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Prep Nationals was started in 2022 by DA, Salisbury and WICK in response to the creation of the Founder's League tournament. It had been (has been) the long time dream of many, including those schools, to have a NEWest season ending tournament akin to the MIAA. The problem is that the 10-15year trai...

Hobot would have absolutely helped but not sure it would have made a difference. Diaz-Matos has dominated everyone he has faced this year including the FOGO from L'ville, who interestingly is the Hopkins 2025 FOGO commit after Hobot in 2024. Did he play last year?

Unfortunately for NEWest fans that's not going to happen. The Founders League made its own bed.

Brunswick was closer to the end line, not the ball. Geometry has never been easy for lax refs. Not to mention they threw the ball in from out of bounds. All kinds of issues on that play. Just want to clarify that the end line is NOT the white line but the red/yellow line which is 5 yards deeper, wh...

As a long time fan of the WICK/Deerfield series, I have to say that there waa an unfortunate amount of home cooking in this one.

Other mentionables:

Christian Walsh '10 Deerfield 82 pts
Matt Kavanaugh '12 Hotchkiss ? pts
Justin Guterding '14 Salisbury ? pts
Michael Kraus '16 Taft 57 goals ? assists

Agree with many of the comments re Goaltending and off ball defense early in the season. Particularly poor vs Darien and Taft. Stars also don't matter if they can't go. They were missing 3 returning starters for most of the season (2 attack, 1 middie) including their qb/x. All were back for the last...

Lawrenceville vs Brunswick #1 was an incredible display of talent on both sides.

3 of Brunswick's starters from last year have been out all season....2/3 have just returned recently.

Will be interesting to see if that is enough to make up the 2 goal difference this time.

Brunswick and CRH both idle and yet they don't play this year (or the last 2)...hmmm

Seems like that explains a few things...

Don't despair...its just an algorithm similar to the old laxpower algo which heavily waits strength of schedule and actual goal differential versus expected goal differential based on relative rating. So for example, Wick 11 goal differential versus Deerfield and 7 versus Hill will have a much large...

I’m Sorry. There are tough calls. There are bad calls and then there is this. As a former ref I will tell you that in that place and time , you simply cant make that call without being sure. Ask the Darien announcers and Dan Arestia. You certainly cant overrule your partner who is closer to the goal...

Seems like the refs wanted to see it too! What an embarrassingly bad call at 50 seconds left. Too bad for the refs that the game was taped with replay. Showed the replay at least 3 times and Anderson wasn't within 18" of the crease. Even the Darien announcers were befuddled. Count that goal, wh...

What an embarrassingly bad call at 50 seconds left. Too bad for the refs that the game was taped with replay. Showed the replay at least 3 times and Anderson wasn't within 18" of the crease. Even the Darien announcers were befuddled. Count that goal, when the faceoff and game over in the other ...

Hard to say. Brunswick's trio of Spiess (#11 in Class of 2023 per IL, Princeton), Hublitz (#14 Class of 2024 per IL, Virginia), and Plath (Georgetown) is a pretty formidable group. At 21-10 the Brunswick/DA game was a bit more open

I don't believe that there is a 3rd place game so I would suggest that all teams will be day/night tripping. For years we have been told that scheduling issues would prevent a NEWest Championship Weekend and yet ta-da this year it's somehow possible...just in two parts. Can we please put aside the p...

Deerfield vs L'Ville at 5pm
Wick vs Bury at 7:30

Friday night lights again....this time at Brunswick

Championship Sunday at 2pm

So WIck and Deerfield share the 2022 NEWest title. Here is my guess for this weekend's Prep Tourney. Seeds: 1 Wick 2-1 wins tie breaker vs L'ville based on head to head win 2 L'ville 2-1 3 Deerfield 1-2 wins tie breaker vs 'Bury based on head to head win 4 'Bury 1-2 So semis: Wick vs 'Bury and L'vil...

....so now Salisbury and Deerfield play on Wednesday for the right to share the NEWest Championship with Wick. Or does that not matter anymore?

I think it will be much tighter...Away at Salisbury, Friday Night, probably Senior Night...at least they are missing Reunion and Spring Family Weekend this year! Tough draw.

wick/choate situation very curious. it was definitely on Wick's schedule at the beginning of the year on its usual date. why wouldn't it be? https://twitter.com/Wick_Lax/status/1491210320417017859/photo/1 wick/darien score a little misleading in my NEWest biased mind. 7-0 1q, 8-1 half, 11-4 3rd and ...