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Another NY team playing in NJ

Pro lacrosse team plans to play at Pru Center in Newark

Source: www.nj.com

Posted by pcox November 11, 2008 11:31AM

Professional lacrosse is coming to Newark.

The New York Titans will play five of their seven home games at the Prudential Center this season.

Casey Powell of the New York Titans

The Titans play in the 13-team National Lacrosse League and normally play their home games at Madison Square Garden. Last season the team reached the league semifinals.

The team is led by Casey Powell, a former three-time All-America for Syracuse University.

The Titans are scheduled to play at the Prudential Center on Jan. 10 against Boston; Feb. 8 against Chicago; March 14 against Calgary; April 4 against Philadelphia and April 11 against Buffalo.

The team also plans to provide instruction and equipment to local schools as part of a community outreach project.

National Recruiting Fall Ball Tourney - MD

A few NJ, NY, and PA teams will be participating in the National Recruiting Fall Ball Tourney in Baltimore this weekend. As of this writing, the confirmed teams include:

In the “A” division, the competitors will be Alexandria Travel, All State, Archbishop Curley, Bishop Shanahan High School, Breakers, Bucks Select, Burnaby Mountain Selects Junior Elite, Burnaby Mountain Selects Senior Elite, Burning River Lacrosse Maroon, Celts Lacrosse Club, Central PA Dawgs, Delaware Silverbacks Elite, FuZe Blue, FuZe Gold, Greene Turtle OC, Hot Shots Lacrosse Club, Jagslax, LB3 Blue, LI Lax, Long Island Storm, Meltdown Lancaster Select, Mesa Fresh 2010, Morris Select, North Arundel Gold, Penn East, Potomac School, Rebel Elite, Renegades Gold, SMS Lacrosse, Springfield High School, St. Paul’s, Team Langley, Thomas S. Wooton HS, Trilogy NJ, Vipers Elite and West Chester East High School.

In the “B” division, you’ll see A.O.D. Richmond, Blue Mountain, Burning River Lacrosse Navy, Downingtown West PA, FuZe Select, FuZe White, Harford Renegades (Betsill), LB3 Silver, LB3 White, Long Island Saints, Madlax Sophomores, North Arundel White, St. Paul’s I, St. Paul’s II, Team Charlotte Orange and Trilogy.

We are curious to see how NJ talent holds up against some of the better competition across the East.

Schmidt Added to Coaching Staff

PISCATAWAY, N.J. - After a stellar playing career at Rutgers, Nick Schmidt returns to ‘the Banks’ as a volunteer assistant coach on the Scarlet Knights staff in 2009. He will focus primarily on player development, working directly with the attack. He’ll be focusing on teaching fundamentals with shooting and dodging and analyzing practice and game film to help teach proper techniques. . .

See the full press release here.

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A few schedule highlights for 2009

The boys high school season is starting to take shape for 2009. Only a handful of schools have their schedules completed (about 10%), but here are a few interesting matchups so far:

4/4/09 Chatham @ Hunterdon Central - How will Chatham do with a new head coach?

4/8/09 Moorestown @ Montgomery - A solid early season test for both teams. Both teams lost some good players; are the younger players ready to step it up?

5/8/09 Montclair @ Ridge - Ridge was young last year and still had a decent season. Will Montclair rise above the craziness that surrounds their program and improve on last season?

Check back here often ..... we'll post new schedule highlights as the teams finalize their schedules . . .

Paul Cantabene Face-off Instructional (Part 1)

Paul is a face-off legend. This video provides basic instruction aimed at beginning face-off middies.