The Girls Varsity Lacrosse season will be getting onto the practice fields in just about 90 days and the action for Nassau (Section VIII) and Suffolk (Section XI) figures to be highly contentious this season. For our second consecutive year, BOTC will be the leading source of Long Island Varsity Lacrosse news, scores, and stories. Please use this thread to cover the Spring 2012 Season.

The Nassau County girls preseason seeds were released on November 16th as voted by the coaches association.

Conference 1A
1. Farmingdale
2. Massapequa
3. Port Washington
4. Baldwin
5. Syosset
6. MacArthur
7. East Meadow
8. Oceanside
9. Hicksville
10. Plainview/Old Bethpage

Conference 2B
1. Garden City
2. Manhasset
3. Wantagh
4. Plainedge
5. Division
6. Southside
7. Long Beach
8. Lynbrook
9. Calhoun
10. Hewlett

Conference 3B
1. Floral Park
2. Bethpage
3. New Hyde Park
4. Roslyn
5. Glen Cove
6. Sewanahaka
7. Carey
8. Bellmore JFK
9. Herricks
10. Mepham
11. Jericho
12. Great Neck North
13. Great Neck South

Conference 4C
1. North Shore
2. Cold Spring Harbor
3. Locust Valley
4. Seaford
5. Friends Academy
6. Island Trees
7. Mineola
8. Carle Place
9. Clarke
10. Wheatly

any word on suffolk seeds

IS THIS THE CONFERENCE SETUP'S - ARE SOME TEAMS MISSING? WHERE IS EAST ROCKAWAY, ELMONT, VALLEY STREAM, WEST HEMPSTEAD?

Some available scholastic Lacrosse Coaching positions on the Girls side have been posted :

Miller Place School District
JV Girls' Lacrosse Coach
Middle School Girls' Lacrosse Coach
NYS Education Certification strongly recommended.
Contact: Lisa Lally, Athletic Director
Miller Place High School
15 Memorial Drive
Miller Place, NY 11764
llally@millerplace.k12.ny.us
631-474-2723 ext. 307

Harborfields School District
Varsity Girls' Lacrosse Assistant Coach
JV Girls Lacrosse
Anyone interested should send a letter of interest to:
John Valente, Director of Heath, Physical Education and Athletics
Email: valentej@harborfieldscsd.org
Fax: 631-754-5397

North Babylon School District
Varsity Head Girls' Lacrosse Coach
Assistant Varsity Girls' Lacrosse Coach
Head JV Girls' Lacrosse Coach
Asst. Middle School Girls' Lacrosse Coach
Contact: John V. Sparacio, Athletic Director
Email: jsparacio@northbabylonschools.net
Phone: 631-321-3230

Port Jefferson School District
MS Head Girls' Lacrosse Coach
All interested applicants, please send your letter of interest and resume to:
Debra Ferry, CAA, District Director of Health, Physical Education and Athletics
Port Jefferson School District, 350 Old Post Road, Port Jefferson, NY 11777
Phone: 631-476-4415
Fax: 631-476-4408

Class of 2012 (Seniors) NCAA Division I Commitments from Long Island

Lindsey Alfano, Hauppauge, defender, Hofstra
Kelsey Allen, West Islip, midfield, Virginia Tech
Michaela Aymong, Northport, goalie, Richmond
Katie Boden, Shoreham-Wading River, attack, UMass
Paige Bonomi, Northport, midfield/attack, USC
Courtney Boyd, Locust Valley NY, defender, Louisville
Meghan Breen, Sacred Heart, attack, Massachusetts
Alexandra Bruno, Garden City, midfield/attack, Princeton
Kacey Carter, Lynbrook, midfield/attack, Marist
Christina Commons, Port Washington, midfielder, Hofstra
Becky Conto, Sacred Heart, midfielder, Hofstra
Nina Corcoran, Sacred Heart, attack, Penn
Dominique Compito, Syosset, Midfield, Quinnipiac
Sarah Crowley, Harborfields, Virginia
Jessica Dahldorf, Poly Prep, midfield, Northwestern
Nicole Daniggelis, Smithtown East, midfield, Yale
Caroline DeLyra, Bay Shore, midfield, USC
Amanda Desmond, Northport, defender, Iona
Lauren Descalzo, Hauppauge, attack/midfield, Bryant
Catherine Dickinson, Garden City, midfield/attack, Penn
Dene’ Di Martino, Eastport South Manor, midfield, Johns Hopkins
Annie Dodge, Northport, midfield/defender, Siena
Christina Esposito, West Babylon, attak/midfield, Northwestern
Alyssa Ferro, North Babylon, attack, Towson
Christina Fini, Smithtown East, midfield, St. Francis
Alyssa Fleming, Shoreham-Wading River, midfield/defender, Stony Brook
Anjelica Fuccillo, Eastport South Manor, midfield/attack, Fresno State
Jenna Fuchs, Garden City, attack, Fairfield
Kate Gaghan, Farmingdale, defender, Quinnipiac
Allison Gionta, Eastport South Manor, midfield, Marist
Julide Giray, Hauppauge, midfield/defender, Binghamton
Bridget Greene, Harborfields, midfield/attack, Columbia
Teresa Guiliano, Sachem East, attack, Limestone
Meghan Gulmi, Syosset, goalie, Cincinnati
Bridget Greene, Harborfields, midfield/attack, Columbia
Kelsey Hart, North Babylon, defender, Florida
Annie Heagerty, St. Anthony’s, midfield, Georgetown
Jessica Hucke, Hauppauge, defender, Winthrop
Amanda Johansen, North Shore, attack, Southern California
Meghan Kollmeier, Northport, goalie, UMass
Kim Kolodny, Farmingdale, Attack, Rutgers
Victoria Kotowski, Cold Spring Harbor, midfield, Lehigh
Thea Leitman, Cold Spring Harbor, goalie, Iona
Emily Lucas, Island Trees, attack/midfield, Monmouth
Annie Lynch, St. Anthony’s, defender, New Hampshire
Shana Maglio, Garden City, attack, Quinnipiac
Halle Majorana, Manhasset, attack, Maryland
Nicole Markowitz, Baldwin, defender, Monmouth
Mary Kate McCormick, Comsewogue, attack/midfield, Iona
Megan McDonald, Garden City, goalie, Georgetown
Erin McNulty, Sachem North, goalie, Binghamton
Emily Meier, Sayville, midfield, High Point
Darcy Messina, St. Anthony’s, attack, Florida
Alexis Nicolia, St. Anthony, attack, Harvard
Kelsey O’Brien, Massapequa, attack, Navy
Victoria O’Brien, Smithtown East, midfield/defense, St. Francis
Stephanie Peragallo, Hauppauge, defender, Notre Dame
Cassie Perettine, Smithtown West, attack, Connecticut
Stephanie Paloscio, St. Anthony’s, midfield, Princeton
Sarah Plunkett, St. Anthony’s, midfield/defender, Stony Brook
Jordan Jerp Porretto, Ward Melville, defender, Saint Francis University
Maeve Quinn, Sacred Heart, attack, Fairfield
Taylor Ranftle, Hauppauge, attack, Virginia
Colleen Reynolds, Farmingdale, midfield, Fairfield
Diana Rienzo, Hauppauge, attack/midfield, Siena
Christine Rienzo, Hauppauge, attack/midfield, Siena
Ali Rodgers, Baldwin, midfield, Binghamtom
Ashley Ruchalski, Sacred Heart, attack/midfield, Siena College
Elizabeth Rullan, Ward Melville, midfield/defense, Navy
Emma Salter, Sacred Heart, goalie, Marquette
Christine Schreiber, St. Anthony’s, midfield, Rutgers
Kelly Anne Sherlock, Cold Spring Harbor, midfield, Yale
Chelsey Sidaras, Floyd, goalie, Fairfield
Natalie Silvers, King’s Park, attack, Liberty
Maddie Silverman, attack, Harvard
Maddy Sivilli, Elwood-Glenn, midfield, Davidson
Erica Sklar, Friends Academy, midfield, Villanova
Elizabeth Stutzman, Garden City, Siena
Megan Sullivan, Farmingdale, midfield/attack, Stony Brook
Mary Pat Theofield, Northport, attack, UMass
Brittany Tricarico, Comsewogue, midfield, Marist
Kaitlyn Trodden, King’s Park, midfield/defense, Coastal Carolina
Brooke Van Valkenburg, Phillips Andover (Garden City), attack, Dartmouth
Marina Venezia, Mt. Sinai, goalie, Lehigh
Bridget Vilbig, Island Trees, midfield/defense, Ohio State
Jenna Vinci, Hauppauge, attack, Binghamton
Laura Waldron, Massapequa, defense, Iona
Colleen Wright, Huntington, defender, Iona

Class of 2012 (Seniors) NCAA Division II Commitments

Lindsay Cafiero, Bethpage, defender, Dowling
Taylor Hayes, Kellenberg, goalie, Adelphi
Kasey Kephart, Hauppauge, goalie, C.W. Post
Jessica Kravitz, Middle Country, attack, Adelphi
Katie Ventrella, Locust Valley, midfielder/defender, C.W. Post
Caroline Winters, Baldwin, gaolie, Molloy

Thats very impressive. Do you know what club teams they played on?

Some one please clarify this for a ignorant guy (me)... all these girls are "playing lacrosse " at these schools or are they attending these schools?? I noticed 2 goalies from the same high school are committed to play D-1?? there couldn't have been enough playing time for both of them in High school so I will assume that the recruiting looks came from there club team

This is club lacrosse and yes both of our Team Elevate Goalies will be playing college - one of them will be D1 the other will be D11. Both are starting goalies for their respective high schools - Cold Spring Harbor and Baldwin.

I was referencing the list from post #6073... 2 players from the same high school, both goalies, getting scholarships. is this proof that in some instances High School performance is not as important as what you do in the club tournaments. I dont think they both could have played the same number of quality minutes.

Got it. Some coaches in the past have platooned two goalies. Have not seen it on the girl's side in high school, but have definitely seen it on the boys side.

I don't believe high school performance is nearly as important as club season can be. In refernce to post #6073 both goalies, same team, but one definately played more that the other. it was the summer tournaments that made them each stand out to college coaches. yu also have to rememer that the high school season is the same as college so coaches cant always attend games unless the team makes it to counties, lic's, etc.

Two Signings at Richmond

Michaela Aymong, a 5’4 goalkeeper hails from Northport, N.Y. and plays for Northport High School. Aymong was a four-year letter winner and starter for her squad and won the New [lacrosse] Class A championship in 2011. Aymong also was a member of the Suffolk County Class A regular champion team in 2009 and 2010. Amyong was a senior captain and a two-time All-Tournament team selection. Amyong is a 2010 All-County selection and a two-time All Conference selection. In addition to athletics, Aymong was a Suffolk County Exceptional Senior Award winner and a Wendy’s High School Heisman Scholar-Athlete award winner. Aymong played club lacrosse for Long Island Yellow Jackets Elite Club Blue Team.

Catherine McTiernan, a 5’5 attacker from Garden City, N.Y., plays for Garden City High School. McTiernan is a two-year starter was named a 2011 All-Nassau County selection. McTiernan also was a member of the six-straight New [lacrosse] State Class B Champion team, Nassau County champions and Long Island champion team. McTiernan was a scholar athlete in lacrosse. McTiernan played club lacrosse for Long Island Liberty Black Lacrosse.

From T3 Lacrosse (New Jersey), Class of 2012 commitments heading into the final Spring of precollegiate play.

Claire Scarrone - Duke University!
Kelsey Dreyer- University Southern California!
Kelly Osmulski - Umass!
Monica Chamberlin - TCNJ!
Emily Delaney - CW Post!
Addie Elliott - Rutgers!
Chelsea Henderson - Villanova!
Clara Osmontt - High Point!
Courtney Emanuale - St Joes!
Allison Burnett - LaSalle!
Gretchen Fay - Wagner College!
Shea Gegan - Wagner College!
Winnie Caetta - Central Connecticut!
Sarah Houde - Lock Haven!
Kelly Petillo - Bryant!
Nicole Mennona - Wagner College!
Rachel Aitkens - Adelphi!
Alexa Comfort - San Diego State!
Haley Williams - Millersville!
Erica Jacobs - Union!
Emma Harris - Skidmore!
Emma Beecher - Bowdoin!
Erin Scheno - West Chester!
Cat Luick - University of Vermont!
Jaimie Peterson - TNCJ!
Kaitlyn Cunningham - Manhattan College!
Callie Brown - Muhlenberg College!

From the Long Island Wave, the following senior year Class of 2012 commitments :

Kim Kolodny to Rutgers University
Colleen Reynolds to Fairfield University
Katlin Gaghan to Quinnipiac University
Samantha Duranti to Salisbury University
Amelia Taylor to Cortland State
Laura Waldron to Iona College
Allison McClain to Oneonta State
Tara Basile to Geneseo State
Kim Quigley to Molloy College
Kaleigh Craig to Northwestern University

Eggy Plastaras, Kings Park Class of 2012, Midfielder will be attending the University of Southern California (USC) starting in the fall semester. Best wishes and good luck!

You are obviously a suffolk county lax parent, and I'll assume you haven't seen G.C. play. If E.S.M. or Haupauge were better , they would have beaten them in the L.I. champ. game. at some point over the last 6 years, 7 if you count the year G.C. won the Island , but lost the state . No other school even comes close. So no offense , until some team actually beats them , and doesn't just "look strong this year", they are the best team in N.Y. without question, and in my opinion, the best team in the country. Oh by the way I could say the same thing about 2015 (real) blue. And no I am not a Y.J. parent

I know that GC generally just reloads year after year, but they lost a lot to graduation last year. I think St. Anthony's is probably better than they are this year (they were about as even as you could get last year with GC just a little better). Hauppauge will be tough this year and ESM will be fun to watch. Expect another good year from Mt. Sinai and class A is Northport's to lose. With Manhasette going back to C, they should win that in Nassau. And, as usual, Farmingdale will take Class A in Nassau.

Even the best GC teams are not best in the country, there is a high school down near Baltimore that the GC coach won't play against.

So your saying that maybe , some school in Md. , might be better so G.C. will not play against them. I don't believe that at all. I don't see the Md. schools running up here to play either

No one said those teams are better than GC. They are in their class though. You don't just lose 2 players from the USA team and a great goalie and get better. Hauppaugue has everyone back and they are seniors! ESM is better than people think!

ESM was very good last year. DeMartino took coaches by suprise. The better coaches will game plan to take her out of the game this season. They will finish behind Hauppauge and Rocky Point (this season's sleeper!). ESM will also lose when they play Mt. Sinai....

You lost me with Rocky Point! How will they be better than last year?

If ESM plays a team game they can beat any of the teams-which they showed in the playoff game against Hauppague. We will see what the season brings-talk is cheap

DiMartino *

Coaching improved at Rocky Point.... I believe the 2010 SC Champion coach is back....

Plainedge is getting a new coach

That maybe so, but they lost some of their best players and there isn't much coming up from JV.

And since they just graduated their goalie last year they really dont have a good goalie coming up this year. I believe the next in line is a freshman...correct me if im wrong.

GC lost some great talent last year but return 6 starters - Bruno (Princeton), Dickinson (Penn), Fuchs (Fairfield), McTernian (Richmond), Attanasio (Dartmouth) & Schmidt (Hopkins). The starters have championship experience and know how to win in stressful situations. In addition, GC has many non starters that are committed to D1 schools. GC is scheduled to play many challenging games against many talented teams this season (including Maryland power houses). They may not go undefeated but they will make a determined run for their 7th consecutive state championship.

I think both Mt. Sinai and ESM are both very good teams and this year it will come down to who brings their A-Game...

Does suffolk do preseason seeds like nassau or any kind of official preseason ranking system and if so where can they be found.

Until someone beats them they are the team to beat, but I think the road will be much more difficult for them after losing so much from last year.

Mt. Sinai will be very tough but I hear that their top offensive player is out for the school year with an injury that will hurt their chances

I have to admit that that is a very very impressive list.

I am sure that will hurt their team, but Mt. Sinai has other kids who can score as well!

. Nope many weapons

Garden City should be at the top until someone knocks them off.I believe Saint Anthonys will be right there with Garden City.Both teams lost a lot to graduation but SA will return 2 attack going to Florida and Harvard,midfield will return players going to the following schools Georgetown,UNC,Rutgers, Princeton,Jacksonvile,High Point,Their defense will be going to Georgetown ,UNH,American.Their goalie will be attending Brown. I like their chances versus anyone.

I think it will be shoreham . . mt sinai and Esm this year if mt sinai can make it with one of their best players out. With Shoreham back in C.It may be theirs ? Who knows.

Like McDonogh in Maryland, Saint Anthony's is an All-Star team and should have an outstanding year

One big difference is that McDonogh awards scholarships and Saint Anthonys does not.Having said that Garden City is able to put out an all star team as well with one huge obstacle to overcome; you have to live in Garden City to play for Garden City hats off to them 100% town team.

Yes, but they are 100% trained by outside entities like YJ, Liberty, etc etc.

Very good point! It is impressive that any town teams compete with the private schools. When you can recruit and offer scholarships it is a huge advantage! Private scholls should have their own category! No matter how big or small they are!

And they have excellent coaches! Not someone who never even played lacrosse like the girls' high school and middle school coaches in my district.

Connetquot Coaches ??

I believe that it is a TREMENDOUS advantage to have a yellow jackets director coaching a high school team. Most of the best teams have players that have been club trained before ever stepping on a high school field.

Not when the YJ Director tells girls that if they really want to have a shot at varsity, they should come play for the YJ's. Total conflict of interest and it is happening.

If a teacher told a student, "if you really want to get a good grade in my class you need to sign me up as a tutor", they would be fired.

I have posted this before, the schools should not be allowed to put any coach in a position if they have any involvement in anyway to a for profit organization in the same sport. This is for all coaches in all sports. It is a gross conflict of intrest which is abused by many. I have only heard the many stories and conflicts as it pertains to Northport lacrosse, but she is not alone in this. The fix should come down from the top, the state.

Believe me Northport is hardly the only school that has Club coaches or Directors from other programs: Gallagher Head of Liberty: Manhasset HS, her asst coach, Great Neck High School, Lets not forget how many years Blaney (now A.D.) ran Ward Melville overseeing LI Express. Head coach for Connectquot: 91 Lacrosse, East Islip: Top Guns, soon when Shannon Smith comes home a certain high school will be going all out Top Guns..The list grows and grows so stop singling out just one school and program.

I used northport as the example because the discussion was already referencing that situation. The rest of my post cited that this was happening in many schools and many sports and should be banned altogether. Wasn't singling out northport, just continuing the discussion that had started there, which on these lacrosse related discussion boards,is the most obvious example. But its just a bad circumstance anywhere it happens.

It is bound to happen because the best high school programs have the best coaches. The best coaches usually coach club programs. I wish my high school had a club coach or director as a varsity coach as it would only make our program stronger.

