What happens when a pair of champions collide? One walks away from the clash with more swagger. Notre Dame Academy, last season’s MIAA Division 2 champion, took down two-time defending Division 1 champ Westwood on Tuesday, 16-11, to stake its claim as the best girls lacrosse team in the state – and … [Read more...]
Power rankings: UMass on fire, plus an Ivy League scrum
Conference tournament time is upon us. The Boston College women, ranked No. 4 nationally and riding their best wave of the season, open Atlantic Coast Conference tourney play on Wednesday with a quarterfinal game against Duke. UMass, Fairfield and Sacred Heart have also clinched at least a share of … [Read more...]
Prep school primer: Taft, Seb’s try to keep good times going
There’s no rest for the weary, at least not for the boys from Taft School. Fresh off their most impressive win of the season – 10-9 over preseason No. 1-ranked Brunswick on Wednesday – the Rhinos get right back at it Saturday with a challenging game against another strong team, Deerfield. Whether … [Read more...]
Watch list: The most dynamic women’s tandems in Division 3
It takes two to make a thing go right. One great player does not make a great lacrosse team. But two great players working in tandem can often make a good lacrosse team even better. The Division 3 women's landscape features a wealth of those tandems, oftentimes passers and scorers, but sometimes … [Read more...]
Power rankings: Dexter girls looking like a complete package
Nearly one month into the prep school season, many of the region’s top girls teams have a half-dozen or so games under their belt. There have been some intriguing head-to-head matchups – the top two teams in our rankings played a one-goal thriller in late March – with the promise of many, many more … [Read more...]
MIAA girls: Powers Westwood, Franklin set to collide today
Is there any in-state opponent that can slow down the Westwood (Mass.) High School juggernaut? The two-time defending MIAA Division 1 champion, the No. 1 team in our preseason power rankings, brushed aside another top team – reigning D-3 champion Medfield – by a 19-3 score on Monday, with senior Lil … [Read more...]
