It will be quite a seven-day stretch.
Capping it off next Monday (Memorial Day), the college lacrosse season wraps up with the Division I men’s championship game in Foxboro, Mass., ending a Final Four that includes Loyola (Md.), Notre Dame, Maryland and Duke.
We will also have championships determined and championship game matchups set up at the high school level this week.
There also promise to be some upsets.
We had one on a rain-soaked Monday.
Defending state Class A girls champion Northport fell to East Islip 8-7 in the Suffolk County quarterfinals.
They’ll be plenty more opportunities for some surprises today.
Considering the competitive nature of the FCIAC this year, nothing should come as too much of a surprise.
Defending champion Darien, though, is unbeaten in 12 games against FCIAC foes and enters the today’s semifinals as the top seed and the favorite.
The Blue Wave face fourth-seeded Ridgefield, the defending Class L state champions, in the second of two semifinals to be played at Brien McMahon High School in Norwalk. Game-time is 7:30 p.m. The teams met in the FCIAC final last year, with Darien winning 10-7. Darien took the regular-season meeting between the teams 14-11 on May 8.
You can watch the game at 10 p.m. on Thursday on MSG Varsity Channel 14 on Optimum. After that premiere, the game can be seen on On-Demand Channel 614 and msgvarsity.com.
Second-seeded Wilton and third-seeded New Canaan meet at 5 p.m. in the day’s first semi. It’s a rematch of the 2011 Class M state title game, won by Wilton 12-2. Wilton also won the teams’ regular-season meeting, 9-5 on April 5 in both teams’ season-opener.
Both squads are red-hot. New Canaan has won 11 straight since falling at Darien 13-3 on April 17. Wilton has won seven straight since a 15-14 overtime loss to Ridgefield.
A taped broadcast of the Wilton-New Canaan game can be seen starting later this week on Optimum on MSG Varsity On-Demand Channel 614 and msgvarsity.com.
The winners of today’s games at McMahon play in the FCIAC final on Friday night, May 25 back at McMahon.
You can check out a preview of today’s semifinals, featuring Joe and MSG Varsity’s Chad Cutler, that aired last night on “High School SportsDesk.”
Section 1’s semifinal-round field of games on Thursday will be set today.
Here are today’s quarterfinal matchups:
Class A
No. 8 Wappingers at No. 1 Lakeland/Panas, 4:30 p.m.
No. 5 North Rockland at No. 4 Mahopac, 4:30 p.m.
No. 6 Clarkstown South at No. 3 Arlington, 6 p.m.
No. 10 Mamaroneck at No. 2 Suffern, 5 p.m.
Class B
No. 9 Greeley at No. 1 Yorktown, 4:30 p.m.
No. 5 Rye at No. 4 Brewster, 7 p.m.
No. 6 Tappan Zee at No. 3 Somers, 4:30 p.m.
No. 10 Harrison at No. 2 John Jay-CR, 5 p.m.
Class C
No. 8 Putnam Valley at No. 1 Bronxville, 5 p.m.
No. 5 Pelham at No. 4 Byram Hills, 4:30 p.m.
No. 11 Hen Hud vs. No. 3 Croton, 4:30 p.m.
No. 18 Pleasantville at No. 7 Kennedy Catholic, 5 p.m.
For Joe’s take on the Section 1 quarterfinals, check out this segment from MSG Varsity’s “Lacrosse Monday” edition of “High School SportsDesk.”
There will be a Nassau County semifinal tripleheader at Hofstra University.
In Class A, top-seeded Massapequa faces No. 5 Port Washington at 5:30 p.m. In Class B, No. 2 Manhasset takes on No. 3 Wantagh at 8 p.m. The day starts at 3:30 p.m. with a Class C game between No. 1 Cold Spring Harbor and No. 5 North Shore.
In Section 11, defending Suffolk County Class A champ West Islip, the No. 1 seed, hosts No. 8 Northport at 4:15 p.m. in the quarterfinals.