You are missing the entire point. It is about the politics and bad situation kids are put into because of this ciircumstance (if they are not onboard with the school coaches affiliation). I do agree it can tend to make the school program stronger, it is a sad situation for anyone who would rather play for any other club though.

If an adult coach/director can't let a girl play for a club other then the one she is affiliated with , without fear of being benched on her high school team, than that coach isn't fit to do help mold and develop young ladies. In that case I would have to agree with the posters that say that coach should be replaced no matter how successful he/she has been in the past. If Carol Rose conducts her public school team like that than sham on her, what a bully she is.

Let's see what happens at manhasset HS with Danielle. There are a few talented kids who play for YJ. we will see what she does

Every single YJ director coaches at a HS or college. Our team has one and she does not make players play for YJ. The people that have joined YJ see the skills that the YJ players have and realize that if they want to play in college they need to step up their game. Most of the complainers think that their kids are better than they really are.

It sounds like everyone contributing to this discussion is not involved in that northport/yj situation. My daughter is not. There are many girls who are though and I'm sure the parents are fully supportive of this combination as it has them on two strong teams. But this is about the girls and parents who would like to choose a different travel club and the position they are put in. Without moving, your stuck with the school team in whatever district you live in. The nice thing about travel is that you should be able to choose whatever team you want to play for, without this sort of concerns.

Let BOTC offer a counter-point on the overlap discussion between club and scholastic lacrosse coaches. On the soccer side with Back of the Net, the Fall season is filled with complaints about High School programs where the head coaches "do not know the beautiful game" and who should be replaced with "quality coaches" that are part of the club scene. There are still the same accusations of favortism and talent being improperly evaluated that you see discussed here on Back of the Cage.

Lacrosse has an "advantage" as the named and more-knowledgable club coaches are already in place with many scholastic teams. That does draw the ire from readers of favoritism based on club affiliations, but you have to conclude that there is less uninformed decision making being made in Varsity Lacrosse with these named coaches than just about any other school sport on the whole.

Danielle has coached at Manhasset since '06. If there are girls still playing for Y.J's it doesn't sound like there being faced with this problem.

Carol Rose has had plenty of girls start and play for her that did not play YJ's!! State the kid involved! If you can't do that keep your comments to yourself!!!!! Don't tarnish someones reputation without specifics and proof! It is unfair and cowardly!!

Did you read this post?

that is BS, all Northport kids play YJ or else, and none would ever think of playing on a rival club or they would be kicked out of the school district

libertydad seems to have an issue with the YJ overall, from coaches to how the organization is run. Hmmm I wonder why?

How could you say that about me. I have said that Carol has helped a lot of girls get to college, that she has put together some of the best teams , and that she is a super judge of talent. i have also defended her against some unruly parents from other clubs. You can go back and check the posts. Now I ask any of you Jacket parents, have any of you ever said anything nice or positive about Danielle , or Liberty. But if carol , or any coach ,is threatening players to play for a affiliated club, the should be ashamed of there actions , and replaced as coach of a public High School team.

Material replayed from the Yellow Jackets Discussion thread.


Absolutely true, but this year will be a big test for them. They are good but they will not be as dominant as they were in the past. It won't be easy replacing those kids who graduated. No question they are considered the best until someone knocks them off. St.A's will be tough this year.

Get ready to eat some humble pie when GC goes to MD. Taylor Cummings and her teamates will eat you alive if you are unfortunate enough to face them.

If your going to post about L.I. lax do some homework . G.C. has won 6 straight n.y. titles against a lot more teams . with much better talent in a state 3 times bigger than yours . And like the other poster said they dont go fishing for talent like your better teams do . These girls are all home grown , not hired guns, and your still going to lost to them. all yoiur money cant buy you a win against these girls

Do you really want people to feel bad for the poor Garden City girls .You mention MD can't buy a win,are you aware that Garden City has one of the higher per capita income levels in the north east. This is 2012 and although the season hasn't started you are living in the past GC will be lucky to be within 5 goals of McDonogh. While your girls play together from the time they are in elementary school our girls have only their high school years to play together. See you in MD. Watch out for the speed cameras!

As the parent of Garden City multi-year varsity starter, I can attest to the returning talent to this year’s team and they should make a solid run for another State Championship. With that said, we lost incredible talent last year and it very difficult to replace greatness. If we played the "U" last year it would have been a remarkable display of talent (both teams) and a great game. This year, GC will be challenged to go undefeated against the top private schools... it will be interesting to see how deep thy can dig. As for the banter of who is better than who, I wish it would end... a little humility goes a long way.

Come on are you seriously saying that public schools have some sort of advantage over private schools who can recruit. I am sure many of the girls from McDonogh play together for years with M and D or some other club. Any good coach can take the talent any day! It's a joke that these private schools don't destroy the public schools (that includes St. Anthony's). They really should be in their own category. If they don't beat the public schools they should be embarrassed!

I thin the point is that McDonogh can go and recruit better players from any school any where , where as Garden City can only play players from Garden City. Therefore McDonogh would have a huge advantage over most Long Island teams . To say that Garden City cant get within 5 goals is silly , until they play they are probably the 2 best in the country, I give the edge to Garden City

Just to add more twists for arguments sake, how would these schools fair against the top tournament teams?

In my opinion, If you take the G.C. girls off of the L.I. clubs (and lets be honest, were talking about the Y.J.) I dont think the clubs do well. Put the G.C. girls back in the clubs and play them against McDonogh, and i think it gets very close

Rather high opinion of yourselves. But that is the point, A YJ team is stronger than GC school team, and McDonogh is basically the same as a elite club team in that they draw girls from all different towns to make up a roster, big advantage. And honestly, your right YJ are to be considered top, but that grip is certainly slipping.

Yes, each year is different because kids graduate every year. SO it is hard to say GC is the best "school team" in the country. Since they lost so many players you cant compare this year to last. And the final rankings last year they still were not # 1. Dont assign accolades to this years team based on past performance since this is only a school team.

MAXPREPS XCELLENT 20 NATIONAL GIRLS LACROSSE RANKINGS had Garden City ranked #1 in 2011

Must have been a mistake

It depends on which YJ team. On some YJ teams, the GC girls are the weakest on the roster. Town lacrosse leagues have now been around long enough where GC is not the only town with kids who can really play by 4th grade. GC and some others had a big edge, but that has now faded.

No mistake

http://www.maxpreps.com/news/N32Jm5...-20-national-girls-lacrosse-rankings.htm

Do you really believe that St. Anthony's recruits? How do you recruit when there is a tuition payment in excess of 8,000 to attend and there are no athletic scholarships for lacrosse. Some people take a 2nd job just to send their kids ,I'm one of them mine just graduated and it was worth every dime. It may not be for everyone but for my daughter it certainly was.

St. Anthony's is self selecting. The kids/parents know it is known for top athletics, so the top athletes apply/ attend. Chaminade is the same self-selecting, except it is for academics the top kids sit for the exam, they take the top applicants. It isn't that these schools make them into top athletes/scholars. They come in at that level already.

Sheesh my kid went public and got academic scholarship to a D1 school and was a walk on for sport. Grades/SAT scores will be what get you the opportunity. Didn't cost me a dime for high school.

didnt cost you a dime?, what are you living, tax free over there..must be some HS..

Does St.Anthony's, Chaminade etc. offer academic financial assistance?

Who are the players that will make a difference this year on the various teams?

Yes they offer academic financial assistance which just happens to go to some of the more athletically gifted applicants.

How would they know if the student is athletically gifted?

Assistance is available on a financial need basis no other assistance is available.

It is a matter of who's n"needs" you're talking about.

For instance, St Anthony's really "needs" that kid to play well against Chaminade this year, so let's give him some money!

I follow a girls' HS basketball website and there are always discussions about the various parochial schools recruiting and offering all sorts of perks. So yeah, maybe St. A's and the others don't offer scholarships on paper, just like a D3 college, they can, and do, work with you in other ways. It's naive to believe otherwise.

Not that hard to find out ,take lax for example ,the coach goes to a travel lax tournament see's a very talented 7-8 grade player from some team and speaks to the parents about the virtues of St. Anthony education, Happens all the time.

Inside Lacrosse Top 20 preseason high school rankings... LI has 4 teams in the top 20

http://insidelacrosse.com/ilwomen/news/2012/02/22/ilwomencom-2012-preseason-high-school-rankings

Wouldn't a tremendous pre-season event include the four top Maryland teams (McDonough, Bryn Mawr, Good Counsel, and Marriotts Ridge) facing off against the Long Island powerhouses (St. Anthony's, Garden City, Northport, and Farmingdale)? Each team plays a mini-game against the four out-of-state sides with the best record from the Maryland group and best record from the New [lacrosse] group fighting it out in a Championship match for preseason "hot bed" bragging rights?

I know Farmingdale has a great tradition,great coaching and was a great team recently,but there is no way they are a top 4 team this year. They just lost too much talent.

Can anybody tell me how many regular season games a Girls Section 8 team is allowed to play.

Answer : 16.

Source : New [lacrosse] State Public High School Athletic Association - Standards

can anyone tell me how the playoffs will work this year in nassau

What is a girl's varsity lacrosse coach looking for in a tryout in those players, speed, stick skills, agressiveness, field savy,just what sets a player apart?

Some of our readers might be aware that St. Paul's (Maryland) will be hosting an eight team New [lacrosse] and Maryland High School Girls Lacrosse Challenge on April 21st/22nd, 2012. Four top ranked teams from each state will face-off during the weekend's action.

The playoffs start with the classifications of each school. In Section VIII (Nassau), the classes are set as follows :

Class A (16 Teams) : Baldwin, East Meadow, Farmingdale, Freeport, Mepstead, Herricks, Hicksville, Kennedy-Bellmore, Logn Beach, MacArthur, Massapequa, Oceanside, Plainview JFK, Port Washington, Syosset, Valley Stream

Class B (23 Teams) : Bethpage, Calhoun, Carey, Clarke, Elmont, Garden City, Glen Cove, Great Neck North, Great Neck South, Hewlett, Jericho, Levittown-Division, Lynbrook, Malverne/East Rockaway, Manhasset, Mepham, New Hyde Park, Plainedge, Roslyn, Sewanhaka, South Side, Wantagh, West Hempstead

Class C (10 Teams) : Carle Place, Cold Spring Harbor, Floral Park, Friends Academy, Island Trees, Locust Valley, Mineola, North Shore, Seaford, Wheatley School

In Section XI (Suffolk County), the Class settings are as follows for Spring 2012.

Class A (22 Teams) : Bay Shore, Brentwood, Commack, Connetquot, East Islip, HHHills, Lindenhurst, Longwood, Middle Country, North Babylon, Northport, Patchogue-Medford, Riverhead, Sachem East, Sachem North, Smithtown East, Smithtwon West, Walt Whitman Ward Melville, West Babylon, West Islip, William Floyd

Class B (16 Teams) : Bellport, Comsewogue, Copiague, Deer Park, East Hampton, Eastport-South Manor, Harborfields, Hauppauge, Huntington, Islip, Kings Park, Mattituck/Greenport, Miller Place, Rocky Point, Sayville, Shoreham-Wading River

Class C (6 Teams) : Babylon, Bayport-Blue Point, Center Moriches, Elwood-John Glenn, Mount Sinai, Westhampton Beach

In Section XI (Suffolk), the top class is forecasting twelve seeds with the top four getting first round byes. Playoff action starts on Friday, May 18th, 2012.

In the second division, eight teams are forecast making the post season with action starting on Saturday, May 19th, 2012.

In the third division, three teams will be named with a semifinal on Tuesday, May 22nd for the second and third seeds.

Already looking forward to the first weekend in June, here are the Long Island Championship match-up details including the States weekend that follows.

Girls' Lacrosse - Jeremy Thode (Coordinator)

6/3 - Long Island Championships at Dowling Sports Complex
Class C: Sec XI vs. Sec VIII, 12 noon
Class B: Sec XI vs. Sec VIII, 2:30 pm
Class A: Sec XI vs. Sec VIII, 5 pm
6/8-9 - NYSPHSAA Championship, SUNY Cortland (Sec III)

The latest information that we have was that Shoreham-Wading River was still sized at Class B based on registration numbers.

2012 New [lacrosse] Girls' High School Preview via ESPN

Class A

Baldwinsville (N.Y.) returns two All-Central New [lacrosse] Second Team selections in Claire and Maggie Monnat. The attackers look to help Baldwinsville improve upon its 13-5 season and avenge its two losses to West Genesee last season.

Bay Shore (Bay Shore, N.Y.) returns six starters from last year's team, including USC commit Caroline DeLyra and Under Armour Underclass All-American Kaitlyn Arnold.

Corning (N.Y.) finished at No. 38 in last year's FAB 50 and returns midfielder Haley Lukefahr who represented Upstate New [lacrosse] at the Under Armour Underclassmen games.

Farmingdale (N.Y.) returns six players that have committed to Division I programs. The Dalers only two losses last season were to the New [lacrosse] Class A and B champions (Northport, Garden City) so the Dalers should have a stellar season in store for 2012. The offense should be strong again with the seniors Kim Kolodny (Rutgers), Colleen Reynolds (Fairfield), Megan Sullivan (Stony Brook) and junior Amanda Turturro (Rutgers).

Lakeland-Panas (Shrub Oak, N.Y.) returns eight starters from last year's 16-3-1 team, including Division I commits: Alexa Bonnes (Connecticut), Chyna Hill (Fresno State) along with midfielder Emma Bozek who is committed to North Carolina for field hockey.

Niskayuna (N.Y.) finished 15-5 last season. Three of the Warriors losses were by a combined four goals a stat that could turn around in 2012 with the return of ESPNHS 100 midfielder Kayla Treanor.

Northport (N.Y.) was talented last season, finishing as the No. 8 team in the FAB 50 and winning the Class A state championship. As talented as the Tigers were last year, 2012 could be even better. Led by the No. 1 junior in the nation and the youngest player on the US U-19 team, Cortney Fortunato (Notre Dame), Northport boasts an impressive lineup. Six seniors are committed to Division I programs, including two goalies Michaela Aymong (Richmond) and Meghan Kollmeier (UMass). The goalies have a strong defense in front of them with Amanda Desmond (Iona) and Annie Dodge (Siena).

Ward Melville (East Setauket, N.Y.) finished 11-7 last season, its first winning record in three seasons. 2012 could be a continued improvement with four players committed to Division I programs, including seniors Jordan Porretto (St. Francis) and Elizabeth Rullan (Navy).

West Genesee (Camillus, N.Y.) returns its top five midfielders, top three defenders and two of its top three attackers from last year's 19-1 team. Eight current Wildcats have committed to play college lacrosse, including three ESPNHS 100 players: Emily Tripodi (31), Shelby Milne (52) and Kara Dattellas (55).

Class B

Carthage (Carthage, N.Y.) returns eight starters from last year's 12-7 team. The offense should be strong this season with Adilen Cruz (Belmont Abbey), Alyssa Kidder (Liberty) and Meghan Serota (LeMoyne) returning to the midfield and attack.

Fox Lane (Beford, N.Y.) returns seven starters from last year's 16-1 squad, including North Carolina commit and ESPNHS 100 athlete Sammy Jo Tracy. Three players overall from the Foxes are committed to D-I programs: Kate Burbank (North Carolina), Kailey O'Hagan (Cornell) and Tracy.

Garden City (N.Y.) graduated nine seniors from last season's No. 2 FAB 50 team, but the Trojans will reload in 2012. Nine players are committed to Division I programs, including ESPNHS 100 athletes Alexandra Bruno (Princeton) and Catherine Dickinson (Pennsylvania). The Trojans talent level combine with its schedule that includes St. Anthony's should make the Trojans a favorite to FAB 50 voters in addition to the favorite to repeat as Class B state champions for the seventh straight season. The defense is anchored by Top 50 junior Linda Attanasio.

Hauppauge (N.Y.) returns 10 starters, including eight future Division I players, from a team that finished 19-1 and reached the Class B quarterfinals. Two ESPNHS 100 players lead the Eagle; No. 8 Stephanie Peragallo (Notre Dame) and No. 14 Taylor Ranftle (Virginia).

Manhasset (N.Y.) boasts the No. 3 player in the ESPNHS 100 with the return of attacker Halle Majorana (Maryland). Two of Manhasset's losses last season were to Garden City, so the Indians will likely have another chance at the Trojans if both teams make it to the Section 11 final.

Last year was a year of adjustments for Shoreham-Wading River (Shoreham, N.Y.). The Wildcats moved to Class B last season after dominating Class C during the previous four seasons and also had a new coach on the sideline when Mary Bergmann took over for Bob Vlahakis. 2012 could be a better year with the return of Northwestern commit Meredith Bushell and Ohio State commit Paulina Constant. The juniors should help anchor the midfielder while senior Katie Boden (UMass) leads the attack.

Class C

Lafayette (Lafayette, N.Y.) returns 10 starters, including its starting attack (Cassley Jackowski and Emily Peebles) and goalie (Shannon Knapp) from a team that won its first league title and reached the sectional quarterfinals last season.

CHSAA

Sacred Heart Academy (Hempstead, N.Y.) won 10 of its final 12 games last season with the two losses coming at the hands of St. Anthony's. The Spartans could challenge for the CHSAA title again this season with five seniors heading to play Division I lacrosse. The offense should be strong with attackers Meghan Breen (UMass), Ashley Ruchalski (Siena) and Maeve Quinn (Fairfield) all returning.

St. Anthony's (South Huntington, N.Y.) looks to win its fourth-straight CHSAA championship and with eight starters returning will be the favorite. Twelve players on the Friars squad have committed to play Division I lacrosse, including two ESPNHS 100 selections -- Annie Heagerty (Georgetown) and Darcy Messina (Florida). The junior class is equally talented with two ESPNHS Top 50 juniors -- Maggie Bill (North Carolina) and Jenny Schwalje (Georgetown). The Friars schedule is not entirely set yet, but the team will play in the St. Paul's Play Day weekend where they will play two of the top Maryland teams -- either Bryn Mawr (Baltimore, Md.), Good Counsel (Olney, Md.), McDonogh (Owings Mills, Md.) or St. Paul's (Brooklandville, Md.).

ESPN Games to Watch for the 2012 Season

April 16: Northport at Ward Melville
April 21: St. Anthony's at St. Paul's MD/NY Challenge
April 27: Bay Shore at Northport
April 28: St. Anthony's at Garden City

The Maryland/New [lacrosse] Challenge at St. Paul's (Brooklandville, Md.) on April 21 will affect the FAB 50 as two of the hotbeds go head to head.

The schedule has not yet been published so what the matchups have not been set, but St. Anthony's is expected to take on two of the top teams in Maryland.

