John Jay defeated Tappan Zee 18-3, Yorktown topped Fox Lane 16-3 and Mahopac beat Arlington 16-2.

All the rest of the 4:30 games were postponed until tomorrow. Be back soon with more.

So the first round wasn’t the most competitive: 22-2, 20-2, 16-4, 19-8, 14-4, 14-5, 15-8, 11-6, 11-7. Average margin of victory: 10.7 goals. And no upsets.

Here’s a look at what the next round has in store. Unfortunately all nine quarterfinal games will be played on Tuesday (eight at 4:30 p.m.), which means I can only [...]

The Journal News college signings database is up and running. It can be found by clicking here. Here’s the list I have for girls lacrosse. Let me know if someone’s missing.

Emma Boehm (Mahopac) — William Smith
Ashley Carey (Mahopac) — Stevens
Caroline Chesterman (Nyack) — Florida
Caitlyn Corace (Mahopac) — Keene State
Jess Curran (Lakeland) — East Stroudsburg
Hannah Frey [...]

Freshman Melina Juliano, who was recently called up from the J.V., had three goals and two assists as Putnam Valley defeated North Salem 11-6.

It was the first playoff win for the two-year-old program, and the third time that No. 8 Putnam Valley beat No. 9 North Salem this season. Interestingly enough, North Salem — also [...]

Here’s today’s playoff schedule. If anyone has any thoughts or predictions, don’t keep them to yourself. I’ll start—I think there will be an upset tomorrow, and I’m looking at Harrison over Albertus. North Salem-Put Valley has turned into a great rivalry in just two years, but just like NS won three times last year, I [...]

Ossining is about to play in the biggest game the program has ever had. And its only head coach won’t be allowed on the sideline.

Chad Schindler, who is on family leave from his job as a middle school P.E. teacher in the Ossining school district, was told yesterday by the administration that he can not [...]

Hackley won its fourth NYSAIS girls lacrosse championship in five years, defeating Fieldston 9-8 at Manhattanville College. Hilary Smith scored five goals and Cat Friscia scored twice for the Hornets (13-5), the third seed. Katherine Martell scored four goals for No. 1 Fieldston (14-1).

Click below for pictures sent in by photographer/proud parent Bob Friscia
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The Hornets [...]

Racquel Lividini of Mamaroneck (top right) scored her 200th varsity point in Mamaroneck’s 10-6 win over Tappan Zee. In other news from the final day of the regular season, Andrea Stephens had four goals and an assist and Kari McWalters had four goals as Hastings defeated Sleepy Hollow 15-11, jumping ahead of the Horsemen for [...]

There were two changes from my projected seedings. Clarkstown North declined its opportunity to be the No. 5 seed in Class A, which moved Arlington up (and gave North Rockland a bye to the semifinals). And Hastings actually won a coin flip against Sleepy Hollow that decided the No. 14/No. 15 seed.

Anyone from North want [...]

Here’s my final seeding projection. The meeting is tonight at 7 at Greeley, and I will be back as soon as I can with the real thing.

Assuming that all the records I have are accurate, there will be six teams in A, nine teams in B and 17 in C. Which means Nanuet must play [...]

Lauren Kahn (below) became the sixth player in Section 1 — and the only sophomore — to record 100 points this season, getting three goals and seven assists as Nanuet defeated Scarsdale 17-7 to finish the League 1-B season undefeated.

In the NYSAIS semifinals, third seed Hackley defeated second seed Portledge 10-8 and will face top [...]

This is the report from Jake Thomases:

Suffern was looking for a stranglehold on Section 1 supremacy at Panas today. Lakeland/Panas was looking for a season split with Suffern. And three players were looking for scoring milestones.

No one got what they wanted.

The teams ended their game, a potential Class A championship preview, in a 6-6 tie. [...]

Friday is one of the last days of the regular season, and there are plenty of compelling games. Nanuet looks to cap an undefeated league season against Scarsdale, Courtney Miller continues toward 300 career goals (she has 289) and Greeley completes its first power-league campaign against Mahopac, John Jay looks to pull another surprising effort [...]

Today’s girls lacrosse notebook looked at Hackley, which is set to win another NYSAIS championship after being knocked out by Rye Country Day last year.

Well, the tournament schedule was announced tonight. If Hackley is to win for the fourth time in five years, it will need to do it as the No. 3 seed.

Play-in, [...]

Junior Kathleen O’Hara made 21 saves as Scarsdale defeated Mamaroneck 10-4 today to clinch the No. 4 seed in Class B (Mamaroneck will be the fifth seed).

Margaret Souther and Jenny Pechman (below) each had two goals and two assists for the Raiders (10-6-1), who went up 8-0 in the first seven minutes. Racquel Lividini scored [...]

With seven days left in the regular season, here are my latest projections. The guidelines can be found here. League records in parentheses. Teams in italics are out of the playoffs.

Class A
League I-A
1. Suffern (11-0)
2. Lakeland/Panas (6-2-2)
3. North Rockland (4-6)
4. Mahopac (2-8)
League II-A
5. Clarkstown North (4-5-1)
League II-B
(White Plains 1-7-1, 3-7-1 overall)
(New Rochelle 0-6-2, 1-9-3 overall)
League [...]

Katherine Pickel scored five goals and Kirstin Lang had four goals and an assist for the Indians (4-10-2), who came in with a six-game losing streak but left Panas High School with a 12-12 tie.

John Jay coach Gail Lozado said that it was the first time the Indians tied Lakeland/Panas. Caitlin Collins (three goals, one [...]

Hackley graduate Morgan Lathrop, Yorktown graduate Katrina Dowd and the rest of the Northwestern Wildcats start their quest for a fourth straight NCAA title today against Notre Dame.

Lathrop, a Briarcliff resident, is 17-1 with a 6.61 goals-against average, while Dowd entered the game fourth on the team in goals (33) and points (37).

Notre [...]

It was a very interesting day at John Jay Saturday, where the girls team celebrated “Jay Fest” by hosting Horace Greeley.

The newly-ranked Quakers solidified themselves as the top challenger to Yorktown in Class B, winning the game 16-12. Courtney Miller, who collected the MVP award from the Jay booster club, scored eight times and [...]

Amanda Lambert (below), a second-team all-county defender last season who was moved to the midfield last week, entered last night with two varsity goals. She matched that total in the first half against Yorktown, and then added three more in the second half as the Mounties beat the Cornhuskers 19-10.

Behind 6-5 at halftime, Suffern put [...]

Casandra Honovich scored with 1:01 left on an 8-meter shot as Lakeland/Panas tied Yorktown 9-9.

Caitlin Collins had two goals and an assist for the Rebels (10-3-1), who scored the last three goals of the game. Jaimie Morrison (above) had four goals and two assists for the Cornhuskers (9-3-1).

Here’s the article with details about Yorktown’s fast [...]

Here’s my latest power rankings. Comments are always welcome.

1. Suffern (12-1): Unbeaten in Section 1.
2. Lakeland/Panas (10-3): Won last three games by a combined score of 50-12.
3. Yorktown (9-3): Goes for sweep of Lakeland/Panas today.
4. Nanuet (11-2): Five girls have at least 29 goals.
5. Horace Greeley (7-6-1): Wins over North Rockland and Mahopac move them [...]

The seeding meeting is two weeks from today, so here is a first look at the playoff projections. This is based on games reported to us by 4 p.m. today. If anything doesn’t look right, please let me know.

Teams in Leagues 1-A and 1-B automatically qualify. Teams in Leagues II-A and II-B must have [...]