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Forfeited at 4pm Friday night. Tournament can’t even fix the schedule with that little notice.

no sir it will be a close LIC in "A"
no one will destroy Syosset this year.
You can take that to the bank

3 times a week, games on Sunday during HOCO

2 times a week currently

Heros and M&D are terrible about player development. All about the Wins. Game plans are centered on a few shooters. Practices are designed to design plays to get the ball to the stars. No work on skill development so the ones who are very good but not the stars, don’t get the coaching they need to be better. Opponents should watch some game film and and focus their defenses on stopping the few shooters.

For sure, and you’re right they should count less in rankings. Not just play and coach different but often different coaches and players altogether. If a coach has a conflict he’ll just skip consolation games. If a player is a little banged up, he’ll just sit it out. I saw a couple teams at NAL with that approach.

Fake news

Call in alumni? From where senior week? They just graduated last week.

True Baltimore is the best in MD. Everyone else are just pretenders. #wetrainmore

How is Express North still in top 10? They one 1 game at the NAL.

Would be a real shame if Bosco loses this game after having kids reclass and get recruited from Canada...

No detest here, but certainly annoyance and slight amusement. Shake my head at it, really.

They actively recruit rec-level kids and shove them into "club" environments where they don't belong.

They regularly water down the leagues and tournaments they enter. Just last weekend, they entered JV A and lost to Crabs 20-0 at Summer Exposure. Gee thanks.

Hashtags and fluorescent uniforms don't equate to culture. There is no toxic culture because there is no culture whatsoever. It's an extension of "Planet Fitness" in the lacrosse world. Have money? You too can play "club lacrosse!" Like many lax clubs//soccer clubs they are another example of what's ruined lacrosse and youth sports in general- money.

On the positive side, they do a great job of selling a dream to kids and parents.

I would be afraid that as a 2022 you may be trying to find a needle in a haystack (open roster spots) at these larger showcases. Since many of the D1 school rosters are complete for the 2022 class, I would spend my time and money attending the specific prospect days at the colleges she is already communicating with and has been confirmed by your club recruiting director that she is on the coach’s recruit list for that school. Otherwise you may be wasting a lot of money and road time. Time is of the essence for the remaining 2022 recruits.

Feel for the HOCO team, that won't be a good experience. And yeah, those divisions don't seem aligned very well.

I don’t know if they have any spots but their is E3 lacrosse in west Hampton!

And you sound like some dad living vicariously through your son. Get a life, enjoy watching him play and hopefully it continues at next level.

Great attitude. Too many people try to place blame, when you are only looking for advice to help your son.

Great! Thanks. Nice to hear positive things about a tryout.

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Yep, like Monster, they are upstate, I am just trying to figure out the best outside the state of MD, which I think I have a pretty good understanding of.

Both are great events. Try to make one and if you do you will love it.

Maybe you should tell your coach to put your team in then!

Rush lost to moose by 1.

It just means less spots at some schools. Go have your son commit to play D2 and D3, because if your son is D1 caliber they will find him. But if he wasn’t a starter on his Hs team this spring, you can give up the D1 expectations and start thinking D2 or D3, which is quality lax. Because those spots are actively being recruited, the time is now.

[ChillLaxin] about your son. Let your kid have fun and play lax. You don’t have to be on the best teams to get recruited, that’s a bunch of B/S. Take video, call or email coaches to get on their radar. Go to individual showcases. Stop the A team garbage and be a real Dad who doesn’t kiss the coaches jerks. It’s sickening! Maybe someday you will get your man card back.

The Top 10 leading point scorer in Suffolk County (69) helped Smithtown East to win the Suffolk County Semi Finals with her 4-goal game performance including the game winner with 11 seconds left to defeat Huntington and improving East's record to 14-2. Nina DeNicola, a Top 50 Ranked Junior on Long Island committed to play at Lehigh University also dished out 4 assists and a goal in the quarter finals days earlier and will now face no.1 Northport High School in the Suffolk Class A Finals. With Nicola's 9 point performance in the playoffs and showing ice in her veins with putting in the game winner, she has earned BOTC Week #7 Player of the Week honors voted upon by our staff.


Player Profile: Nina DeNicolia
Club Teams: LI Yellow Jackets
Accolades: Top 50 Ranked Junior on Long Island, 3x Varsity Starter, Top 10 Leading Point Scorer in Suffolk County
High School: Sachem East High School
Committed to: Lehigh University
Grad Year: 2022
Position: Attack