New England West 2023

[Kismet]

Choate over Salisbury 15-11
Taft over Berkshire 15-5

anyone have a Salisbury=-Kent score?

[3rdPersonPlural]

Huh. Anyone with any insight on that? Seems like an odd move. Any family connections down there?

Ty Xanders' tweet mentioned that Bell is a VA native. https://twitter.com/tyxanders/status/16 ... 4098971696

Well....I'm indignant! Nic Bell has been the best thing to happen to Taft Lacrosse in the past 45 years, and a lot of good things are up for consideration.

How can he just LEAVE because he and his wife would rather be at St Anne's Belfield just because it's in Virginia. The most important variable in all of this -- which he seems to be neglecting -- is that I am having a ball reminding Be Worthy that Taft beat Deerfield and those insufferable 'wick parents that same thing. My life will change a little for the worse if Mr. Bell leaves the Rhinos. This should be the primary consideration, ya know!

My recently-departed but dearly-beloved cousin lived in Charlottesville and took me by STAB's campus a few years back and she was proud of the place. It's a community asset. I am sure that Mr. and Mrs. Bell will land happily on their feet. They seem like that sort of people.

Jon Posner has only one step up the ladder.....I am sure that Andy Dunn and Willie Mac (my classmate!) will make good choices to keep Taft on the top shelf Lacrosse-wise.

[b1w7o9y7h]

Wait, what? How did I get dragged into this? I’ve been a perfect gentleman in not bringing up DA’s record vs. Taft these past few decades!

[justanotherperson]

Now not sure of my rankings D1-2-3

D1: Choate with a huge win. Now there is a top 4 but Choate and Wick dont play each other to battle it out. No Kent Salisbury score but unlikely to move the rankings

D2-West: Wilby seems to have a solid hold. Cant move Wick B up because of their weak schedule

D2-FAA: GFA with a non conference loss to Austin Prep. RCDS has some injuries that may prevent them from advancing any further. Top 4 teams are likely destined for the FAA playoffs

D3: South Kent showing some moxie and moving up. But Harvey is the class of the division

Current Last Week School Record Comments
Division 1
1 1 Taft (10-1) Beat TP (18-7) and jKent (19-3) and Berkshire (15-5)
2 3 Brunswick (10-3) Beat West (14-8)
3 4 Choate (11-1) Beat Salisbury (15-11) and Berkshire (9-8)
4 2 Salisbury (9-2) Beat Hotchkiss (21-8) and NMH (18-4)
5 5 Deerfield (8-5) Loss LVille (7-13) and Hotchkiss (13-10)
6 6 Loomis (8-3) Beat Westy (14-5) and Anodver (15-1)
7 7 Avon Old Farms (8-4) Beat Hotchkiss (16-9) and TP (11-9)
8 8 Trinity Pawling (5-6) Loss Taft (7-18), Beat D2 Millbrook (14-8), Loss to AOF (9-11)
9 9 Hotchkiss (5-7) Loss Salisbury (8-21) and AOF (9-16) and Deerfield (13-10)
10 10 Berkshire (6-7) Beat D2 Gunnery (13-5) and D2 Albany (13-2), Loss to Taft (5-15) and Choate (8-9)
11 11 Westminster (3-9) Loss to Loomis (5-14) and Wick (8-14)
12 12 Northfield Mount Hermon (6-9) Loss Salisbury (4-18), Beat Kimball Union
13 13 Kent (0-11) Loss Taft (3-19)

Division 2 West (mostly boarding)
1 1 Wilbraham & Monson (8-2) Win Canterbury (9-1), Loss Cushing (7-8)
2 2 Millbrook (8-6) Loss TP (8-14) and Suffield (12-4)
3 3 Brunswick B (not JV) (7-2) Loss to Salisbury B (10-11) and GCDS (13-14)
4 4 Albany Acadamies (5-4) Loss to D1 Berkshire (13-2)
5 5 Williston (4-6) Beat Suffield (20-4) and Canterbury 14-9
6 7 Gunnery (4-6) Loss D1 Berkshire (5-13)
7 6 Canterbury (5-7) Loss Wilby (1-9) and Williston (9-14)
8 8 Suffield Academy (2-8) Loss Williston (4-20) and Millbrook (4-12)
9 9 Cheshire Academy (3-8) Loss to GFA (3-9)

Division 2 - FAA (Day Schools))
1 1 Greenwich Country Day (8-2) Big win against 'Wick B (14-13) and KO (19-4)
2 2 Greens Farms Academy (7-3) Beat Cheshire Academy (9-3), Loss to Asutin Prep (11-7)
3 3 Rye Country Day (8-3) Beat Hopkins (10-7).
4 4 King School (6-3) Beat St Lukes (8-5) and HH (9-4)
5 5 Hamden Hall (5-9) Beat KO (12-4), Loss King (9-4)
6 6 Hopkins School (2-8) Loss RCDS (7-10)
7 7 St Lukes (2-6) Loss to King (5-8)
8 8 Kingswood Oxford (1-7) Loss to HH (4-12) and GCDS (4-19)

