Photo by Jim Stout/MaxPreps.com
What a day for lax.
It’s the first full Saturday of action of the season, and almost on cue, temperatures are expected to reach the low to mid 50s under partly cloudy skies.
So are you ready?
Wait. I couldn’t hear you.
Let’s try again.
Are you ready?
That’s better.
First off, before we run down what’ s on that for today, please make sure your cell phone is fully charged before heading out to the action so that you can post frequent score updates on whatever game you attend right here on this thread.
Today’s schedule is highlighted by three highly awaited showdowns — Garden City at Ward Melville, John Jay at Yorktown and Delbarton at St. Anthony’s — as well as a talent-filled tournament at Northport.
We’ve broken down the teams — and the games — for quite some time here. There’s not much more to say at this point, to be honest, other than – let’s get the games going.
Before we run down today’s slate (including some intriguing scrimmages in Connecticut), please allow me a quick word about yesterday’s action.
The big news of the day was Manhasset eking out a 12-11 win over rival Cold Spring Harbor. The closeness of the game was a bit of a surprise considering ‘Set is the two-time defending Class C state champions (having beaten CSH in the Nassau finals each of those last two years) while CSH was coming off a 6-1 loss to Hicksville.
Now, to today’s slate.
First, a quick programming note.
If you’re not out and about this afternoon, you can catch the Delbarton-St. A’s clash live on MSG Varsity Channel 14 (Optimum) at 2:30 p.m. It’s the first of weekly live lax broadcasts on the nation’s only 24/7 network devoted to high school athletics and activities.
Now, here’s today’s schedule:
Northport Tournament: Eastport/South Manor vs. Walt Whitman, 10 a.m.; Corning vs. Northport, noon; East Islip vs. Mahopac, 2 p.m.; Shoreham-Wading River vs. Rocky Point, 4 p.m.
Harrison at White Plains, 9 a.m.
Roslyn at Locust Valley, 9 a.m.
Bellmore Kennedy at Copiague, 10 a.m.
Wantagh at Hen Hud, 11 a.m.
Carey at Bethpage, 11 a.m.
Bayshore at Madison (N.J.), 11 a.m.
Hempstead at Herricks at Herricks Community Center, 11 a.m.
Plainview JFK at Island Trees, 11 a.m.
Pearl River at Kennedy Catholic, 11 a.m.
Wappingers at Haldane, 11 a.m.
Longwood at Harborfields, 11 a.m.
Elmont at Uniondale, 11 a.m.
Friends Academy at Lynbrook, 11 a.m.
Bronxville at Fox Lane, noon
Hastings at Clarkstown North, noon
Great Neck North at Commack, noon
Putnam Valley at Byram Hills, 1 p.m.
Garden City at Ward Melville, 2 p.m.
Delbarton at St. Anthony’s, 2:30 p.m.
Fordham Prep at Comsewogue, 3 p.m.
Floral Park at Jericho at Robbins Lane Park, Syosset, 6:30 p.m.
Yorktown at John Jay, 7 p.m.
Holy Trinity at Seaford, 7 p.m.
Ardsley at Mamaroneck, 7 p.m.
With the regular season starting next week in Connecticut, today is a busy day for scrimmages. Ridgefield, the 2009 FCIAC champion, hosts Sayville at 10 a.m. at Tiger Hollow Stadium after beating Manhasset 7-5 in a scrimmage a week earlier.
In other CT scrimmages of note, Greenwich hosts Hotchkiss at 3 p.m. and Darien will be holding another jamboree, starting at 8 a.m. This one will include another defending state champ, Cheshire, as well as Staples.
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Big City Classic, college schedule
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Put valley is going to byram at 1, not white plains…
i like the bobcats 8-6 in this class c match up
major playoff implications are on the line
FYI-Byram Hills plays Putnam Valley today at BHHS, not White Plains. Should be a good game between two of the better teams in Class C.
Quick predeictions:
St. Anthony’s big over Delbarton
Ward Melville wins in a low scoring game
Yorktown wins in 2 OT’s
ESM 9, Whitman 5- Final
Northport with an early 3-1 lead over Corning.
