March 4, 2010
N.E. adidas Classic team picked
by Staff Report/
Nick Capalbo made the N.E. regional team (photo: Moses Brown)
More than 150 boys — nearly double what was expected — attended the Feb. 21 tryouts for the adidas National Lacrosse Classic’s New England regional team. The tryouts, held at Harvard University, had coaches John Pirie (Governor’s Academy, Mass.) and Steve O’Donnell (LaSalle Academy, R.I.) putting the underclassmen through a three-hour tryout.
Last year, the New England regional team, led by O’Donnell, finished fourth in the tournament, with a 3-0-1 record and a plus-23 goal differential. The final roster includes 13 players from Massachusetts, six from Rhode Island, two from New Hampshire, two from Ontario, one from Maine, and one from New Jersey.
The roster includes one freshman — long-pole Ryan Macri from South Hamilton, Mass. — and three sophomores: midfielder Samuel Davis and attacker A.J. Enchill of Pittsfield, Mass., and defender Dylan Leone from Tewksbury, Mass.
The remainder of the underclass team is: attackmen Edwin Foster (Medfield, Mass.) Kyle Guilbert (Walpole, Mass.), James Loughlin (Hanover, Mass.), Zachary Tarallo (Northborough, Mass.) Grant Whiteway (Billerica, Mass.) and Maxwell Wildes (Kennebunk, Maine); midfielders Philip Hession (Canton, Mass.), George Mazarakis (Montclair, N.J.), Taylor Pirie (Hamilton, Mass.), Ryan Poirier (Warwick, R.I.), Daniel Serina (Portsmouth, R.I.), Drew Simoneau (Manchester, N.H.) and Ben Willett (Portsmouth, R.I.); defensemen Andrew Basler (Chelmsford, Mass.), Mitchell Chapman (Oshawa, Ont.), Reed Kennedy (Marblehead, Mass.), Cody O’Donnell (Smithfield, R.I.), and Sean Young (Oakville, Ont.) and goaltenders Nick Capalbo (Cumberland, R.I.) and Morgan Green (Portsmouth, R.I.).
The adidas National Lacrosse Classic — played in Germantown, Md. from July 5-8 — features the top 500 high school underclassmen players in the United States. Twenty teams from eight regions compete for a National Championship to determine the best region for high school lacrosse in the country. The National Champion qualifies to play for the Brogden Cup — an international lacrosse tournament — in Orlando, Fla.
