High School Zone: Long Island NY
Shoreham-Wading River Wildcats was stopped short in its bid for a second straight New York State Class C title this past spring. The Wildcats fell to Bronxville 14-13 in overtime in the state semis at Marist College to end the year 18-2. SWR’s only other loss was a 10-9 overtime regular-season setback to Garden City […]
Smithtown West has emerged as one of the powerhouse programs in the nation’s No. 1 hotbed for lacrosse, the New York/New Jersey/Connecticut tristate region. The Bulls, coming off a 16-3 season that ended with a loss to eventual New York state champion Ward Melville in the Suffolk County Class A title game, have won 15 […]
It didn’t take long for Ian Laviano to make his mark at Long Island power Cold Spring Harbor. He became just the second eighth-grader to ever make the CHS varsity last spring. (Greg Peyser was the first in 1998.) The 2017 attackman has now decided where he”ll make his mark in college, giving a verbal commitment […]
It’s been quite a week for the Class of 2017. The number of verbal commitments by current freshmen in the nation’s No. 1 hotbed for lacrosse, the New York/New Jersey/Connecticut tristate region, has doubled. If you were with us Sunday morning on our Lacrosse Insider premium coverage section, you learned from Joe Lombardi that Connor DeSimone […]
Our preseason player perspectives have become an annual tradition at LaxLessons.com. We traverse the tristate — and beyond — to get the thoughts of some of the leading returning varsity players as their teams prepare for the start of a new season. Where better to start for 2014 than at the home of the only […]
The term “reckless abandon” is not always associated with the attack position. But if you’ve ever seen Paul Guarino play, you know it fits. “I believe this game has to be played with no inhibitions,” the senior at national power St. Anthony’s (N.Y.) said. “A lot of people look at my style of play as […]
The race for the top spot in Nassau County varsity lacrosse can be unpredictable at times. But the Section 8 coaches’ preseason rankings are anything but. Defending champions Massapequa (Conference 1), Garden City (Conference B1) and Friends Academy (Conference C) are all ranked No. 1. Manhasset (Conference B2), which fell to GC in the class […]
Coach Bob Hartranft, who guided the Farmingdale High School boys lacrosse team to the 2011 New York State Class A championship, has been selected as the winner of US Lacrosse’s 2013 Gerald J. Carroll Exemplary Coaching Award. It was the first state title in a long and successful 45-year tenure as Dalers coach for Hartfranft, […]
Binghamton continues to bring in Long Island recruits. The Bearcats’ latest commitment comes from Suffolk. Faceoff specialist Jack Sullivan, who is entering his third varsity season at Rocky Point High School, has verballed to Binghamton. Binghamton now has reeled in eight tristate 2015 verbals, with seven of them coming from Long Island. The 6-foot-2, 165-pound […]