Yorktown 9 John Jay 7
Just got a report that Bronxville leads Fox Lane 7-0 midway through the second quarter.
Still 7-0 Bronxville through three quarters. Sophomore sensation Jack Grass has four goals.
Kennedy Catholic wins 4-3 and starts off 2-0
Nice job by Kennedy Catholic, which lost to Pearl River 11-1 last year.
Final: Bronxville 9, Fox Lane 1.
Here are stats courtesy of the talented and hard-working Jim Stout of MaxPreps.com:
Jack Grass, four goals (two in first 5:00)
Jack Near, two goals
Charlie McCormick, two goals
Peter Donohue, one goal
Sophomore Eric Pass, making his first varsity start, made eight saves for the Broncos.
Jared Greenberg, co-anchor of MSG Varsity’s “High School SportsDesk,” reports that Garden City has taken a 2-1 lead over Ward Melville with 2:18 remaining in the first quarter. After GC took a 1-0 lead with 5:26 to go in the first, Ward Melville tied it at the 2:40 mark.
Stay tuned for more updates.
It’s now 2-2 late in the first quarter.
WM takes its first lead. It’s 3-2 with 40 seconds left in the first period.
The Patriots just scored their third straight and now lead GC 4-2 three minutes into the second quarter.
GC scored an extra-man goal with just over a minute to go before halftime. WM now leads 5-4.
Jared reports both teams are 1 of 2 on EMOs.
Told that East Islip leading pac 4-2
A goal by John Edmonds just before the end of the second quarter has given host Ward Melville a 6-4 halftime lead over Garden City.
5-2 east islip at the half
Bronxville going to be tough to beat in c. Grass huge addition! Great kid too! Wouldn’t be surprised if pg is much improved in late may though.
Pacfan, any idea the Northport-Corning score?
7-5 WM in the third
Tyler Hagerty’s second goal of the day gives WM a 7-5 lead midway through the third after GC pulled within 6-5 on a goal by Patric Berkery.
8-5 WM
9-5
10-5
I can’t believe no one brought up the officiating at the GC WM game. GC trailing, 6-5, were hit with five straight penalties (11 on the day), two of them on the bench. Which led to 4 straight by WM. Don’t get me wrong WM played a great game but it all came from one offical that refussed to switch sides after the half.
Bville way overpowered Fox Lane in all aspects. 1st game for Fox so sure they’ll get better (as will Bville).
Not surprisingly Near, McCormick looked like high D1 players and also impressed with soph Grass. Not sure about how strong PV, BH, or Pville are are but from waht I saw today I’d have Bville the team to beat in Class C.
O speaks for itself but hard to say from this very one-sided game just how good Bville’s D is–Have to wait until they play much tougher games.
The boys played well yesterday. Score could have been a lot higher, but FL stalled the entire second half (have never seen a team down 7 goals get hit with a stall warning (multiple times) until yesterday, not sure what they were thinking). You left B’Ville out of your top ten Joe, are they going to break into it this week?
Wantagh beat Hen Hud 15-3.
WM has just scored back-to-back goals to make it 10-5 after three.
Garden City allowed 10 goals or more just twice all of last season – a 10-9 double-OT loss to Wantagh and an 11-5 loss to JD in the Class B state title game.
Smithtown East 10
Miller Place 7
10-6, Dwyer from Berkery
St. Anthony’s leads Delbarton 4-3 in the second quarter. If you’re in front of a TV now, be sure to watch the game live on MSG Varsity Channel 14 (Optimum).
Halftime – 5-3 St. A’s.
St. A’s leads 7-5 after three.
Final: St. A’s 8, Delbarton 6
Sean McDonagh had four goals for the Friars.
PUTNAM VALLEY 9 BRYAM HILLS 7 FINAL
byram hills must have hit 10 posts in this one. they got many penalties down the stretch and definitely had multiple opportunities to win it just couldn’t buy a goal. putnam valley is a solid team all over the board. K. Christopher definitely their go to guy.
Sounds like both BH and PV vs. Bville will be tough Class C games
Caught the BH PV game today. Good game, great intensity but many turnovers especially for BH.
