We have lots of video this week! First there are TWO games from the recent St. Mary's trip to Dallas, Texas, where they played at Texas Stadium as part of the Patriot Cup. The Patriot Cup was a Lax World event hosted by the Naval Academy and Rutgers, playing Holy Cross and Army respectively. St. Mary's played Episcopal School of Dallas as the under card.

A day earlier we caught St. Mary's at the Episcopal School of Dallas, but against the Highland Park School, another Dallas powerhouse team. St. Mary's is ranked number one by Lax Power in the early goings of 2008. BL looked faster, but John Lamon, who will play at Towson next season, leads the Saints who have gone from 3-13 last year to the heights of high school ball in short order. Can they keep it up? I can't wait to see.

The third video is Boys' Latin defeating Salisbury School from Connecticut. Salisbury plays in another of the nation's best lacrosse conferences, the Founders League, featuring schools like Hotchkiss, Loomis Chaffee, Deerfield, Taft, etc.. They have some post-graduates on the Salisbury team, including last year's Boys' Latin player Kevin Moriarty. At one point a BL player scores and hugs a few players on his team and then Moriarty, maybe out of habit, or because he beat his ex-teammate for the score.

Speaking of beating the ones we love, you will notice in the stands, rooting for young Wells Stanwick (26) on the BL team, was Loyola Blakefield star and 2007 Baltimore Sun Player of the Year Steele Stanwick, Wells' brother. You know the family well, with Sheehan, Wick and Coco starring on the Georgetown women's team for a decade. I believe that Garrett Stanwick at Johns Hopkins is a cousin. Steele's going to Virginia where the new dynasty will reign. The Cavs will be unbeatable from 2009 until 2012 or longer. It may have started early, already! If family loyalty holds up like it did at Georgetown with the girls, U.Va. could be a dynasty 'til 2015.