Because of an awards banquet at Pearl River, the Class C semifinal game has been moved from 5 p.m. back to 4:30 p.m. So all games are at 4:30 except for John Jay-Yorktown, which is at 5. Speaking of Yorktown, you can watch that game live by clicking here. And more good news — all three [...]

Incredibly, five of the six semifinals involve teams from the same league, so there will be plenty of familiarity today. Suffern, Yorktown and Scarsdale look to beat their opponents for a third time, while Mahopac-Lakeland/Panas was a split and Nanuet went 1-0-1 against Nyack. Will those trends hold? Will the favorites continue to win? Here [...]

We will be broadcasting the Yorktown-John Jay semifinal game live from Yorktown tomorrow at 5 p.m. Click here to watch the game.

Also, Courtney McGrath of Nanuet was last week’s GameFace of the Week. Trish Gorman of Hackley is representing girls lacrosse this week. Click here to vote.

After all 12 favorites won, here’s your Thursday schedule.

Class A

No. 4 North Rockland at No. 1 Suffern, 4:30 p.m. at Suffern Middle School
No. 3 Mahopac at No. 2 Lakeland/Panas, 4:30 p.m. at Lakeland

Class B
No. 4 John Jay at No. 1 Yorktown, 5 p.m.
No. 3 Mamaroneck at No. 2 Scarsdale, 4:30 p.m.

Class C
No. 4 Nyack at [...]

The game of the day was at Mamaroneck. Amanda Tuck (five goals) scored the last three goals of the game in the final two minutes as the Tigers beat Brewster 16-15. Tuck scored the winning goal with 1:17 left. Teammate Lauren Rush had four goals and one assist. Emily Biondi had five goals for the Bears. 

The rest [...]

A reader sent in this interesting fact about the Class B playoffs. Check out the head-to-head records among these four teams:

John Jay 4-1
Fox Lane 2-1
Horace Greeley 1-2
Brewster 0-3

Yet Fox Lane is the 7 seed, behind Greeley and Brewster. What that in mind, I think Fox Lane will a really tough opponent for Scarsdale today, and [...]

Here are the quarterfinal matchups. All games right now are Tuesday at 4:30. I’m on vacation until Tuesday, but when I get back I’ll post my thoughts and predictions. In the meantime let’s hear what you think.

Class A
No. 8 White Plains at No. 1 Suffern
No. 7 New Rochelle at No. 2 Lakeland/Panas
No. 6 Wappingers at [...]

I’ve been to two playoff games so far, and they both went to overtime. I can only hope this trend continues next week.

Somers, who was hosting a playoff game for the first time, were up 11-8 with nine minutes left. But Haley Dumke and Alex Lugovina scored in the final 22 seconds of regulation to tie the [...]

The Section 1 tournament begins today with eight first-round games — one in Class A and seven in Class C. All the games are at 4:30 p.m. unless otherwise noted.

Perhaps the most intriguing matchup takes place at Nyack, where cousins Joanna Chalsen (Briarcliff) and Katie O’Gorman (Nyack) will face against each other for the first time [...]

Erica Khosrowshahi scored with 20 seconds left in the second overtime as second-seeded Hackley defeated top seed Portledge 10-9 in the NYSAIS championship game at Columbia University.

Khosrowshahi had five goals and an assist and Haley Greenberg had five assists for the Hornets, who won the tournament for the fifth time in its six-year existence.

On defense [...]

I’ll be a guest on our Varsity Central show tonight at 8. If you haven’t seen the show yet, viewers are able to submit questions during the segment. You can ask me anything about the playoffs by clicking here.

No. 2 Hackley will face top seed Portledge in the NYSAIS championship game today at 3:30 p.m. at Columbia University’s Baker Athletics Complex. Here are directions to the field. Portledge defeated Hackley 20-9 on April 18. I’ll call in an update to the blog as soon as its over.

Mahopac broke its four-game losing streak yesterday in [...]

Here is how I broke down the Section 1 tournament in today’s Journal News, plus I added a prediction for each class. Now it’s your turn — who do you think is the favorite in Class A? The top challengers in Classes B and C? A darkhorse that will challenge the top teams? Some players [...]

Here is the official seeds and schedule. Teams were seeded based on their record in league games and mandatory crossovers. Teams in Division I were seeded first, followed by Division II and then Division III, which explains the disparity in records.

All game times are 4:30, unless both schools agree to change it. There was one [...]

Shannon Howe of Pearl River managed to end the Yorktown streak of four consecutive wins in last week’s GameFace competition. There’s two girls lacrosse entries this week — Courtney McGrath of Nanuet and Emily Pfaffenbach of Mahopac. Vote by clicking here.

Hackley advanced to the NYSAIS final Wednesday, 3:30 p.m. at Columbia’s Baker Field, while Holy Child’s historic run ended against Portledge; Fox Lane, Pleasantville, Hastings, Wappingers and Clarkstown South finished their league seasons unbeaten; Mamaroneck’s Amanda Tuck and Pelham’s Ali Guba scored their 100th goals; and junior Anna Berman of North Rockland recorded her 500th save. Here’s [...]

The seeding meeting for the Section 1 tournament will be this morning at 9 a.m. at BOCES. Short story — I will post the seeds here as soon as they become “official.” Hopefully by the early afternoon.

Long story — I attended the meeting last year when the Horace Greeley AD was in charge, but the Fox [...]

There’s an incredible 20 games taking place today. For most teams, this is a last chance to qualify for the playoffs, improve on seeding or work out the kinks before the postseason. Here are the biggest storylines of the day:

Holy Child: Can Holy Child follow up its first-ever playoff win by upsetting top seed Portledge [...]

Holy Child won a playoff game for the first time in school history when it beat Riverdale 16-15 in the NYSAIS quarterfinals today. It was a back-and-forth game where the lead changed hands four times. Holy Child led 15-12 with 11 minutes left, Riverdale came back to tie and then Hadley Duncan (eight goals) scored the winner [...]

Hackley and Holy Child both won by one goal in a competitive first round of the NYSAIS tournament. I’ll have more details later, but here’s the scores and schedule:

#1 Portledge 11, #8 Long Island Lutheran 7

#2 Hackley 7, #7 Fieldston 6

#6 Poly Prep 13, #3 Rye Country Day 11

#4 Holy Child 16, #5 Riverdale 15

Semifinals, [...]

Yorktown graduate Katrina Dowd scored seven goals for the second straight game as Northwestern defeated Princeton 16-9 to advance to the Division I semifinals. From the Northwestern web site:

Dowd netted her first two goals of the afternoon with less than a minute burned off the game clock… Through two games of the tournament, Dowd has scored [...]

Two local goalies will be leading their teams into the quarterfinals of the Division I women’s tournament today. Briarcliff native and Hackley graduate Morgan Lathrop is the goalie for top-seeded Northwestern, who has won 26 games in a row and will host No. 8 Princeton at 2 p.m. Lakeland/Panas graduate Erin Goodman is the netminder [...]

We now have the champions of the inaugural geography-based power leagues: Nanuet, Yorktown and Scarsdale. The Raiders defeated Mamaroneck 16-10 to clinch the Southern league on Senior Day. Margaret Souther had six goals and two assists and Nicole Rafajac had four goals and four assists as Scarsdale outscored the Tigers 9-2 in the second half.

Charlotte [...]