forward […]
The state tournament is under way in Connecticut. On Saturday, it starts in New York, although Long Island teams, of course, have a bye into next Tuesday’s state quarterfinals, or Long Island championship games. Here’s a rundown of the Section 1 vs. Section 2 first-round matchups in a tripleheader on Saturday at Yorktown High School’s […]
We now have our champions in Section 1 and Section 8 who are preparing for the start of the state playoffs (see the state brackets below). On tap for today: the Suffolk championship tripleheader at Stony Brook and the first round of the Connecticut state tournament.
Somers hopes it’s in line for a second straight Section 1 Class B title. But to get it, the Tuskers will have to beat John Jay, the eighth-ranked team in the nation. Somers has won eight straight entering today’s 3 p.m. game at White Plains High School. John Jay, meanwhile, has won 14 in a […]
Stick-work shooting drill that works off of a 3 man game up top, and has the crease man fading out for a shot.
The FCIAC, SWC and SCC have crowned their champions. Now, Connecticut teams are gearing up for the start of outbracket CIAC tournament games on Tuesday. Section 1 and Section 8 will be holding their championship games on Wednesday. The Section 11 championships will be Thursday.
CJ Costabile of New Fairfield wound up being the star of Duke’s dramatic 6-5 victory today against Notre Dame in the national title game in Baltimore. (Photo courtesy Duke University athletics) New Fairfields CJ Costabile cleanly won the opening faceoff of the first overtime and then scored on the ensuing fastbreak to give Duke a […]
Max Quinzani scored off a feed from Ned Crotty with 12 seconds remaining in the game to give Duke a 14-13 win over Virginia in the Division I semifinals tonight in Baltimore before 44,389 fans at M&T Bank Stadium.
