New England West 2024

[pcowlax]

Less than 2 weeks to action!

Loomis gets going on March 16th in PA

Deerfield starts on March 16th against IMG then has Nobles from ISL

Taft launches their schedule in 3/22 weeks against St Johns, which is a nationally ranked DC area team

Wick kicks off their schedule 3/23 against St Sebs, who is a big player in the ISL (they beat my Rhinos last year)

Salisbury starts on Mar 27 against Nobles as well

Everyone else seems to be 3/30 or an April start date.

Whee!

What happened to the March 16th games for LC and the DA Green?

They're either off of IL calendars (LC) or passed but no score shown (DA)

Curiouser and Curiouser...

Deerfield v IMG was a scrimmage, probably why no posted score.

Yup, those NE West Florida Trips always get conveniently removed from IL Scoreboard. Sometimes you can find them on LaxNumbers. Usually, the school's website doesn't even include it on their schedule.

Joe

Deerfield's website lists the spring break trips for each team and gives the daily itinerary. For the 16th it said there would be scrimmages, it didn't even list IMG. This was before the trip happened. IMG doesn't list it either. It was a scrimmage. While Florida teams are in the middle of their season, West-1 teams use trips like this to literally settle on their varsity roster, they have had a small handful if any outdoor practices before they go down. This was never a game. Loomis's first game seems to have been the 18th, score is on IL and laxnumbers.

[Laxxal22]

This is from Taft - IMG down in Florida: https://www.instagram.com/p/C4tFOAXr8iP/

If guys are wearing pinnies instead of jerseys, then it's a scrimmage. I doubt any of the prep schools that go to Florida pack jerseys.

[JoeMauer89]

Less than 2 weeks to action!

Loomis gets going on March 16th in PA

Deerfield starts on March 16th against IMG then has Nobles from ISL

Taft launches their schedule in 3/22 weeks against St Johns, which is a nationally ranked DC area team

Wick kicks off their schedule 3/23 against St Sebs, who is a big player in the ISL (they beat my Rhinos last year)

Salisbury starts on Mar 27 against Nobles as well

Everyone else seems to be 3/30 or an April start date.

Whee!

What happened to the March 16th games for LC and the DA Green?

They're either off of IL calendars (LC) or passed but no score shown (DA)

Curiouser and Curiouser...

Deerfield v IMG was a scrimmage, probably why no posted score.

Yup, those NE West Florida Trips always get conveniently removed from IL Scoreboard. Sometimes you can find them on LaxNumbers. Usually, the school's website doesn't even include it on their schedule.

Joe

Deerfield's website lists the spring break trips for each team and gives the daily itinerary. For the 16th it said there would be scrimmages, it didn't even list IMG. This was before the trip happened. IMG doesn't list it either. It was a scrimmage. While Florida teams are in the middle of their season, West-1 teams use trips like this to literally settle on their varsity roster, they have had a small handful if any outdoor practices before they go down. This was never a game. Loomis's first game seems to have been the 18th, score is on IL and laxnumbers.

pcowlax,

Thanks for the insight. Looks it was part of something called the Hoganlax "Orlando Jamboree" Which took place from 3/16-3/19.

Joe

[Superlite]

Hogan Lax is running spring training most of March down in Orlando. Govs, Westminster, Deerfield down there last week. This week Taft, Brunswick, Holderness, Middlesex and others

Less than 2 weeks to action!

Loomis gets going on March 16th in PA

Deerfield starts on March 16th against IMG then has Nobles from ISL

Taft launches their schedule in 3/22 weeks against St Johns, which is a nationally ranked DC area team

Wick kicks off their schedule 3/23 against St Sebs, who is a big player in the ISL (they beat my Rhinos last year)

Salisbury starts on Mar 27 against Nobles as well

Everyone else seems to be 3/30 or an April start date.

Whee!

What happened to the March 16th games for LC and the DA Green?