Underclassemen To Watch

(Position: athlete, year, high school (State), college commitment)

Attack: Devyn Antolini, Jr., Babylon, Marquette; Kaitlyn Arnold, Jr., Bay Shore; Lindsay Biondi, Jr., Ithaca, Maryland; Erin Cunningham, Jr., Ward Melville, Jacksonville; Michaela Duranti, Jr., St. Anthony's, Towson; Colleen Lovett, Jr., Wantagh, Georgetown; Bairre Reilly, Jr., Locust Valley, Maryland; Marisa Romeo, Jr., Christian Brothers; Kelly Schlansker, Jr., Niskayuna, Michigan

Midfield: Maggie Bill, Jr., St. Anthony's, North Carolina; Kate Burbank, Jr., Fox Lane, North Carolina; Meredith Bushell, Jr., Shoreham-Wading River, Northwestern; Paulina Constant, Jr., Shoreham-Wading River, Ohio State; Kendall D'Amore, Jr., Canandaigua; Cynthia Del Core, Bay Shore, USC; Taylor Fischer, Jr., Comsewogue, UMass; Carolina Fitzgerald, Jr., Mount Siani, Florida; Haley Lukefahr, Jr., Corning East, Virginia Tech; Kailey O'Hagan, Jr., Fox Lane, Cornell; Lexi Peebles, Soph., Lafayette; Dakotah Savitcheff, Jr., Canandaigua, Albany; Jenny Schwalje, Jr., St. Anthony's, Georgetown; Skye Schumacher, Soph., Lafayette;

Defense: Linda Attanasio, Jr., Garden City; Marie Cristoforo, Jr., Garden City, Marquette; Elizabeth Furman, Jr., Garden City, Holy Cross; Marissa Hudgins, Soph., West Genesee; Cassandra Miner, Jr., Lafayette; Lily Schmitt, Jr., Garden City, Johns Hopkins; Jessica Volpe, Jr., Hauppauge, Stony Brook.

Goalie: Shannon Knapp, Jr., Lafayette

Key Starters

(Position: athlete, year, high school (city, state), college commitment)

G: Erin McNulty, Sr., Sachem North (Lake Ronkonkoma, N.Y.), Binghamton
D: Stephanie Peragallo, Sr., Hauppauge (N.Y.), Notre Dame
D: Kelsey Hart, Sr., North Babylon (N.Y.), Florida
D: Mia Capone, Sr., Watertown (N.Y.), Harvard
D: Jordan Porretto, Sr., Ward Melville (East Setauket, N.Y.), St. Francis
M: Kayla Treanor, Sr., Niskayuna (N.Y.), Syracuse
M: Dene' DeMartino, Sr., Eastport-South Manor (Manorville, N.Y.), Johns Hopkins
M: Sammy Jo Tracy, Sr., Fox Lane (Bedford, N.Y.), North Carolina
A: Halle Majorana, Sr., Manhasset (N.Y.), Maryland
A: Alexandra Bruno, Sr., Garden City (N.Y.), Princeton
A: Taylor Ranftle, Sr., Hauppauge (N.Y.), Virginia
A: Cortney Fortunato, Jr., Northport (N.Y.), Notre Dame

They are back in Class C this year

That is interesting if true - there is a funny "squiggle" in this year's class sizings between girls and boys lacrosse.

NYSPHSAA STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS 2011-12 TOURNAMENT FORMAT

5 CLASS SPORTS	Baseball Softball Boys and Girls Soccer Boys and Girls Basketball	AA A B C D	925+ 525-924 305-524 175-304 174-below
	Girls Volleyball	AA A B C D	1040+ 690-1039 436-689 256-435 255-below
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4 CLASS SPORTS	Boys and Girls Cross Country (Revised for 2011-12)	A B C D	911+ 470-910 260-469 259-below
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3 CLASS SPORTS	Field Hockey	A B C	915+ 450-914 449-below
	Boys Lacrosse	A B C	1050+ 650-1049 649-below
	Girls Lacrosse	A B C	1050+ 675-1049 674-below
------------------	------------------------------	--	-----------
2 CLASS SPORTS	Wrestling Boys and Girls Spring Track	I II	600+ 599-below
	Boys Volleyball	A B	1000+ 999-below
------------------	------------------------------	--	-----------
1 CLASS SPORTS	Boys and Girls Tennis Boys and Girls Swimming Girls Gymnastics Boys and Girls Bowling Boys and Girls Winter Track Boys and Girls Golf

The latest information that we have was that Shoreham-Wading River was still sized at Class B based on registration numbers.


And Mt. Sinai says thank god,

I dont think shoreham is in B anymore they should be registered as C

Rather than guessing, BOTC contacted the Shoreham-Wading River district this morning. Given decreased enrollment from last season and the revised breakpoints, the girls Varsity Lacrosse program is a Class C for Spring 2012. Previous reports of remaining a Class B school were in error.

Confirmed - thank you.

How is SW expected to be this year? Will it be close between them and Mt. Sinai?

mt saini cant be happy. last year was a free pass to states

I believe both teams are looking good

Both teams have some great kids. It will be exciting to see what happens and is a great rivalry for girls lacrosse. Good Luck! BTW...thanks BOTC for clearing that SWR class c or b issue up and for your excellent coverage of girls lax!!

mt sinai beat shoreham last year during regular season play 9-8 and have a strong team coming back this year. Shoreham too has strong players coming back it will be interesting to see the match up again. im sure it wont be the only time we get to see them play each other.

division C is ??????????? what do you have to do to go to states ???? beat 2 teams

Yes it is a joke but that is how it is set up

that must be why all those 8th + 9th graders play varsity on that powerhouse program

Look, C schools are, by definition, smaller in student population. That means there's less talent to choose from. Ergo, more room for younger talent.

Right when you have a school with 675 students as opposed to 1500 not as easy to find as many quality players

other than the few middle school students on these teams........WHO Cares. Win and you can play in playoffs...that goes for the "bigger" schools whose parents are upset that their middle schooler isnt playing varsity. Get real. What a bunch of "whiners"

I bet some of those C teams will beat most of the A and B teams!

Please remove Diana Rienzo and Christine Rienzo from your list. They turned down the Siena offer for a variety of reasons.

Manhasset was a "c" school for years, and most "A" schools couldn't beat them so whats your point

Division 1 junior commits from Ward Melville

Maddy Wollmuth- Virginia Tech
Emily Rogers-Healion- University of Pennsylvania
Ally Tilley- University of Conneticut
Deryn Blaney- University of Conneticut
Sam Grillo- Quinnipiac
Erin Cunningham- Jacksonville


and senior commits...

Lizzy Rullan- Navy
Jordan Poretto- St. Francis

Opening Results - Monday, March 19th

Mepham over West Hempstead, 19-7
Long Beach over Seaford, 12-8
Sachem North over Kings Park, 11-9
Locust Valley over Baldwin, 10-8
Island Trees over MacArthur, 17-8
Deer Park over Longwood, 13-3
Plainedge over Mineola, 16-6
Sayville over Lindenhurst, 11-5
Riverhead over Center Moriches, 15-3
Syosset over Carle Place, 15-5
Farmingdale over Wantage, 12-10

Saturday, March 17th Results

East Meadow over Carle Place, 8-7
Cold Spring Harbor over Calhoun, 16-5

Friday, March 16th Results

West Islip over Massapequa, 14-12
Wheatley over Mepham 11-6
New Hyde Park over East Meadow, 12-10
Babylon over Middle Country, 13-12
Westhampton over North Babylon, 20-9
Hewlett over Sewanhaka, 13-5
Clarke over Great Neck North, 13-9

Suffolk's Cinelli Discusses Fewer High School Championships

Story reprinted from Newsday High School Sports, March 18th

Suffolk County's top high school sports official has introduced the idea of eliminating or curtailing state championships because of the high cost of participation.

"We love the state championships, but financially it's a burden," Section XI executive director Ed Cinelli said. "That's the reason we want to discuss this. For the 2011-12 school year, there is not a single state championship on Long Island. We're traveling for everything. There's a huge cost to that. We'd like to bring some events down here."

School districts, which help support Sections VIII and XI -- the governing bodies for sports in Nassau and Suffolk respectively -- through dues, are under tremendous financial pressure, struggling with the fallout from reduced state aid, staff layoffs, escalating pension costs and staying within the mandated 2 percent cap on property tax increases.

Cinelli said it cost Section XI more than $200,000 in travel expenses for the 2010-11 school year to send Suffolk teams or individual athletes to state championships. The New [lacrosse] State Public High Schools Athletic Association reimburses each of the state's 11 sections for some transportation costs for state tournaments, but not for all travel costs.

The remainder of the article is available at Newsday's web site.

Tuesday, March 20th Results

New Hyde Park over Mepham, 14-8
Massapequa over Hicksville, 16-4
Rocky Point defeats West Islip, 14-11
East Hampton edges West Hampton, 14-13

Ward Melville vs Sayville : 6 - 5.

Division A Rocky Point over Division C West Islip, looks klike Rocky Point is the real deal, regardless of division.

supposed to read Division "C" Rocky point over Division "A" West Islip... Sorry

My kids don't play for Rocky, but we play against them later in the season... i'm thinking we might lose....

Look back to posts in early February regarding Rocky Point. They have their old coach back.... They are going to be good...

btw, they are a "B" school

Anyone know the teams who are playing in RP's invitational this weekend????

Maryland has 4 in the top 9.

Bayport-Blue Point is going to the RP invitational. That's all I know.

Wednesday, March 21st Results

Farmingdale over Plainview JFK, 21-2 (16-0 Halftime)
Massapequa over East Islip, 13-11
Pat-Med over Islip, 11-8
Port Washington doubles Oceanside, 14-7
Baldwin over East Meadow, 12-7
South Side over Division, 14-8
Wantagh crushes Lynbrook, 19-2 (14-2 Haltime)
Long Beach overtimes Plainedge, 9-8
Manhasset over Calhoun, 15-1 (10-0 Haltime)
Connetquot doubles Glenn, 20-10
Syosset over MacArthur, 12-5
Garden City over Hewlett, 17-9
Sacred Heart over Cold Spring Harbor, 13-7

Highlights
Farmingdale and Connetquot become the first offenses to hang up 20 goals this season with Wantagh just missing the double-decade mark with 19 goals.

Liz Rourke won the face-off and scored the winning goal unassisted for Long Beach in the second overtime of their match with Plainedge.

Kimberly Kolodny (Farmingdale) - 4 Goals
Kristin Yevoli (Massapequa) - 4 Goals
Kaitlyn Brown (Port Washington) - 6 Goals
Allie Rogers (Baldwin) - 4 Goals
Colleen Lovett (Wantagh) - 4 Goals
Julia Glynn (Manhasset) - 4 Goals
Torrye Zullo (Connetquot) - 4 Goals
Morgan Lannig (Syooset, freshman) - 6 Goals
Alexandra Bruno (Garden City) - 4 Goals

Since Suffolk has not started yet, some news from the east. Attended the Hauppauge/Bay Shore game and Bay Shore girls team looks pretty strong this season. Score was around 8-4 (about) but seemed that the teams were playing nearly full tilt. Anyone else see Bay Shore yet this season in Suffolk?

Is Long Beach supposed to be strong this season?

Thursday, March 22nd Results

Hauppauge over Babylon, 14-4 (10-1 Halftime)
Rocky Point edges Bayport-Blue Point, 7-6
New Hyde Park easily over Herricks, 20-8
Mepham edges Bethpage, 11-10
Glen Cove over Carey, 13-5
Seaford doubles Division, 18-9

Highlights
Alyssa Milano scored three goals and tallied an assist for Rocky Point (2-0) in its Division II opener.

Emma Schait had six goals and two assist and Diana Schait made 13 saves to lead Seaford (1-1).

Jillian Graziano had six goals and five assists, Kristen Lynch had five goals and three assists and junior Laura Rice had a career-high five goals to lead New Hyde Park (2-0) in Conference B-II.

...and yes, BOTC expects an update via Powderfinger from the sidelines of this one :-)

Haha, okay. It was a close game, back and forth the whole time. RP was up by 3 at one point but BBP closed the gap before running out of clock. A couple warnings by the refs to the coaches of both teams, a pretty equal number of yellows on each side, it was an exciting game.

That's about as succinct as I can get. I heard these teams will not be rematched at the round robin thing RP is hosting on Saturday, but I still don't know who else is attending.

Swr

Friday, March 23rd Results

Action takes off across the board as both Section VIII and Section XI games move into full swing on the girls side.

Mount Sinai over Westhampton, 14-9
Malverne/East Rockaway over Hempstead, 14-1
Locust Valley over Carle Place, 19-12
Miller Place over Glenn, 14-12
Ward Melville handles West Islip, 16-6
Sachem North over Whitman, 11-4
Kellenberg over Long Island Lutheran, 17-6
Bay Shore over West Babylon, 15-10 (12-4 Halftime)
Half Hollow Hills over Smithtown East, 13-7
Long Beach over Syosset, 8-5
North Shore over Wheatley, 13-3 (11-1 Halftime)
Northport over East Islip, 9-5
East Hampton seven-fold over Center Moriches, 14-2
Elmont edges West Hempstead, 13-12
ESM over Kings Park, 15-7
South Side over Hewlett, 19-13
Freeport over Valley Stream District, 16-10
Sayville over Islip, 16-1 (11-1 Halftime)
Floral Park over MacArthur, 13-12, Overtime
Seaford over Lynbrook, 19-15

Highlights
Bay Shore opens strongly as some have suggested in preseason reviews.

Page Bonomi opens with five goals to support Northport's new campaign.

Junior Ashley Gomes scored a career-high nine goals to lead Freeport in their Conference V match.

Floral Park's Jeanna Orfanos scored her seventh goal of the game with 1:42 remaining in overtime to win it, 13-12.

Yes I watched them play yesterday. I went to watch my niece play for West Babylon. Classy coach, didn't run score up although at one point it was 11-1 Bay Shore. Very very strong offensively with a number of kids that can play. I don't know who they are since they didn't have rosters or announcing. I will look at Newsday High School Sports for game recap.

Saturday, March 24th Results

New Hyde Park over Great Neck North, 20-8
Behtpage over Great Neck South, 13-4
Roslyn over Jericho, 5-4
Herricks over Sewanhaka, 15-14

Monday, March 26th Results

MacArthur over Plainview JFk, 11-6
Valley Stream District over Elmont, 17-4 (12-2 Halftime)
Bay Shore over Middle Country, 17-8
Seaford over Plainedge, 15-11
West Hempstead overtimes Malverne/East Rockaway, 14-13
Babylon handles Center Moriches, 14-3
Friends over St. Dominics, 19-9
Massapequa over West Babylon, 13-12
St. John the Baptist over Kellenberg, 16-11
Sacred Heart over Suffern, 16-11
Long Island Lutheran over Mary Louis, 20-5
Hewlett over Island Trees, 16-11

Highlights
Bay Shore's win again starts points Suffolk Division I action to top matchups with Northport and others.

Erin Guerrero (four goals) scored the winner with 1:53 remaining in the second overtime for West Hempstead (1-1) in Conference V.

Anyone care to comment on some early season surprises?

How are the top ranked teams doing?

stud at NHP has over 20 goals already

West Islip not doing so well

Suffolk League I
The first surprise so far has to be Bay Shore. Not so much for their wins, but because both of their first two games were over at halftime (12-4, 9-3). Seems that the tank has much more to give and the goals are coming from all over the field. Also in Suffolk, Sachem North, Sachem East, Ward Melville, and Northport are all off to expected starts. West Islip at 1-2 is off slowly, but their win was against Massapequa who many were saying looked great in their 13-12 OT comeback yesterday.

Suffolk League II
Still like Hauppauge from last season along with Sayville and Rocky Point. Remain fearful of Mount Sinai - this was the very young varsity team from last year and returning most of the squad. With only one match against Westhampton done, hard to know where they really stand, but these figure to be the top four across the board.

ESM will certainly be heard from!

best player in Nassau County by far

Pre Season Coaches Poll- some better pick it up!
Conference 1A
1. Farmingdale
2. Massapequa
3. Port Washington
4. Baldwin
5. Syosset
6. MacArthur
7. East Meadow
8. Oceanside
9. Hicksville
10. Plainview/Old Bethpage

Conference 2B
1. Garden City
2. Manhasset
3. Wantagh
4. Plainedge
5. Division
6. Southside
7. Long Beach
8. Lynbrook
9. Calhoun
10. Hewlett

Conference 3B
1. Floral Park
2. Bethpage
3. New Hyde Park
4. Roslyn
5. Glen Cove
6. Sewanahaka
7. Carey
8. Bellmore JFK
9. Herricks
10. Mepham
11. Jericho
12. Great Neck North
13. Great Neck South

Conference 4C
1. North Shore
2. Cold Spring Harbor
3. Locust Valley
4. Seaford
5. Friends Academy
6. Island Trees
7. Mineola
8. Carle Place
9. Clarke
10. Wheatly

Tuesday, March 27th Results

Carey over Wheatley, 8-6
Mount Sinai twenties Glenn, 20-6
Locust Valley over Plainview JFK, 18-4
Shoreham-Wading River over Rocky Point, 10-7
North Shore edges South Side, 18-17
Bellmore JFK edges Sewanhaka, 13-12
St. John the Baptist over Friends, 20-8
Huntington edges Deer Park, 9-8
Islip over Greenport/Southold/Mattituck, 14-11
Floral Park over Great Neck South, 15-7
St. Dominic over St. Francis Prep, 17-7
East Hampton over Bellport, 18-5
Kings Park by two over Miller Place, 11-9
Sayville cross-towns Bayport-Blue Point, 13-5
Hauppauge over Harborfields, 12-7
Bethpage over Great Neck North, 11-7
ESM over Comsewogue, 18-5
Seaford over Oceanside, 13-5

Highlights
Multiple one goal games from the Tuesday slate.

Jenna Orfanos had six goals and two assists to lead Floral Park (3-0) in Conference 2B.

Dene' DiMartino had six goals and seven draw controls for ESM (2-0) in League II.

Freshman Sydney Pirreca scored a career-high seven goals and had an assist and Shayna Pirreca had three goals and four assists to lead Mt. SInai (2-0) in Division II.

Amanda Johansen had six goals and an assist and Tess Korten had three goals and five assists as North Shore (2-0) held on in non-league.

Melissa Esposito scored five goals and two assists, including the goal that put Bellmore JFK (3-1, 2-1) up 13-11 late in the second half in Conference B-III.

Thanks Mom and Dad!

WAY TO GO SWR.....As usual We take win over Rocky Point with less effort from previous years , Looks like the they need to get back to basics..Nice try see ya again soon

I'm just curious as to how are the conferences determined? For example, why are Garden City, Farmingdale and Manhasset not in the same conference? How does it benefit the higher and lower level teams in these conferences to play each other?

Thanks for pitching in mom/dad.

No SWR parent or player would post the previous classless words. Rocky Point played really well and had the lead 4-0 at one point. They will do well this year and it was a hard fought game. SWR was fortunate to come out on top. The ridiculous post was obviously someone stirring the pot!! You know who you are.....childish really.

