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Sophomore attackman Jack Grass scored four goals on Saturday as Bronxville started the season in impressive fashion, winning 9-1 at Fox Lane.
It’s become an annual routine.
CHSAA play twice during the regular season (usually splitting those two games), with the rubber match in the postseason for the championship.
Will this year follow that familiar scenario?
We’ll have a better idea after “Round 1” is completed today as Chaminade hosts the Friars.
Two other Catholic programs – Fordham Prep and Iona Prep – will also be playing their own “Rund 1” of an intense CHSAA rivalry.
Also of note today, John Jay, coming off a 12-7 season-opening loss to Yorktown, will try to grit out a win today at Rye. Both teams are banged up, so expect a lower scorer affair than normal.
Here’s a rundown of today’s schedule:
Sayville at Babylon, 4 p.m.
Westhampton at Bellport, 4 p.m.
Hauppauge at Kings Park, 4 p.m.
St. Anthony’s at Chaminade, 4:15 p.m.
Pearl River at North Rockland, 4:15 p.m.
Washingtonville vs. Monroe-Woodbury at Torne Valley, 4:30 p.m.
Fordham Prep at Iona Prep, 4:30 p.m.
Harrison at Byram Hills, 4:30 p.m.
Comsewogue at Harborfields, 4:30 p.m.
Ossining at Croton, 4:30 p.m.
Westlake at Pleasantville, 4:30 p.m.
Blind Brook at Sleepy Hollow, 4:30 p.m.
Briarcliff at Keio, 4:30 p.m.
Shoreham-Wading River at East Hampton, 4:30 p.m.
Baldwin at Massapequa at Burns Park, 4:30 p.m.
Rocky Point at Miller Place, 4:30 p.m.
Stepinac at Nyack, 4:30 p.m.
Bayport-Blue Point Elwood/John Glenn, 4:30 p.m.
St. Mary’s at St. Dominic’s, 4:30 p.m.
Kennedy Bellmore at Hewlett, 4:30 p.m.
Wappingers at Brewster, 4:30 p.m.
Hen Hud at Kennedy Catholic, 4:30 p.m.
Peekskill at Carmel, 4:30 p.m.
Horace Greeley at North Salem, 4:30 p.m.
Huntington at Islip, 4:30 p.m.
West Hempstead at Herricks at Herricks Community Center, 4:30 p.m.
Connetquot at West Islip, 4:45 p.m.
Great Neck South at North Shore, 4:45 p.m.
John Jay at Rye, 5 p.m.
Mahopac at Arlington, 5:15 p.m.
Pine Bush at Clarkstown South, 5:15 p.m.
Eastport/South Manor at Mount Sinai, 5:30 p.m.
Clarke at Jericho at Robbins Lane Park, Syosset, 6 p.m.
Center Moriches at Southampton, 6:30 p.m.
Lynbrook at South Side at Skelos Field, 7 p.m.
Mineola at Glen Cove, 7 p.m.
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I think JJ will have a tough time with Rye
John Jay 10 Rye 6 Final. Daniello 4, G Weil 3 G, Walter 1, B. Morris 1 and 1 Lupinnacci
So Walter came back and was playing I guess. That’s a nice rebound. Rye brought back some talent this season.
Rye over JJ, Barton 2-1… Bear Facts, where do you get off spreading lies about 17-18 year old boys, I dont know what school you are affiliated with but you will be sadly mistaken for counting Somers out already, look for them to bounceback.
heres where you will see if empires helps or not. JJ did the summer tour and Rye did the gruelling emps.
Huge game today- Pac vs Arlington…thoughts…Preview of Section Final? Be careful of a underated Arlington team!
Big game today- Pac vs Arlington…watch out for Arlington….thoughts?
Would love to see Arlington prevail over Pac, but wouldn’t be one to say it will happen.
I’ll say it. Arlington has a strong defense and if 32 for Arlington can shut down Foley like he did against 33 from Put Valley last week then Arlington can score enough to win.
It would be a quality win which would be great for the program.
Careful.Pac has a number of very good players other then Foley including Bernarbis and Cirrillo.
Good luck.
s lacrosse
It’s Berardis and they don’t have a Cirrillo. Evans is the other middie and,Bota,Gyscek and carey are the attackmen.
#33 from Putnam Valley had 4 goals 2 assit. vs Arlington you call that shutting someone down?