1st half was owned by PV for the most part, PV had their way and BH was struggling on defense/goal and BH had minimal flow/movement on offense. Don”t know why BH goalie tries to run ball out of his own zone. Its not effective and typically ends up in a turnover. BH needs to work on their clearing game. And FYI BH-being able to run fast is only good if you able to keep the ball in your stick.
2nd half BH dominated the 3rd period in terms of time of possession, etc. they won face offs, won ground balls. Closed score to 8-7 by the end of the 3rd. BH had PV on the ropes.
4th quarter BH commits too many errors again, turnovers on the clear, middles who can’t or wont use their left hand so instead BH gets pushed out of bounds.
Good win for PV but BH had its chances.
Ward Melville 10, Garden City 7 FINAL
John Edmonds three goals for WM. Tyler Hagerty two goals.
Pac score?
wappingers beat haldane 8-6
Matt Lines 3g
Josh Stufano 2g 1a
Joe Picard 1g
John Federico 1g
Vito Boffoli 1g
Corning 11, Northport 9
Pac score?
pac lost 15-6 to east islip
thx
Just heard from Joe. He’s getting ready to watch Yorktown-John Jay. For those of you unable to attend, you can get scoring updates right here, starting at 7 p.m. Thanks.
Please stand by for injury updates from Yorktown-John Jay …
Players are on the field. Joe is getting some injury updates from both sides. …
Daniello in uniform and WILL play for John Jay. However, four other key starters will not play. …
We are under way. Thomas Branca in net for John Jay. Matthew Sialiano for Yorktown.
Mike Daniello scores unassisted 2:36 in. 1-0 John Jay.
Mabus answers for Yorktown 1:22 later, unassisted. It’s 1-1.
Brian Quigley scores unassisted right off next faceoff. It’s 2-1 Yorktown.
Daniello scored unassisted 2:36 in. Mabus and Quigley followed with unassisted goals for Yorktown. Mariano just scored from Schuldt. Yorktown leads 3-1. Yorktown has won all 5 faceoffs led by Schuldt and Hunter Palancia.
How did raffa look?
any yorktown/jj score yet?
Garden City looked a little flat today!
Yorktown leads 3-1 midway through the 1st quarter. …
who scored for town?
Brendan Morris scores for Jay. It is 3-2 Yorktown with 3 minutes left in the first.
Conor Gately answers for Yorktown a minute later. It’s 4-2 Town.
Mariano nets his second for Yorktown. It’s 5-2.
Yorktown up 5-2 after one quarter, outshooting Jay 10-3
who are the key starters out?
Fusco scores to make it 6-2 Yorktown with 3:28 left in the half.
Pace settles down considerably. Yorktown carries 6-2 lead into the half. Fusco scored the lone goal in the second quarter.
who is facing off for jj?
how is Branca doing?
Weil
who is startting on jj attack? Daniello, morris, and ??
Schuldt scores unassisted to make it 7-2 Yorktown early in the third.
Brendan Morris from Mike Lupinacci for Jay. It’s 7-3 Yorktown.
Jake Weil from Lupinacci for Jay. It’s 7-4 Yorktown with 6:50 left in the third.
how many fans are there?
Quigley gets his second for Yorktown. It’s 8-4.
Schuldt scores again. It’s 9-4 Yorktown late in the third.
9-4 Yorktown after three quarters.
Yorktown showing nice balance. Mabus becomes fourth Husker with 2 goals, upping the lead to 10-4 early in the 4th.
is Daniello playing ?
Joey Sialiano makes it 11-4 Yorktown with 7 minutes to go.
Yes, Daniello is playing. He scored the game’s first goal. Yorktown up 11-4 with less than 7 to play.
Joey Sialiano scored Yorktown’s 11th goal.
Conor Gately scores his second, giving Yorktown 5 two-goal scorers and a 12-4 lead.
HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE AT THE GAME?
Daniello and Weil score back-to-back for Jay. It’s 12-6 Yorktown with 4:29 left.
Lambert scores from Brown for Jay. It’s 12-7 Yorktown.