Division 3
1 1 Harvey (9-1) Beat Williams in the rematch (14-6) and horance mann (6-8) and Forman (9-4)
2 2 Williams School (4-3) Loss to Harvey in the rematch (6-14)
3 3 Wooster (3-4) Beat Taft 3rds (10-5)
4 4 Hoosac (3-3) Loss to Vermont Acad (9-11)
5 6 South kent (2-1) Beat Marvelwood (14-0)
6 7 Forman (2-8) Beat Darrow (12-0), Loss to Harvey (4-9)
7 5 Darrow (3-2) Loss to Forman (0-12), Beat Marvelwood (6-1)
8 8 Masters (0-4)
9 9 Marvelwood (1-8) Loss to South Kent (14-0) and Darrow (1-6)
10 10 Woodhall (1-2)
11 11 Storm King (0-0) No team this year

[ausus]

Today's Predictions...

(H) Loomis Chaffee (10-3) vs. (A) Williston Northampton (4-6), 15-5 Pelicans

(H) Berkshire School (7-7) vs. (A) Westminster School (3-10), 9-7 Bears

(A) Taft School (12-1) vs. (H) Salisbury School (9-2), 12-10 Rhinos

(H) Choate (11-1) vs. (A) Trinity-Pawling (5-6), 10-6 Wild Boars

(A) Brunswick School (10-3) vs. (H) Avon Old Farms (8-4), 15-9 Bruins

(H) Deerfield (9-5) vs. (A) Kent School (0-12), 17-3 Big Green

(A) Hotchkiss (5-7) vs. (H) Albany Academy (5-4), 12-6 Bearcats

(A) Northfield Mt Hermon (6-10) vs. (H) Winchendon (7-7), 8-6 Hoggers

[grelch]

It's weird that Salisbury and Kent are hiding their score. Salisbury beat them, they announced that on twitter, but I guess only the people that were there know by how much. Don't see Salisbury beating Taft though. Choate, Brunswick and Deerfield should all win. I'd be surprised to see any upsets in their games.

[Kismet]

Neither team has posted ANY scores since April.

[grelch]

Neither team has posted ANY scores since April.

Salisbury usually do on their instagram.

[grelch]

AOF v Wick https://events.locallive.tv/events/104240

Salisbury v Taft https://vimeo.com/SALISBURYSCHOOL

Deerfield v Kent https://events.locallive.tv/events/101733

Choate v TP https://events.locallive.tv/events/110466

[pcowlax]

Neither team has posted ANY scores since April.

Salisbury usually do on their instagram.

The score will be posted along with the all-league honoree lists.

[grelch]

Neither team has posted ANY scores since April.

Salisbury usually do on their instagram.

The score will be posted along with the all-league honoree lists.

LaxNumbers posted it this afternoon. 19-4. Salisbury beat Taft this afternoon by 6 or 7. Good win. Wambach was the main difference in this game. Looks like Wick, Choate and Deerfield all won fairly comfortably as well.

[3rdPersonPlural]

Wait, what? How did I get dragged into this? I’ve been a perfect gentleman in not bringing up DA’s record vs. Taft these past few decades!

Sorry, my friend.

You're on the wrong side of the cheer section

[oldbartman]

Neither team has posted ANY scores since April.

Salisbury usually do on their instagram.

The score will be posted along with the all-league honoree lists.

Good one pcow!

[PhishFall97]

Final game from Jim Smith Field for the ‘23 season:

Avon 11
Deerfield 9


Just a brutal 4th quarter for the big green…. Beers at Champney’s helped.

Be worthy.,,,

[Kismet]

another missing result for Kent from yesterday

Kent/Westminster

[pcowlax]

Holy cow. I know Lawrenceville is excellent this year (and likely will be going forward with that coach) and I would probably rank them #1 in the country frankly but 21-4 over TP??? I can’t remember a West-1 team, outside of the bottom dwellers, ever getting filleted like that.

[grelch]

I don't know who the other 2 schools are that are in the Preps National with them and Wick, but I have a feeling there are more ugly spankings still to come.

[justanotherperson]

Now Im all mixed up rankings D1-2-3

D1: Salisbury beats Taft. Wick beat Salisbury. So many teams have beaten each other and I cant make heads or tails as they could all make an argument for the top spot. Too bad Wick and Choate dont play. By margin of victory and by margin of loss to Lville (9-10), I have to put Wick 1st again but any of them could be #1. CHoate could make a case. But I am going to use laxnumbers rankings for some help.

