There will be no shortage of talented teams at this year’s Somers Red/Gray Preseason Classic at Somers High School in Northern Westchester on Saturday, March 24. The eight-team field for the fourth annual event will include defending CHSAA champion St. Anthony’s and 2010 Section 1 Class A champion Lakeland/Panas as well as Section 1 contenders […]
Looking for a team that could emerge from under the radar on Long Island? Northport could be a prime candidate. The Tigers have a solid squad that includes three Division I-bound players. The latest commitment was made by attackman Sean Gilroy, as we told you earlier today on Twitter. The adept finisher, who is heading […]
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A playoff-style tournament to decide the top youth town programs in the tristate area will be held Saturday, March 31 and Sunday, April 1 at the Green Vale School in Old Brookville, N.Y. The second-year Top Rank Lacrosse Tournament is sponsored by Maverik Lacrosse. Teams from Long Island, the Hudson Valley, Connecticut and New Jersey […]
It’s been the biggest trend on the lacrosse recruiting landscape. The latest tristate sophomore to commit to a major Division I program — Cold Spring Harbor’s University of Notre Dame-bound Jordan Walter — has brought the total number to 15. (See the full breakdown below.) Walter, a 5-foot-11, 175-pound midfielder, is known for his dodging […]
John Jay won’t have to wait long to have some big tests this season. For starters, they will be scrimmaging a couple of tristate powers in Delbarton and Darien. The Indians then open the season on Thursday, March 29 against an Arlington team that won six of its final eight games last season. Then, two […]
The college season is up and running — and could be coming soon to a high school field near you. There will be a couple of men’s college games scheduled for turf fields at high schools in the region in the next few weeks that will feature plenty of former varsity standouts from the area. […]
For Putnam Valley, last year was the exception. The Tigers, who had advanced to the Section 1 Class C finals five times in the last six seasons, did not advance past the opening round of the playoffs. So 2012 shapes up as potentially a big bounce-back season for one of the most successful programs in […]
It’s become the annual lid lifter to the boys lacrosse season in the nation’s No. 1 lacrosse hotbed, the New York/New Jersey/Connecticut tristate region. Nassau County rivals Garden City and Syosset are keeping the tradition intact as they will meet in opening week for the fourth straight year when they square off on March 20 […]
Denver swept Ohio State last season en route to an appearance in the Final Four. The Pioneers entered today’s matchup against unranked Ohio State at No. 5 in the latest rankings. But expecting the unexpected has quickly become the new reality in major Division I lacrosse, and Ohio State came away with a 10-9 win […]
The first full weekend of the brand-new college lacrosse season has produced a surprise. No. 9-ranked Notre Dame’s men’s lax team was dominant defensively in a 7-3 season-opening win against No. 2-ranked visiting Duke. After falling behind 2-0, ND scored seven unanswered goals. Goalie John Kemp equaled a career high with 14 saves. Senior midfielder Max […]
A busy weekend of college action starts Friday at 5 p.m. as Towson visits Johns Hopkins in a men’s game that will be broadcast live on ESPNU. Among the big games on Saturday, Notre Dame takes on Duke, which can be seen at 1 p.m. on espn3.com. Here are links from LaxPower.com to access the […]
In New York’s Section 1 (Westchester, Putnam, Rockland and Dutchess counties), defending champions Yorktown (Class B) and Bronxville (Class C) are favorites to repeat. But in Class A, there figures to be a heated race between last year’s titlist, Mahopac, 2010 champion Lakeland/Panas, and perennial contender Suffern — with other teams such as Mamaroneck and […]
Congrats to Anthony Grasso, a senior longstick midfielder/defenseman at Fox Lane High School in Bedford, N.Y. Grasso was randomly selected today as the winner of the LaxLessons Warrior Electrik 2 Gloves giveaway. “I am really exited to have won these gloves, and hope to make good use of them,” said Grasso, who learned about the […]
Josh Oliver has had a change of course. The 6-foot-3, 195-pound Canadian native, who committed to Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Conn., this past November, has decided to head further south. Much further. The senior attackman at the Vermont Academy is now bound for a Division I program that’s as far south as it gets, Jacksonville […]
