Geico HS Lax Nationals

[W'boro'Cuse315]

Three Super 25 teams set for GEICO High School Lacrosse Nationals

Inaugural end of year tourney, similar to the annual Dick's HS Hoops Nationals. Smartly scheduled to not coincide with Final Four action. Syracuse recruits featured:

IMG Academy:
- '17 LSM Jared Fernandez
- '19 A Sean Donnelly
- '20 A Drew Snyder (not sure if he plays varsity or is on their "National" roster)
Also:
- '17 A Tehoka Nanticoke (Albany's next star)
- '18 M 'Cuse De-commit Chase Scanlan (Loyola)

Hill Academy:
- '18 A/M Owen Hill
- '19 M Josh Zawada

The Woodlands:
- '17 D Grant Murphy


Quarterfinals (with seeds; all times Eastern) Sunday May 28th

• No. 1 IMG Academy vs. No. 8 Christ School (Arden, N.C.), 1 p.m., ESPN3
• No. 4 The Woodlands vs No. 5. Georgetown Prep (North Bethesda, Md.), 3 p.m., ESPN3
• No. 3 St. Sebastian’s vs. No. 6 St. Anne’s-Belfield (Charlottesville, Va.), 5 p.m., ESPN3
• No. 2 Hill Academy vs. No. 7 Lawrenceville (N.J.), 7 p.m., ESPN3

Semifinals, Monday May 29th

• Winners of 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. games, 7 p.m., ESPNU
• Winners of 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. games, 9 p.m., ESPNU

Final, Tuesday May 30th

• Semifinal winners, 7 p.m., ESPNU

 

[longtimefan]

Three Super 25 teams set for GEICO High School Lacrosse Nationals

Inaugural end of year tourney, similar to the annual Dick's HS Hoops Nationals. Smartly scheduled to not coincide with Final Four action. Syracuse recruits featured:

IMG Academy:
- '17 LSM Jared Fernandez
- '19 A Sean Donnelly
- '20 A Drew Snyder (not sure if he plays varsity or is on their "National" roster)
Also:
- '17 A Tehoka Nanticoke (Albany's next star)
- '18 M 'Cuse De-commit Chase Scanlan (Loyola)

Hill Academy:
- '18 A/M Owen Hill
- '19 M Josh Zawada

The Woodlands:
- '17 D Grant Murphy


Quarterfinals (with seeds; all times Eastern) Sunday May 28th

• No. 1 IMG Academy vs. No. 8 Christ School (Arden, N.C.), 1 p.m., ESPN3
• No. 4 The Woodlands vs No. 5. Georgetown Prep (North Bethesda, Md.), 3 p.m., ESPN3
• No. 3 St. Sebastian’s vs. No. 6 St. Anne’s-Belfield (Charlottesville, Va.), 5 p.m., ESPN3
• No. 2 Hill Academy vs. No. 7 Lawrenceville (N.J.), 7 p.m., ESPN3

Semifinals, Monday May 29th

• Winners of 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. games, 7 p.m., ESPNU
• Winners of 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. games, 9 p.m., ESPNU

Final, Tuesday May 30th

• Semifinal winners, 7 p.m., ESPNU

Did the NY high school associations decide not to participate? Is it prep schools only?

 

[Whitey23]

Did the NY high school associations decide not to participate? Is it prep schools only?

Guessing they could only invite prep/privates because of logistical challenges (travel, budgets, calendar, etc)?

 

[outoftownie]

Did the NY high school associations decide not to participate? Is it prep schools only?

NYS high schools don't finish their season until the first week of June.

 

[W'boro'Cuse315]

 

[W'boro'Cuse315]

 

[PhatOrange]

Nanticoke has 7 goals barely a few minutes into the 3rd quarter

 

[PhatOrange]

Now with 8 goals halfway through the 3rd

 

[W'boro'Cuse315]

Now with 8 goals halfway through the 3rd

He scores at will. I'm interested to see where IMG's Percy Booth ('17 reclass) & Devon Buckshot ('17) end up. Both Natives that played the last 3 years at Lafayette HS & put up big numbers while also starring on the summer club circuit before transferring to IMG. Both were members of the Iroquois U-19 team.

 

[W'boro'Cuse315]

 

[W'boro'Cuse315]

 

[BomberOrange]

First off this tournament is garbage. Full of prep schools who recruit. Not impressed.
Second, how do we lose out on Nantucoke? Is Albany that great? I mean, we accept hoops and football players who are borderline, why not lax?

 

[ctlax]

Fernandez just scored for IMG. Losing to Georgetown Prep 12-11 4th qtr on espnu

 

[W'boro'Cuse315]

Fernandez just scored for IMG. Losing to Georgetown Prep 12-11 4th qtr on espnu

https://syracusefan.com/threads/geico-hs-lax-nationals.118404/

 

[redhead091]

Fernandez just scored for IMG. Losing to Georgetown Prep 12-11 4th qtr on espnu

Donnelly #22 IMG scored right after Fernandez to make it 12-11. 2019 verbal to Cuse, nice player.

 

[redhead091]

Zawada and Donnelly both Cuse 2019 Verbals. Future looks bright

 

[OrangeXtreme]

 

[W'boro'Cuse315]

Physically, Zawada already looks like a D1 middie as a HS Soph. Tall, agile, & very well built.

 

[CuSeLaX]

Owen Hill playing in this game ? Haven't heard his name called

 

[W'boro'Cuse315]

Zawada dodging from X quite a bit. Physical dodger, likes to lower the shoulder & get into defender's body while keeping his head up. Just had a nice assist to Dyson Williams (Duke '19).

Owen Hill ('Cuse '18) doing a nice job on the FO wing. 3 FO GBs so far

 

[W'boro'Cuse315]

Owen Hill playing in this game ? Haven't heard his name called

#49. FO wing on the far side near the team benches, though they seem to be rotation 2 pairs of wings

 

[CuSeLaX]

#49. FO wing on the far side near the team benches, though they seem to be rotation 2 pairs of wings

Is it bad I'm rooting for our recruits, but want their team to lose? Ha ha

 

[W'boro'Cuse315]

Is it bad I'm rooting for our recruits, but want their team to lose? Ha ha

I want our guys to play on national TV & in as many big games as possible though, I will say, IMG is a tough program to root for. Really wanted to see an IMG-Hill rematch.

Was really impressed with Jared Fernandez, just a GB machine & very fast in the open field. Blankets his man on D & throws violent, yet well-placed/timed, legal checks. Pretty short in stature though, looks about 5'9". Physically, he reminds me of Ralph D'Agostino. I could see him getting a look on FO wings with the pole as a frosh. After seeing Hemler move to SSDM for the 1st time all year vs Towson, I'm almost interested to see what Fernandez could do with a short stick. Personally, I'd like to see both stay at LSM & think Helmer is a future All American LSM

 

[OrangeXtreme]

 

[W'boro'Cuse315]

Zawada just ripped a righty shot top shelf to put Hill up 12-9 w 6 mins left. He's had a few strong shots lefty as well.

Edit: His shot was nearly as fast as OX on Twitter