D1: 'Wick as the champion though one could make an argument for both Taft and Salisbury as well. Taft beat Loomis in the Founders Championship. Personally I will say there was more "parity" this year with any of the top 7 teams playing competitive lax. My surprises include Loomis. My disappointments include Choate, who could have made the leap into the top tier but still had a good year, Hotchkiss and Westy which has fallen off the map. But kudos to the Kent Seniors who finally got a win
D2-West: Champion: Millbrook - they played a very competitive schedule and a lot games this year. Wilby could make an argument but they lost the head to head. Surprises - none. Disappointments - Gunnery, Canterbury and Cheshire Academy which has also fallen off the map
D2-FAA: Champion: GCDS who beat GFA in the championship. With the exception of GCDS who is building a solid program, no surprises except maybe Hopkins School who lost a lot of firepower with their graduating class last year but still managed to win 5 games. No disappointments except maybe King who has the talent to compete with the top 2 teams but came up short this year.
D3: Champion: Williams who beat Harvey in the final game. Harvey had a great season though and played a tough schedule. My surprises included them and South Kent who came out of mothballs to play 3 games and play competitively. My disappointment is Storm King who could not field a team and Wooster who should have been more competitive.
See you all next year.
Current Last Week School Record Comments Division 1 1 1 Brunswick (13-4) 2 2 Taft (15-2) Beats Loomis in the championship (14-8) 3 3 Salisbury (12-4) 4 5 Loomis (13-5) Loses to Taft in the championship (8-14) 5 4 Choate (14-3) Beats AOF (15-14) in OT 6 6 Deerfield (10-8) 7 7 Avon Old Farms (9-8) Loss to Choate in OT (14-15) 8 9 Hotchkiss (8-9) Beat Westy in the Founders tourney (17-6) and then beat TP in the rematch (13-8) 9 8 Trinity Pawling (8-9) Loss to Hotchkiss in the rematch (8-13) 10 10 Berkshire (11-7) 11 11 Westminster (6-12) Loss to Hotchkiss (6-17) but beat Kent (18-6) 12 12 Northfield Mount Hermon (6-13) 13 13 Kent (1-17) Loss to Westy (6-18)
Division 2 West (mostly boarding) 1 2 Millbrook (11-7) 2 1 Wilbraham & Monson (9-4) 3 3 Albany Acadamies (7-5) Loss to Worcester Acad (8-9) 4 4 Williston (8-8) 5 5 Brunswick B (not JV) (7-3) 6 6 Gunnery (5-11) 7 7 Canterbury (7-9) 8 8 Suffield Academy (4-9) 9 9 Cheshire Academy (4-10)
Division 2 - FAA (Day Schools) 1 2 Greenwich Country Day (11-4) 2 1 Greens Farms Academy (10-4) 3 3 King School (5-6) Beat Wheeler (13-1) and loss to Berwick (5-13) 4 4 Rye Country Day (11-6) Beat Portledge (12-6) in the semis and lost to Hackley (8-9) in the finals and rematch 5 5 Hamden Hall (5-11) 6 6 Hopkins School (5-8) 7 7 St Lukes (2-8) 8 8 Kingswood Oxford (2-9)
Division 3 1 2 Williams School (10-3) 2 1 Harvey (11-3) 3 3 Hoosac (4-3) 4 4 South kent (2-1) 5 5 Forman (5-10) 6 6 Darrow (4-2) 7 7 Wooster (2-8) 8 8 Masters (0-6) 9 9 Marvelwood (2-9) 10 10 Woodhall (1-3) 11 11 Storm King (0-0)