Lacrosse Insider
With the regular season now in full swing, we will be spotlighting some of the tristate’s most tradition-rich — and significant — regular-season games each week. We start with John Jay-Yorktown, regarded as the unofficial game of the year in New York’s Section 1. John Jay has made 10 straight sectional final appearances. Yorktown has […]
Photo by Jim Stout/MaxPreps.com In our first Stacked Saturday of the scholastic season in the tristate on March 22, we had a pair of Long Island showdowns — Ward Melville vs. Chaminade and Smithtown West vs. Garden City — highlighting the slate. We’re just over a day away from our first High School Gameday Saturday […]
Week 1 is in the books. And, though the number of games was limited, there were some interesting outcomes. As a result, the first-ever regular-season LaxLessons Tristate Top 25 rankings include some noteworthy changes since the preseason rankings, including a change at the top. Two-time New York state champion Garden City’s loss to Smithtown West […]
Before we take a look ahead to this week’s big games, we have a quick advisory. A weather advisory. There is now a likelihood that snow will be returning to the tristate region this week, and could impact Tuesday’s schedule, and, possibly later in the week depending on accumulation totals. As much as 4 inches […]
Photo by Jim Stout/MaxPreps.com Each week, we’ll be highlighting top performances by varsity players and coaches from the nation’s No. 1 hotspot for the lacrosse, the NY/NJ/CT tristate region. Players of the Week New York: * Bay Shore’s Luke Pacella had three of his team’s goal, including the game-winning goal with just over a minute […]
It will be Syracuse vs. Duke on Sunday in a rematch of last year’s Division I title game, won by Duke. For a preview of the game, click here. You can watch the game live on ESPNU. Above, Syracuse players on their charter flight to Durham on Saturday. Below, Duke coach John Danowski makes some […]
We noted the return of the Red Gray Preseason Tournament at Somers High School in New York’s Hudson Valley here at Lacrosse Insider earlier this month. Several of the top teams in the tristate once again will be competing on Saturday, March 22. A few changes have been made to the original schedule. Here’s the […]
The first regular-season game of 2014 involving a team from the NY/NJ/CT tristate region was on Saturday as Connecticut power Brunswick fell to Haverford (Pa.) 9-5. This week, there will be a good amount of regular-season games, including some intriguing matchups, with Long Island starting the season in earnest this week. So all the matchups […]
Two-time Fairfield County Interscholastic Athletic Conference champion New Canaan enters the 2014 season as the top-ranked team in Connecticut in the LaxLessons Tristate Top 25 preseason rankings. The Rams will be embarking on their 40th year of varsity competition with one of their best teams in history, and second-year coach Chip Buzzeo has scheduled accordingly. […]
There is no shortage of varsity programs in the nation’s No. 1 hotspot for lacrosse, the NY/NJ/CT tristate region, who have, in effect, joined forces between championship football and lacrosse programs. No program epitomizes that any more than New Canaan in Connecticut. The Rams are coming off a back-to-back FCIAC titles in lacrosse and a […]
Two of the nation’s most tradition-rich lacrosse programs simultaneously accomplished the same feat today. Johns Hopkins, one of the college programs that has pioneered the early commitment boom, has just picked up its second Class of 2017 verbal from the nation’s No. 1 hotspot for lacrosse, the New York/New Jersey/Connecticut tristate region. In the process, […]
We have three commitments from Long Island players to report in this update – two from the same family. We begin out in Suffolk County and Sachem North High School. Joe Lombardi is reporting that 6-foot-4 2015 defenseman Ian Junge has committed to UMBC. Junge (pictured at right), who was also recruited by Stony Brook, […]
Temperatures will be spring-like on Monday and Tuesday, which is perfect timing. Many more varsity throughout the nation’s No. 1 hotspot for lacrosse, the New York/ New Jersey/Connecticut tristate region, will be starting their practices on Monday. Many of the top teams on Long Island and in the CHSAA started tryouts a week earlier and […]
We have another Stacked Saturday of games in the college lacrosse world. For a rundown of what’s on top, check in to our Gameday Center. For results and box scores as soon as they come, hit up our College Scoreboard Central. Virginia assistant coach Joe Starsia warms up the goalies before the Cavaliers’ game at […]
We have two commitments from New Jersey and one from Long Island in this update. We begin in the Garden State with two of the top programs in NJ. Joe Lombardi is reporting that Chatham High School 2014 attackman James Sullivan will be heading off to Furman. Sullivan will enroll at Furman in the fall […]