Yellow Jacket Parent i bet

Yes classless really Rocky Point played a great game we were down 4-0 at one point. Rocky Point looked great and very polished. Obviously someone stirring the pot. Great game Rocky Point! Very well played

Wednesday, March 28th Results

West Islip comes back on Smithtown East, 14-13
Carey over Malverne, 16-11
Half Hollow Hills over Connetquot, 16-7
Garden City trounces Calhoun, 18-1 (13-0 Halftime)
Port Washington doubles MacAethur, 10-5
East Islip over Middle Country, 15-13
Pat-Med over Brentwood, 17-4
Manhasset gets twenty on Long Beach, 20-9
St. Anthony's over Holy Trinity, 17-1 (10-0 Halftime)
Wantagh over South Side, 18-10
Farmingdale pounds Hicksville, 22-4
Plainedge tips Division, 10-9
Longwood over Riverhead, 15-11
West Babylon triples Linderhurst, 18-6
Lynbrook over Island Trees, 14-12, Overtime
Syosset edges Baldwin, 6-5
Roslyn over Mepham, 11-6
Whitman handles Copiague, 18-1 (14-1 Halftime)
Ward Melville over Sachem North, 11-7
Bay Shore over Commack, 17-5

Highlights
Down 10-7 at the half, West Islip rallies with 37 seconds remaining as Lorraine Hodgson scored a goal to give West Islip the win in Suffolk's Division I.

Kyra Harney had five goals and Kaitlin Arnold netted four goals to lead Bay Shore.

With less than eight minutes remaining, Connor Bird scored the deciding goal off an assist from Morgan Lannig to lead Syosset over Baldwin.

Christina Esposito had six goals and two assists to lead West Babylon.

Freshman Lindsey Wolfe had career-high five goals and Bari Spanbock had 19 saves for Roslyn.

Really...Not so much of back to basics..Too bad my daughter got hurt in the middle of the game while we were winning. She will be back next year and we will see about who needs back to basics.

Thursday, March 29th Results

Malverne/East Rockaway over Elmont, 16-9
Comsewogue over Greenport/Southold/Mattituck, 17-6
Herricks in a comeback over Glen Cove, 12-10
Hauppauge easily over East Hampton, 15-4
Seaford over Friends Academy, 19-9
Mount Sinai over Bayport-Blue Point, 14-9
Miller Place handily over Deer Park, 17-4
Valley Stream over Hempstead, 16-5
Carle Place over Wheatley, 16-5
New Hyde Park over Jericho, 15-8
Kings Park over Islip, 15-7
Rocky Point over Babylon, 15-11
Cold Spring Harbor over Mineola, 18-2
Freeport over West Hempstead, 19-4
Huntington over Bellport, 18-5
Glenn over Center Moriches, 18-4
Oceanside over Plainview JFK, 11-3
Sayville over Harborfields, 12-10, Overtime
North Shore over Clarke, 20-9
Eastport-South Manor over Westhampton, 16-4

Highlights

Connie Nielson scored with 0.5 seconds left in the first overtime on a pass from Olivia Russell to give Sayville (4-1, 3-0) a late lead in Division II.

Elena Sparaco and Ashley Gomes each scored six goals to lead Freeport (3-0) in Conference V.

Kristine Loscalzo had four goals and two assists and Amanda Sanchez added four goals for Rocky Point (2-1) in Division II.

Sydney Pirreca had five goals to lift Mt Sinai (3-0) in Division II.

Victoria Morano scored all three of her goals in the second half as Herricks (3-1) outscored Glen Cove (1-1) 7-1 in the second half in Conference B-II. Morano tied the game at 10 and then added the team's 12th goal. Herricks trailed 9-5 at the half, and held on as Kristina Stacom made 14 saves, including four in the last two minutes of the game to preserve the win.

Nikki Roeill had seven goals and one assist to lead Malverne/East Rockaway (2-1) in Conference V.

That or a jealous parent who wants to be somebody in the worse way and just cant earn it legit.. You Belongs on The Rocky Point Drama Club not Girls Lacrosse.
Get a life and put a for sale sign on your house and bring your Drama program somewhere else.....because we all know who you are HATER !
Keep up the great Work Dan

Taken from a Lancaster newspaper.

As the lacrosse season approaches I unfortunately turn my thoughts to the parents of these athletes. It’s not a lot of them, not even the majority, but a very small vocal minority that seem to ruin this wonderful sport each year.

I’ve come to the conclusion that this epidemic may ruin this game. I’ve also concluded that these acts from fully functioning adults are for a few reasons. The first is because they are living vicariously through their children and are helicopter parents (always hovering). Secondly they feel entitled (a word that will be brought up often) because they spent x-amount of money on their kid’s sport. Third, they think their child is better than they actually are. Finally, because it’s an affluent sport and they have some money, or a few letters (MD, PHD) at the end of their names, and think they can dictate playing time, press coverage, etc. because they’re in a profession where they do it 24/7.

In the five years that I have covered this sport I have witnessed a laundry list of actions by parents.

There have been, by my count, four coaches that have been run out by parents. All of these coaches had won MULTIPLE league titles. There’s a coach now that’s been on a parent’s hit list for two years. This parent went as far as to go to the school board and ask for this coach to be removed. Luckily the AD at that school took a stand and stood up for his coach. The aforementioned coaches didn’t have that administrative support.

Because this sport is becoming more popular and seeing its athletes succeed beyond high school more unrealistic expectations occur. Some parents seem to think that because John Smith at this school received a scholarship that their precious perfect child will too. Or because a certain school has a number of Division I players and they believe their child is just as good. THEY’RE NOT. It’s not easy to get a lacrosse scholarship and no lacrosse scholarship is a full ride. If you got your child into this sport to get a scholarship, or have their name in the newspaper, than they’re playing for the wrong reason.

I was told by a well-respected coach, in another sport that has similar problems, that winning and players succeeding is a problem and here’s why: Coaches understand god-given ability and realistic expectations and parents don’t. That’s the difference and that’s a problem. Point being: When you win, players succeed. With success come unrealistic expectations from some parents. That’s where the problem begins. 10 years ago this wasn’t an issue because the sport was in its infancy stage. Everyone just wanted to play for fun. Where did that go?

I have received too many emails to count on how my coverage of the sport is unfair and biased. I’ve received emails calling me names, emails calling for my job and emails saying I’m bad at my job. The writers of those emails are obviously hypocritical because they’re writing because they feel their child has been slighted. They have tunnel vision. They have a horse in the race. I don’t. Who’s objective in all of this? The reporter.

I understand that parents want the best for children. I really do. But there are ways to do that other than making everyone else’s life miserable. If most of these players knew how their parents were acting they’d be embarrassed.

A teenager gains nothing if they’re playing because of their parents pull. They gain more if they earned it. In fact, they gain even more if they don’t start. Life is that way. It’s unfair at times. It doesn’t always reward hard work. It doesn’t entitle anyone to anything. You don’t always get what you want. To forcefully keep your kids from experiencing this early in their lives will almost certainly handicap them in the real world where, more often than not, it doesn’t matter who your parents are.

Unfortunately this isn’t reserved for only lacrosse. It’s a disease spreading to every sport in high school. At a time when scholastic sports are on life support parents should be joining with coaches and the administration and be on the same team. Many aren’t. That’s sad. It’s pathetic. It needs to end.

Again, I don’t believe this is all parents. It’s a minority of them but a very vocal minority. I appreciate most of the parents. I understand the time and financial sacrifices you make and I enjoy speaking with most parents throughout the season.

Those that read this and nod their heads understand the problem. Those that read this and shake their heads ARE the problem.

Saturday, March 31st Results

East Islip over Bayport-Blue Point, 12-9
Port Washington over Baldwin, 10-6
Hicksville over East Meadow, 13-5
Long Beach over Calhoun, 13-4
ESM edges Mount Sinai, 9-8
Garden City crushes Lynbrook, 18-3
North Shore twenties Our Lady of Mercy, 20-11

Friday, March 30th Results

Jericho over Sewanhaka, 13-2
Sachem East over Brentwood, 13-3
West Islip edges HHH, 10-9
Mepham over Carey, 15-10
Division over Bethpage, 16-4
Pat-Med over Sachem North, 8-6
Locust Valley over Island Trees, 22-13
West Babylon over Northport, 11-8
Connetquot over Riverhead, 19-8
Ward Melville over Floyd, 8-5
Lindenhurst over Copiague, 16-2
Glen Cove over Great Neck North, 13-11
Herricks over Bellmore JFK, 15-12
Roslyn over Great Neck South, 14-6
Commack over North Babylon, 17-7
Farmingdale over Oceanside, 13-3
Smithtown East over Longwood, 15-7
St. Anthony's over Manhasset, 17-6

Highlights
Erin Byrnes scored the winning goal that broke a 9-9 tie with 1:52 left in the second half for West Islip (3-2, 2-1) on an assist from Lindsey Darrell in Division I.

Christina Esposito had five goals and Samantha Apuzzo had three goals in the upset over first-ranked Northport for West Babylon (2-1) in Division I.

Annie Heagerty scored six goals to lead St. Anthony's (2-0) in CHSAA. Stephanie Paloscio added three goals and two assists, and Alexis Nicolia scored three. Tori Holland made seven saves in the win.

What's happened to Northport this season?

A loss to North Babylon, Thats gotta hurt. Farmingdale 4-0 with a win over Wantaugh. looks like the lax world righted itself. Northports a 1 trick pony.

It is way too early to worry about Northport's record. They are a very talented team, and when the dust clears they will be at the top of the mix. Bay Shore is always very good and will challenge for county title this season. West Islip looks to be on the downside, but they should rebound as well. Now William Floyd on the other hand has reason to be nervous. Their Goalie is Wonderful, but she can't do it all herself, color them not as good this year. As for teams on the rise Sachem East: it could be argued that they are playing weaker side of Schedule, but win over Floyd was big. Pat Med same as Sachem East, weak schedule so far, Win over Sachem North not as big as it looks.

AW LOVE YOU ALL

That's West Babylon, get your facts straight. Big difference in those 2 teams

Yeah.......not really, but ok my bad

VERY disappointing showing on Saturday. Outplayed a few other schools.

Sachem East (the Trombetta Show) has played what 4 games. they have more wins than all opponents combined. Beating Copiague, Brentwood, Floyd, and Miller Place doesn't mean your doing well, it means you have a weak schedual. Northport losing to West Babylon is huge at any time during the season. losing to an unranked (lax power) opponent at any time is damaging. And really, shouldn't a top team win that game

West Babylon = Topguns

Northport = Yellow Jackets

Did the Topguns just beat the Yellow Jackets ??

you beat 1/2 the yellow jackets , now you need to beat garden city ( the good half )

Last I Checked West Bab's best player ( going to N.W.) plays for the Y.J. Good try though trying to stir it up.

Not sure of the Topguns beat the Yellow Jackets but they did beat Carol Rose which is "just as sweet".

There are club influences on these teams, but that equation does not work. None the less, congrats to W Babylon for a great win.

I did not realize all top gun players were from West Babylon.

Who was that little defender from Longwood? Gave my daughter fits.

Please, you know who has graduated so garden city will fall short. let's hope the colleges are not watching so you can still go to school....

[quote=Anonymous]Taken from a Lancaster newspaper.

If this guy were from LI he would know its ALL the parents, the good ones are the ones who dont come to every game

Now that's funny. Are the school parents banned from posting on the BOTC like the club parents?

Monday, April 2nd Results

St. Dominic over St. Mary's, 10-4
Half Hollow Hills over Floyd, 12-7
Manhasset over Division, 13-2
New Hyde Park over Great Neck South, 15-5
Glenn over Whitman, 13-7
Herricks over Carey, 11-7
Syosset edges Commack, 11-10
Northport over Smithtown West, 19-7 (15-3 Halftime)
Clarke over Bellmore JFK, 18-4 (16-3 Halftime)
Huntington over Greenport/Southold/Mattituck, 22-6
Hicksville over Mineola, 18-12
Mepham over Sewanhaka, 16-10
Plainedge over Oceanside, 9-6
Hewlett over Long Beach, 21-12
Wantagh over West Babylon, 15-13
Floral Park over Bethpage, 12-9

Highlights

Mackenzie Sivilli had two goals and three assists, Monika Sivilli had one goal and four assists, and Maddlyn Sivilli had three goals and one assist to lead Glenn (2-3) in non-league.

Colleen Lovett had four goals and four assists and Tara Basile added four goals to lead Wantagh (3-1) in a non-conference game.

Sam DiSalvo scored eight goals with one assist and Jenni Rogoff added four goals and five assists to lead Hewlett (3-2, 1-2) in Conference B-I.

Jacqueline Kennedy had three goals and Danielle Harrington had four saves in the second half to lead Plainedge (3-2) in non-league.

Junior Alexis Thompson had a career-high seven goals and added four assists and junior Hannah Burnett had six goals and a career-high nine assists to lead Huntington (3-0) in Division II.

Cortney Fortunato had seven goals and two assists to lead Northport (2-1) in Division I.

Glenn beat Whitman not Wantagh

Corrected - thanks for the reminder.

YOU HAVE WON NOTHING YET ITS ONLY MARCH

Starting to sound like the yellow jacket thread now.

THE BEST WEST BAB KID A YELLOW JACKET!! NOT TG

Does everything have to be turned into anti YJ ,the obsession is sad. Just curious as to what do people think when one team is far superior to another on the varsity level, should the better pull it back a little after the game is clearly out of reach or just keep scoring.

you beat 1/2 the yellow jackets , now you need to beat garden city ( the good half )

Are you saying Northport is not any good this year. what about there superstar?

It's yj infighting, not anti yj. The issue layed out was somebody saying the yj girls that play for garden city are stronger than those for northport, then northport striknig back saying they hope no college coaches watch their game or nobody is going to college. Don't spin this onto other clubs, it's your own mess.

"you beat 1/2 the yellow jackets , now you need to beat garden city ( the good half )"
What he is saying is I wish the GC kids would leave the YJ so I am going to try to start trouble betwwen GC and the rest of the YJ because I am so tired of them beating my daughters team

Northport will always field a competitive team but losing 10 seniors will put a dent in any program. Northport is just not the same team and will most likey get back to the power they once were but over time. CF is only 1 player and West Babylon figured out that if you put a good defender on her and force the rest of the team to beat you, you have a good chance. Once this squad get more familiar with each other they will be, once again, queens of the hill.

To answer your question , I believe a team should pull back and at least go goal for goal, with the weaker team. Margin of victory, or goals for has no bearing on the standings. If a team continues to run up the score, I think its disrespectful

so your saying if the G.C. girls go to top guns, top guns become the dominate club

GC YJ are a lot better than Northport YJ. no doubt aboit it.

West Babylon = Topguns

Northport = Yellow Jackets

Did the Topguns just beat the Yellow Jackets ??

I dont know about topguns beating YJ, but WB put a hurting on NorthPort

Thats just an excuse. Every year they say the same thing about G.C. They lost all there seniors and there not going to win this year. But every yeay there they are winning the stat. Before last year Northport hasn't won states in how, long what 10 or more years. Always second best to Farmingdale.

As the sport grows you can find similar or even better athletes
in Suffolk County than bringing the Nassau girls out to Suffolk. All your getting at the younger ages are the Nassau girls who know about the program, not really the best athletes.

"so your saying if the G.C. girls go to top guns, top guns become the dominate club"
So what you are saying is that YJ are the dominate club right now

yes .....No one denies it , you guys are just real obnoxious about it, real low class

If anyone follows girls at the next level, look at the division 1 gators 29-0 beatdown of Fresno state this past week. The bad press they are getting may be the programs undoing, very classless.

That's always been the way UF rolls

Tuesday, April 3rd Results

Roslyn over Great Neck North, 13-7
Westhampton twenties Comsewogue, 20-14
ESM over Rocky Point, 13-9
Ward Melville doubles Yorktown, 14-7
Clarke holds on against Mineola, 16-14
Elmont handily over Hempstead, 13-2
Freeport triples Malverne/East Rockaway, 15-5
Hauppauge over Mount Sinai, 17-7
Babylon over Glenn, 18-7
Shoreham-Wading River over Miller Place, 17-6
Islip over Deer Park, 14-11
Lutheran over Portledge, 19-7

Highlights

Hauppauge was solid today over Mount Sinai as Taylor Ranftle netted seven as Hauppauge remains perfect in Section XI's Division II action.

SWR also remains undefeated with a solid effort over Miller Place in Division II.

ESM is also 5-0 after beating rocky point

WHATS UP ROCKY POINT??

What should section 11 do when player stats are consistently called in incorrectly by certain school representatives?

That happens all the time, across all sports. I have seen players that graduated given stats because the rosters have not been updated! There was a huge discussion about this on another sport's forum and the consensus was that not much is going to change. If your coach isn't interested in keeping accurate stats (or correcting the inaccuracies) then that's the end of that. It does make a lot of people crazy though, and it annoys all of us that want to see who is doing what.

Powder, possibly video proof of the false reporting would make a difference? Especially since some post season awards are based on these false stats.

BUT if you try and help out the coach or correct them you will get the coaches wrath! All anyone wants is for these highly paid coaches to do their job. and calling in the scores correctly is part of their job. If we did, what they did, at a lot of our jobs, we would all be fired!!

Coaches are only partly to blame. Many of the stats are recorded by other students in between texts to their boyfriend/girlfriend. You want your coaches attention during the game on what matters, not stats. Are they paid to watch film and dig out an assist your daughter didn't get credit for? It is an imperfect system that doesn't budjet enough money to pay someone to be soley concerned with stats, except for one, wins and losses.

In the age of video it is easy to see the discrepancy....guess someday (soon) it will come to light. The ones keeping these stats should be truthful (no matter what others direct them to do). You can even see some all to involved folks on the field after games going over the stats and actually having them changed. No worries though because the truth always eventually wins...peace out.

Its not about money or budgets...its about honesty. And its not the coaches.

I think in some cases the coaches honestly don' t have the right stats to begin with. I know in basketball our coach has one of the JV girls or a parent keep the stats. The JV girls can be half-assed and the parent has his own agenda -- his daughter's stats are always okay (or better than okay) but everyone else's are always messed up in a negative way. And I don't think he's deliberately doing that so much as not paying as much attention to anyone else as he does to his daughter.

Even in college they get some student to keep the stats and those too get messed up from time to time, which since they are kept electronically means they will never, ever, be righted.

IMO, a coach can't run the game and keep stats because that's too many balls in the air, but someone reliable SHOULD keep stats.

Yeah not like a parent who has a vested interest in that schools program

US Lacrosse Northeast High School Girls Report
Long Island is well represented

http://laxmagazine.com/high_school/girls/2011-12/news/040412_northeast_region_girls_report

Wednesday, April 4th Results

Half Hollow Hills over North Babylon, 17-5
West Babylon punishes Brentwood, 15-1 (10-0 Halftime)
East Islip twenties Longwood, 20-7
Portledge over Chapin, 12-3
Bay Shore rolls over Smithtown West, 17-4
West Islip over Sachem East, 14-12
Sachem North over Riverhead, 9-6
Floyd edges Smithtown East, 15-14, Overtime
Garden City over Long Beach, 18-3
Ward Melville over Whitman, 17-4
Division edges Calhoun, 7-6
Kellenberg over St. John the Baptist, 14-9
Northport twenties Commack, 22-8
Connetquot over Pat-Med, 15-12
Baldwin over Plainview JFK, 13-5
Floral Park over New Hyde Park, 10-9
Plainedge handles Hewlett, 19-14
Wantagh edges Manhasset, 12-11
Farmingdale crushes East Meadow, 21-3
Massapequa over Port Washington, 18-8

Highlights

Farmingdale goes to 4-0 in Conference I action.