They're either off of IL calendars (LC) or passed but no score shown (DA)

Curiouser and Curiouser...

Deerfield v IMG was a scrimmage, probably why no posted score.

Yup, those NE West Florida Trips always get conveniently removed from IL Scoreboard. Sometimes you can find them on LaxNumbers. Usually, the school's website doesn't even include it on their schedule.

Joe

Deerfield's website lists the spring break trips for each team and gives the daily itinerary. For the 16th it said there would be scrimmages, it didn't even list IMG. This was before the trip happened. IMG doesn't list it either. It was a scrimmage. While Florida teams are in the middle of their season, West-1 teams use trips like this to literally settle on their varsity roster, they have had a small handful if any outdoor practices before they go down. This was never a game. Loomis's first game seems to have been the 18th, score is on IL and laxnumbers.

pcowlax,

Thanks for the insight. Looks it was part of something called the Hoganlax "Orlando Jamboree" Which took place from 3/16-3/19.

Joe

[justanotherperson]

Not so accurate D1-D2-D3 rankings for 2024

-Now that I have submitted my NCAA BBall sheets, I can focus on this since the season is upcmonig
-Will try to do this again this year if it is of any interest to anyone. I know the focus is on the NE-West Div 1 but I threw in 2 and 3 as well
-Does not include most ISL or Mass teams. Mostly CT and eastern NY and Western Mass
-I have no great intel on all the teams, especially this early in the season so please feel free to disagree
-I have included the games that have been played - I dont know if they are scrimmages
-there is no formal D2 / D3 (HVAL) divisions. I just kind of lumped them together to D2 (boarding except Brusnwick2), D2 day schools and D3 is a mish-mosh

Questions and observtaions for each division:
- Will Loomis take the next step and join the Big 3? Will 'Wick reload?
- Will Kent win more games?
- Noticed NMH eased up on their NE-West scheduling and scheduled more Mass teams
- Will Millbrook claim the top spot again or will Canterbury and Gunnery improve after a down year?
- IS GCDS now the new Brunswick Lite?
- Will Harvey take the top spot in D3?

Love to hear and feedback or comments. Good luck to everyone this season. Sorry for the formatting. Dont know how to fix it

Current Last Year School Last Years Comments Last year's rating
Division 1
1 1 Brunswick (13-4) Always reload every yeaer. #1 until proven otherwise but the gap is closing 97.89
2 3 Salisbury (12-4) Always a contender 95.11
3 2 Taft (15-2) New coach, always good 97.05
4 4 Loomis (13-5) Potential to be very good this year 93.47
5 6 Deerfield (10-8) Can they meet up to expecations to return to the top 93.80
6 5 Choate (14-3) Can they reload 94.32
7 9 Trinity Pawling (8-9) Can they play above potential and move into top 6 89.98
8 8 Hotchkiss (8-9) New coach, lost players 89.60
9 7 Avon Old Farms (9-8) New coach, rebuilding, lost a lot 92.22
10 10 Berkshire (11-7) Moved into the middle tier last year and out of the bottom 3, will they continue to climb 89.32
11 12 Northfield Mount Hermon (6-13) Downscheduled out most of the hard NE-West? Wil they pass westy this year? 81.07
12 11 Westminster (6-12) Have fallen on hard times 86.26
13 13 Kent (1-17) Looking to win more than 1 78.34

Division 2 West (mostly boarding)
1 2 Millbrook (11-7) Always solid 85.18
2 NR Pomfret (10-7) Adding them in due to many common opponents 84.78
3 1 Wilbraham & Monson (9-4) Always solid 84.60
4 3 Albany Acadamies (7-5) Can they move into the top tier and be more consistent 82.37
5 4 Williston (8-8) Can they play up to potential and stay above .500 83.37
6 5 Brunswick B (not JV) (7-3) Will they play a full schedule - dont really belong here but dont know where else to put them 79.40
7 6 Gunnery (5-11) Down year last year 78.16
8 7 Canterbury (7-9) Down year last year 80.95
9 8 Suffield Academy (4-9) rebuilding year 2 with new coach 72.21
10 9 Cheshire Academy (4-10) Fallen on hard times 74.37

