Notes from Georgetown Prep vs. Garden City (N.Y.)
It used to be true that the big teams from New York didn't come down and play in Baltimore, but not any more.
Garden City vs. Georgetown Prep at Boys' Latin? Are you kidding me? Get outta here! I saw it myself. You can too. Just watch the video.
Garden City came into the heart of Baltimore with their distinctly more plodding, New York style of play and their Long Island accents (which was great to hear!). They did not stray from their game plan and took down a very methodical and talented Georgetown Prep team.
Georgetown Prep is well coached, to say the least. They have a staff that's been on the sideline for years and have won huge games against huge teams, by building even bigger teams. A few seasons have started with an early Prep loss or two against aggressively scheduled national Top 10 programs. But by the end of most seasons, they are one of the nation's top teams. This year will be the same, and they will be a fine team.
The Georgetown Prep loss to Garden City will likely have a much larger effect on the outcome of the poll rankings. Prep will most likely beat a couple top-ranked Baltimore teams and the speculation will begin about a New York team being No. 1.
And they may be. One game does not prove anything, of course, but this is a great start. We need the powerhouse New York and Maryland teams to play each other in a few exchanges like this every year, home and away. Only then will we have any real comparative data to use in the national high school rankings.
Comments
Why don't you write about local teams instead of Prep? Bias, perhaps?
Loyola's #1 in the country and Gilman is loaded as well.
FYI - the Dons crushed St. Anthony's and Gilman has already rolled Landon and Prep.
St. Mary's just crushed Landon as well.
Posted by: Seymore Butz | March 24, 2008 3:55 PM
Mr. Butz, We'll cover them all eventually. This was really about Garden City and the significance of the trip they made. We covered St. Mary's in Dallas twice on E-Lacrosse. They are very good, and Gilman is supposed to rock too, Seymore. BL looked pretty good against Salisbury from Connecticut this weekend too. Here comes Wells Stanwick!
Posted by: John Weaver | March 25, 2008 12:59 AM
More Sunpapers sniping at the University of Virginia lacrosse program. If Johns Hopkins falls flat and Maryland fails to live up to its annual high aspirations, your paper's writers have a sad tendency to denigrate the opposition. What a classy bunch you are.
Yes, Peter Lamade was given a pass along with the rest of the Wild Bunch in Durham, and yes he is now playing for Virginia as a grad student. His role there, however, has been that of a bit player (no offense, Peter) while Danowski and company ARE the Duke team.
Focusing your snideness on Lamade takes away from the great work of Ben Rubeor and others with no connection on the sad mess two years ago. I find this particularly galling since the Duke team has been playing with a huge chip on its shoulder and much of their anger is focused on Virginia for taking "their" championship in 2006. Now you drag Virginia down to their level on a legalism. How sad.
Posted by: Winston Wood | March 25, 2008 8:29 AM
Hi John,
Have you ever some paranoid readers. Every comment is a complaint or a perceived slight at their team.
Posted by: Jim | March 25, 2008 12:02 PM
NICE WORK JOHNNY. ILLEGITIMUS NON CORBORUNDUM!
Posted by: gordon | March 26, 2008 9:07 AM
OMG! They teach latin at Towson High?
Posted by: John Weaver | March 26, 2008 9:24 AM
John, please help settle a disagreement. What is your best info on how many full college atheletic scholarship are given in lax.
Posted by: Charles Lamp | March 26, 2008 11:19 AM
Charles, Here's a resource with the proof for your bet:
http://www.campuschamps.com/rulebook/ncaa_scholarship_limits.shtml
D1 Lacrosse teams may have 12.6 each year if they are alloted that many in the school budget. A few are not. All schools break that up into many smaller scholarships.
Posted by: John Weaver | March 26, 2008 3:17 PM
Stanwick...Stanwick....Stanwick....
Yes he is a very good player but come on he's committed. End of story! Enough of Stanwick. How about the other 1,000 players out there. And by the way how did Centennial make it in the top 15? AC Friars smoked Centennial at Maryland. Somebody is not doing their homework out there.
Posted by: Craig | March 26, 2008 3:56 PM
They came down with there accents? and new york style of play? Garden city happens to be one of the wealthiest towns in America. No teams ever come down to Baltimore? why don't baltimore teams come up to the island. Well this game explains alot. Another maryland private school gets taught a lesson by a less sophisticated new york team
Posted by: apollo creed | March 27, 2008 11:07 PM
I don't think I referred to any team as higher or lower in social, wealth or lacrosse status. I refered to the accents and said they were great to hear because I love it when teams from great lacrosse areas play each other. Hearing different accents at a game is just a by-product of that.
Hearing some Baltimore and Long Island in the same crowd is beautiful to me. I came up in a time when there was just New York lacrosse, Maryland lacrosse, Native lacrosse and Canada lacrosse. I root for all four because as a kid, I knew them to be lacrosse people. I rooted for the indians in the old western films, despite my obvious ancestry.
Speaking of westerns, my Baltimore accent, along with those of the St. Mary's team and families, must have seemed odd and kind of cool in Texas recently when we visited for games. I think it's a sign of the growth when I hear varying accents on any lax field.
As for Maryland teams not coming up to New York, I think I know why it does not happen more, but I want to make sure the reason a few years ago when we tried to arrange some games is still the reason now before I speak on it. But I will follow up with a blog about it later.
Posted by: John Weaver | March 28, 2008 9:48 AM