Cassidy Meaney scored the winning goal for Wantagh with 1:06 left in the game on a pass from Colleen Lovett in Conference II-B. Wantagh (4-1, 3-0) trailed 11-10 with 4:05 left, and tied the score with 3:26 to play on a goal from Kaleigh Craig.

Sophomore Rebecca Luca had a career-high seven goals and added two assists to lead Plainedge (2-1) in Conference B-I.

Jocelyn Penteck scored five goals with one assist, including the eventual game-winner with 5:05 left in the game that put Floral Park (6-1, 5-0) ahead 10-8 in Conference B-II.

Junior Courtney Fortunato had a career-high 10 goals and added two assists to lead Northport (3-1) in Division I.

Jenna Rothar scored off a free position with :24 left in the second half to break a 6-6 tie and lead Division (1-3) in Conference B-I. Kim Pepe's goal with 1:29 tied the score at 6.

With 1:39 left in regulation, Fallon Grosso of Floyd scored a goal off a free position shot to force overtime. In the first overtime, Courtney Murphy scored two goals to give Floyd a 14-12 lead going into the second overtime. In the second overtime, Michelle Scannell and Marisa Grennan each scored a goal to tie the game. With 1:44 left, Murphy scored the go-ahead goal and Chelsey Sidaras made a key save with 20 seconds left to lead Floyd (1-3) in Division I. Murphy, a junior, finished with a career-high 10 goals and added an assist.

anyone have a issue with Northport putting up 22 goals on a team who only scored 8??

Should one of the best players around (with nothing to prove, by the way) be in a game long enought to score 10?

19-1 (18 goal difference)
15-1 (14 goal difference)
17-5 (12 goal difference)
17-4 (13 goal difference)
18-3 (15 goal difference)
17-4 (13 goal difference)
21-3 (18 goal difference)

These were the wins put up by Middle Country, West Babylon, Half Hollow Hills, Bay Shore, Garden City, Ward Melville, and Farmingdale on Wednesday. The difference is that while Northport did put up 22 goals, Commack had the ability to move the ball and score posting 8 goals themselves. That 22-8 game was a "closer" event than any of these seven from yesterday.

Certainly, you would think that Garden City and Farmingdale should have "known" better and Bay Shore with their emerging team should learn quickly.

I beleive the "tradition" has always been to stop scoring at 19

more than that was in bad taste.

I guess like everything else times change

she cant be that good if she only put up 2 goals vs East Islip and only one goal against West Babylon. What happened? She got her 7 goals against a team they beat 19 - 7. (15 - 3 at halftime) and 10 goals against a team they beat 22 - 8. (11 - 3 at halftime). Now those are 17 quality goals against 2 teams that have a combined 3 wins. way to go Carol. you show great sportmanship. you are teaching those kids well

I would like to bring in this conversation the competence of varsity coaches. I will admit I do not like how some coaches are aggressive like Carol Ross from Northport. However my hat goes off to her. Her team respects her and watching the player they know what she wants from them on the field. Her girls play very aggressive but seem to play by the rules. I was also watching Bay Shore the other day and those girls are less aggressive but are always after the ball and dominate on ball control.

I do feel sorry for the girls on the Smithtown Team there coach seems to have no control of them and most importantly of her-self. I know this because my daughter plays on the team and the Coach seems to demands respect but doesn’t show it. She goes off on them saying things like she’s better than them and that she the one that has a NCAA Championship. At one point after losing to Walt Whitman she took away a team “T” shirt that we the parents paid for saying that they don’t deserve to wear it. I must admit they did play petty bad that day but is that a reflection on the girls or the Coach?

Does anyone else have these problems????

sound like the coach is very immature and isn't ready to coach at that level yet. what year did she win at the college level, and what team did she play for

I was thinking the same thing. That coach sounds too immature to coach. She's taking the job far too personally.

This is why travel/club lacrosse is so great. On PAL and school teams you are stuck with whatever coach is put in the position. It can be quite a bad situation for some. Travel, you at least have a little bit of choice and some wiggle room, not saying that all travel coaches are good, but at least your not stuck playing for someone like you mentioned. Plus the level of play on the travel teams is way, way beyond the school/ town leauges and this goes for the coaching on a whole as well. My view of school and town ball is it is just extra field time in preparation for the summer tournaments.

My daughter's team has a horrible coach who thinks the more he yells and berates them, the better they will do. There is rarely any positive reinforcement. And the more advanced the player, the worse he treats them. All the girls are so afraid to make any mistakes. And forget it if he knows a girl wants to play in college - every time they make a mistake he'll tell them how colleges don't recruit girls like that or I can't believe you think you can play in college. BTW, the team has a losing record, so i guess his tactics don't work. I'd love to say something to him or write a letter to the athletic director but know he would take it out on my daughter. Thank goodness for the club teams.

Did Commack take their starters off the field? This score is no worse than others listed and since NPT is off to a slow start they may need to play starters more to build some cohesiveness.

Not sure I think she was the coach. It was about 20 years ago.

The difference is that all of those other schools did not have their star player put up 10 goals against a weaker team. It was 11-3 at halftime.

That’s how we are looking at it. I just hope my daughter doesn’t pick any bad habits.

I feel I'm in the same boat can't say anything or they will take out on the kids. It's nice to be Anonymous.

I'm sure its not want people want to see on this thread that is dedicated to school ball, but school ball is pretty much a joke. Now there are a couple programs and coaches worth a $#!+, but way too many are road kill which is obvious by to 20 something to near nothing scores we see. Pretty much all the school teams that are good is because they have a high content of travel players. But hey, they all have to play school ball.

The good news for you is that if your daughter is thinking of going to college to play, This dope will have little effect on her chances. It's all about the club season for recruiting. Can you say what school she is in. Maybe the B.O.T.C. community can come together through all our differences and help you out. I really hate coaches like that

These were the wins put up by Middle Country, West Babylon, Half Hollow Hills, Bay Shore, Garden City, Ward Melville, and Farmingdale on Wednesday. The difference is that while Northport did put up 22 goals, Commack had the ability to move the ball and score posting 8 goals themselves. That 22-8 game was a "closer" event than any of these seven from yesterday.

yeah right , Middle Country, West Babylon, HHH, Bayshore. Garden City, Ward Melville and Farmingdale didn't have anyone put up 10 goals. that is an embarassment and a disgrace.

Its not the kids fault, the coaching staff should be ashamed.

This is not the PAL there is nothing to be ashamed up!

Thursday, April 5th Results

Manhasset in Overtime versus Notre Dame Prep (MD), 10-9
Hew Hyde Park over Valley Stream, 19-7
Sacred Heart edges North Shore, 16-15
South Side over Lynbrook, 16-11

She's trying to produce an all time record breaker. It is okay for a kid to score ten in a close game, but in all out route, classless (on the coaches part).

Let the kid play the whole game not sit the bench because she is too good!

You guys are pathetic, who cares who scores the goals, the question is if running up the score is acceptable or not.My daughters team played a much lesser team this past monday and scored 22 goals. I was told the other program has been varsity for a very short time.My daughter told me the game was out of reach early but they still face guarded the other teams only good player and one of the girls attempted a long range shot with time running out.Even she felt bad, the coach should be embarrassed.

you can play the whole game but how about an assist instead of going to the cage?

I'm sure that there is nothing that Carol Rose would like more than for someone to break al Shannon Smith's NYS records, that's who she is

i watched them play Northport and it was a joke. their supposedly best player does not hustle and only played hard when the subs came in.Then she scored. It starts at the middle school level, with a coach on his cell phone the whole practice! thank god for summer ball

In refrence to the prior posts from parents complaining about coaches screaming at the girls thinking it will compel the players to be better, take a look at how the St. Anthonys girls coaches behave. They are stern but not crazy, calm but not soft, and they get big results. I believe 13 of the 14 seniors have collage commitments to play lacrosse.

Great response. Even a parent and a player on the winning team can see this is not right. These blowouts are an opportunity for teams to work on quickstick passing, long range passing around the circle or a million other things. To keep stars going to goal and face gaurding other players once the game is in hand is terrible sportsmanship. Sadly a coaches bad policy has to reflect on players who do not agree with it. Put it on the coach.

Screaming coaches are fine, it all depends how and what they are screaming. Some are screaming play calls and adjustments, some are screaming support and praise, then some are screaming at the players. To scream once in a blue moon on a mistake is one thing, some coaches just scream nasty, negative things directed at the girls all game/practice long. One of my daughters has a coach like this, it is a bad situation for all the kids.

And why should that not be every players goal? Smith is an amazing player and she broke someone se's record. Get a life you bash coach rose and now you want to bash a player who happens to be the top ranked player in the US. She is making a statement after her poor showing from north ports loss. Smith would do the same no doubt about it.

I was the one who wrote about my daughter's terrible coach. My kids have had many coaches throughout the years, both through travel teams & school, never have I seen a coach as bad as this one. This is not constructive screaming, it is nasty and meant to embarrass the players. He has actually said he wants to "[lacrosse] them off" so they play better. So far this has been a losing strategy for him. Good players have actually quit the varsity team because of him. It would be great if he took some inspiration from the many successful coaches around, but I doubt that will happen. The St. Anthony's team is a totally different group of girls than my daughter's team. I'd say maybe only 2 or 3 girls on her team have any desire to play in college and the rest pretty much pick up their sticks only March-May. This is not a knock on the girls, they are nice kids, it's just completely different type of team. What is unfortunate is that some of these girls are pretty athletic and if they had better coaching and positive reinforcement they would probably enjoy the sport more and develop as players.

This is not really about the player, who is quite capable, we get that. It's more a reflection of poor sportsmanship on the coaches part. A player is going to go all out unless told otherwise. She was clearly not told otherwise. So if the coach is looking to pile on the stats, feasting on a weak team is the way to do it. Mission accomplished, doesn't mean the rest of us need to agree with it.

29-0 florida is unsportsmanlike not the Northport score . It's obvious commacks first string was able to score. Why should Northport sub so Commack kids get the stats against their second string. I watched this happen in the smith town west game . Northport subs an entire team to watch smith town starters score 4 in a row. Where is sportsmanship in that? The loosing team needs to throw in the towel and sub first. Hey Shannon smith scored 15 in a high school game against NOBODY but that's ok??

I guess the entire country is unsportsmanlike

04/06 NJ Allentown, NJ 19, Jackson Liberty, NJ 1
04/05
** Bingham (UT) 17, Chaparral, AZ (AZ) 0

CA El Dorado 20, Newport Harbor 7
CO Centaurus 22, Green Mountain 4
FL Park Vista 23, W.T. Dwyer 4
FL Winter Springs 20, Lyman 4
IL New Trier 20, Deerfield, IL 2
MA Duxbury 17, North Quincy 0
MA Masconomet 19, North Reading 4
MA Westford Academy 20, Waltham 9
NJ Howell 20, Manalapan 7
NJ Kinnelon 20, Wayne Hills 6
NJ Lenape 17, Ocean City 2
NJ Moorestown 19, New Egypt 1
NJ Randolph, NJ 18, Warren Hills 8
NJ Red Bank Catholic 19, Neptune 5
NJ Washington Township 17, Haddonfield 4
NY Niskayuna 21, Ballston Spa 2
NY Shaker 19, Burnt Hills-Ballston Lk 2
NY Tappan Zee 20, Valley Central 8
OR Oregon City 18, Riverdale, OR 2
PA Cocalico 22, Lampeter-Strasburg 6
PA Garnet Valley 20, West Chester East 5
PA Kennard-Dale 24, Central [lacrosse] 3
PA Mt. St. Joseph Acad 22, Nazareth Academy SG 1
PA Notre Dame Acad, PA 21, Villa Maria Academy 7
RI Barrington, RI 15, Mt. Hope 1
TN Hutchison School 22, Houston, TN 9
TX Coppell 19, Colleyville Heritage 6
VA Collegiate School 15, Bishop Sullivan 4
VA St. Anne's-Belfield 18, Covenant School 2

Carole, please go back to monitoring the YJ's thread

I would guess all teams do this especially playing non conference games. My D team was assaulted by another team during a non conference game. The parents of the opposing team in the stands were very vocal and really took pleasure in the pounding and not just cheering but abusive. The girls heard it. The opposing coach KNEW my D team was clearly for stat building for her girls. After the game in as much said it.
This was not a YJ or Liberty team.

4/21/2012 Mc Donogh vs. Garden City closest we will ever get to a national girls champion. Lets put our petty differences aside and cheer on our Long Island girls, and hope they show those Maryland girls what real real lacrosse looks like.

No Carol here just parents who know a thing or two about sports and how real competitors think. Go back in your hole and play tiddly winks if you don't want to see athletic girls playing one if the toughest games out there.

I agree it is one of the toughest games out there, But that is all the more reason for GOOD Sportsmanship. The other team is also playing the "Toughest" game. Every other coach pulled the starters at half time, not Northport. The coaches and the ten goal scorer's personal goals are more important than Sportsmanship. It may happen this year some team drops a Twenty on Your team, then what will you post?????.

Does anyone know where tis game will be played

Hahaha, check out basketball and S. Zambrotta. She scored a bazillion points in a game (I forget, maybe 60?) and her teammates, in total, scored in the single digits. THis was against a crap team but she wanted the numbers so the coach let her run them up. That netted her MSG Varsity coverage and Newsday coverage and it was a joke. In the basketball world, it was viewed very negatively, much as many of us see Northport/CR/CF right now.

Some people need to inflate their numbers for their own sense of self-worth.

It is just further proof that, IMO, Carol Rose is nothing but a bully. Since her loss to to a mediocre West Babylon team, She has hung 12 plus goal victories on Smithtown west (1-3) And Commack (2-3). Sounds like someone doesn't know how to win with class. Surprise,surprise, Carol Rose has no class. Its also the reason why she only plays teams from the Island, and all but 1 game in the section, where they have no choice but to play her. all the better teams , McDonogh, St.Anthony's, Notre Dame Prep, Farmingdale, Darrien, Manhasset, will not play her because shes dirty and classless. Last year I happened to have the luck to have a conversation with a bunch of parents from Good Counsel , who Northport played last year, And they told me that she was "screaming like an Idiot, the woman has no class". the assured me that they would never play Northport ever again. She still has to play Ward Melville, Bay Shore, West Islip,and Wantaugh, I hope all 4 teams hang 12 plus goals on her. I also hope the Garden City girls realize that Carol Rose the Yellow Jackets and Northport are the ones reaping the benefits from there skill. Start you own club or play for another and lets watch Carol Rose crumble. "KILL THE BEE"

Someone forget to sign out?

Soo jealous of CR what a shame your the classless looser to write such stupidity!

Coach Rose is doing something right one of the top coaches in the country. Thats why her club and HS team are successful. Just because she is a WINNER you feel the need to make FALSE statements to bring her down. She is not a bully, dirty or classless but to the contrary a Class Act!! Oh and by the way she is NO SCREAMING IDIOT. The only idiot is YOU for writing a tasteless, disgusting comments on this board. Best of Luck to the Tigers.


Coaching Career Wins
Total Detail
582 Kathy Jenkins, St. Stephen's & St. Agnes
574 Phyllis Kilgour, Radnor (Radnor, Pa.)
404 Rick Mazzei, Maiden Catholic/Beverly (Mass.),
333 Mary Blake, St. Anne's Belfield (Charlottesville, Va.)
327 Sharon Sarsen, Lakeland-Panas (Shrub Oak, N.Y.)
316 Carol Rainson-Rose, Northport (Northport, N.Y.)
315 Joseph Tornetta, Great Valley (Glen Mills, Pa.)
307 Chris Molonea, Wellesley (Wellesley, Mass.), 1982-
303 Doug Rowe, Baldwinsville (Baldwinsville, N.Y.)
302 Courtney Vaughn, Winters Mill (Westminster, Md.)
298 Lisa Lindley, Darien (Ct.), 1994-Present
251 Ginger Kincaid, Glenelg (Glenelg, Md.)
242 Bob Elmer, West Genesee (Camillus, N.Y.)
241 Paul Kesmodel, Cape Henlopen (Lewes, Del.)
236 Phil Luckette, Jamesville-DeWitt (DeWitt, N.Y.)
236 Chris Robinson, Mount Hebron/McDonogh (Md.), 1996 -
234 Jay Watts, Westminster (Atlanta, Ga.), 1999-Present
229 Dee Wilkinson, Lafayette (St. Joseph, Mo.)
214 Lisa Parsons, Loomis Chaffee (Windsor, Conn.), 1994-
213 Wendy Pinta, Upper Arlington (Upper Arlington, Ohio)

GO TIGERS

Kollmeier, MeaghanNorthport Goalie Massachusetts
Theofield, Mary Northport Attack Massachusetts
Aymong, MichaelaNorthport Goalie Richmond
Dodge, Annie Northport MidDef Siena
Bonomi, Paige Northport Midfield/Attack USC
Desmond, Amanda Northport Defense Iona
Cook, Randal Northport Defense Oneonta
Cook, Meagan Northport Defense Geneseo
Fortunato, CourtneyNorthport MidfieldNotre Dame
Gubitosi, BrookeNorthport MidfieldStony Brook
Breitfeller, AliNorthportAttack Michigan
Columbus, Emily Northport Attack/MiBryant
Ali Pavinelli Northport MidfieldFlorida

By the way was at the Good Counsel game parents kids and coaches all got along and pics taken after the game together. Your source is not correct. The team did not travel this year because they have budget constraints not because of lack of invitations or poor behavior. Nice try Though!!

Wins are nice championships are better

since 1995 state champions from L.I.

Manhasset - 1 class B 2003
Shoreham-Wading River - 4 class C 2007,8,9,10
Farmingdale - 2 Class A 2009,10
Garden City - 12 class B 1995,7,9 2000,01,02,06,07,08,09,10,11
Northport - 1 Class A 2011

Looks like Carol Rose built her reputation off of Garden City's hard work. I'll give it to her though she was smart to start the first travel program and take all the G.C. girls to make herself look good. As far as Northport goes besides Ward Melville (who almost all ways beat them) who does she play Copauge, Brentwood, The Sachems, longwood, please she made a living off of beating weak teams. Nice try though.

Read the post that someone posted- good teams will play well regardless of their competition. If my team was upped by 20 so be it

That's a joke I watch her train all the GC kids when there young and that's why GC is good. Oh and by the way newsday has NPT winning 17 championships since 1995.

Powder finger just jealous cause your kid is not that good and neither is her team so quit hating the better kids.

I am not a hater, but in high school girls lax you should not leave your starters in the second half with a huge lead. I am not questioning her coaching abilities, but she should take her foot off the gas pedal with a huge lead "Period". I know you Northport parents think someones individual scoring records mean more than showing sportsmanship to the other team, but in my and a great many other parents humble opinions it does not.