JJ has many injuries. Jimmy Morris, Tom Beck, Forrest Walter, and Daniello is banged up and not 100%
Yorktown 12, John Jay 7 — Final. Joe will have plenty of thoughts I’m sure later or tomorrow. It’s hard to make anything more out of this game other than it was the opener for both, Jay was missing four starters, Daniello played injured and Yorktown has plenty of balance and depth offensively. Goaltending also will be something to watch for both going forward.
Cant count Beck he is out for the year. Morris might come back end of may
JJ have fun with RYE on Tuesday. Can you say 0-2. Wow doesnt it stink when you have more talent and lose big
It’s unfair to make excuses, and this is coming from a Jay fan. JJ has underperformed hopefully they can get it together later in the season. Awesome job Yorktown.
School house road where are you?????? Lets here your excuses?
Big shout out to THE CROP. Hope to hear from you my man. Back to hockey. Adios folks.
all JJ has to do is bring up the younger kids from the JV and replace the most of the juniors from JJ varsity and they will be fine. It will bring the depth they need to get over the hump until the injured starters return.
I still want to know why jj always comes out flat. Town has a lot better athletes. The tide has changed back to town having the athletes and jj having the lax players
Yeah ‘Town!!!!
Thats a lot of goals for the guru to give up. DEFENSE WINS CHAMPIONSHIPS. JJ IS STOKED
That’s just what I was thinking cove rd.
Well played game by Town coming out with a big win. They came more prepared all around. Jay is banged up but still could have played much better. Jay can only improve when getting those 3 starters back so dont freak out Jay fans theres room for improvement. Town looked strong offensively and defensively and will do great in the section.
who are the 3 starters out for jj??
Forrest Walter their best middie, Jimmy Morris starting middie, and alex bennet starting defender…you could also say middie tom beck but hes out for the season so i didnt count him…this has been stated many times
thanks — maybe they will meet again in the playoffs.
Real big crowd tonite – lined up along both fences.
3 starters out were Beck out for year. Morris blown out knee might return late may? Forrest walter out with shoulder injury for 2 weeks maybe longer.
As advertised pre-season and most impressive to me was Town’s offense which was really potent from all positions and thought their goalie looked pretty good. Think they had the advantage in FO. D looked pretty solid. But in fairness to Jay, I don’t think Town’s D was fully tested with a depleted Jay offense.
Hearing the comments again about Town’s “athletes” vs Jay’s lax players. I don’t buy it. I saw plenty of pure skilled lax players just as Jay has.
On the other hand I was surprised that Jay’s D looked so porous. Were they missing starters on D as well? I did think Branca looked pretty good and had strong clearing passes.
For sure Jay will improve quickly as the season progresses + having most of their starters returning.
Good luck to both teams going forward.
slacrosse always offers outstanding, unbiased reports of the games – always look forward to his insights.
Regarding Bronxville D, at halftime with a 7-0 lead they dialed it down and Fox Lane had the ball for 9:30 of the 3rd quarter without scoring so draw your own conclusions.
Bville is real deal Holyfield
JJ playing Rye this week – tough opening games.
Is section down this year? Curious how out of Section games play out. Could be ugly…
Mamaroneck defeated Ardsley tonight 15-3. I got a chance to attend the game so I’ll share my opinion with you readers. At the faceoff x, over time it proved relatively even, but Ardsley’s attack had HUGE ball possession issues. Balls dropped all over the place.
The ground ball advantage went to Mamo, which was very strong in transition. Essentially through 3 quarters Mamaroneck scored on every shot they took credit to their ball movement and poor goaltending.
You can tell Ardsley has a one very talented midfielder and a nifty attackman who combined for all their scoring, but the ball protection issues and unforced errors plagued the panthers who didnt end up getting many good looks on cage.
Pete Conolly for Mamo had a big day and was often left open in the crease. Mamo long pole ferguson has a monster night. Going into the season no one really had Mamo in the top 4 in class A, but as an unbiased source, Mamo looked very strong even without 3 of their starters to injury. They certainly are better than WP if not Mahopac.
