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Rhamel Bratton. Shamel Bratton. Zach Howell. Scott Kocis.
Huntington has sure turned out more than its share of collegiate standouts of late.
And more are on the way.
Among them, rising senior attackman Jack Castelli.
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There was quite a long list of renowned collegiate programs that would have been very pleased to have gotten a verbal commitment from either Jimmy Morris (No. 20, picture at top) and Brendan Morris (pictured below).
But Gettysburg has to be especially happy right now.
That’s because both of the twin brothers have committed to attend the Division III power.
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Seth Tierney plans on hanging around Hofstra for a while.
The former associate head coach at Hopkins signed a contract extension to remain as head coach of the Pride through 2014. Tierney took over as Hofstra coach in August 2006 after former Pride coach John Danowski left to take over the Duke program.
One of Tierney’s main priorities with the Pride has been to keep Long Island players close to home.
Yorktown’s moving down. (From Class A.)
Rye’s moving up. (From Class C.)
John Jay and Somers are still there.
The result: A class that is as stacked as Section 1 has ever seen.
Who do you think is the team to beat in Class B?
Manhasset regularly churns out as many college-bound players as any program in the country.
One of the reasons for this is not only the Indians’ proud tradition of success, but its tradition of family ties.
Case in point, rising senior John Maimone-Medwick, a defenseman headed to Division III power Williams.
Maimone-Medwick’s brother, James, was a goaltender at Johns Hopkins. Their uncle, Bob Maimone, ranks third in Hopkins history in the following faceoff categories: career faceoffs won, attempted and faceoff winning percentage.
Folks, it takes a lot to impress me. And this game did — and still does.
In fact, it may be the most dramatic and memorable high school games I’ve ever seen.
It happened back in June 2003 at Hofstra University.
A 1-4-1 set play, with one side of the field setting picks and slips and the backside looking to attack opposite.
We’ve told you about an NCAA proposal that would prevent colleges from making athletically related scholarship offers to recruits prior to July 1 of the recruits’ senior year.
There’s another proposal being made by the Division I Recruiting and Athletics Personnel Issues Cabinet that will be considered in January 2011 by the NCAA Legislative Council, representing all 31 Division I conferences.
This one involves when — and how often — colleges may contact recruits.
Darien attackman Case Matheis is the No. 2-ranked rising junior in the nation, according to Inside Lacrosse.
It’s always interesting to get Inside Lacrosse’s take on who the top high school and incoming collegiate players in the country are.
And that’s precisely what we got this week.
As you would expect, the Hudson Valley/Long Island/Connecticut region, the nation’s No. 1 hotbed for lax, was well represented.
A set play out of a basic 2-2-2 that has screens/pops and allows for your playmakers to attack the unbalanced backside.
Back in late June, we told you about an NCAA proposal that could mean the end of early verbal commitments.
The proposal, which would ban Division I recruits from verbally committing to a college prior to July 1 before their senior year, picked up support earlier this year after a 13-year-old middle-school student verbally committed to play football at USC.
College coaches would also have to obtain a recruit’s grades over five semesters or seven quarters to make sure he or she is on course to be eligible.
Here’s a quick update on where the proposal stands right now.
Former West Islip star Nicky Galasso graces the cover of the recruiting issue of Inside Lacrosse, which will be out on the stands and in mailboxes this week.
It will include national rankings of rising seniors and juniors in high school. It also ranks the top incoming college freshmen. To no one’s surprise, Galasso is No. 1.
Rye midfielder Matt McReddie, who has committed to Bates College, also considered Division I Lafayette as well as Wesleyan, Colby, St. Lawrence and Union. (Photo courtesy McReddie family)
It pays to be a good student — and a good student of the game.
Rye rising senior Matt McReddie parlayed both those attributes into an opportunity to play lacrosse at the next level.
The 6-foot, 188-pound midfielder will be playing at Bates College in Maine after considering several other prestigious programs.
McReddie, a two-sport captain at Rye, was a member of the Hudson Valley’s Empire State Games team this summer.
As an attackman at Yorktown High School, Jake Thorp is part of one of the most established varsity lacrosse programs in the nation.
At the next level, Thorp will get to experience an interesting change. He will be helping the College of Saint Rose in Albany build its program from the very start.
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It’s early. Very early. And there are plenty of contenders. Among them:
* Five-time Class M Connecticut state champion Darien, which returns attackman Case Matheis, arguably the No. 1 rising junior in the nation.
* Two-time Class C New York state champ Manhasset.
* West Islip, which has won four Class A New York state titles the last five years and which ended the season with the No. 1 national ranking.
* Nationally ranked John Jay, which won a sectional title for the fifth time in the last six years.
It may be the dog days of August, but the recruiting commitments continue to come in from throughout the Hudson Valley/Long Island/Connecticut region. You can learn about them as they’re made by checking out the “Updated recruiting review and commitment rundown” thread each day.
One of them was just made by a player who is busy preparing for the football season. Somers rising senior Anthony Lombardo, who is expected to be the Tuskers’ quarterback this fall, has finalized his collegiate future. He has accepted a scholarship offer from Binghamton.
It was quite a week of lacrosse up in Lake Placid, N.Y., site of the 21st annual Lake Placid Summit Lacrosse Classic.
And action in the most followed division, Masters, ended just as it did last year with Rusty Red outlasting a “Dream Team” of former Syracuse stars known as the Burnt Orange 14-13 in overtime in the title game.
Last year, the Ridgefield Tigers had a talent-filled roster that included four Division I recruits as they won the FCIAC championship for the first time in school history.
The Tigers’ hopes of repeating as champions ended with an 8-5 loss to Greenwich in the FCIAC quarterfinals.
But next season, Ridgefield will once again have a large core of D-I rising senior talent in North Carolina-bound defenseman Matt Shannon, University of Denver-bound attackman Aidan Scott and University of Vermont-bound midfielder Andrew Buckanavage.
It’s perhaps the premier lax extravaganza of the calendar year. Men’s and women’s teams of all age groups — from U-15 to Masters — converging on scenic Lake Placid in upstate New York for a week of non-stop lacrosse, better known as the 21st annual Lake Placid Summit Lacrosse Classic.
The final game of tonight’s tripleheader has just gone final as the 31-year-old Sound Shore League crowned champions in each of its three adult men’s divisions at Purchase College.
The marquee game of the night, which started at 8:15 p.m., was the Division 1 final. It featured the top players out of John Jay High School the last few years in the form of the top-seeded Prime Time team taking on the best players from Darien High School during that span representing the second-seeded Goose Bar and Grill squad. Prime Time pulled out a 7-6 win.
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The Sound Shore League crowned three champions tonight, with three more titles set to be decided on Tuesday. Here’s a rundown of tonight’s championship finals with all games played at Purchase College and Suffern Middle School:
It was a breakout year for Jake Weil. After emerging as one of the key players on a John Jay team that won a sectional title for the fifth time in six years, the 6-foot midfielder enjoyed a noteworthy summer for the Prime Time travel team, which ended with his earning a spot in the rising senior all-star game at the Battle of the Hotbeds Camp at the University of Delaware.
With August now upon us, it’s time for our recruiting focus to shift from the Class of 2010 to the Class of 2011. And soon — very soon — the Class of 2012 as well.
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