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Speed kills. It’s so important, in fact, that some players get by on it alone.
Add scoring ability, smarts and stick skills and you have a complete college prospect.
Meet St. Anthony’s midfielder Joe LoCascio, the 29th-ranked junior in the nation by Inside Lacrosse, who has given a verbal commitment to the University of Maryland.
LoCascio also has the bloodlines. His father played Division I lax, and his uncle is four-time UMass all-America goaltender and former MLL/NLL star Sal LoCascio.
Last season was a historic one for the Iona Prep Gaels, who won their first state championship.
Leading the way was a core group of four Division I-bound seniors, including Nick Trizano, who scored his 300th career point and finished second on the all-time state scoring list behind Casey Powell.
How will the new-look Gaels fare this year and what players will need to step up?
Those are among the topics were discussed with Fairfield University-bound senior Pete De Salvo.
We have been reporting on league and non-league schedules for teams from throughout the Hudson Valley/Long Island/Connecticut region the last couple of months.
Now, there’s a convenient one-stop shop where you can check out schedules for teams from through the region — and throughout the nation.
The annual Darien vs. Manhasset and Chaminade vs. Yorktown showdowns will have special meaning this coming season.
They will be played at West Point as part of Jim Regan Day at West Point on Saturday, April 24. Army will be hosting Holy Cross at noon.
More on that in a moment.
Fairfield University-bound Pete De Salvo and Iona Prep will now
be playing in the same league as St. Anthony’s and Chaminade.
(File photo by Jim Stout/MaxPreps.com)
Change is in the air, gang.
Way back, back, back in the spring – which already seems like years ago – we learned that cost-cutting geographically aligned leagues would make their way to Section 1 this coming season, meaning an end of the the power league.
But early last month, we reported on an even bigger change in the balance of power – one with potentially huge ramifications.
The Catholic League merger has now been officially adopted.
What does this all mean? Plenty.
During the varsity season, we present our Top 25 regional rankings each and every week.
The 2010 season won’t start for another five months.
But why wait?
Chaminade is among the eight teams in Division AA
of the newly formed 16-team New York Catholic League.
(File photo by Jim Stout/MaxPreps.com)
There’s some pretty big news on the Catholic school front, folks.
Yesterday, the lacrosse teams representing the New York Archdiocese approved a merger to form a 16-team league with those teams now in the Long Island Archdiocese. Formal approval is expected in November.
What does this mean? A pretty impressive eight-team “Super Division” that will include such teams as St. Anthony’s, Chaminade, Iona Prep and Fordham Prep, with all those teams eventually playing one another home-and-home during the regular season.
Iona Prep’s Myles Gillespie (No. 16) and Nick Trizano.
(Photo by Jim Stout/MaxPreps.com)
Which attackman is going to get the first vote?
We’ll find out tonight at the strike of midnight when week-long voting for our inaugural LaxLessons.com all-region team starts.
Top: Nick Trizano scored his 300th career goal and Myles Gillespie (pictured above)
his 200th as Iona Prep won its first-ever Catholic Class A
state championship by beating St. John the Baptist 12-10 today at Iona Prep.
(Photos by Jim Stout/MaxPreps.com)
St. Anthony’s pulled away for a 17-9 win over rival Chaminade tonight in the CHSAA championship game at Hofstra.
The win was especially sweet for the Friars, who last year suffered a 12-11 overtime loss to Chaminade in the title game.
Rye Country Day goaltender Chandler Grinnel breaks through for a one on one scoring opportunity against Iona Prep (top). After he scored a goal, he celebrates with teammates.
(Photos by Jim Stout/MaxPreps.com)
It probably won’t surprise you to hear I’ve been to countless lacrosse games.
But this might. In just about every game, I’ve wound up seeing something I’ve never witnessed before.
Today’s 13-6 Iona Prep win over Rye Country Day in the Metro tournament semifinals was no exception.
Well that’s not exactly correct.
• For a gallery of photos from the RCDS-Iona Prep game, click here.
Just one team has beaten Yorktown this season: Ward Melville.
Today, the Patriots hope they can also deal another powerhouse its first loss when it visits West Islip, the No. 1-ranked team all season in the LaxLessons.com Top 25 regional rankings.
That 4:30 p.m. game headlines today’s slate.
Mike McKnight and the Ridgefield Tigers check in at No. 5 in the latest LaxLessons.com Top 25 regional rankings. (Photo by Jim Stout/MaxPreps.com)
We’re just a few days away from Showdown Saturday, when there are no less than three marquee matchups featuring several of the leading teams in the LaxLessons.com Top 25 regional rankings.
Yorktown at Darien (1 p.m.), Garden City at Manhasset (7 p.m.) and Ridgefield at Somers (7:15 p.m.) will tell us plenty.
But let’s take a look now at how things look going into those games.
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It’s one of the most tradition-rich high school lacrosse rivalries in the nation.
And one of the most one-sided.
Since 1980, Ward Melville vs. Yorktown has been a heated annual affair.
It’s one of the marquee matchups in the region on tap for today.
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A couple of big showdowns in Suffolk. Some crucial games involving teams from Westchester, Rockland and Putnam.
It should be an interesting Thursday throughout the region today.
Yesterday was Super Tuesday with plenty of big games that may foreshadow what we see in the postseason.
In light of the matchups now in store, I guess we can call today Wild Wednesday.
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 national power St. Anthony’s and an 11-6 victory over Somers on Tuesday, the ‘Huskers have climbed into rarified air on the national stage.
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That’s the question teams and players throughout the region are asking these days about Johns Hopkins-bound Yorktown junior Kevin Interlicchio. (Photo by Jim Stout/MaxPreps.com)
So far, in two-and-a-half games (he sat out the second half of Yorktown’s season-opening win over North Rockland), the answer has been a resounding no as Interlicchio has scored an astonishing 19 goals, including eight today against national power St. Anthony’s.
• Check out video highlights of Yorktown’s win over St. Anthony’s by clicking here.
St. Anthony’s vs. Chaminade.
You don’t have to say much more than that.
The longtime CHSAA powerhouses will be renewing their rivalry today at 4:15 p.m. at Chaminade. St. Anthony’s is No. 2 in the LaxLessons.com regional rankings. Chaminade is No. 7.
Three intriguing Long Island showdowns highlight today’s slate.
Here’s a rundown. Be sure to check back later for score updates.
Now, it all starts.
Yes, folks. Just think about it. From now on (through most of the region at least), we won’t have to talk about scrimmages and precisely what they mean — if anything — in the grand scheme of things.
Because now, our friends in Suffolk, Westchester, Rockland, Putnam and Dutchess are all joining Nassau by playing actual games. (With Fairfield soon to follow.)
It’s opening week for most teams in the region. And that means it’s time for “Previews and predictions.”
Cold Spring Harbor’s 8-6 win over Syosset earned it a spot in the latest Under Armour/Inside Lacrosse national power rankings, which were released today.
CSH checks in at No. 11. Syosset, meanwhile, slipped from No. 5 to No. 13.
Other teams in the region moved up in the rankings.
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