It was a groundbreaking season for the University at Albany men’s lacrosse team this past spring. The Great Danes won a school-record 15 games, rose to as high as No. 2 during the regular season in the Division I rankings and beat eventual national champion Johns Hopkins and national semifinalist Delaware during the regular season. And Scott Marr, a 1987 Yorktown graduate, was named Division I coach of the year.

Yorktown senior midfielder Rocky Bonitatibus was among those who noticed all this. His oral commitment to accept a scholarship offer from Albany makes him the first ‘Husker to commit to a D-I program in two years.

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And now, folks, here are the rest of my thoughts, these on Sleepy Hollow’s incredible performance against Irvington. Stars of the day: Jamel Lyde, the transfer QB/RB from Albany, Steve Amaro, the bullish FB/LB, and Spencer White, the eloquent WR.

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Here’s some thoughts on New Ro, which christened the FieldTurf at McKenna Field today behind two TDs apiece from Samad Wagstaff and Paris Walker.

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North Rockland is getting better every week heading into the Rockland Game of the Season next Saturday against Clarkstown South. Here’s what happened in the latest win.
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Byram Hills rode an angry halftime locker room to a 35-14 win over Westlake.

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This was Lakeland’s first win over Brewster since Lakeland and Panas split their football programs in 2000. But for more tidbits of info like that, you’ll have to listen on…

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I recap two games in this one. Nyack won a great rivalry game 2-1 and Mahopac woke up in time to beat North 3-0.

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Here’s some quick thoughts on Thursday’s Mahopac-Fox Lane thriller, which turned into a nice (if frustrating) afternoon for Fox Lane’s Dorian Dorsey and another comeback for Mahopac.

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Stephanie Velez scored three times in the final seven minutes, including the game-winner with two seconds left, to lift Mamaroneck to a 3-2 win. It was an incredible turn of events.

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This is Matthew Ng, I’ve logged a video report on the match that I covered. I also previewed the upcoming Suffern-North Rockland match I will be covering.

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I just got back from Yorktown where I watched the Huskers beat Nyack 3-0. Here’s what I thought, as well as some other happenings today.

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I was at Clarkstown North-North Rockland in the afternoon and Clarkstown South-Suffern at night. Here’s my impressions of each team.

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Zach Badalucco, a three-sport standout at Brewster, has orally committed to attend Syracuse for lacrosse. Here’s more on that as well as John Jay goaltender Chris Latino’s decision to accept a scholarship offer from Binghamton.

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For the second year in a row, the Ossining and Somers football teams were involved in a dramatic, down-to-the-wire thriller.

And for the second straight year, Ossining pulled out the win — this time on a 71-yard touchdown pass from Justin Kreamer to Jesse Drinks with 1:50 remaining, followed by Drinks’ game-winning extra point as Ossining won 14-13.

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Dobbs took down Croton in a rematch of last year’s Class C title game, 34-7. Here’s my take.

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The game was not the story today in Harrison’s 26-8 win over Spring Valley…so I bring you more about the Huskies rash of injuries in this vidcast:

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Here’s an update on a deadline for the Somers coaching situation and the transfer of two prominent players.

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Hey gang –
We have some more offseason boys lacrosse news. One of the most successful programs in the section, Somers, has hired a new coach and reshuffled its entire coaching staff at the same time.

John DeVito, an assistant at Somers the last three years and who spearheaded the drive to start varsity lax at Somers 14 years ago, has switched roles with Tim Schurr.

“Here’s a link”:http://boyslacrosse.lohudblogs.com/2007/09/12/tuskers-turn-to-devito/ to our discussion on our “Lax to the Max” blog.

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Hi all –
I took a quick break today from high school football for an update on some offseason news involving varsity boys lacrosse and collegiate men’s lacrosse.

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Class AA state finalist Monroe-Woodbury defeated North Rockland 31-10 today. Here are some of the details, and why it isn’t that big a deal for the Red Raiders.

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Hey folks, I’ve got a couple of football games to tell you about. The first is Harrison’s 41-19 win at Our Lady of Lourdes. The second was Nyack’s exciting (and unexpected) 23-20 home win over Spring Valley. This is my first attempt at an iMovie, so please be merciful.

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Clarkstown South knocked off Poughkeepsie 28-18 in a Class AA game today. Here’s my web cast:

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Hey everyone. I got to two surprisingly good games this weekend. On Friday, John Jay beat Yorktown 37-14 despite the Cornhuskers looking vastly improved. And today, Saturday, Rye beat Byram Hills 21-9. This one was simply tremendous, as the Garnets survived a rare scare and extended their Section 1 winning streak to 39. Take a second and check out my thoughts on both games…

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It sure looks that way.

The Raiders picked up a big upset today by winning at Horace Greeley 28-21 today.

To put it in perspective, Scarsdale is not only coming off a 4-5 season in which it lost to the Quakers 30-0, but has not made a bowl appearance since 1990. Since that time, Greeley has made 10 bowl appearances, including four trips to the sectional finals.

I have some thoughts on that big win as well as Somers’ 27-12 season-opening victory last night against Brewster.

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I could write my thoughts on this game, which Iona Prep won 20-6. Or I could just tell you. Click on the video screen below and you’ll see what I mean.

Welcome to the new technology of LoHud.com. We’re doing personal web casts at our computers after almost every game we cover. Basically, there’s a camera installed at the top of my computer and I just look into it and talk. It’s quite awkward, I must say. But nobody loves being in front of a camera nearly as much as me.

Yes, I know, that’s not the prettiest site but you’ll just have to deal with it for now. Enjoy.

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