#33 had 3 unsettled goals in 1st half, twice off a short stick middie on clears. 1 goal off a shortie in 2nd half. #32 locked him down when 1 on 1. #32 held foley to 1 goal 1 on 1 tonight with foley getting one garbage loose ball goal and one unsettled. Not saying you’re wrong, but number of goals can be deceiving!!!!!!!
#33 ran through the middle everytime
hahaha 32 doesnt even play defense half of the time! do you even watch the games?
#32 is senior captain and starting Lsm or close depending on match ups. He is comitted to CW Post.
He is an excellent defenseman. Very good with the stick.
Foley will not be shut down, 5 goals
on a sloppy, cold, wet afternoon anything can happen. i will give the nod to an underrated arlington squad. if i know anything about mahopac, it is that they can rattle off a few really bad games before they get moving. it seems like every year they drop an early game or two and then they roll out the excuse wagon on the blog-o-sphere. I take arlington over pac 9 to 7.
Upstate, no excuses. Just an ugly win over an overrated team.
Pac is over rated every year! When’s the last time this “power” won a game that meant anything. Arlington is a 10 years old program trying to grow. With wins over Brewster and pv which people have ranked as top ten how could they be over rated. Ohh yeah and after a horrible 1st quarter they were up in the 4th and missed 4 point blank shots. Pac was lucky to get out of there with a win! Don’t be a hater! Make no mistake nobody at arlington is running around saying they are great. Their just a young program trying to grow as a and get better.
Bp, you are dead-on about Arlington, they will be contenders sooner than later…. and they have played very well so far this season. D-Pac, that comment was catty.. and not accurate.
BP and LOVE
Pac is what they are, a top 5 or 6 Section 1 team. Show some respect. They had big wins last year over Somers (B finalist), beat Put Valley (C champ), Northport, and a double ot loss to state semifinalist LP. Pac is the only Section 1 team other than Town to win a state championship. How can they be overrated when they are always a decent team? They are still behind Town, Jay , Lakeland. Let’s see how the season plays out. Arlington is improving every year and will be a powerhouse sooner than later. They have a great coach as well. But, when you say they are better than Pac, it is incorrect. That is like saying Pac is better than Town. Until proven different, that is not the case. There is a pecking order and each team has their place. I am not knocking any team, just prove it on the field. Let’s all have a great season.
D pac I didn’t say arlington is better. I just thought the comment ugly win over an over rated team was a bit weak….
If you notice, D-Pac, I said nothing about your team. I was referring strictly to you and your “over-rated” comment, and did not say, nor infer, that Arlington was better than Mahopac. I didn’t see the game, so couldn’t possibly judge. D-Pac, it is YOU that showed no respect to Arlington, an up-and-coming team that beat both Brewster and Putnam Valley this season! You always knock other teams on this blog, and are very defensive. And why are you referring to Mahopac beating Town – that was YEARS ago! How is that relevant to this year?
DPac
Always bringing up last year.You dont
have an AA or two all section scorers on this team and a three year starting goalie.Beat Town the we talk
Who said anything about Town? You made the comment that Pac is terrible. Compared to who? Pac puts a good team on the field every year. I agree with Westlax when he ranked Pac 4th in Section 1. Only the remaining games will prove if they are better or worse. Terrible, what are you thinking JJ? You should know better.
JJ110,LoveTown,Bp,
You guys are right on.
D-Pac wonders why his comments get no respect? Maybe if he stopped dumping on other teams and sometimes groups of kids on teams and stop bragging about Pac, he’s get more positive attention.
Love
Who referred about Pac beating Town? Try reading what I said again. I commented on JJ’s response that Pac is terrible. If anyone showed disrespect to a team it was him. I have a lot of respect for Arlington. They will be a powerhouse. You said it right, they are up and coming. For BP to say that Pac is overrated every year is the most “caddy” remark ever. I didn’t start it, but when you make stupid comments, know the facts.
i don’t need to read again, i was referring to your comment about the one year Mahopac won states…. and I don’t see where JJ said Pac was terrible. Those, again, are your words… Pac is always a decent team, and I am confident they work and try as hard as any team out there, and are good kids. It is your commentary that is the problem, not the team….. this time, YOUR COMMENT ABOUT ARLINGTON BEING OVER-RATED… Can we end this now????
