High School Zone: Hudson Valley NY
The Class of 2016 and Class of 2017 all-star games at the Maverik Showtime Lacrosse National Recruiting Spotlight, held its all-star games Wednesday night at Western Connecticut State University, have gone final. Click here for game recaps and check back for Joe Lombardi’s Class of 2016 and Class of 2017 player breakdowns and evaluations. Here […]
Maverik Showtime Lacrosse National Recruiting Spotlight, regarded as the nation’s No. 1 summer showcase, held its all-star games Wednesday night at Western Connecticut State University. Led by MVP Connor DeSimone of Smithtown East High School (NY), Team Maverik (Red) beat Team Cascade (White) beat 14-8 in the Class of 2017 game, which was halted a […]
St. John’s has been in the tristate recruiting spotlight this week. On Sunday, we brought you the story of 6-foot-4 midfielder Lincoln McGarrity of Christian Brothers Academy in Syracuse, who verballed to the Red Storm. Now, comes word of another big verbal for SJU. It comes from Trinity-Pawling School incoming post-grad student Luke Roediger. Roediger, […]
We brought you All-America selections for New York’s Section 1 back on May 27. In addition to those 10 selections, four more Hudson Valley standouts earned All-America honors from the Mid-Hudson region: senior longstick midfielder/faceoff specialist Josh Hernandez of Middletown; sophomore defenseman Connor Filipowski of Warwick Valley; junior attackman Joey Sessa of Minisink Valley; and […]
From press release PURCHASE, NY — A new program has a new leading man. Purchase College (NY) Director of Athletics Chris Bisignano has announced the hiring of former John Jay High School (NY) and Fairfield University (CT) standout attackman Michael Bocklet as the first-ever men’s lacrosse coach in program history. Bocklet, a local standout himself, […]
The summer showcase season is well under way and the 2014 varsity season in the tristate is now one for the books. But what a season it was. It featured three first-time state champions, a team finishing unbeaten and plenty of dramatic moments along the way. Joe Lombardi (pictured at left) takes a look back […]
Here’s a rundown of summer showcases for July from both in the nation’s No. 1 hotspot for lacrosse, the New York/New Jersey/Connecticut region, and beyond the tristate. Vail Shootout June 29-July 7, Vail, CO Blue Chip 225 Seniors June 30-July 3, Bryant University, RI Top 205 Rising Juniors July 1-4, Towson University, MD Brine National […]
It was a big week down in the the proud and age-old grandfather of lacrosse, the Baltimore area. The Jake Reed Nike Blue Chip Camp held its rising sophomore and rising junior showcases at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. Now, here’s a look at 15 standouts from the nation’s growing and vibrant No. 1 […]
LaxLessons’ 2014 Tristate Top 25 varsity rankings were released earlier this month. You can check them out here. Now, we can see where the tristate’s finest stack up with the best in all of the nation. LaxPower, the world’s leading authority on lacrosse team performance ratings, is pleased to announce the National Coaches/Computer Ratings for […]
* LaxLessons All-Tristate players, coaches of the year, first and second teams Honorable Mention Connecticut: Pat Batista, St. Joseph, jr., LSM; Teddy Bossidy, New Canaan, sr., M; Micky Carbone, Ridgefield, sr., M; Ian Burgoyne, Darien, jr., M; Frank Cognetta, New Canaan, sr., D (pictured below, at right); Ryan Corcoran, St. Joseph, sr., A; Kyle Cornell, […]
Photo by Dave Anderson To say Luke Palmadesso played in a big role in Yorktown’s first New York state championship since 2003 would be, well, a big understatement. The two-time All-America midfielder was dominant in the faceoff X and was named most valuable offensive player in Yorktown’s 10-9 Class B title-game win over Jamesville-DeWitt. It […]
Here are the final LaxLessons Tristate Top 25 rankings for the 2014 varsity season. 1. Darien (CT), 23-0: The 2014 Blue Wave are the second in school history to finish as unbeaten state champs, but coach Jeff Brameier said this year’s team was the best to ever wear blue-and-white jerseys. Last week’s ranking: No. 1 […]
It’s been a big year for first time state champions in the NY/NJ/CT tristate region with Greenwich in Connecticut and Massapequa (Class A) and Bronxville (Class C) all taking titles. Bronxville’s win was especially sweet. After all, it came against a Cazenovia team the Broncos had fallen to in the 2013 New York Class C […]
It seemed fitting that the ball was in the stick of Luke Palmadesso as Yorktown counted down the final seconds of its first New York state championship win since 2003, a 10-9 victory over Jamesville-DeWitt in the Class B title game at Hofstra University in Hempstead. The Villanova-bound Luke Palmadesso, a two-time All-American, won 19-of-23 […]
