LaxLessons.com | March 24, 2013
In less than a week we’ll have our first Showdown Saturday of the regular season. Among the matchups on March 30: La Salle (Pa.) at Gardem City, Yorktown at John Jay and Chaminade at West Islip. The high noon Chaminade-WI game is a rematch of a 7-6 Chaminade win last year — which proved to […]
LaxLessons.com | March 23, 2013
Sophomore verbal commitments by boys lacrosse players have become more and more frequent But they remain rare on the girls side. That’s why it was especially big news when Ella Bonafede, a midfielder on the top-ranked girls team in the tristate region, St. Anthony’s, decided on Duke. For more on that, and a look ahead […]
LaxLessons.com | March 23, 2013
Those who checked out the Princeton-Yale game yesterday on ESPNU likely were not disappointed as Princeton pulled out a dramatic 10-9 win. Lax fans are hoping more drama is in store today as both games of the Konica Minolta Face-Off Classic at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore can be seen on ESPNU. It will be […]
LaxLessons.com | March 22, 2013
It’s the first stacked Saturday of the season, folks. In some cases, the preseason. First, let’s start with the big headline. Garden City, the defending New York Class B state champions, has a huge test when it faces Maryland power Loyola-Blakefield in an 11 a.m. game at M&T Bank Stadium. The Trojans, who started the […]
LaxLessons.com | March 22, 2013
There’s lots of March Madness on the airwaves these days, but there will also be some good lacrosse matchups today and throughout the weekend. Today, you can watch an Ivy League battle between visiting Yale and Princeton at 5 p.m. on ESPNU. Tomorrow, both games of the Konica Minolta Face-Off Classic at M&T Bank Stadium […]
LaxLessons.com | March 21, 2013
Is this the year Chaminade unseats St. Anthony’s for the CHSAA title? We’ll get a better idea when the teams clash for the first time during the regular season on April 10. But both squads have jumped out to 1-0 starts. St. Anthony’s downed Kellenberg 12-5 on Wednesday and Chaminade beat 2-12 Nassau County Class […]
LaxLessons.com | March 21, 2013
Nearly all of the discussion surrounding the announcement this week of a new 10-team Big East Conference centered on basketball. For good reason. The so-called “Catholic 7,” who broke off from the conference did so to form a new Big East where basketball was the priority. But lacrosse is also a part of the equation. […]
LaxLessons.com | March 21, 2013
Four-time defending CHSAA Division AAA champion St. Anthony’s got its season started yesterday by beating Kellenberg Memorial 12-5. Now it’s Chaminade’s turn. If you’re just tuning in, Chaminade is ranked No. 2 in the Under Armour/InsideLacrosse.com National Rankings. But Chaminade has lost to St. A’s four straight years in the CHSAA title game. So while […]
LaxLessons.com | March 20, 2013
Growing up in a lacrosse-playing family, Ella Bonafede has never had to search long to find someone to practice with. “I’ve been playing lacrosse in my backyard with my three brothers for as long as I remember,” said the sophomore midfielder for St. Anthony’s (N.Y.), which ranked No. 3 in the latest Nike/US Lacrosse national […]
LaxLessons.com | March 20, 2013
Here’s a rundown of links to the most update national high school and collegiate rankings: * Under Armour/Inside Lacrosse national high school boys power rankings * Nike/US Lacrosse national high school boys rankings * Nike/US Lacrosse national high school girls rankings * MaxPreps.com Top 25 boys player rankings (regardless of class) * Latest collegiate men’s […]
LaxLessons.com | March 20, 2013
It may have only been Game 1, but defending New York Class B state champion Garden City looked like it was in championship form yesterday in an 8-4 win over Syosset in the traditional marquee season-starter for tristate lax. It was the fifth straight year the two teams have met in the season opener and […]
LaxLessons.com | March 20, 2013
A pair of former St. Anthony’s High School (N.Y.) standouts will battle each other as opponents tonight. That’s when Will Manny and UMass take on Dante Fantoni and Lehigh. You can watch the game, which will be played at Lehigh, on ESPNU at 6 p.m. Both players are senior attackmen. For more on the Manny/Fantoni […]
LaxLessons.com | March 19, 2013
Andrew Murray gave in to peer pressure earlier in his teenage years, and now he’s glad he did. As a freshman at Archbishop Stepinac High School in White Plains, N.Y., Murray, a natural athlete who also excels in basketball and soccer, was deciding on what spring sport to play. While growing up, he played baseball. […]
LaxLessons.com | March 19, 2013
With the official start of spring now less than 24 hours away (it arrives officially at 7:02 a.m. EDT on Wednesday, March 20), the tristate region received one (hopefully) last blast of wintry weather that began at nightfall on Monday. But with snow expected to change to rain in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, […]
LaxLessons.com | March 18, 2013
LaxLessons.com and Epoch Lacrosse have teamed up for a new feature at LaxLessons.com in which lacrosse standouts share their epic high school memories. Somers has been one of the top boys lacrosse programs in New York’s Section 1 for just over a decade. If there’s one player who ignited the Tuskers’ rise, it was Tom […]