In other Section 11 quarterfinals matchups: No. 10 Half Hollow Hills East plays at No. 2 Smithtown West and No. 3 Ward Melville hosts No. 6 Smithtown East and No. 5 Bay Shore visits No. 4 Sachem North at 4 p.m.
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Interested to hear everyone’s picks. Here are some for a few games I think will be close…
FCIACs
Wilton 10, New Canaan 8
Darien 13, Ridgefield 9
Section One
Brewster 9, Rye 8
Kennedy 7, Pleasantville 6
Hen Hud 8, Croton 5
Byram Hills 8, Pelham 6
Somers 10, TZ 5
Suffern 8, Mamaroneck 4
Mahopac 9, North Rockland 6
Arlington 10, Clarkstown South 6
Nassau
Massapequa 11, Port W. 8
Set 9, Wantagh 8
WI 11, Northport 7
FCIACs
Wilton 10, New Canaan 9
Darien 13, Ridgefield 10
Section One
Brewster 9, Rye 7
Kennedy 5, Pleasantville 9
Hen Hud 8, Croton 4
Byram Hills 8, Pelham 6
Somers 11, TZ 4
Suffern 7, Mamaroneck 4
Mahopac 9, North Rockland 4
Arlington 10, Clarkstown South 3
Lakeland/Panas 10, Wappingers 4
Nassau
Massapequa 11, Port W. 8
Set 10, Wantagh 7
WI 11, Northport 7
Here are my picks
Section One
Town 13, Greely 4
Rye 8, Brewster 6
Kennedy 5, Pleasantville 4
Hen Hud 9, Croton 5
Byram Hills 9, Pelham 7
Somers 11, TZ 6
Suffern 8, Mamaroneck 4
Mahopac 10, North Rockland 5
Arlington 9, Clarkstown South 3
Lakeland/Panas 14, Wappingers 4
Nassau
Massapequa 11, Port W. 9
Set 11, Wantagh 8
WI 14, Northport 7
FCIACs
Wilton 11, New Canaan 10
Darien 13, Ridgefield 11
It’s Alex Whitten’s year for some hardware.
Rams 13
Warriors 10
Blue Wave 15
Tigers 11
Final Rams 11 Wave 10
Brewster-Rye game should be a hard low scoring game. Both offenses put up big numbers last week in against lesser opponents but this should be a classic. Brewster is more athletic and I think a little better skill wise however Rye seems to play a very good team game. To be honest it comes down to Faceoffs and Goaltending. Brewster is more atheltic at the X and on the wings however I give the nod to Rye in the cage. Brewster goalie has been below average at best throughout the season. I predict a one goal game either way.
lax1, I agree with your analysis for the most part. I’m not sure you are aware but Brewster’s regular faceoff guy is no longer on the team. I think “Dirty Harry Erickson” is goin to take most of the face offs. That could become an issue if Rye can keep it close.
Haven’t seen Brewster play but just based upon their record and schools they’ve played vs that of Rye, Brewster should be a couple of goals favorite.
Um yea the kid hasen’t played all season for them so obviously I was talking about Erickson. The kid on Rye is very good from what I have seen but Erickson is hands down one of the best poles in the section and an probable AA selection. Should be a great battle tonight in Brewster.
Yorktown 21
Greeley 7
The next two games for ‘town should be blowouts until the section finals
Because four of the six Section 1 girls lacrosse semifinals scheduled for yesterday were postponed by rain and moved till today, the finals, originally scheduled for Suffern Middle School tomorrow, have been moved to Fox Lane High School in Bedford on Thursday.
Here’s the order of games:
Class C: Pearl River/Rye winner vs. Irvington/Byram Hills winner, 3 p.m.
Class A: North Rockland vs. Lakeland/Panas, 5 p.m.
Class B: Scarsdale/Fox Lane winner vs. Brewster/Yorktown winner, 7 p.m.
