Scotch Plains - Fanwood Lacrosse Club Dinner/Auction

The Scotch Plains Fanwood Lacrosse Club is holding a dinner/auction at the Scotch Plains Italian America Club on Jan. 31 from 7-11 pm. Fat Angel Barbeque, which was featured in the September issue of New Jersey Monthly, will be catering the event.

Items available for auction include Disney Park Hopper tickets, a signed Eli Manning jersey, New Jersey Devils, New Jersey Nets, and New York Mets tickets, a stay at a ski house in the Poconos, Math/SAT tutoring, Vera Bradley products, signed Gerry Cooney boxing gloves and pictures, and a signed Jets poster.

For more details and to register, visit www.spflacrosse.org. All proceeds will benefit Scotch Plains-Fanwood Lacrosse.

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Rutgers Men’s Lacrosse Announces Coaching Clinic

Source : Scarletknights.com

PISCATAWAY, N.J. – Rutgers men’s lacrosse head coach Jim Stagnitta announced that the program will host a coaching clinic, Sunday January 25. The clinic consists of teaching sessions that emphasize specific topics in the game of lacrosse for the youth/beginning player or the high school/advanced player.

Teaching sessions include one-on-one question and answer periods, along with film analysis and chalkboard breakdowns. The clinic is open to all youth and high school coaches.

The clinic will not only feature RU coaches Jim Stagnitta, James Rogalski and Jason Basso, but also former Rutgers All-American Reid Jackson and Princeton University associate head coach Dave Metzbower.

For more information and details on the clinic, please visit: www.mxplaxcamps.com

Pennington and O’Dougherty Selected as Preseason All-Americans

Source: ScarletKnights.com

BALTIMORE, Md. – Junior midfielder Justin Pennington (Flemington, N.J.) and senior defenseman Chris O’Dougherty (Kinnelon, N.J) were selected as preseason All-Americans by Inside Lacrosse. The duo garnered third team honors in the annual Face-Off Yearbook Preseason All-America list.

Pennington, who was named the 2009 ECAC Preseason Offensive Player of the Year last week, led Rutgers in both points and assists in 2008. The midfielder tallied 32 points on 22 goals and 10 assists a year ago. Additionally, he ranked 11th in the country, averaging 5.15 groundballs per game. An honorable mention All-American in 2008, Pennington was recently ranked No. 7 by Inside Lacrosse in the magazine’s list of the Top-10 midfielders in the country.

O’Dougherty, who joined Pennington on last season’s All-ECAC First Team, anchored an RU defense that ranked Top-30 nationally in both scoring defense and man-down defense last spring.

The Scarlet Knights, who finished third in the ECAC in 2008, will begin their season on Saturday, Feb. 7 with a home matchup against Villanova at RU Turf Field.

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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.