Same issue in the next Tier with all the teams beating each other. Poor Deerfield with a loss against AOF. A win wouldnt have moved them up but would have made a case for the top spot of the next Tier. I could put AOF above Loomis because of their (9-15) loss to Deerfield and I am not sure they would beat AOF again now that AOF FOGO is playing again. Kent basically not posting updated scores at this point. Lax numbers has it (Dfield, Loom, AOF)

D2-West: Not much movement. Millbrook avenges a close 1 goal loss to Gunnery by trouncing them (18-9). Brunswick B falls because of their weak schedule and losses. Not sure they should be in this Division but I dont know where else to put them

D2-FAA: big win by GFA over GCDS and King to retake the top spot. RCDS should be third but they are dealing with injuries. Playoffs this week

D3: Incorrect Wooster-Forman score earlier in the year has changed the rankings. HVAL playoffs this week

Current Last Week School Record Comments
Division 1
1 2 Brunswick (12-3) Win AOF (14-9) and huge win against Salisbury (18-15)
2 1 Taft (11-2) Big loss against Salisbury (9-16) but rebounded against Loomis (16-12)
3 4 Salisbury (11-3) Beat Kent (19-4) and huge win against Taft (16-9) but tough loss against 'Wick (15-18)
4 3 Choate (13-1) Beat TP (13-10) and Hotchkiss (10-4)
4 6 Loomis (10-4) Beat NMH (17-7) and D2 Williston (23-5) but loss to Taft (12-16)
5 5 Deerfield (9-6) Win Kent (23-5) but tough loss against AOF (9-11)
6 7 Avon Old Farms (9-5) Loss Wick (9-14) but big win against Deerfield (11-9)
8 8 Trinity Pawling (6-8) Loss Choate (10-13). Tough loss against LVille (4-21)
9 9 Hotchkiss (6-8) Win D2 Albany (18-10). Loss Choate (4-10)
10 10 Berkshire (8-7) Win Westy (13-7) and D2 Wilby (11-7)
11 11 Westminster (3-10) Loss Berkshire (7-13)
12 12 Northfield Mount Hermon (6-11) Loss Loomis (7-17) and Winchendon (12-13) and Exeter (4-12)
13 13 Kent (0-12) Loss Salisbury (4-19) and Deerfield (5-23)

Division 2 West (mostly boarding)
1 1 Wilbraham & Monson (9-3) Beat Gunnery (9-8). Loss to Berkshire (7-11)
2 2 Millbrook (10-6) Beat St Lukes (18-8) and avenge an earlier loss by beating Gunnery (18-9)
3 4 Albany Acadamies (5-5) Loss Hotchkiss (10-18)
4 5 Williston (4-7) Loss Loomis (5-23)
5 3 Brunswick B (not JV) (7-3) Loss Salisbury B (12-20)
6 6 Gunnery (5-8) Beat St Lukes (12-3), close loss to Wilby (8-9). Loss to Millbrook (9-18) in the rematch
7 7 Canterbury (7-7) Beat Cheshire Academy (14-4) and a good Portsmouth Abbey (10-9)
8 8 Suffield Academy (4-8) Beat KO (13-7) and HH (8-5)
9 9 Cheshire Academy (3-9) Loss Canterbury (4-14)

Division 2 - FAA (Day Schools))
1 2 Greens Farms Academy (8-3) Huge win GCDS (11-8) and King (7-5)
2 1 Greenwich Country Day (8-3) Huge loss GFA (8-11)
3 4 King School (7-3) Beat Hopkins (8-3) but bug loss to GFA (5-7)
4 3 Rye Country Day (10-3) Beat Masters (14-6) and HH (17-8) but missing some players due to injury
5 5 Hamden Hall (5-11) Loss to RCDS (8-17) and Suffield (5-8)
6 6 Hopkins School (4-9) Beat Harvey (8-7) and Loss to King (3-8) and beat KO (13-5(
7 7 St Lukes (2-8) Loss Gunnery (3-12) and Millbrook (8-18)
8 8 Kingswood Oxford (2-9) Beat Wooster (11-4), Loss Suffield (7-13) and Hopkins (5-13)

Division 3
1 1 Harvey (9-2) Loss to Hopkins (7-8)
2 2 Williams School (8-3) Beat Rocky Hill (14-3)
3 4 Hoosac (4-3) Beat Forman (11-8)
4 5 South kent (2-1)
5 6 Forman (5-9) Beat Wooster (9-7) but lost to Hoosac (8-11)
6 7 Darrow (3-2)
7 3 Wooster (2-7) Loss KO (4-11) and Forman (7-9)
8 8 Masters (0-5) Loss top RCDS 6-14
9 9 Marvelwood (1-8)
10 10 Woodhall (1-2)
11 11 Storm King (0-0) No team this year

[FC_YAK]

When do the playoffs start for the prep schools?

[Sportin' Life]

I could put AOF above Loomis because of their (9-15) loss to Deerfield and I am not sure they would beat AOF again now that AOF FOGO is playing again.

First of all I want to say thanks for your weekly write ups. I appreciate how thorough they are and it's interesting to see how teams throughout NEW are doing. I'd differ with you on the point above. LC played Taft tight on Sat. trading goals and the lead up until the Pelicans' offense went stone cold in 4Q and they ended up losing 16 - 12. Juxtapose that with Taft's utter dismantling of AOF today by a score of 15 - 5, a game in which the Winged Beavers were never a factor. With this in mind, I'd argue that LC would beat AOF if they played again and AOF had the services of FOGO Hepworth, who was toothless at the dot today. It's worth noting that LC's FOGO Hobot, a Hopkins commit, is outstanding in his own right.