Greeley 2-1 in 1st Town 4-0 on FO
2-2 Town Mariano with the 1st
Manning with 2nd
Prestreau with 3rd
Mariano with 4th and # 100
5-2 Gately from Raniolo
Town 5-2 after 1
6-2 Fusco
7-2 Town Prestreau
8-2 Manning
Final: Cold Spring Harbor 17, North Shore 3
West Islip leads Northport 5-2 at the half.
It’s 8-2 WI in the third.
Hen Hud, Croton are tied 4-4 at the half.
Hen Hud leads Croton 9-6 with 2:37 remaining in the fourth.
Final: Hen Hud 9-6
New Canaan leads Wilton 3-2 after one.
New Canaan holds a 5-4 halftime lead over Wilton in the FCIAC semis. Five different goal scorers for New Canaan.
New Canaan leads 6-5 after three.
Blasco gets his second, then Rhudy scores in transition. New Canaan leads 8-5 three minutes into the fourth quarter.
Michael Bossidy scores his third. New Canaan on a big run. 9-5 NC leads Wilton with just under eight minutes left in fourth.
Town wins FO score in 6 sec 9-2 Mariano
10-2 Nick Banatatibus
5-3 putnam valley down vs broxnville half
Update?
bville wins 10-3
Final: Bronxville 10, Putnam Valley 3
10-3 Town
Mariano from Gately 11-3 man up
11-3 end of 3
12-3 Gatley
Ward Melville leads Smithtown East 8-2 in the third quarter.
13-3 Prestreau from Mariano
14-3 DP Peters from Marone
14-4
15-4 Fatim Lajqui
Final: LP 17, Wappingers 4
Town 15-5 Final
Final: New Canaan 11, Wilton 6. Rams advance to Friday’s title game.
Mamo:10 suffern:9 final
Upset City
Arlington, Clarkstown South tied 3-3 at the half.
Arlington leads 5-4 after three.
Arlington wins 6-5.
Score update???
Scala, Bonaparte scored in the opening two minutes. Ridgefield leads Darien 2-0.
Timmy Kelly scores. It’s 3-0 Ridgefield. Timeout Darien.
Kelly scores his third straight. Ridgefield with a stunning 5-0 lead with 2:20 left in the first quarter.
End 1: Ridgefield 5, Darien 1
Start playin StallBall Tigers
Kelly gets his fourth, then Wilkinson scores off a turnover. Ridgefield leads 7-1 at the half.
Somers – 14 Tappan Zee -2 Final
11-0 @ Half
Somers at John Jay should be another classic to see who loses to Town
Jay vs. Harrison ?
Brewster 4-2 at half, Bears with 2 late goals
John Jay – 14
Harrison – 4
Brewster getting better of GB. Erickson causing lose balls at FO with Brewster getting most of control
Mahopac NR score?
Rye 4-4
Rye 5-4
5-4 rye 7:40 left in 3rd
5-4 Rye end 3
Back-to-back goals by Eppley and West. Darien cuts Ridgefield’s lead to 7-3 early in the third. Here come the Blue Wave.
Seiler from Matheis. Ridgefield leads 7-4 with 4:30 left in third.
Back-to-back goals by Matheis. Darien pulls within 8-6 after three.
Timmy Kelly gets his fifth off the opening face-off of the fourth. Ridgefield leads 9-6.
Kelly gets his sixth. West answers. It’s 10-7 Ridgefield at midway point of fourth quarter.
Come on Timmy get another goal! Kid is puttin in an unreal performance against the fciac undefeated regular season dominant B-wave
7-1 @half to 8-6 Darien puts a 5-1 3rd down on the tigers…
Win a FO or steal the ball & Stall, Stall, Stall! Come on Tigers you know how to do it. StallBall, StallBall…
Matheis gets his third, Magnusson then scores. It’s a 10-9 Ridgefield lead with 3:42 left in regulation. Timeout Ridgefield.
Kelly scores his seventh after a nice save by Winne. Ridgefield leads 11-9 with two minutes to go.