Maybe it is time the "Coach" takes her talents to the college level since others from Northport have citied so many lopsided college scores when defending their coach.

Best of luck to all teams the rest of the season, there are a few schools that may be poised to take the crown this season.

I have to agree, CR has no class, she might have lots of wins, but they are classless wins. poor poor sportmanship and a very sore loser . and she is a screaming idiot. i dont know what the guy is watching, he must be mr. cr.

you know what it is, not one northport kid has any state or LI scoring record. thanks to that kid from WB. CR wants a scoring record, thats why she has kids scoring goals in blowouts, where they shouldnt be in the game. shame on you CR.

she tried but didn't get the job.

29-0 florida is unsportsmanlike not the Northport score . It's obvious commacks first string was able to score. Why should Northport sub so Commack kids get the stats against their second string. I watched this happen in the smith town west game . Northport subs an entire team to watch smith town starters score 4 in a row. Where is sportsmanship in that? The loosing team needs to throw in the towel and sub first. Hey Shannon smith scored 15 in a high school game against NOBODY but that's ok??

this comment is from a northport parent, someone with no clue

4/21/2012 Mc Donogh vs. Garden City closest we will ever get to a national girls champion. Lets put our petty differences aside and cheer on our Long Island girls, and hope they show those Maryland girls what real real lacrosse looks like.

do you think CR will be at this game??? jealousy.. Northport would should lose to these teams by 20. do you think GC would do that? nah probably pull back at half while score is 12 2

Classic riddle. Which came first?
You got some YJ parent giving all the credit of the garden city girls to CR, other parents calling the GC girls the better half of the YJ teams. Who even cares who are better or why. The real issue trying to be discussed here is where does a team take the foot off the pedal in a blowout. I personally like the 6 to 8 goal lead then match a team goal for goal, if you get to 20 and go over, so be it, at least it has the other team on the board in double digits. As far as someone mentioning CR going to college where this kind of behavior is accepted, think again. Look at this Florida win over Fresno, the firestorm surrounding this game makes the northport runup look like nothing. So there really is no place for this kind of poor sportsmanship.

I know Powder and her daughter , and she is very good. At least powder is teaching her daughter to stand up and face her protractors, where as you kid has been taught to hide in the shadows and throw out nasty statements about children. Now I know that, in true Yellow Jacket/ Northport fashion your going to start hurling nasty statement about my daughter and I , so just let me say this , Not only has my daughter been playing varsity lacrosse since she was a freshman at a very good lacrosse school, But yes she has been playing on a Liberty Black team where you cant just simply buy your way into the pinnie, and then brag about how she is a part of that team.

McDonogh, Notre Dame Prep,& St.Pauls, are playing on long island this year, no travel required , Garden City, Farmingdale, Manhasset, Massapiqua, Shorem, ESM Happauge, St. Anthony, & Sacred Hart are all on long island, and your playing The Sachems, Middle Country, & William Floyd. I guess Carol Wants to add to that impressive winning record .And of course Good Counsal Took pics With Carol, they have class.

Rolling my eyes at this response. Whatever, dude.

Well if you look at Newsday's leading scoring list, other HS programs are racking up the points and pounding their opponents. Point fingers at the other HS coaches.

Northport doesn't even have one girl on the top 25 list.

No subs made in Hauppauge blowout with there leading scorer getting 7+. Starters in for Stonybrook getting 10 points. Really that commack score wasn't even bad this is ridiculous.

They only play them because they have to!! Suffolk schools onlyhaste 2 non league games allowed.

I believe the word you are looking for is "detractors" not protractors. Liberty dad, you are always good for a laugh!!

I don't know anything about about how many Shannon scored against a high school team, but I sure hope she scores 20 against Florida, 29-0 at any level is , at least , un-sportsman like. I saw someone said 6-8, well i have seen teams come back from that, so that might be too few, I think at 10 , if you can, go goal for goal, and put 2nd stringers in, If they come back a little split the 2nd and 1st stringers. Every coach is different but to score 29 against Fresno is in poor taste. Florida better watch out because they put a target on there back with the big schools still on the schedule

Not a north port parent- I'm in your division

Nice try coach rose never applied for a college job- go back and find another story to make up

So a kid that runs track should slow down so her competitors can almost catch up and then start to run faster again? Heck no she is going to run her little *** of to break a record!

You are confusing an individual sport with team sports. And as a track parent, I can tell you that there aren't too many PRs when competing against a much weaker opponent. (PR - personal record)

IMHO, if there is a huge discrepancy in scores then that's when the non-starters should get their chance to play and hopefully step up and shine. It's a golden opportunity to develop the bench and boost morale overall. Give the non-starters some game time and let the starters take their turn on the bench, cheering for the team. And FTR, in my perfect world, that would go for both teams, the winner and the loser. If it's not a close game, clear the bench and you can always sub in your starters if it becomes a close game.

I have a kid playing in college, and let me assure you that college coaches are not going to be impressed by big numbers against weak opponents. Is it impressive winning a bracket in a tournament while you're in the weakest bracket? Not so much.

I don't believe it either. Why on earth would she take a college job when she makes far more money than she could doing that with her club, tournaments, camps, training, recruiting, etc.......... she is the head of a gigantic money making racket, college coaching would be a step backwards.

I don't think thats the best analogy

he might be good for a laugh but he's also not wrong. You just did exactly what he said you would do. I don't know if you keep up with tech, but auto correct is a [lacrosse]. Now you can correct this to professor

O.k. so with that said why only 1 non league game , come on Take William Floyd, or one of the Sachems off, and play someone good. Oh and by the way be careful with your english usage, the Carol Rose english professor is watching, But your probably safe because like him your a Carol Rose flunkie

What's your problem section 11 mandates they have to play those teams. CR has NO choice. Cant answer why there is only 1 non league, but their Division schedule is not flexible. You obviously are CLUELESS.

So let's talk about something worthwhile. Why did Manhasset coach bench star featured player and take loss to Wantagh?

Ugh oh here comes Libertydad with a pithy response know doubt to tell us what happened??

You guys are pathetic Huntington wins 22-6 with one kis scoring 7 goals but no complaints ,how transparent that your jealousy /hatred of CR does not allow you to even consider the truth.

first off "ugh oh", ....and you correct me? second I have no Idea why. Whatever the reason it belongs between Danielle and Halle

Talking about weaker programs make you classless as well. Not every school district have a great feeder program. The girls of these "weak" teams read this as well.

Your right. Truth is that's bad sporsmanship too, thanks for pointing it out.

Unfortunately there are schools that have "weak" lacrosse programs, and most parents here do not wish to offend. I truly believe that if your daughter is in one of these traditionally "weak" Lacrosse schools it is no reflection on her, but more on the district. I personally know girls from these schools that are very talented players and only lack guidance from a talented coach. The districts and unions are to blame for lesser talented coaches being given coaching jobs because of seniority, and because its an easy way for them to make extra money. IMO this is robbing the kids from all sports the opportunity to excel and thrive in a sport that they love. Unfortunately, politics play a large role in High School athletics.

Well if you look at Newsday's leading scoring list, other HS programs are racking up the points and pounding their opponents. Point fingers at the other HS coaches.

Northport doesn't even have one girl on the top 25 list.


because 2 good teams shut them down, they got there points in garbage time, wait until they play bayshore hills west islip ward melville.

They only play them because they have to!! Suffolk schools onlyhaste 2 non league games allowed.

yeah right ,,, look who you chose to play ,,,,

not true she applied for a local college job, you know it all

Nice try coach rose never applied for a college job- go back and find another story to make up ;


she can still make her club money and coach college, she knows northport going down
ask her if she applied for the adelphi job

You guys make fun of him, do you even know what pithy means, because to use it in an insult makes you look like the fool you obviously are. using question marks at the end of a statement shows how uneducated you are. Maybe you Carol Rose drones should shut up?

Yea name the school Liar!! Never applied and if she did they would scoop her up in a hot second. She will never apply until she gets her pension she is no fool. Ya think she wants a 30,000.00 a year job how stupid!!!!!!'

Coaching at its best

Interesting. You seem to "know" a great deal about this situation. How would you know the salary involved? Did ex-head coach Joe Spallina share this information? Did you get an indication of salary from Adelphi's AD?

Do we need to say more?

CArol Rose I think

Unfortunately there are schools that have "weak" lacrosse programs, and most parents here do not wish to offend. I truly believe that if your daughter is in one of these traditionally "weak" Lacrosse schools it is no reflection on her, but more on the district. I personally know girls from these schools that are very talented players and only lack guidance from a talented coach. The districts and unions are to blame for lesser talented coaches being given coaching jobs because of seniority, and because its an easy way for them to make extra money. IMO this is robbing the kids from all sports the opportunity to excel and thrive in a sport that they love. Unfortunately, politics play a large role in High School athletics.


But naming the schools isn't cool at all. Like many of the girls have a choice of where they must attend. And you are right; my daughter does attend a school with a "weaker" program.....thank goodness that she had the guidance to negotiate the recruiting process and landed a good fit in college. Unfortunately; she can and will put up numbers that anywhere else in the country will get her All-State at the least; but won't get any recognition here.

What in the world are you talking about??? Nortport going down? What do you think it is a college where she can recruit to have a strong team every year? Sometimes you need to regroup depending on the kids that graduated and who is coming up. Just shows how you know nothing about lacrosse she was never in contention for the adelphi job- way too busy

I am sure this will not get thru as many posts do not but what the heck is cage sage insinuating , come out and say it . This site has become very lopsided in your presentation so be honest in what you are talking about, your editing things you feel will decrease your readership even if true.

Congratulations to your daughter for the hard work and dedication in achieving her goal, I am sure she is a good girl and deserves all the accolades she does not receive. With that being said, weaker schools are out there, and just like it's not your fault, it's not ours either. To say that West Islip will not crush Brentwood because Bentwood is weak isn't said in a bad way towards the girls. and quite frankly, almost every town has P.A.L. teams and middle school teams. Now at the P.A.L. level you don't have much choice, but in middle school you do have a voice, if you choose not to use that voice and go to the administration and demand better coaches for your girls then you will never get better trained girls for your varsity teams. Have you gone back , after your daughter left middle school to help change the coaches or do you have the "my daughter is done, it's not my problem anymore" attitude, because if you do than its your fault the program is weak. Remember the schools work for us, we don't work for them

Of course she can recruit, How many on school team do not play YJ club. That is all the recruiting she needs. She can practice school ball all year under the YJ banner.And the thought of The coach making only thirty thousand in college is a ridiculas. YJ money could feed an entire country in Africa for years. This is about doing thee right thing at schoolball level. If this was club ball no one would say a thing.

She make more money with less stress and better better benefits at the high school level. Tenure and reputation will allow her to stay as long as she likes.

Also frees up her nights and weekends to keep the YJ money train rolling.

College would be less cash, more time issues and big time conflicts with YJ's.

Since when do parents have a choice in how athletic programs are run? Coaches act as if they are the parents; and if any issues arise, they hide behind the district AD and take it out on the kid.

Honestly.....I'm a football guy and my expertise in lacrosse is limited....so I wouldn't be much help anyway. And yes; politics are the root of the problem. My daughter's program has a culture of accepting losing and EVERYONE(players, parents, and the AD of whom is a football guy as well) has accepted the fact that the team is and will remain poor. Meanwhile; the other girls and parents complain about the lack of All-League, etc and not making Schoolgirls' teams. I'm only ONE voice and the voice that no one wants to hear. I know it not your fault; but to call out schools of being weak isn't classy at all. That's my point. It's about the girls...not parental braggadocio!

"parental braggadocio!".....I love it. Great word for all the blowhards on this thread.

It is bad sportsmanship. But what do you expect when a YJ coach is on the Huntington Staff. Only 4 girls from Huntington scored a goal or even had an assist.

brag·ga·do·ci·o/ˌbragəˈdōSHēˌō/
Noun:
Boastful or arrogant behavior.

If the shoe fits.

There public servants. If you let them bully you than thats on you. All of them Including the A.D. and the Superintendent are paid by you and every other parent in the system. Don't let these people con you.
Now quite frankly we don't live in a traditional football hotspot. I can't understand why, on Long Island, a lacrosse hotbed for decades, any A.D. will spend more money on football than lacrosse.

NO KIDDING! It's like that in my district, too, and our football team pretty much stinks.

As for demanding better coaches, HAHAHA. In my district, any teacher who wants the coaching job gets it before it's offered outside the district. And not once that I know of has any coach been let go, that job is theirs for as long as they want it, regardless of wins/losses, crazy stunts, whatever. It absolutely stinks. We have spoken to our AD about a coach (not lax), laid out all the problems, were told that the AD would look into it. Lather, rinse, repeat. Nothing happens. By junior or senior year, no one will play for this coach, kids quit mid-year, AD knows, coach stays put. So, so frustrating as a player and a parent.

Sachem is worse. You have to kiss the ring of a Elementary Schools principles husband. to get your kid a shot at varsity, and if you do she still has to sit behind there undeserving , not nearly good enough 8th grader. We have a Jr. goalie that is very good, but she either sits or has to play behind a sophomore , that isn't half as good, (but friends with the husband,) because her dad and the afore mentioned husband have a conflict. These People are real low class bullies, guess who they play summer ball for

No program is worse than Longwood.

Does anyone know how bad Hauupauge beat Northport today in that scrimmage? Northport people are real quit about this one. I'm guessing it was bad, lopsided.

Monday, April 9th Results

Kings Park over Greenport/Southold/Mattituck, 18-11
Harborfields comes back over Locust Valley, 13-7
Farmingdale over Penfield, 17-4

Saturday, April 7th Results

St. Anthony's over Chatham, 16-12

I did not know you win scrimmages

ok, let's say there was no winners or losers and no score being kept. Don't want to upset anyone, that would be bad sportsmanship.

brag·ga·do·ci·o/
Noun:
Boastful or arrogant behavior.

If the shoe fits.

I think this means they got handled

No your wishes did not come true!!

I am amazed at the amount of time spent on these boards talking about Carol Rose. Doesn't matter what board it is, she seems to come up. I think too many people are obsessed with this lady. Enough already. I am a parent of a girl who doesn't play for yellow jackets and doesn't play for Northport. She is very happy with where she is, and so are we. My advise to those who don't like Carol Rose. Please stop complaining about her. Go out and cheer on your daughters and the other girls on the field. If you're happy not playing for her, which most people who have something to say about her state, then stop paying so much attention to her.

On the High School front. Most people are correct about the bad coaching at the school level and all, but I don't think that is the only issue. Most girls who play and excel in this sport started out in a youth program. Most of the better school teams have sucessful youth programs and work from there. Although most teams that are good at the school level have successful travel players to build around, their middle level players are pretty good too. This is because of the success of the youth teams. I'm not trying to say the school coaches should get a pass, they shouldn't, but alot of a teams success starts out when they are much younger.

That is very easy for you to say. Is your daughter's HS coach also a YJ coach? If not you don't know what we are dealing with. Most of us are afraid to say anything about the politics because our kids would be blackballed.

You're correct. It is easy for me to say. Obviously your daughter is caught in a tough situation. I'm sorry to hear that. But I'm sure that most of the people that are on here complaining are not in the same horrible situation you are. I apologize if I lumped everyone together. Good Luck.

"I do not have a horse in this race"

But, I am amazed so many people are putting their daughter and families in this situation.

Love the lesson you're teahcing them. If you get bullied keep your mouth shut.

I am not sure that was the same way you dreamed to raise them before they picked up their sticks.

Here is the lesson to be learned that seems to be lost nowadays.
If your child is not getting playing time it quite possibly may be political. You have an opportunity to teach your child to keep quiet and work even harder and possibly for a long time. If the skill level improves and she becomes better than another "politically connected" kid then she should see increased playing time and opportunities. I would think any coach would want to improve their team and misusing resources based on political opinions is foolish and very noticeable. BTW...if she does work hard and improve and the coach STILL does not use her properly then she gained several things. 1-improved skills and confidence in her ability, 2-the ability to excel in club ball or skills camps and finally, 3-the knowledge that she didn't let an immature coach or difficult situation prevent her from improving...ALL GREAT ATTRIBUTES TO HAVE FOR THE REAL WORLD. Keep in mind the alternative approach of complaining, arguing and bad mouthing is heard and emulated by your kids...all of which gets you no where. Just a thought...

That is very easy for you to say. Is your daughter's HS coach also a YJ coach? If not you don't know what we are dealing with. Most of us are afraid to say anything about the politics because our kids would be blackballed."



YJ Parent to CR: "Put my kid on Blue "A" or I am going to Top Guns."

Poof!! Kid moved up. Totally disgraceful, because many parents would not threaten like that and they are the ones who get shafted.

Politics and threats seem to be the words that work at the YJs.

All things the same (or close) the reality is - political or friendly ties will always win out.

A HS coach SHOULD always want to put the best team on the field. But "best" takes on a lot of meaning. In best you never know what weighs more Skill or Attitude.

If you feel your child is not getting the play time they deserve, sit your child down let them know this not only happens in HS on the fields but on the stage for those students in the arts, some students may not get into a college of their choice (academically) only to have their friend and neighbor (who is not as qualified) get in. It happens its life.

But here you do have a voice and never silence it. If you feel you are in the right and confused on the actions, have the player reach out and have an adult conversation with the coach. Have them ask what can be done to see more time on the field. If you feel you need to be present when the conversation happens (bcause it has already gotten to this level) by all means get involved as a witness and mentor to guide your child after the conversation.

But be careful, you may not like what you hear. You may hear a lot more work is involved than you thought. You may have to take of those "Rose colored Glasses".

Sounds like a job for Dr. Richard D. Ginsburg.

Just remember you are asking to take playing time away from another child (potential friend/neighbor) who may question what just happened.

Its not a YJ thing its a life thing. Unfortunately its reality and we have to find our way to navigate through it. Just saying there is a choice here. I have had to make that choice for myself and my kids in the past so it is not just words. There are ways and lessons to be learned handling it both ways. Either join the group and swallow your pride as many do OR work hard enough to make the group realize they may have been wrong. Just saying to pick one. Preferably the second because imagine the feeling she will have when she overcomes the prejudice and excels!! Bashing the system at your school/club...however justified...doesn't get the results you want. The hard work avenue at least gets great results even if the group doesn't accept her. She will have gained something valuable (determination, improved skills, work habits and self respect)in spite of them which is a good byproduct. Hope it helps. BTW...many clubs would love a kid who is a hard worker!