LTL,
I am not sticking up for D-Pac because I dont agree with what he says but JJ110 did say “Pac is Terrible” you could find it posted on April 4th in the Gameday Tuesday 3/29 Post
2-1 Chaminade with 1:27 left in the first
Good man, outside on this dreary day. Keep the updates coming, please.
Not there, but Ty is there. Not sure if you know but this is LI13 from laxpower. He’s in his last day up on LI, accounting for the delay in the rankings this week. He’s texting me some periodic udpates. I’ll try to find out a scoring summary at halftime.
4-3 St. A’s, 5 left in the half.
Wanna bet Ty sits in his car with the heat on at halftime? lol
5-4 Chaminade at half.
JJ up 3-0 6:40 left in 1st, Forrest Walter playing
I would if I were him haha
On another note, Connetquot leads WI 3-2 with 9 min left in the 2nd quarter
WI-Connetquot is now tied at 4 at halftime.
6-5 Connetquot with 5 minutes left
All tied at 7 with 7:21 left.
OT.
JJ Score anyone?
Miller Place 9, Rocky Point 4 – bit of a suprise…
3-1 after 1
4-1 JJ 8:43 in 2nd
Second half has started with Chaminade’s Matt Kavanagh scoring two straight goals…7-4 Chaminade
Chaminade completely dominated the third quarter according to Ty and now enters the fourth with a 9-4 lead.
10-4 with a few minutes left. Chaminade continues to dominate in the early season matchup in this rivalry. Will be the fourth consecutive year they won the first game.
FINAL: Chaminade 10, St. Anthony’s 5
4-2 JJ 6:53 2nd
4-3 5:25 JJ in 2nd
5-3 JJ 3:03 2nd
5-4 JJ 0:53in half
6-5 JJ Daniello behind the back 6:05 left in 3rd
7-5 JJ 1:29 left in 3rd
8-5 JJ 8:50 left in 4th
FINAL: West Islip 8, Connetquot 7 (OT).
10-6 JJ 2:04 left in game
10-6 JJ Final
Great job, Chris, thank Ty for us and mail him a handwarmer. Is he surprised at the margin Chaminade won by?
10-6 Final JJ
He expected it to be a closer game, but from the texts I got he was extremely impressed with Chaminade’s defense in the second half, especially Connors. He said that they barely allowed SA any open looks at the cage, and when they did Connors stuffed them quite a few times.
Don’t read too much into it though, Chaminade’s won the early game the last two years and lost in the final. Right now I do think they are the better team, had that suspicion going in, but I doubt the situation will be the same when the teams meet again.
Arlington/Mahopac score?
Got a score from a guy who was at the game: Mahopac beat Arlington 10-8. I guess arlington was up but mahopac came back in the fourth quarter. no box score or anything, just a final.
Arlington has a lot to be proud of today, they played a solid game, as well as Mahopac. Congrats to both.
Arlington was up 7-6 after 3. They are much improved from last year. TJ Foley and Jon Bota each had 4 goals for Mahopac.Scoring for Arlington was pretty evenly distributed.
Nice job by WI pulling out the OT win at Connetquot. Connor Braddish clutch goal to win it!
N Rockland 9 Pearl River 3
John Dugan 2-1
Ryan Johnson 2-1
Fordham Prep upsets Iona Prep 10-9!!!
The Rams are backkkkkkkkkkkkk
Ben Andreychak 5-0
MSGV NYC player to watch Chris Smith 3-0
Pville 15, Westlake 2
Byram Hills 16, Harrison 7
wheres slacrosse? Want to hear about JJ/Rye and he’s always the best at the write ups, especially for Rye
Agreed, would love to hear Slacrosse’s thoughts on the game, if he was there of course
Briarcliff def Keio 8-4
Rye vs. John Jay
John Jay came right out off the 1st face off and went up 3-0. Jay looked like they had something to prove. Rye settled down and Barton went on a tear end of the 1/2 it was 5-5. Second half John Jay went to a zone and it really made Rye struggle (2 years in a row hopefully the Dooley’s can figure it out). Jay had control the whole second half with good ball movement and made Rye pay on the 3 to 4 penalties they took. Bright spots for Rye were Barton, Faceoffs and Goalie (10th grader). Rye plays Iona tomorrow I believe they will bounce back as did Jay yesterday.