This was really a tough matchup for Ardsley a small class C team playing an up and coming class A team…however still look for Ardsley to make noise in class C in a very manageable league
Mamo didn’t have 5 starters: their “x” attackman, 2 starting middies, a second line middie, and their best close defensemen
A 2nd middie is not a starter my man.
they had 2 1st middies injured and a 2nd middie injured.
3 -3 on picks yesterday.
Top 10 teams in Westchester/Rockland after week 1:
Yorktown
Iona Prep
John Jay
Lakeland/Panas
Mahopac
Fordham prep
Suffern
Bronxville
Rye
Somers
Just missing
Mamaroneck
Putnam Valley
Arlington
Iona tied mamk, when mamk had a few big injuries. in a month, id say mamk over iona
Fordham prep no way top team and iona prep no way too high…………
Fordham Prep Results
03/184:00 PM6:00 PM @ St. Ignatius (Chicago, IL)
Preview Game Box Score
16 – 8
Win
03/19TBA2 hour event @ Dallas Jesuit (Dallas, TX)
Preview Game Box Score
8 – 7
Loss
03/20TBA2 hour event @ Strake Jesuit (Houston, TX)
Preview Game Box Score
16 – 7
Win
03/23TBA2 hour event West Babylon (West Babylon, NY)
Location: TBA
Preview Game Box Score
15 – 6
Win
03/267:00 PM9:00 PM Monsignor Farrell (Staten Island, NY)
Location: Fordham University
Preview Game Box Score
16 – 5
Win
04/023:00 PM5:00 PM @ Comsewogue (Port Jefferson Station, NY)
Preview Game Box Score
15 – 2
Loss
04/056:00 PM8:00 PM @ Iona Prep (New Rochelle, NY) *
Location: Iona Prep
Top ten after week one:
Town
L/P
PAC
Rye
JJ (so low b/c of injuries)
B’Ville
Put Valley
Iona Prep
Somers
Suffern
there is zero way mahopac is better than JJ, they just got killed by a decent team
You may have seen my comment on the Bville game. Very positive on Bville and in partic, Near, McCormick and Grass.
Shame that Bville is not playing any of the traditional power league teams except for PV (or IP) as that would really show how good Bville is, particularly on defense which was, to say the least, not tested at all yesterday. No question that B scores goals on anyone but just can’t judge” the D based upon the Fox game.
Funny,like Bville’s football team. You knew they were very good (and freakishly huge) but could only theoretically guess as to where they would be in Class A.
Well you cant do anything about school size and cudos to Bville with such a small size for putting out some teams that could definitely compete with the big boys.
At full strength, I agree, but at the moment, it’s the case, IMO.
Can’t be as bold as some above given so early in the season but have seen a number of teams play. Best I can do a/o yesterday:
Overall
Town
LP (how good is their D?)
Jay (yeah I give them the benefit even with injuries-they will DEF improve)
Rye,Somers,Bville,IP, PV, Pac (in NO particular order)
Suff
BH,Mamo (in NO particular order)
Class A
LP
Pac
Suff
Mamo/Arlington
Could be long season: WP
Class B
Town
Jay
Rye, Pac, Somers (no particular order)
Greeley
Could be long season: Fox
Class C
Bville
PV
BH
Pville
Injuries
Seem to be a big factor starting this season vs last. Jay,Mamo and others not alone. Rye has a few starters that have not played in any scrimmages yet. Hopefully 1 or both will see action in the Jay game but they won’t be at 100% for sure.
which rye players are hurt? Defensively or offensively if your staying away from names.
Offensive. Hopefully these kids will be playing part/full-time Tuesday.
Just noticed-sorry Pac not in Class B
Mamo-Bville this week – see bville win with their mids controlling the ball and Mamos injuries catching up against a solid opponent though mamo goalie is a difference maker.
Yeah shame Mamo has a number of injuries–would like a level playing field for this one-good luck. Saw Bville, potent attack but no thoughts on their D at this point.
They play again later in the year, which should be a much better game. I think Mamk can contain McCormack and Near, but that third threat of Grass may be a problem. But yes, Mamk’s goalie may be the best in the section