N.E. adidas Classic team picked
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 ...
Flynn back in as Billerica coach
To replace a coach who went 99-33 over seven seasons and took his team to the state championship game in 2008, Billerica (Mass.) High turned to a coach who led his team to a state title in 2001. Craig ...
Report: Billerica's Burns out after fight
Chris Burns, boys lacrosse coach at Billerica (Mass.) High School, resigned after a cell phone video surfaced showing him in a boxing match with one of his players in the locker room, according to a published ...
Duxbury opts to bring back coach
Upon further review, Chris Sweet will be coaching the Duxbury (Mass.) boys again next spring, his 15th season with the Green Dragons. “I had a very productive meeting with the superintendent, who ...
Duxbury sour on Sweet?
Despite winning seven of the last eight Massachusetts Division 1 championships, Duxbury boys coach Chris Sweet was not offered a new contract for next season, according to a published report. According ...
Wonderful one for Londonderry
It was a routine honed through years of playing together on the same end of the field. Before every draw, Londonderry (N.H.) High School senior defender Kelcie Malloy and senior goalie Taylor Hadcock would ...
Walpole waltzes away with Bay State crown
It was halftime, and it was bleak. Walpole, just days removed from its second straight Bay State Conference championship, was staring a familiar playoff obstacle in the face. The Rebels were down 7-2 ...
Speed leads Griffin to Carolina
It was an iconic tableau, sort of like a father and son playing catch in the back yard, in Anywhere, America. The father, Paul Griffin, would be in the yard with his trusty infielder’s glove, taking ...
Estes brings passion to Pinkerton
When he was in fourth grade, Brian Estes was rummaging through a friend’s garage when he spied something that caught his eye. It was an object he had never seen before: a lacrosse stick. It wasn’t ...
New England high school roundup
An illegal hit that left Bishop Guertin midfielder Nick Astarita with a Grade 2 concussion inflamed an already heated New Hampshire rivalry. Guertin’s game against Pinkerton Academy last week was ...
BC High upsets high-flying Prep
The St. John’s Prep Eagles, who ended Duxbury's 99-game winning streak vs. Massachusetts high school competition with a 12-10 victory May 2 and climbed to the top of the Boston Globe boys' lacrosse ...
Net results for Andover's Gross
There are those who look at Andover High School midfielder Catherine “Cat” Gross and see one of the best high school lacrosse players in Massachusetts. Others look at Gross and see something ...
Lecky’s star shines at Duxbury
Lacrosse is not among the 42 sports listed on the website Sports Jamaica, which bills itself as “Your Premier Jamaican Sports Portal.” So, how is it that a young man who was born and raised ...
St. John's Prep ends Duxbury streak
Duxbury High School's 99-game winning streak vs. Massachusetts high school competition ended on Saturday at the hands of St. John's Prep. Read the game stories in the Boston Herald and Boston Globe.
Maine’s Monks an all-around success
From heartache as a freshman through triumph last June, Mariah Monks has made the very best of every situation on the lacrosse field. The senior midfielder at Waynflete School in Portland, Maine, coming ...
Rhody standout middie Sternberg stays grounded
Ben Sternberg loves baseball. So much so, in fact, that he nearly skipped lacrosse tryouts during his freshman year to pick up a baseball mitt instead. It was an agonizing decision at the time, but not ...
Bennett fuels Darien three-peat bid
Sometimes, the trail you’re intent on blazing is one that’s already been trampled down a bit. When Courtney Bennett was in the early stages of choosing where she wanted to play in college ...
White provides might for Ridgefield, Conn.
Matt White set the school record for yards passing in a season when he was a sophomore quarterback on the Ridgefield (Conn.) High School football team. He broke that record as a junior and completed his ...
Contenders ready to make move in competitive Eastern Mass.
If it was a movie, it would be showing at various suburban locales around Eastern Massachusetts this spring. The title? “The Next Step.” Some of the state’s brightest stars are leading ...
Moses Brown breaks through against Barrington in R.I. final
For years, it may have been the best rivalry that nobody outside of Rhode Island knew about. On one side was Barrington, which didn’t lose often during a run of seven straight Division 1 titles. ...
