Photos by Ray Nelson/MaxPreps.com Defending consensus national champion Ward Melville picked up its first win of the 2014 season — and first win for new coach Jay Negus — beating Sachem East 14-7 on Wednesday. Above, Georgetown-bound junior attackman Daniel Bucaro celebrates a goal for WM. * Photo gallery archive Have a recruiting commitment to […]

Photo by Jim Stout/MaxPreps.com  We now transition from our High School Gameday Center for Wednesday, March 26 to our score rundown. Here are finals from Wednesday’s varsity  action. Boys NY: Byram Hills 13, Kennedy Catholic 6 Chaminade 7, Massapequa 4 Cold Spring Harbor 5, South Side 2 Hauppauge 6, West Islip 5 Hicksville 7, Locust […]

Over the next week, we’ll be spotlighting several team’s from the nation’s No. 1 lacrosse hotspot in video interviews. We start in New York’s Hudson Valley with Somers. The Tuskers last won a Section 1 title in 2009 when they were led by a well-balanced team that featured future Syracuse star JoJo Marasco. Somers begins […]

From press release NEW YORK — Who is the best high school lacrosse goalie in the country?  The Goal Guardian National Championship will settle it once and for all on July 29-31st at the Spooky Nook Sports facility in Manheim, Pa., (the largest indoor facility in North American located outside of Philadelphia, Pa.). Goalies will be tested […]

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With the regular season now in full swing, we will be spotlighting some of the tristate’s most tradition-rich — and significant — regular-season games each week. We start with John Jay-Yorktown, regarded as the unofficial game of the year in New York’s Section 1. John Jay has made 10 straight sectional final appearances. Yorktown has […]

New Jersey, come on down. If the lacrosse season played out like “The Price is Right,” that’s what we’d all be hearing this morning. After all, when it comes to the nation’s No. 1 lacrosse hotspot, Nassau and Suffolk counties on Long Island have gotten things started. Now, so too has much of the Hudson […]

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You’ve seen both the Tristate Top 25 preseason and Week 1 rankings, now let’s give a shoutout to the underdogs. Here’s a look at five under-the-radar teams from the nation’s No. 1 lacrosse hotspot, the NY/NJ/CT tristate region, in the latest “Top 5 in 5” video special anchored by Joe Lombardi. You can watch it […]

We now transition from our High School Gameday Center for Tuesday, March 25 to our score rundown. Here are finals from Tuesday’s varsity  action. Boys NY: Babylon 9, Islip 8, OT Elwood-John Glenn 16, Hampton Bays 3 Floral Park 11, New Hyde Park 8 Great Neck South 16, St. Mary’s 12 Harborfields 10, East Hampton […]

Yorktown has won three straight Section 1 titles, beating John Jay in the final each game. The teams will renew their rivalry on Saturday, March 29. That meeting will come two days after Yorktown opens its season against Putnam Valley as the Huskers look to make the sectional final for the 35th straight year. Last […]

* High School Scoreboard Central for Monday, March 24 The week is off to a roaring start. In case you weren’t with us at our High School Scoreboard Central for Monday, March 24, there were several down-to-the-wire games played yesterday. Danny Grossman had four goals, including the winner, as 2013 Nassau County (N.Y.) Class A […]

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Photo by Jim Stout/MaxPreps.com In our first Stacked Saturday of the scholastic season in the tristate on March 22, we had a pair of Long Island showdowns — Ward Melville vs. Chaminade and Smithtown West vs. Garden City — highlighting the slate. We’re just over a day away from our first High School Gameday Saturday […]

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We now transition from our High School Gameday Center for Monday, March 24 to our score rundown. Here are finals from Monday’s varsity boys lacrosse action. Trinity-Pawling (NY) 9, Calvert Hall (MD) 6 NY: Bay Shore 9, St. John the Baptist 4 Bronxville 13, Mamaroneck 12, OT East Islip 17, Deer Park 0 Long Island […]

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The first LaxLessons.com Top 25 Tristate regular-season rankings have been published. Now, it’s time to get Week 2 of the season started for Long Island and CHSAA teams. For teams in the Hudson Valley and New Jersey, this will be the first full week of the regular season. For public schools in Connecticut, Monday marks […]

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Now, it’s Connecticut’s turn. After Long Island and CHSAA  teams got varsity practices rockin’ and rollin’ back on March 10, the Hudson Valley and New Jersey teams followed the next week. Connecticut teams traditionally start their practices — and seasons — later, and this year is no exception, with the start date being Monday, March […]

Week 1 is in the books. And, though the number of games was limited, there were some interesting outcomes. As a result, the first-ever regular-season LaxLessons Tristate Top 25 rankings include some noteworthy changes since the preseason rankings, including a change at the top. Two-time New York state champion Garden City’s loss to Smithtown West […]

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