Division 2 - FAA (Day Schools))
1 2 Greenwich Country Day (11-4) Could be on top for quite sometime - the new Brunswick Lite? They have $$ and facilites 78.10
2 1 Greens Farms Academy (10-4) Always a contender but lost some key players on D 77.12
3 3 King School (5-6) Always solid 73.14
4 4 Rye Country Day (11-6) Always solid 74.88
5 5 Hamden Hall (5-11) WIll they play a harder OOC 68.68
6 7 St Lukes (2-8) Rebuild 2nd year with new coach 68.13
7 8 Kingswood Oxford (2-9) Rebuild 2nd year with new coach 65.41
9 6 Hopkins School (5-8) New coach. Lost most its defense and firepower 69.56

Division 3
1 2 Williams School (10-3) Always solid 66.98
2 1 Harvey (11-3) Some key players returning, can they rise to the top 70.15
3 3 Hoosac (4-3) 65.45
4 4 South kent (2-1) Looks to be on the rise with more aggressive scheduling 60.81
5 5 Forman (5-10) Like that they schedule alot of games 61.18
6 6 Darrow (4-2) 50.95
7 7 Wooster (2-8) Will they live up to potential 60.52
8 8 Masters (0-6) 64.22
9 9 Marvelwood (2-9) 47.01
10 10 Woodhall (1-3) 44.75
11 11 Storm King (0-0) Will they field a team this year 0.00

[grelch]

St. Johns beat Taft 9-8 tonight. Didn't watch it. Link to the game is still on Taft's instagram bio if ur interested.

[3rdPersonPlural]

St. Johns beat Taft 9-8 tonight. Didn't watch it. Link to the game is still on Taft's instagram bio if ur interested.

I watched the link Grelch suggested https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzfURR4Cgos

Except for the first 7 minutes of the 2nd half, a period of time that Taft lost 7-1, Taft looked like it might well win.

[PrimeTime21]

Wick murdered Sebs. Got a monster of a team ready to roll. Greenwich >>>>> wherever you're from

[MA Lax Fan]

Does Wick not use Twitter anymore? They had a big following and up until 7 months ago stopped posting.

https://x.com/wick_lax/status/1662072145629831171?s=46

Please tell me this is not a political statement regarding Musk or free speech?

[Laxxal22]

It's probably more that Twitter isn't a platform that young people use very much, and social accounts are often run by student managers. I've noticed that a lot of teams are active on Instagram because of the visual and video elements. Maybe teams use TikTok as well but I'm just speculating as I'm not on that app.

[MA Lax Fan]

Appreciate the response.

I get that but Twitter is typically “live” updates and scores are posted immediately.

Not sure where to get my real time updates now.

[Laxxal22]

Haverford 9 - Taft 8 in an absolutely bonkers game!

[random observer]

Wild ending in the final minute. Taft ties it on the man up. Then McCarthy scores off the FO with a weird bouncer that threw Friedman off. Taft gets another man up and ties it again. Then McCarthy goes down and scores off the FO again with less than 10 seconds on the clock.

Taft definitely played a lot better than the other night; St. John's has had an awful start to the season so frankly that's a bad loss. They can hold their heads up high today though. There was a period early in the third where Haverford was threatening to break the game wide open. But they hit a pipe, Taft went down and scored to make it 6-4, and from there momentum swung and Haverford got very tight.

Defensively Taft shut down Haverford for the last 20 minutes of the game, and Friedman was terrific. Fitzgerald similarly excellent, and overall he got the better of Haverford's top ranked FOGO. Offensively they were stymied by a hot goalie, but frankly they didn't get much going in the settled offense against an admittedly imposing Haverford defense; half of their goals came on the EMO including the last 3 in the fourth quarter.