Thanks for including the New England private schools in the schedule. Lots of big games today for teams like Exeter, Trinity Pawling, Taft, Suffield, Avon Old Farms, etc.
watched St. A’s on tv the other against delbarton, and was very impressed, chaminade must be very good to handle them like they did
2 years in a row Chaminade easily handled St A’s at home then lost at St. A’s then lost in CHSAA final. Tough to win on Chamionade’s field it is literally a smaller field so opposing players are always stepping out of bounds without realizing it and losing possesion
Congrats to Jay in its 10-6 win over Rye yesterday. A mobile Daniello had a dominant role on O scoring, setting up plays and making the O move but Jay got scoring from several other players as well. To Jay’s credit,they usually capitalized on Rye’s mistakes, most painfully so on man-up penalties which plagued Rye in the second half.
This was Rye’s 1st game and the score was 5-5 at half. Rye had a few other scoring chances in the game but full credit to Jay’s goalie who made some great saves. In the 1st half thought Rye moved the ball well on O allowing Barton to score 3 of his 4 goals. Rye got a good share of FO and it’s 1st yr varsity, soph goalie played pretty well keeping in mind that 3-4 of Jay’s goals came on man-up.
Aside from Rye’s D getting sloppy on slides, etc, in the 2nd half, Jay also started controlling possession time among other reasons because Rye was getting some 1-2 minute penalties. Rye needs to be more disciplined going forward. Also credit to Jay for mixing up defenses and I believe more closely guarding Barton. Although Barton dominated scoring for Rye the team has other proven scorers (1 missing) who can go multiple goals and I’m sure will be contributing going forward.
Rye will improve over the season. I look at this as a “first game” loss to a improving very good Jay team with Daniello’s performance tangibly contributing to Jay’s win. Daniello is an “elite” national player for a reason!
Rye, like Jay and many other teams is also not without injuries. So optimism also comes from Rye shortly getting back one of its starting senior middies who should really help on O and sometimes DM. Another previously injured senior Middie just came back, made a solid contribution and hopefully will continue to get to 100% over the season.
Looks like Duffy was listed as the JJ goalie for the 2nd half and sounds like he played real well vs Rye..are the JJ goalies being rotated…anyone know what deal is?
was very impressed with rye’s one on one defense against mike Daniello as they stripped him on slides a few times. team defense was not great as their slides were sloppy but one on one rye’s defense looked very sound. Barton was dominant on the offensive end and JJ ended up face gaurding and shutting him off, also looked like he was battling some sort of injury or possible cramping. overall jay just had more weapons and won time of possession.
Duffy is now the starter!
Rye will be fine…They are and will be a very good team. You could tell it was there first game. If anyone can figure it out it will be the Dooleys. As stated, Barton was impressive. Wouldn’t want to play them later in the year.
Yep – I bet they will be tough later in the season, it isn’t like any one team is going to have to play them twice in 5 days or anything like that.
S Lacrosse,
I do not diss teams or players. From the start I asked your justification of why you put Rye ahead of Pac in your rankings. You said because they have a lot of seniors returning and have a strong offense and D. When I told you that Pac had the same # of returning players etc.. , you, or another blogger told me that you had three defenders from Empires. I never said that Rye’s D wasn’t any good. I just said that I thought Pac’s was better. Can’t I feel that way? As far as the “overrated comment of Arlington, that was because of the comment made by either BP or JJ that Pac was terrible. It seems that people say things about Pac and it is alright. I hereby call a truce and let’s enjoy the season.
Fine. No I didn’t and would not have made any kind of “empire” reference as it has nothing to do with this season, etc. Maybe when silly stuff is said like that either dont respond or just say its not relevant and move on.
WHERE is this “Pac is terrible” comment? I don’t see it anywhere!!!! take responsibility for your comment, don’t blame it on someone else “because of their comment…” you can feel anyway you want, just don’t put down other teams while elevating yours. It’s petty.
LTL, not sticking up for D-Pac because I dont agree with what he says but JJ110 did say “Pac is Terrible” you can find it in the Gameday Tuesday 3/29 post
kk, thanks No more. I really meant it when I said I couldn’t find it, and it’s because it was on a different thread. And I agree with D-Pac… they are not terrible. They are a good team and are working hard to get even better, as all our boys are.
Thanks No more. I knew I wasn’t crazy. That is the comment that set me off. Let’s enjoy the season.