Maybe it is not the fact that you have a yj coach at your school- which school is it? Maybe your daughter is not as good as you think

Tuesday, April 10th Results

Port Washington triples Carle Place, 18-6
Bay Shore crushes West Islip, 18-5
East Islip over HHH, 13-10
Holy Trinity over St. Dominic, 17-14
Lindenhurst over Pat-Med, 8-3
Sachem East triples Whitman, 15-5
Northport handily over Floyd, 17-6
Smithtown East twenties North Babylon, 20-6
Commack over Longwood, 10-6
Wantagh over Plainedge, 19-12
Smithtown West doubles Brentwood, 18-9
Sachem North five-folds Copiague, 15-3
South Side over Kellenberg, 15-11

Highlights

Bay Shore's win over West Islip today stamps them as the real deal heading to the season's midpoint. Caroline deLyra had three goals and four assists, Cynthia DelCore had three goals and two assists, and Carly Cox had one goal and five assists for Bay Shore (5-0) in Division I.

Dorrien Van Dyke had five goals and two assists and Cortney Fortunato had three goals and four assists to lead Northport (4-1) in Division I.

So your saying go ask the person that just shafted your daughter, very politely, why your daughter got shafted. And they say your daughter needs to work harder, your supposed to believe the word of the person that just shafted your daughter. That sounds stupid. They just screwed her and you expect them to say I know your daughter is better, but this girl has better connections then you , sorry.

You people are so clueless, if your kid is not getting playing time it is because the coach does not think she will help them win more then the kid who is playing .It is rare to meet the parent who has a realistic view of their kids ability and most parents are clueless, maybe your kid just is not as good as you think.

I am amazed at the amount of time spent on these boards talking about Carol Rose. Doesn't matter what board it is, she seems to come up. I think too many people are obsessed with this lady. Enough already. I am a parent of a girl who doesn't play for yellow jackets and doesn't play for Northport. She is very happy with where she is, and so are we. My advise to those who don't like Carol Rose. Please stop complaining about her. Go out and cheer on your daughters and the other girls on the field. If you're happy not playing for her, which most people who have something to say about her state, then stop paying so much attention to her.

On the High School front. Most people are correct about the bad coaching at the school level and all, but I don't think that is the only issue. Most girls who play and excel in this sport started out in a youth program. Most of the better school teams have sucessful youth programs and work from there. Although most teams that are good at the school level have successful travel players to build around, their middle level players are pretty good too. This is because of the success of the youth teams. I'm not trying to say the school coaches should get a pass, they shouldn't, but alot of a teams success starts out when they are much younger.



are you sure you don't have anything else to add.. omg, give us a break lady

who ever posted this ;;;;;
I did not know you win scrimmages ;;;;;;;
a real genius and I guess you are right they got handled

except for northport fans, who say they held there own. when someone says they held there own in a scrimmage means
u got the u know what beat out of them;;

I am the mother of a JV boy in Northport and YES Carol Rose is all that and I can say that from a parent's prospective with Carol Rose being my son's gym teacher. She is encouraging, kind and all of the other adjectives that go along with a spectacular teacher. If you have an opportunity to be with her, it will only be to your delight.

You are the one that is clueless. I know for a fact in Sachem East there are 2 goalies, the goalie getting most of the playing time is a "friend of a friend", and not nearly as good as the other. You need proof, look at the game against W.I. , they gave her 4 stops for that game , but in truth if she had 1 , she was lucky, Need more proof look at the 8th grader they have playing, daughter of a principle in the district, She's reckless, dangerous, and immature. She runs up the field without even looking to pass and takes poor, low percentage shots,or runs into double teams and loses possession . Not to mention a poor defender. Far to small and under developed to be running mid-field on a varsity team. Especially when there are older better developed players on the bench. East went up 4 goals early, but as soon as this player showed up, it became a consistent man down on the D end and W.I . took advantage

Leave the kid alone. Go handle situation OR shut up.

My daughter has been on varsity since 9th grade. She has started since 10th grade. She is committed to a D1 program. The politics are the issue. Not my kid or her ability.

That's great for you and your son. A very simple student / teacher relationship that seems straight forward and positive, and you get to see her at her best, far, far removed from the politics of what many people on these threads are venting about. But think about her position as a director of a club and a coach of a school team. She has impacted thousands of parents and players over the years, for the better and for the worse. Many people, like yourself, sing nothing but praises of her, that's great and consider yourself lucky. Many other people can tell you horror stories of dealings with her, consider them unlucky. Like the old saying goes, there are two sides to every story, just because your sons dealings with her in a gym class is all happy puppies, butterflies and roses, this does not translate into the same experience for everybody else.

All I read here are accusations as to how horrible she is.... Not a single person has ever stated anything bad that she has done. All I ever see is how successful she is, how successful her players are and how much she has put into girls lacrosse. This coach is well respected and highly regarded across the country. Not to mention how much money she gives back and how many community sponsored fundraisers she is involved in.

The only horror story is she must have cut your kid!!

Now your the one with rose colored glasses , I have posted , along with others how she has treated new players, girls that don't play for her, and other teams directors and players. that is what makes you a flunky. you refuse to admit that though she might do good by you, She treats others unfairly, and I refuse to believe that because Carol rose tells some girl that she cant play on her blue team that make that girl a dad player, or not as good as blue players,like the rest of the flunkies sayEven Carol can let a good one slip through. Or maybe some really good players don't want to play for her. She is not as good a coach as everyone says she is , If you spend enough time coaching you'll get a lot of wins. So she has spent at least 15 years at Northport and has X amount of wins . It only took her entire tenure as head lacrosse coach to win states last year. so I guess you have another 15 years or so till the next one while Farmingdale does for the next few years. As far as the Jackets go, they win because Garden City is real good, not because of Carol Rose. So I again plead to Garden City start your own club, Carol Rose is using your girls, there going to top colleges because of Garden City, not Carol Rose or the Yellow Jackets

I hope this was not written by an adult. Nice job calling out an eighth grader who plays the best she can and as hard as she can and has nothing to do with politics.The fact that you blame this kid for your loss to WI just shows how completely clueless you are.The fact that you do this anonymously about one of you or your child's teammates shows what a coward you are. It seems to me you are probably just insanely jealous of this kid and her big sister that you feel the need to lash out at them to make you feel better about yourself or your daughter and her lack of playing time and ability.Anyone interested can watch the game as it was on tv and will see the true reason WI won on that day,they were better then you guys. You may want to go thank that 8 th graders big sister because without her that game is not even competitive.

CAN WE RETURN THIS THREAD TO ITS ORIGINAL PURPOSE OF THE GIRLS AND THEIR TEAMS AND LEAVE THE PERSONAL S&*T OUT OF IT...SECTION 11 GIRLS LACROSSE HAS SOME GREAT THINGS TO TALK ABOUT.

Brutally unfair to assess coaching ability based on winning the States tournament. Bob Hartranft at Farmingdale won his first title with the boys last year after 43 years at the helm. Getting to the High School coaching pinnacle even once is a lifetime achievement whether with the Northport Girls or Farmingdale Boys.

Agreed - this thread has dissected the Northport 22-8 game with all the comparisons to other Varsity games, club games, college results, and coaching issues. Getting back on track, this thread is returning to the High School games and their results.

Nothing to do with politics? The only reason she's on varsity is because of her last name. Thats all politics.I never said anything about her sister or her abilities. I will be the first to say she is very good, but you saw that game you know the younger sister doesn't belong on varsity yet. Don't blame me I didn't put her there. Sorry, if you put her out there to get the accolades, then you risk the scorn. There are freshman on J.V. that deserve that spot. you stole it so don't cry now

Once again showing you are clueless ,I do not know the kid and have nothing to do with her being moved up but my guess is you were to gutless to deal to your coach about it.To be honest your team is doing better then most expected so your coach must know what she is doing.The jealousy is too obvious ,let it go the 8 th grade kid plays where she is told to play if you think her parents are the reason then complain to your AD or superintendent .Calling out an 8th grader on line is not the right thing to do.

You still have not said anything other than coach rose treats players bad and doesn't put them on her blue team. You are obviously disgruntled about something . Not everyone can be on the blue team. That is part of life - you make some teams and some you don't. Why are you trying to trash her reputation? Are you a coach with 300 wins? I doubt if. My daughter is on the blue team and not from garden city or northwest. My daughter is a great player because if coach rose. Post some facts and then maybe we will out some belief into your accusations. Until you post some facts I regard your posts as pure propaganda in trying to belittle coach rose. No one needs rose colored glasses to see through your garbage.

You have to be kidding me? Go back to The Yellow Jacket thread and look at past posts. Plenty of people have stated specific examples of Carol Rose's antics, not to mention the blatant threat to this very site. If you just joined us you need to catch up, and if your just a flunky then your too brainwashed to accept the truth. Nobody needs glasses of any sort to see how transparent the Jackets are. Pay and your in. Pay a lot and your on Blue "A". No one ever said only Garden City girls are good, I'm sure your daughter is O.K. Take the G.C. girls from any Y.J. team and there average at best.

No one cares about the personal beef you two have. Stop wasting electricity by filling up this thread. I thought these silly posts would be filtered.
NOW...any scores?

Wednesday, April 11th Results

Oceanside over Mineola, 13-6
Harborfields over Deer Park, 19-9
Locust Valley over Long Beach, 12-9
Miller Place over Center Moriches, 19-2 (13-0 Halftime)

Any word on Bayport-Blue Point today?

You telling me to go to the A.D. , and the Superintendent of a school, tell them that one of there principles is using there influence to elevate one of there children over other children. What do you think these people are going to do? Say I'm sorry Mr. & Mrs So and So, your correct, that principal is abusing there power and we'll correct this situation directly. No, I'll tell you what there going to say, "we'll check with the coach, (that doesn't want to rock the boat) and then blow smoke up your butt, and use there political power to bury the fact that there corrupt. So in response to me calling out an 8th grader I'll say this. I didn't use anyone to get ahead, I didn't step on anyone to get ahead, I didn't bully anyone to get ahead. Sachem did. IF they want to rob my daughter so one of there own can get ahead, then I'm going to use this forum to expose them if I can. Like B.O.T.C. says I have the freedom to tell my story. If you think I'm picking on an 8th grader your wrong . I'm picking on Sachem, and there picking on a bunch of 9th& 10th graders.

OK, Now that you have exposed Sachem and C.T. whats next....nothing. You are attempting to be covert but I guess we all knew already. You should certainly leave the kids out of it however. Put on the big girl undies and handle it like an adult-between adults and go to the school. Enough on this thread.

Not the 2015 blue (real blue) team. Not the 2014 blue (real blue) team either

Not sure if i agree to let it go - this thread is to expose these things. As for saying they are doing better than expected... So. If I am reading this right the parent thinks they would be doing even better with another player.

Are you once again teaching your daughter to be complacent, be satisfied, so what, your not playing your best your still winning??? Not a good lesson, because next is why try, followed by my best isnt good enough.

Never be satisfied until you have done all you can.

Disagree this is a forum to do this.

What is good for one (by playing an 8th grader) is not good for the other (older player) who may derseve it more.

Be real, that is what this forum is used for to expose these things because you cant go to the schools/admins/coaches.

Blow it open here, Blaze the trail anonymously, so it doesnt happen in years to come.

All it takes is All you got!! Pretty sure no successful athlete walks around saying as little as possible is the best for me.

What are you teaching your daughter that you are unwilling to stand up for her and fight .Stop being a coward and do the right thing instead of whining anonymously on this site.Go to the next board meeting step out of the shadows and stand up for your daughter unless deep down inside you realize the coach is actually picking the kids based on talent. If that's the case stop whining.

Wednesday, April 11th Results

Oceanside over Mineola, 13-6
Harborfields over Deer Park, 19-9
Locust Valley over Long Beach, 12-9
Miller Place over Center Moriches, 19-2 (13-0 Halftime)

Additional Results

St. Dominic over Sewanhaka, 22-15
Baldwin over Our Lady of Mercy, 18-12
Babylon over Greenport/Southold/Mattituck, 18-7
Shoreham-Wading River over Bayport-Blue Point, 9-4
Sayville edges Rocky Point, 11-10
Hauppauge over Westhampton, 16-7
Comsewogue triples Bellport, 24-8
Huntington edges Islip, 12-11

Your kidding. 2015blue is the biggest case. Dad coaches, kid plays and CRDieznt care about any other kid at this age. As long as blue wins she is happy. Oh nd it's not cause my kid didn't make it. My kid isn't as good as the girls on blue but does that mean she isn't worth CRs time ans effort?

Lost 9-4 to SWR

Sounds like she already went to the school and they did nothing . so what els can she do but expose it to the public

I cant believe your saying East is "doing better than expected" do you mean you expected them to lose to 4 of the worst teams in suffolk, they have played nobody except W.I. who they lost too

What makes you think that coach rose does not care about any other teams except for the blue. Have you looked at the 2013 verbal list ? My daughter was a gold player her first year and worked her butt off because she wanted to be on the blue team . She puts in a lot of time and effort and it has paid off. As for the 2015 come on you know who is really coaching that team. That team has been undefeated for over 100 games and that is all pm not the dad

How can you even comment about how she feels. You are again so jealous of her. Hope your loosing much sleep conjuring up all the nasty lies you can make up to attack her. Who cares who coaches that team it's optional to be a part of any of the teams. People are part of it because they WANT to be. I know it bothers you but your lies, nasty comments and attacks are not hurting the YJ program in the least. The kids are PROUD to be part of a special program and you can't do anything about it and it's driving you INSANE!! Stop bashing 8th graders too because that kid is awesome!!

This thread for HS lax sucks and has turned into the same CRAP as the YJ site.

Any additional posts discussing club lacrosse exclusively will be deleted. If you want to discuss a particular club program, use the appropriate threads here on the BOTC Main Forum. This thread should be used to discuss High School programs.

I agree. HS Section 11 lax should focus on just that. This forum should not be for personal issues with your individual district because frankly unless you live in that district...WHO CARES!! Go to your board meeting and unload there. Maybe something will be done. I know I cant do anything about it sitting here in my basement in my drawers (sorry for the visual).

Bottom line is if a kid does not deserve to be on Varsity, she should not be on Varsity because you are hurting the kid who belongs there. How can anyone argue this?

everyone can judge for themselves, watch sachem east vs. west islip

No one is arguing that but maybe the 8th grader deserves to be on varsity more then moms little 9th grader. Maybe the 8th grader is better, maybe she works harder,maybe she plays year round, maybe she is just more gifted athletically.It always seems when a child excels at something there are always the people who cannot stand that some kid is excelling faster then there own child.

Calling out a 14 y/o girl and giving her team and jersey # is disgusting regardless of the situation. She is a child and whoever posted it should get theirs. Really now...how about you handle it like an adult. ALSO...BOTC should not allow those posts with detailed info about a child to be posted...just saying.

Would you like someone giving out your address or place of business? Maybe we would feel you don't deserve to live in your neighborhood or maybe we would critique your work performance and publicly post your faults and demand your dismissal. Probably wouldn't appreciate that is my guess.

Anyone care to comment on some surprises and some that might be have a harder time than expected at this point in the season?

BOTC felt that the jersey reference was sufficiently obscure (where could you look up the details) that the player was not identified. Apparently, those close to the discussion felt that too much information was being divulged. Hence, we have decided to remove the jersey reference.

Again, it is perfectly valid for an eighth grader to play High School Varsity sports if chosen by the coach and the player can pass the fairly rigorous physical requirements test. The discussion as to fielding the most competitive team versus having an automatic place on the Varsity team based on your class (senior, junior, and so forth) is a matter of district policy. For those who do not know, these policies absolutely vary between districts within the same county - and occasionally between sports within the same districts.

Maybe, maybe not. You can't discount the role politics plays in these moves though.

My district has a new JV coach who brought her 7th grade daughter up to play with her. We could discuss that load of baloney all day and get nowhere.

2012 POWERADE FAB 50 Girls' Lacrosse Rankings: Week 4
RK (LW)	SCHOOL (1ST PLACE VOTES)	REC	PTS	COMMENT
1 (1)	McDonogh School (5) Owings Mills, MD	5-0	250	The Eagles extended their winning streak to 56 games with two victories last week.
2 (2)	Garden City Garden City, NY	4-0	245	Garden City extended its winning streak to 52 games by beating Long Beach last week.
3 (4)	Bryn Mawr Baltimore, MD	7-0	240	The Mawritans move up one spot after defeating former No. 26 Roland Park last week.
4 (5)	Saint Anthony's South Huntington, NY	4-0	235	The Friars went 2-0 last week, outscoring their opponents, 28-14.
5 (6)	West Genesee Senior Camillus, NY	3-0	230	The Wildcats outscored their opponents, 32-12, last week.
6 (7)	Moorestown Moorestown, NJ	3-0	221	The Quakers have been dominant this season, allowing more than three goals just once through three games.
7 (9)	Farmingdale Farmingdale, NY	4-0	219	Farmingdale downed East Meadow 21-3 last week. Kimberly Kolodny scored five goals and added three assists in the victory.
8 (8)	Georgetown Visitation Washington, DC	7-0	216	Georgetown Visitation improved to 7-0 with a win last week. A meeting on Thursday against No. 12 Loyola Academy kicks off the Tigers' toughest three-game stretch of the season.
9 (10)	Garnet Valley Glen Mills, PA	6-0	214	A 9-5 win over Good Counsel helps move Garnet Valley up one spot this week.
10 (11)	Vero Beach Senior Vero Beach, FL	14-1	203	Vero Beach appears headed for another appearance in the Florida state championship game after two dominating wins last week.
11 (12)	Hauppauge Hauppauge, NY	4-0	196	A 17-7 win over Mount Sinai last week improves Hauppauge's record and moves them up one spot in the rankings..
12 (13)	Loyola Academy Wilmette, IL	6-0	195	The Ramblers get a shot at their first FAB 50 team when they meet No. 8 Georgetown Visitation on Thursday.
13 (27)	Century Sykesville, MD	7-0	181	Century moves up 14 spots this week after defeating former No. 3 Notre Dame Prep and No. 35 South River over the weekend.
14 (16)	Marriotts Ridge Marriottsville, MD	4-0	180	The Mustangs were on Spring Break last week and get back to the field with an April 13 game against Reservoir.
15 (18)	Mendham Mendham, NJ	3-0	178	Mendham knocked off former No. 15 Good Counsel (Md.), 8-7, last week to help it move up three spots.
16 (19)	Ridgewood Ridgewood, NJ	4-0	169	Kelci Smesko scored five goals and dished out an assist in Ridgewood's 10-9 victory over Chatham last week.
17 (14)	Manhasset Public School Manhasset, NY	3-2	168	Kelsey Quackenbush recorded nine saves and Halle Majorana scored the game-winning goal with 20 seconds left in overtime to defeat No. 21 Notre Dame Prep last week.
18 (17)	St. Stephen's & St. Agnes School Alexandria, VA	4-2	166	The Saints defeated Holy Cross 17-1 in their only game last week.
19 (20)	Sacred Heart Academy Hempstead, NY	4-0	161	Becky Conto scored four goals in a 16-15 win over North Shore last week.
20 (21)	Darien Darien, CT	1-0	152	Darien opened its season with a 21-1 victory over Brien McMahon.
21 (3)	Notre Dame Prep Baltimore, MD	4-2	150	The Blazers fall 18 spots this week after dropping two games to FAB 50 teams last week.
22 (22)	Niskayuna Niskayuna, NY	3-0	147	Niskayuna defeated Shenendehowa 9-8 in overtime last week. Its second game of the week was easier, a 21-2 win over Ballston Spa.
23 (25)	Severna Park Severna Park, MD	4-0	137	In its only game of the week, Severna Park defeated Severn, 11-9.
24 (23)	Milton Alpharetta, GA	7-1	126	Lydia Cassada scored five goals and Molly Garrigan scored four to help Milton to a 19-18 win over Archbishop Carroll (Pa.) last week.
25 (28)	St. Paul's School for Girls Brooklandville, MD	4-2	124	St. Paul's went 2-0 last week, helping it move back into the Top 25.