[3rdPersonPlural]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mO2bumv4KI0

To see what RO was goin' on about, queue the cursor to about 1:35:00 or so

Wow!

[Finster]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mO2bumv4KI0

To see what RO was goin' on about, queue the cursor to about 1:35:00 or so

Wow!

That’s a remarkable end. Jeez.

Also credit to the camera guy. Better view than many college games.

[3rdPersonPlural]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mO2bumv4KI0

To see what RO was goin' on about, queue the cursor to about 1:35:00 or so

Wow!

That’s a remarkable end. Jeez.

Also credit to the camera guy. Better view than many college games.

I agree.

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[justanotherperson]

Looks like a lot of games are being played today which marks the official start of the season?

The summary of games / scrimmages (still cant tell which is which, but suspect most are scrimmages) up to this point are below

New rankings on Monday as well as final summaries on transfer players into their respective schools. If anyone else has intel on any scores up to this point, feel free to add. Good luck to everyone this season

D1:
-AOF beat La Costa Canyon (5-3/85.47 rating): 8-5
-Brunswick beat St Sebastians (0-2/no rating): 12-1
-Hotchkiss beat Community School of Naples, FL (8-4/82.99): 7-3
-Loomis beat Spingside Chestnut HIll, PA (3-2/92.99): 10-4
-Salisbury beat Navy Prep (3-1/70.16): 13-8
-Taft lost to St Johns College, MD (1-3/89.49): 8-9
-Taft lost to Haverford, PA (5-0/96.16): 8-9

D2:
-Albany Academy lost to Lawrence Academy (1-0/no rating): 6-10
-GFA lost to Austin Prep (1-1/no rating): 2-11
-Hopkins lost to West Haven, CT (0-0/no rating): scrimmage
-King beat Rockledge, FL (3-9/55.92) 16-2
-KO beat Golden, CO (1-3/71.19): no score - scrimmage
-KO lost to Tilton (0-0/no rating): 7-8 - scrimmage
-Pomfret lost to the Hill School, PA (2-1/89.96): 9-19


D3:
-Harvey beat Florida Christian (6-7/60.13): 10-2

GAMES TODAY:
-Cheshire Academy @ Millbrook
-Deerfield vs Belmont HIll
-Berkshire @ Choate
-Brunswick vs Radnor (2-0)
-Choate vs Berkshire
-Gunnery vs King (1-0)
-King @ Gunnery
-Loomis vs Governors (0-1)
-Millbrook vs Cheshire Academy
-NMH @ Westy
-Pomfret @ Roxbury Latin
-RCDS vs Fieldston
-Rivers School @ Williston
-Salisbury @ Nobles
-St Lukes @ Kennedy Catholic (6-0)
-Westy vs NMH

[grelch]

Were Belmont Hill the defensive masters, keep the score low specialists from last year? I wonder how many players they lost from last year. My recollection is that they were very good last season. Should be an interesting game today.

Jumped around between 3 games in their first halves. BH looked good at Deerfield. Think it ended 9-6 BH at the half, but they felt more in command than that. Loomis v Governor's was close. Last I looked Loomis were up by 1. Wick has been sloppy. Up by 1 after 1. That's all I can watch. good to see it all back.

[Sportin' Life]

LC downs Govs 14 - 8 in its home opener. Govs came out with fire in its belly, likely still smarting from its loss to Andover, tallied the first two goals of the game and kept it close for much of the first half. The Pelicans were missing a few key players and had some mental lapses that resulted in penalties today but proved to be too much for the Red Dogs nevertheless.

[pcowlax]

Brunswick 11-5 over what was, last year at least, a very strong Radnor, not sure how they will be this year. Deeefield falls 13-12 in OT. Last year Belmont played a soul-sucking zone and won games (vs good teams), 6-4, 6-5, 8-5, 8-6, etc. very tough to beat, many excellent players, miserable to watch. Hopefully they have opened it up this year, maybe this score indicates they have.