Did Timmy get #7? did they hang on?
Please tell me Timmy scored his 8th. Please…
6-5 B 4:52 left R manup
6-6. 3:53 left
7-6 R 3:10 left
Rye 6-6 3:45 left
Rye 7-6 3:10
Tappan Zee – 0-0-1-1—2
Somers – 7-4-2-1—14
Tappan Zee Scoring:
Conall Lennon – 1- Goal
Colby Cohen – 1- Goal
Pat Lynch – 5- Saves
Lian Lynch – 3- Saves
Somers Scoring:
A.J Cartelli – 2- Goals
Tyler DeVito – 2- Assists
David Rubenstein – 1- Assist
Marc Fiocco – 2- Assists
Chris Marasco – 1- Goal 1- Assist
Mike Ashikari – 3- Goals 1- Assist
Johnny Cegielski – 2-Goals 1- Assist
Kevin Cousin – 3- Goals 1 – Assist
Anthony Carpenter – 3 – Goals 2 – Assists
Chris Cousin – 4 Saves
Oscar Esquivel – 4 Saves
Anthony Carpenter had 4 assists.
Manhasset-Wantagh score please??
2:07 left B gets ball. 7-6 R
Rye intercepts clear and scores. 8-6 1;48
Rye 8-6
Rye 8-6 Final
Rye wins 8-6
As expected, good, hard, close game by Brewster and Rye. Good luck to all the Brewster seniors.
It sure was…back and forth with alot of lead changes. Both teams battled all the way. Tough loss for Brewster.
Tell me Timmy Kelly scored his 7th goal on Darien. Please… Tell me
Ridgefield holds on for a 12-11 win.
Mamo 10 Suffern 9
Nice win Mamo!
Ridgefield coach Roy Colsey told his team after the win over Darien that he learned he has been elected to the US Lacrosse Hall of Fame.
Congrats Coach Colsey! Love It! A ‘town product in the HOF & knocking off the odds on favorite B-wave for the fciac. It’s Double Dippin Indeed!! You got to win the states too! It’s your year! Great Job Tigers. Fans are rejoicing throughout CT & downstate NY! Some performance tonite. Timmy Kelly is Da MAN!!!!
Wantagh 17, Set 11
down yr for Set, congrats to Tagh
Have fun at Yorktown, Rye… 🙂
Darien 0 – 1 – 5 – 5 = 11
Ridgefield 5 – 2 – 1 – 4 = 12
Darien Record: 16-2 overall (12-1 FCIAC)
Ridgefield Record: 15-3 overall (12-2 FCIAC)
Darien Scoring:
Case Matheis 3-2
Henry West 2-2
Kevin Seiler 2-0
Jon Magnusson 1-0
Peter Lindley 1-0
Bobby Weaver 1-0
Corey Eppley 1-0
Tim Murphy 0-1
Tommy Lyons 0-1
Ridgefield Scoring:
Kelly 7-1
Sean Wilkinson 3-2
Scala 1
Bonaparte 1-2
Darien Goalie Saves;
Phil Huffard 3
Ridgefield Goalie Saves:
Adam Winne 11
Ridgefield will play NC in the FCIAC Championships Friday night at McMahon 7:30
Darien will now have to wait for the State Class M playoffs to begin. First game Wednesday, may 30th.
Congrats to Ridgefield and New Canaan. Field, Canaan,Wilton and Darien—those are 4 VERY tough teams for sure.
Probably the deepest the FCIAC has been in a few years. Goalie play the difference, although Huffard was hung out to dry on plenty of goals (and the last two were empty net). Pretty foolish play by Darien in the first half, shooting right into the stick of Winne. They have the talent to beat zones, but in both this game and the Wilton game last year, horrid shot selection has doomed them. I just don’t see how this problem hasn’t been adressed – it’s such a simple solution: shoot low or you get benched! Wilton and NC take notes! Zone up against the Blue Wave, and you will be in good shape. NC in particular, with Carey in goal, should like their chances.