Easy, like this. Put an 8th grader on varsity and give her an edge in playing time over perhahps a more skilled and physical junior or senior. Does it make your team better on this particular day? Maybe not, but maybe the coach is concerned about making the team better three, four, five years down the road. Maybe they see something in the girl and want to spend the time developing her. Not everyone is completely concerned with winning the game in front of their nose, this may make great sense for the long term of the team. I have no knowledge of this particular situation, and it may be completely political, but you asked for a argument on the logic.

The 8th grader is 2nd in points on your team, behind her sister. She must be doing something right. Last time I looked you need to have assists and score goals to win games.

The 8th grader is second in scoring because the words pass and teamwork are not in her vocabulary

Longwood vs Sachem North this afternoon.....a sudden death thriller won by Longwood 18-17......best game seen in years!

I see what you're saying but IME it still takes a skilled player of any age to single-handedly (as stated by you) to score. I've seen a lot of ball hogs get stuffed trying to hotdog it all by themselves.

That said, it is also my experience that when younger players get brought up they are less up to speed on the concept of teamwork as a whole.

There you go again....adult picking on a 14 y/o girl...proud moment for you.

Isn't that why they have J.V. My daughter played against them And The 8th grader didn't make them any better. Isn't that why you play a girl early? because they make your team better

No, its to make the player better. It makes the team better down the road. Happens in many programs all over the country.

Just make sure the kid plans to stay in your district. A few years ago, a coach (not girls and not lax) brought up five 8th graders who started over HS'rs. The coach's stated purpose was that he was "building a dynasty." After their 8th grade year, three of the five went to Catholic HS and one quit that sport to play another.

yeah seems like carol rose is monitoring this thread. All the abuse she took for running up scores and having her superstar score 20 meaningless goals last week . congrats to carol rose for laying down in the 2nd half today and putting a rope on her super star

Thursday, April 12th Results

Floyd over Pat-Med, 12-8
Ward Melville over Smithtown East, 14-5
Bay Shore over Lindenhurst, 17-4 (Halftime : 9-1)
West Babylon over Whitman, 17-4 (Halftime : 12-2)
East Islip over North Babylon, 21-5 (Halftime : 13-3)
Holy Trinity over East Meadow, 16-11
Longwood over Sachem North, 19-18, Overtime
Connetquot over Brentwood, 15-11
Northport over Middle Country, 17-5 (Halftime : 13-1)
North Shore over Wantagh, 14-13
West Islip triples Riverhead, 15-5
Freeport over Herricks, 13-10
Commack over Copiague, 17-0 (Halftime : 11-0)

Highlights

Micaela Dussel scored the winning goal for North Shore (6-1) unassisted with 4:21 left in a non-conference game. Amanda Johansen led North Shore with six goals.

Lindsey Eggers controlled a ground ball and scored unassisted in the sudden death overtime period to win the game for Longwood (2-5, 2-4) in Division I. Eggers also tied the score at 18 in the second overtime period, and finished with three goals. Caitlyn Sweeney led Longwood with five goals and an assist, and Sachem North's Nicole Dale scored eight goals to lead all scorers.

Your kids goals are meaningless looser!!

Good. A little sportsmanship goes a long way. Maybe all the negative fallout is worth something afterall.

Don't give this thread or yourself that much credit- coach rose does not follow your gameplan. I think she knows what she is doing.

Lindsey Eggers controlled a ground ball and scored unassisted in the sudden death overtime period to win the game for Longwood (2-5, 2-4) in Division I. Eggers also tied the score at 18 in the second overtime period, and finished with three goals. Caitlyn Sweeney led Longwood with five goals and an assist.

meaningless game/goals both teams going nowhere, (2-5, 2-4) . dont waste our time

From the perspective of an overtime game where Longwood came back from a two goal deficit in overtime, the game was extremely competitive and worthwhile covering. BOTC and our readers spend a great deal of time covering the top end programs; occasionally, just seeing a single game for its own worth is valuable.

You know there are over 20 teams in div 1 they all have worthwhile girls who play great at times. Sometimes these girls play for average teams and are above average players who get no recognition because they are not from top programs. Don't be so arrogant. Look at the top 10 points leaders in Suffolk County. They don't all come from the top programs!! These programs and their girls deserve a little recognition too!

Cage thanks for reporting on it.

That 8th grader had 3 goals today in a 11-9 win against a good Hills team and that sophomore goalie you threw under the bus had an incredible game - the Fios MVP. Next year your daughter should go out for the softball team. Maybe you would be happier. She obviously will never see the field because she has no skill or athletic ability. Wake up and smell the coffee.

yeah seems like carol rose is monitoring this thread. All the abuse she took for running up scores and having her superstar score 20 meaningless goals last week . congrats to carol rose for laying down in the 2nd half today and putting a rope on her super star


Don't give this thread or yourself that much credit- coach rose does not follow your gameplan. I think she knows what she is doing.

you are a carol rose YJ or Northport cronie or maybee you are really unlucky and are both. She must follow this thread if she was crying to her lawyer about it. maybee We got through to her and she realized that meaningless goals by alledged superstars dont mean squat. dont fear the bee, fear the botc.

Hey unhappy Sachem East mommy or daddy - or should I say F.G? ....Did you see today's game result? you were there. The sophomore goalie you threw under the bus had 11 saves and was names MVP by Fios High School Sports and the 8th grader led the team in scoring with 3 goals and one assist. She now leads the team in assists. In other words, being a team player is in her vocabulary. The back up junior goalie did a nice job last year stepping up when the starting goalie broke her thumb, but the sophomore is more athletic and a better overall goalie. You hate her because she plays YJ club lax and lives in the block as the 8th grader. Shame on you for crying and whinning in public but keeping your name hidden. All the Sachem parents know who you are. Go SYAG!

Meaningless game.....oh please.....ask the girls of both LW/SN how meaningless the game was. We must remember.....these are children playing....it could be some fool speaking reckless about your daughter ....and I bet you would not care for it.

PLEASE let's not turn this thread into another YJ thread - keep all the drama over there!

my daughter plays on this team, they cant scoop up a ground ball ,they cant catch the ball and they cant past the ball without turning it over 30 times in a game. my other daughter 4 grade team plays better!!!! the head coach is pulling his hair out of his head, the assist coach is great, i cant say enough about him. I hope he stay a few years. what kill me about this team, were in every game at half time. This team lack team leadership ON THE FIELD and most important HEART!!!! Its so bad bad here that a few JV girls were ask to go to Varsity and they said NO because they winning at jv.

I know who F.G. is ,I also know his daughter. And I have to say your wrong. His Daughter is very good. She will play on a competitive college team, and she will do very well. Since you want to throw out initials here is one for you C.T. . he got the coach her job, yes the sophomore goalie is friends with his daughter and thats why she starts. That coupled with a feud between F.G. and C.T. Both the coach and C.T. should be ashamed of themselves for taking C.T's revenge out on a teen age girl. YOU ARE BOTH COWARDS!!!! In any other school district, the 8th grader plays j.v. at best . She is not a bad player but to small to defend , and to raw on attack, but because of mommy and daddy she's on varsity. Anybody that has a daughter that played youth lax in sachem knows the story behind C.T. and F.G. and for good reason they keep there mouth shut, we have all taken in the lesson. That family runs Sachem East Girls Lacrosse, and the district allows it. You either accept it, or risk having your daughter sit like F.G. And one last thing, how are you going to defend the out and out dirty play that same sophomore goalie pulled off with 5 seconds left in the game? her reckless play hurt that girl. Is that what Sachem East lacrosse is.

Based on the above theory, shouldn't you then have the entire Middle School team play JV or Varsity....It will make the kids better and tsubsequently, the team gets better down the road...

If the kid is one of the best 10-15 kids in the District and she is going to get plenty of touches, then she belongs on Varsity. If not, play age appropriate. Have her help her peers get better!

If I were head coach of any program and if any player would refuse a promotion to varsity would get immediately cut! What team are you speaking of? Show some cajoñes dude!

The team that is currently in first place lol!

Last year 2 eighth graders helps take Mt. Sinai to States! So its not any school district. In fact look at ESM's goalie, on varsity since 7th grade. Cant argue with their success

Isn't the thread about Long Island girls HS lacrosse?
Last I looked Long Island had more than just one team

If you are going to make the argument that no 8th grader should be brought up then you are just plain wrong.There are some 8th graders that benefit and deserve to be brought up and by the stats it looks like she belongs, yes I understand the stats do not show the true picture.As far as her size give me a break I have seen many players who in person are small in stature but play big on the field .

GC has no middle school students playing at the HS level, JV or Varsity and no problem being successful

WOW. read all your posts....you should be proud. What a joke of a thread.

Congratulations! GC has more players that are talented. What does that have to do with another HS that doesn't drawing from the middle school if needed? We scrimmaged Sachem East and the 8 th grader was way better than most of the other kids on that team! So if your REALLY talented 9th grader was left off the team it certainly wasn't because the 8th grader took her spot. There were plenty of other players that were less deserving to be on that team! She is 13/14 years old, God bless her she is a good player and I am sure worked very hard to earn that spot. It was obvious by her stick work!

ENOUGH ALREADY.

GO WATCH JERRY SPRINGER OR SOMETHING. YOUR POLLUTING THIS SITE AND TURNING MANY PARENTS OFF.

What most people don't get is Garden City is consistently good because of the youth and middle school teams, They want to produce good players, not just one or two. Don't scream at there 4th and 5th grade girls and kick buckets of balls over when they make mistakes. They teach all there kids , not just there own. Every school system should take notice of this , but some how they don't. In G.C. there is nothing special in the water, and no magic pill, they all work together and it shows.

So what do you want to talk about

Since you asked, the moderators here at BOTC want to move the discussion off your personal single threaded focus on this Sachem East issue. End of that discussion as it has been beaten to a pulp. Capiche?

Friday, April 13th Results

Carle Place over Calhoun, 14-11
Miller Place over Islip, 17-10
Garden City easily over Division, 18-4
Kings Park over East Hampton, 15-13
Mount Sinai doubles Comsewogue, 14-7
Babylon over Westhampton, 15-8
Harborfields over Rocky Point, 7-5
Port Washington over Locust Valley, 12-7
Deer Park over Bellport, 12-5
St. Anthony's handles St. John the Baptist, 18-4
Kellenber over Our Lady of Mercy, 18-12

Highlights

Huge comeback for Kings Park who were down against East Hampton by a score of 10-6 at the half.

Bridget Greene had three goals to lead Harborfields (3-2) in Division II. Holly Leone forced five turnovers and Honey Roche forced four turnovers.

ENOUGH ALREADY.

GO WATCH JERRY SPRINGER OR SOMETHING. YOUR POLLUTING THIS SITE AND TURNING MANY PARENTS OFF.
So what do you want to talk about.


go to the Yellow Jacket site if you want to talk BS.

Go to YJ site and talk BS? Get a life That was not necessary and extremely unprofessional.

What most people tend to think is that GC is consistently good because they get taught by the YJ's. But I agree with you. I think it is the other way around, where GC trains, and developes many skilled girls and YJ's or other clubs are lucky to get them.

Friday, April 13th Results

Sacred Heart upsets Vero Beach (FL), 15-14

Details via Newsday Report

Aileen Carey scored on an 8-meter shot with 1:41 left in the first overtime as Sacred Heart edged Florida’s Vero Beach, 15-14, last night.

Becky Conto had forced overtime, scoring off a pass from Chrissy Corcoran, with two seconds left in regulation for Sacred Heart (6-0).

Vero Beach (14-2) was ranked 10th in the country by ESPN Rise and its only prior loss was to top-ranked McDonogh (Md.). Sacred Heart had entered the game ranked 19th and likley propelled themselves a few spots.

Carey’s winner was her fourth goal of the game. Meghan Breen added three goals, Maggie Comiskey and Erin Pfail each had two goals and an assist, and Nina Corcoran had a goal and four assists. Emma Salter made 13 saves and Kerriann Moran, Meghan Ginty and Annie Westlake anchored the Spartans defense.

Sacred Heart had beaten Lake Brantley, 16-7, on Tuesday in its first of three games against Florida’s top teams. They’ll conclude the road trip on Thursday night, taking on Bishop Moore in LarryMiller.

Wishful thinking!!

Saturday, April 14th Results

Island Trees over Jericho, 18-5
Kings Park over Smithtown West, 11-9
Clarke over Sewanhaka, 17-4

I think what the goalie did was a smart, and athletic move/decision,not just that play but throughout the whole game she was smart in what she did. Goalies are not just made to sit in the cage anymore. Its a new style of play to have goalies come out, almost as a 5th defender. It truly showed her athletic abilities running out and intercepting passes, and quite frankly if you don't like the style of play stop watching lacrosse because theres a goalie revolution!

Really, jumping on the back of a field player, causing her to get hurt, putting a player on the 8 with the goalie 4 meters behind, and giving a a goal is a smart play to you?

Yes it was a good play who cares about the 8 meter shot there was .6 seconds left. In essence Hills wasn't going to win anyways and you cant go back and change what she did, anyway Sachem won the game is over.

So your saying its ok to hurt a girl so long as you win? Yon need help

your absolutely 100% right about the goalie revolution, I've watch three goalie play like that this year lindenhurst,ESM and bayport goalie.All of these girls have great athletic abilities and their lax IQ is through the roof

East is 8-1 overall now. They should have and could have beat West Islip but they didn't come out and play like they can and should have. No that's not an excuse, but every team has those days. As for winning to 4 of the worst teams in Suffolk, yes they have had a somewhat easy schedule so far by playing brentwood, copiague and walt whitman. But William Floyd is usually one of the elite teams. Miller Place, there first non-league game, is not too shabby of a team. Comsewogue, there second non-league game, is not a bad team as well. They just recently beat Half Hollow Hills who is a good team and this past weekend they beat Sachem North one of there biggest rivals. Sachem East is stepping up and becoming one of those powerhouses slowly but surely. Whether or not they played some mediocre teams, the powerhouses like Ward Melville have played mediocre teams as well. As for the 8th grader, she is an awesome player and deserves to be on that team and I can say so myself because I am one of her teammates. As for the goalie, she is a phenomenal goalie and deserves to be in the cage as well. Whether there close with the A.D or the coach, there talent surpasses the politics that may be going on in Sachem.

The goalie stepped out of the cage to try and intercept that pass. She did not go out and do it on purpose to hurt the Hills girl. She does in practice as well, she's not a dirty player she's just an athletic player. She users her athleticism to help out the defense, it's being smart. The girl may have fallen down, but she was fine afterwards. The attacker could have fallen and gotten hurt if it was a defender going at her instead of the goalie. The goalie was just doing her job.

Guess the ridiculous bickering will never end.............

ESM vs SWR. Good game? Anyone see it?

Every team has one of those days, when they play a better team.

Yes good game both teams played great, both goalies played exceptionally well for 9th graders

ESM vs SWR was a great game and the level of play was outstanding. Very exciting.

Little disappointed thought Esm would be better- swr played exceptionally well

The positive comments concerning the game is refreshing and encouraging. Hope it keeps up. I am an ESM parent and even though our team lost it was a good game. The kids played well and kudos to SWR.

Yes glad the comments are postive and both teams played well and Esm and SWR should be proud of how they played. Great game!

Wrong, although you's like to think so. The GC youth program is parent coached. The best players in 6,7,8 grade play for the club teams which is where they learn the game. If these players did not play Club Lax and relied on the GC parent coaches they would be nowhere.

Most likely it is from playing Club...probably does't hurt to have friends in High places.

Northport gets 2nd league loss today. after getting dumped on by st anthonys saturday.

Northport score what? Any other scores?

Your opening your mouth but do you even know anything about the Sachem East program or did you even watch the game? It was quite obvious that East was the better team that day they just lost their groove just like many teams do. It happens, you can't expect teams to be perfect every single game everyone has there off days. Hopefully East gets the chance to play West Islip in the playoffs to prove to people like you who like to run their mouths what they're really made of. I really hope that your a kid on a high school team and not a parent because if you are, shame on you. East is a good program this year and can compete, so be ready.

You just proved 2 things.
1 you are new to lacrosse, Everyone knows that Garden City has been a lacrosse powerhouse, in the boys game for nearly 100 years, and n the girls game for at least 30, well before there was even a dream of travel lacrosse.

2, you know nothing of Garden City (or Manhasset for that matter). Most parents came up through the G.C. system and moved back. Or , most parent coaches from G.C. played the game at a very high level , and know the game better than then some high school coaches.

Actually, you are wrong. My daughters PAL coaches both played lacrosse in college so she is learning a lot with out being on a club. GC is filled with parents who were athletes and now share their knowledge. ARe there some parent coaches who do not know the game as well, yes.

Monday, April 16th Results

Sachem East over Smithtown West, 20-18, Overtime
Ward Melville over Northport, 11-9
East Islip over West Islip, 14-9
West Hempstead over Hempstead, 15-6 (Haltime : 12-2)
Sachem North over Lindenhurst, 9-8
Island Trees over Carle Place, 18-13
Bay Shore over Half Hollow Hills, 19-7
North Babylon doubles Riverhead, 18-9
Lynbrook edges Oceanside, 8-7
North Shore quadruples Mineola, 16-4
Pat-Med edges Walt Whitman, 10-9
Baldwin over Holy Trinity, 13-7
Clarke over Friends Academy, 16-9
Freeport over Elmont, 16-3

Highlights

Two big results and great games on today's docket.

Yuna Hur scored two of her three goals in the second half, including one with 6:14 left to give Ward Melville (6-0) the win over a key conference rival in Division I. Northport takes their second loss of the season in conference play.

Corinne Donohue scored with five seconds left in the first OT period to put Sachem East (6-1) ahead in Division I. Sophomore Katie Trombetta scored a career-high nine goals and added an assist and Jackie Wasilko had five goals.

what happened today Super goalie got out played by a back up , so lets here your lame excuses, really good goalies are consistent , your going to get shelled against bay Shore, you can't play the top teams

wake up

Sachem East is weak, they beat Sachem North, wow. and when was Floyd considered a power house. you lost to west Islip, everyone is beating west islip. you will not beat ward melville, bayshore, east islip, northport, west baylon, but you beat hills who is probably better than you, your probably an 8 or 9 seed. good luck to you.

Ward Melville over Northport, 11-9
thats 2 losses for Port half way thru, have nothing this year, dynasty is over. I guess past post was correct, all good Yellow jackets live in Garden city (516).