Lacrosse Insider

Seventy-five percent of Tewaaraton finalists the last 10 years have played in the Under Armour All-America Senior Game. That fact alone should be enough to prompt you to set your DVR to ESPNU for Friday at 8 p.m. at Towson University’s Johnny Unitas Field. That’s when the boys game will be played — and televised. […]

Posted In: Lacrosse Insider

Syracuse University has just picked up a huge summer-time surprise. The Orange have secured the services of one of the top offensive players in college lacrosse. Nick Mariano, an attackman who led the Minuteman in scoring, has just decided to transfer to Syracuse, where he will have two years of eligibility, beginning with the 2016 season. […]

Posted In: Lacrosse Insider

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Zh4vseAGEo&app=desktop We have a brand new Class of 2018 commitment to report as well as our latest new verbal following a decommitment. We start with the Class of 2018 where longstick midfielder Nathan Gentile of Pomfret School in Connecticut has become the third rising sophomore tristate standout to verbal to Air Force. A groundball machine, […]

Posted In: Lacrosse Insider

The commitments continue to come in at a brisk pace as the summer travel season heats up despite the cloudy skies and lower-than-normal temperatures throughout the tristate. We begin this update with a big 2018 verbal from Connecticut. Attackman Jack Raba, who started for Cheshire High School as a freshman, has decided on Loyola, becoming […]

Posted In: Lacrosse Insider

Class of 2018: Nassau 9, Suffolk 9, OT (one four-minute OT period was played) Jake Wandle of Rocky Point tied it for Suffolk with just over a minute to go in regulation. Nassau had taken 9-8 lead on goal by Tyler Wuchte (Garden City) with four minutes left. Nassau had jumped out to a 4-1 first-quarter […]

Posted In: Lacrosse Insider

Class of 2017: Suffolk 14, Nassau 12 Uncommitted Jimmy Caddigan of Smithtown West had three goals and two assists and two assists as Suffolk pulled out the win in a game that was close throughout. Other multiple-goal scorers fro Suffolk were Garrett Moya of Huntington (two goals) and Sean Lulley of Half Hollow Hills East (two […]

Posted In: Lacrosse Insider

Class of 2016: Nassau 13, Suffolk 9 Mac O’Keefe (Syosset) scored four goals and Ryan Tierney (Massapequa) had one goal and four assists for Nassau, which took control of the game by outscoring Suffolk 7-1 in the third quarter. The game had been tied 4-4 at the half as Matt Oehl (Connetquot) scored back-to-back goals […]

Posted In: Lacrosse Insider

Duke University coach John Danowski was on hand Friday for the seventh annual Long Island Showcase at Farmingdale State University. Danowski spent plenty of time on his cell phone while watching the action. For good reason. The Duke coach is wrapping up a week in which he’s received not one or two, but four Class […]

Posted In: Lacrosse Insider

We have some major coaching news as well as new commitment to report in this update. It’s rare a coach of a team crowned as a two-time state champion less than a week earlier steps down from his position, but that’s the case with a team that came away with a state title this past […]

Posted In: Lacrosse Insider

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u82DC2lpn-I To say there was a strong amount of synergy between the Team 91 travel lacrosse program and Duke University on Tuesday would be quite an understatement. After all, Duke’s first two Class of 2018 commits were both made by Team 91 players. The first came from defenseman Frank Marinello of Chaminade High School (NY). Then, […]

Posted In: Lacrosse Insider

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLJ09oNs0zY The surge of new verbal commitments is in full force, and we have three new verbals to report in this latest update. The first comes from the Class of 2017 where Rowayton, CT native Sam Shafer of the Trinity-Pawling (NY) School committed to Loyola University. The 6-foot-3, 175-pound Shafer has ideal size and takes up […]

Posted In: Lacrosse Insider

1. Darien (CT):  Record: 20-3; Last week’s ranking: No. 2 2. Bridgewater-Raritan (NJ): Record: 23-0; Last week’s ranking: No. 6 3. Syosset (NY): Record: 18-2; Last week’s ranking: No. 1 4. Smithtown East (NY):  Record: 18-2; Last week’s ranking: No. 5 5. Massapequa (NY): Record: 17-1; Last week’s ranking: No. 4 6. Ward Melville (NY)  Record: 17-3; Last week’s ranking: No. 7 7. […]

Saturday marks the final day of the high school season in the NY/NJ/CT tristate region as Connecticut holds its championship tripleheader at Brien McMahon High School in Norwalk. As the varsity season ends, the wave of late spring/summer verbal commitments is now off and running. So let’s get right to it as we have two […]

Posted In: Lacrosse Insider

The 2015 high school season in the nation’s No. 1 hotspot for lacrosse, the NY/NJ/CT tristate region, will come to a close on Saturday. A week after New York crowned its class champions and New Jersey its Tournament of Champions winner, Connecticut will be holding its title tripleheader at Brien McMahon High School in Norwalk […]

Posted In: Lacrosse Insider

The final state championships in the nation’s No. 1 hotspot for lacrosse, the New York/New Jersey/Connecticut tristate region, will be awarded this week as Connecticut holds it semifinals on Wednesday and finals on Saturday. Here’s a look at our predictions for Wednesday’s semifinals. Class L at Brien McMahon High School, Norwalk: No. 9 Ridgefield (16-5) […]