Lacrosse Insider
New Jersey is down to its Final Four. The Tournament of Champions semifinals will be played Wednesday, June 4 at Bridgewater-Raritan High School. Winners advance to the TOC championship game Saturday, June 7 at 7:30, back at Bridgewater. Game 1: No. 3 Mountain Lakes (22-3) vs. No. 2 Summit (22-1), 5 p.m. Analysis: If defense […]
New York state tournament brackets The three downstate representatives in the New York state championships will be determined on Wednesday, June 4 at Hofstra University’s Shuart Stadium. Class A: Niskayuna/Section 2 (19-1) vs. Massapequa/Section 8 (17-2), 3:30 p.m. Analysis: Niskayuna has been knocking on the door. The Silver Warriors have won 13 Section 2 (Albany […]
Here are the latest LaxLessons Tristate Top 25 rankings. 1. Darien (CT), 19-0: Blue Wave are now tied with Wilton for most FCIAC titles, with 13. Last week’s ranking: No. 1 2. Massapequa (NY), 17-2: The Chiefs, who have won 17 straight since back-to-back losses to Chaminade (NY) and Garden City (NY), will be looking […]
Players of the Week New York Hudson Valley Lakeland/Panas’ Brian Prunty had four goals and an assist in a 14-11 loss to Niskayuna in the New York Class A state semifinals at SUNY Albany. Long Island Nassau Lynbrook’s Owen Daly won 19-of-21 faceoffs in the Owls’ 10-9 win over Rocky Point in the Long Island […]
Teams from Section 1 (Westchester, Rockland, Putnam and Dutchess counties) battle it out against their counerparts from Section 2 (Albany area) on Saturday at the University at Albany, with berths to the downstate semifinals on Wednesday, June 4 against Saturday’s winners of the three Long Island Championship games. Class A Lakeland/Panas/Section 1 (15-5) vs. Niskayuna […]
Saturday will be one of the special days on the tristate lacrosse calendar. It’s the Long Island Championship at Hofstra University’s Shuart Stadium. The winners of the LIC, which is also the state quarterfinals, advance to the downstate semifinals Wednesday, June 4 against winners of Saturday’s Section 1 vs. Section 2 quarterfinal games, back at […]
Greenwich is back in the FCIAC championship for the second straight year. Darien, which defeated two-time champion New Canaan in the semifinals, is making its first appearance since 2011. It’s No. 1 Darien (18-0) vs. No. 2 Greenwich (16-2) for the FCIAC title on Friday at 7:30 p.m. at Brien McMahon High School in Norwalk, […]
A pair of standouts from Suffolk County on Long Island have made verbal commitments to Division I programs in the last 24 hours. One verbal comes from the Class of 2016, the other, the Class of 2015. Joe Lombardi is reporting that Commack High School midfielder Tom Dugan has verbally committed to Stony Brook. Dugan […]
Joe Lombardi is reporting that the Cornell Big Red have just landed a major verbal commitment to its admissions process. It comes from outside the tristate. Athletic 6-foot-3, 190-pound midfielder Fleet Wallace from St. Christopher’s School in Richmond, Va., has decided on Cornell. The heavily-recruited Wallace is a two-way player who also excels on rides […]
Massapequa will look to win the Nassau County Class A title for the second straight year on Tuesday, May 27 when it faces Syosset at Hofstra University. Here are the latest LaxLessons Tristate Top 25 rankings. 1. Darien (CT), 17-0: Two of the Blue Wave’s three one-goal wins were against FCIAC semifinalists New Canaan and […]
There will be championships awarded once again this week in the tristate and state tournament play will be getting under way in New York. Here’s a day-by-day overview of what’s in store. Tuesday, May 27 The finalists for the FCIAC championship game on Friday, May 30 will be determined in a doubleheader at Brien McMahon […]
The eyes of the lacrosse world may be on the Final Four in the sport’s age-old and traditional home base of Baltimore, but that doesn’t mean verbal commitments are on hold. Joe Lombardi is reporting that, as Duke battled Denver in the national semifinals, one of the top 2016 goaltenders in the Northeast made his […]
Fairfield Prep with be looking to win its fourth straight Southern Connecticut Conference title. Action in the postseason event starts on Tuesday, May 27. Also of note, North Haven is back in the tournament for the first time in 10 years. Semifinals Tuesday, May 27 at Surf Club, Madison No. 1 Fairfield Prep (11-5) vs. […]
The talent level of the Fairfield County Interscholastic Athletic Conference has become even more evident as teams get set for first-round play on Friday, May 23. After all, defending Connecticut Class M state champ Wilton did not make the eight-team field. Two-time defending FCIAC champ New Canaan, meanwhile, is the No. 4 seed. With that […]
New York’s Section 9 (Orange and Ulster counties) will hold its finals Friday at Middletown High School’s Faller Field. While Section 9 often takes a backseat to its Hudson Valley sister conference, Section 1 (Westchester, Rockland, Putnam and Dutchess counties), it bears noting that the No. 1 seed in Section 9 Class A, Warwick Valley, […]
