High School Zone: Long Island NY
LaxLessons.com | May 14, 2013
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LaxLessons.com | May 13, 2013
Suffolk County Class A is as tough as its gets when it comes to the level of talent from top to bottom. Who will be the best of the best when the title game is played May 29 at Stony Brook University. It could be any one of five or more teams. Playoff action begins […]
LaxLessons.com | March 25, 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. West Islip High School has become synonymous with boys lacrosse success. Both in terms of New York state championships won. Bobby Rushton knows all about both. The 2005 WI graduate helped build […]
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 17, 2013
Four defending state champions will be on display on Saturday, March 23 at the annual Darien Lacrosse Preseason Jamboree. They include defending New York state champions West Islip (Class A) and Shoreham-Wading River (Class C) and defending Connecticut state champs Fairfield Prep (Class L) and Darien (Class M). Here’s the schedule: Darien vs. Shoreham-Wading River, […]
LaxLessons.com | March 12, 2013
Long Island squads will dip their toe in the water that is the 2013 preseason for the first time with a full slate of scrimmages today. The schedule is highlighted by 3:30 p.m. encounter between host Smithtown East and Shoreham-Wading River and a 4 p.m. matchup between visiting Syosset and West Islip. Also today at […]
LaxLessons.com | March 11, 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. A two-time All-American for New York State’s current reigning Class B champion Garden City, Dean Gibbons managed to more than equal his lofty accomplishments at the Division I level. Gibbons, an attackman […]
LaxLessons.com | March 10, 2013
Craig Berge’s abilities on the field made him a target recruit of many of the nation’s top programs. The midfielder at Massapequa High School (N.Y.), one of the top juniors in the nation, became even more appealing to elite college programs because of his proficiency in the classroom. He sports a 3.73 grade-point average. So […]
LaxLessons.com | March 7, 2013
High school lacrosse fans in the New York/New Jersey/Connecticut tristate regions may be the first ones to set their clocks ahead this weekend when Daylight Savings Time starts at 2 a.m. on Sunday. After all, with some of the big early season matchups set for the opening weeks of the season, who can blame them? […]
LaxLessons.com | March 4, 2013
It was a day Joe Varello and thousands of players from through Long Island had been anxiously awaiting. And it came today. Varsity practices and tryouts officially got under way. For Varello, the 2013 season comes with especially high expectations. After all, the senior faceoff midfielder plays for Smithtown West, which has emerged into one […]
LaxLessons.com | February 28, 2013
Friends has become a force. In Long Island, Class C that is. Friends Academy has advanced to the Nassau County Class C championship game the last two years, falling to Cold Spring Harbor each time. Can the Quakers break through with a title this year? For more, we turn to William Sands. One of the […]
LaxLessons.com | February 26, 2013
It was a race that went right down to the wire. We just wrapped up our latest poll question in our latest “You make the call” feature which asked who you thought would win the always heated race in Section 11 (Suffolk County) Class A. Your choice – defending New York State Class A champion […]
LaxLessons.com | February 25, 2013
Some high school teams in parts of the nation have already started their regular seasons. But among teams in the nation’s No. 1 hotbed for lacrosse, the New York/New Jersey/Connecticut tristate region, we’re still a few weeks away from the first openers. So that gives us some time to continue traversing the tristate to get […]
LaxLessons.com | February 23, 2013
Photo above by Newsphoto.com The eyes of the lacrosse world will be focused on Baltimore on March 23 for the Konica Minolta Face-Off Classic at M&T Bank Stadium. Colgate faces Navy in Game 1 at 2 p.m., followed by a 4:30 p.m. clash between Virginia and Johns Hopkins. The day begins with a premier high […]
LaxLessons.com | February 20, 2013
New York has among the most heated and competitive high school leagues in the country. None more so than Suffolk County Class A. Though West Islip has dominated the last decade, that is not indicative of the fact that there are annually four to five teams within the league that could easily be state title […]
