Lacrosse recruits

[Hillel Hoffmann]

An update on a Cornell men's lacrosse recruit:

Chris Ritchie, a senior attackman at Mount Sinai HS on Long Island, is on a pace to break Liam Banks' (Syracuse) all-time Suffolk County scoring record this season. Here are his scoring totals so far this year (goals-assists):

3/25: 3-6
3/28: 5-3
4/6: 1-9 (yes, 9 assists)
4/9: 2-4
4/10: 1-4
4/12: 6-1
4/18: 2-4
4/20: 3-2

It should be noted that high school scorekeeping should never be trusted, especially when it comes to assists. Even so, that's a crapload of feeds.

From Newsday, 4/13:

"Former Stony Brook School and Ward Melville star Liam Banks' Suffolk record for career points (374) likely will fall...as Mount Sinai senior attackman Chris Ritchie needs 39 more to pass him. Ritchie has 45 points (18 goals, 27 assists) through the Mustangs' first six games after totaling 121 last season. Mount Sinai coach Jason Sanders, a Ward Melville alum, compared Ritchie to Banks, an attackman for Major League Lacrosse's New Jersey Pride. 'Liam knew the game inside and out, and he wasn't the most athletic player on the field but he was the best player,' Sanders said. 'Chris and Liam's styles are similar, but I think Chris is a little more athletic.'"

[CU7983]

This guy can score too.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/highschool/bal-va.co.feature12apr12,0,3896863.story?coll=bal-hs-blacrosse

[Hillel Hoffmann]

Inside Lacrosse and Maryland-based Under Armour have conspired to create a new high school All America list. The men's team was just announced, and Cornell recruit Austin Boykin, a midfielder from St. Paul's in Baltimore (see CU7983's link above), is on it.

Although much more limited in scale than the traditional USILA high school All America team, the Under Armour list may be a more accurate measure of recruiting trends -- at least at the elite level. The USILA's list, which hasn't been released yet, is often distorted by bizarre regional quotas, quirks and inconsistent application of standards.

The team: http://www.insidelacrosse.com/page.cfm?pagerid=2&news=fdetail&storyid=128563

The process: http://www.insidelacrosse.com/page.cfm?pagerid=2&news=fdetail&storyid=128626

It's not hard to see why Georgetown and Johns Hopkins' recruiting classes are getting so much attention. Georgetown's class will likely look even better when the arrival of several former Duke recruits (including a couple of allegedly "undecided" guys on the list above) becomes public.

[billhoward]

Nice to see the continued use of the "first annual" phrasing that is an impossibility (until the second annual team appears) and also hope the selection chair is recovering nicely from a hyper-extended elbow incurred patting himself on the back in the how-we-selected (in the face of great difficulty) sidebar.

About a half-dozen of the team are from upstate NY; I feared it would be all-LI and Dixie. Scope doesn't seem to extend to Canada. Like Cornell, Syracuse has just one selection.

What is the track record of HS All-Amereica teams four years later? If you pick 50 kids each year, odds are pretty good you've got many of the studs. But all of them?

[billhoward]

Having nothing better to do, I downloaded and sorted by school the Inside Lacrosse Top 100 (I think they mean total, boys and girls) which amounts to 46 boys. Hopkins has 7, Virginia 5, Georgetown 4.

