New England Lax Notes / Polls Week 5
Posted on May 11th 2011
Each Tuesday or Wednesday we will have our weekly Lax Notes and Massachusetts Poll available. Please check back and email newenglandprepstars@hotmail.com for updates, thoughts, and questions.
Massachusetts
- In our thriller of the week Needham defeated Walpole 12-11 on Tuesday in a Bay State League match-up. Senior captain Davis Cutter scored the game winner with seven ticks remaining on the clock. Cutter scored on a dish from senior attack and Albany commit Will Stenberg '11. Stenberg also went over the 400 career point mark in the game as he scored three goals and had two assists.
- Westford Academy is getting great production out of their four headed attack unit of senior Jason Welch, junior Ian Speliotis and fab frosh Jay Drapeau and Alex Antes. In a 12-9 win over Chelmsford on Tuesday the attack unit scored all 12 goals with Welch leading the way with 6 on the day. See the photo and video gallery on Westford Patch here.
- Congrats to our NEPS player of the week Concord-Carlisle goalie Doug Gouchoe '12. The junior keeper had a great week as he was stellar in net in a 7-4 win over L-S and helped C-C shut out Arlington and Bedford, 11-0 in both games. The defense of C-C, led by seniors Michael Anastos, Peter George (pictured above left) and junior Henry Bumpus, has also been up to task.
- There was not a lot of movement in our Fab 15 in Mass this week. Many of the top teams took care of business with wins,
Fab 15 Massachusetts week 5
with previous week's record, rank in bold, and impact performance (s) since last week's poll
1.) Duxbury (10-3) 1 – defeated Hingham and Scituate.
2.) Wellesley (12-0) 2 - defeated Milton and Brookline
3.) Billerica (12-2) 3 - defeated Lowell, Greenwich(CT) and Beverly.
4.) Concord-Carlisle (12-1) 4 - defeated Lincoln-Sudbury, Arlington and Bedford.
5.) Marshfield (14-0) 5 - defeated Falmouth and Plymouth South.
6.) Needham (11-2) 7 - defeated Braintree, Newton South and Walpole
7.) Hingham (11-2) 6 – defeated North Quincy and Cohasset and lost to Duxbury
8.) BC High (10-4) 8 - defeated Malden Catholic and St. John;s Prep
9.) Medfield (11-3) 9 - defeated Holliston and Westwood.
10.) Dover-Sherborn (12-2) 10 - defeated Medway and Hopkinton.
11.) Masconomet (11-1) 11 – defeated Triton, Wilmington and Gloucester.
12.) Cohasset (10-4) 13 - defeated Scituate and lost to Hingham.
13.) Walpole (9-3) NR - defeated Dedham and Xaverian and lost to Needham
14.) Andover (10-3) NR – defeated Chelmsford and Dracut
15.) Winchester (10-2) 12 - defeated Woburn and lost to Winchester.
Elsewhere in New England
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Darien (CT) remains the top dog in Connecticut as they continue to take care of business. Below are a list of their recent wins from laxpower.com.
5/03 at Fairfield-Ludlowe W, 17-4 5/07 at New Canaan W, 11-5 5/10 at Fairfield-Warde W, 20-0 - Bishop Guertin (8-4, 8-0 vs. NH) lost to Rhode Island's top ranked squad La Salle Academy 6-5 in a Mother's Day game in Nashua, NH. BG came back with a 14-3 win over Nashua South on Monday.
- In Rhode Island La Salle Academy (10-0) also defeated Bishop Hendrickson 13-3 on Wednesday and face North Kingstown in a rematch of the two top teams in RI on Thursday.
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Preps and Privates - Deerfield Academy (MA) (12-0) remains the team to beat in New England as they continue to roll over teams. In the past week they have put up some impressive wins. Check out some of the video action of Deerfield's 21-5 win over Phillips Andover Academy below from their April 30th match-up. Deerfield has arguably their three toughest games remaining in the season for their final three contests of the year.
5/14 AVON OLD FARMS 5/18 at Salisbury School 5/21 PHILLIPS EXETER - Check out the feature on North Carolina commit and Deerfield Academy attack Jimmy Bitter '11 on ESPN Boston here.