A - Thomas Muldoon   St. Albans DC   Brown
M - Austin Boykin   St. Paul's MD   Cornell
A - Ari Sussman   Loomis Chaffee CT   Dartmouth
D - Casey Hingtgen   La Costa Canyon CA   Dartmouth
M - Chas Dickenson   Highland Park TX   Denver 
M - John Dickenson   Highland Park TX   Denver 
D - Dillon Roy   Denver East CO   Denver 
A - Greg Casey   La Salle PA   Drexel
M - A Brancaccio   Georgetown Prep MD   Georgetown
D - Chris Nixon   Duxbury MA   Georgetown
A - Rick Mirabito   Chenango Forks NY   Georgetown 
G - Jack Davis   Glen Ridge NJ   Georgetown 
A - Chris Boland   Boys' Latin MD   Johns Hopkins
A - Steve Boyle   Pinkerton NH   Johns Hopkins
A - Mike Kimmel   Loyola MD   Johns Hopkins
M - Max Chautin   Northport NY   Johns Hopkins
D - Sam DeVore   Ward Melville NY   Johns Hopkins
G - Mike Gvozden   Severna Park MD   Johns Hopkins
A - Michael Powers   Massapequa NY   Johns Hopkins 
M - Bryn Holmes   McDonogh MD   Maryland
G - Brian Phipps   Severn MD   Maryland
D - Brian Farrell   Boys' Latin MD   Maryland 
D - Chris Scuderi   West Islip NY   Massachusetts
D - Jaren Woeppel   West Genesee NY   Navy
D - Michael Hirsch   Perkiomen Valley PA   Navy Prep
A - Kevin Federico   West Islip NY   North Carolina
M - Mike Burns   Shawnee NJ   North Carolina
M - Sean Burke   St. Anthony's NY   North Carolina
A - Matt Ciambella   Orchard Park NY   Notre Dame
A - Will Yeatman   Rancho Bernardo CA   Notre Dame 
M - Jerome Thompson   LaFayette NY   Onondaga CC
M - Jeremy Thompson   LaFayette NY   Onondaga CC 
M - Chris Hogan   Ramapo NJ   Penn State 
M - Evan Royster   Westfield VA   Penn State football
D - Jeremy Hirsch   Georgetown Prep MD   Princeton
M - Paul Barnes   Haverford PA   Princeton 
G - Bill Olin   Horseheads NY   Rutgers
M - Max Bartig   Northport NY   Syracuse 
A - Craig Dowd   Northport NY   Undecided
A - Max Quinzani   Duxbury MA   Undecided
M - Scott Kocis   Huntington NY   Undecided
A - George Huguely   Landon MD   Virginia
M - Brian Carroll   Gilman MD   Virginia
D - Jon Borror   Haverford PA   Virginia
D - Ken Clausen   Hill School PA   Virginia
D - Ryan Nizolek   Daniel Hand CT   Virginia

[ugarte]

Can we send a tutor down to Onondaga CC? Let lacrosse join the Cornell twins tradition.

[Hillel Hoffmann]

More Austin Boykin honors (this time with a blurb too):

http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/highschool/bal-va.blax07jun07,0,1532855.story?coll=bal-utility-highschoolsp

[Hillel Hoffmann]

A few end-of-season write-ups about Cornell recruit Chris Ritchie, attackman from Mt. Sinai (LI), who will soon be announced as a USILA high school All America for the second year in a row:

http://www.riverheadnewsreview.com/SUN/index/286448639102692.php

http://www.newsday.com/sports/highschool/ny-blax06-team,0,1341935.photogallery?coll=ny-hs-spotlight  (Ritchie's blurb is number 15 of 19)

[billhoward]

Could a Cornell-bound attackman [Chris Ritchie] with 393 high school points wind up running midfield?

http://www.riverheadnewsreview.com/SUN/index/286448639102692.php
[q]"I'm going to play wherever they need me, whatever helps the team the most," he said. "Cornell is a great lacrosse team and I'm looking forward to playing and being a part of one big family."[/q]

[Hillel Hoffmann]

Cornell recruit Ryan Hurley, an attackman from freaking Minnesota, was the leading scorer (five goals and two assists) in the recent National High School Senior Showcase near St. Louis. His West team lost both games in the four-team tournament, but it was a major test for a heavily recruited prospect who has a lot to prove on the national stage.

Two other future Cornellians played in the tournament: midfielder Pierce Derkac from Virginia (you'll recognize the last name because two of his brothers starred at Brown) and a recruit that completely flew under my radar, a defenseman called Courtney Baker from Washington, DC. Anyone know anything about the latter?

[David Harding]

Googling "Courtney Baker" and lacrosse, I came up with two references
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/17/AR2006041701840.html
[q]"We got some strong defensive performances," said St. Albans Coach Malcolm Lester, referring to seniors Courtney Baker and Michael Miller and junior Ian Crumley. "They played great all year. They're aggressive, steady and talented."[/q]

http://staweb.sta.cathedral.org/stanews/lacrosse2005.html
[q]Although Landon went on to win the game by one point, the Bulldogs sent a clear message to the Landon program as well as to the other teams they have played. ?This season was filled with flashes on brilliance,? said junior defenseman Courtney Baker. The Landon game was clearly one of those flashes. [/q]

A couple of players from his school, St. Albans http://staweb.sta.cathedral.org/departments/english/mlester/StAlbansLacrosse.htm, were on the Princeton team this year.

[ithacat]

[quote ugarte]Can we send a tutor down to Onondaga CC? Let lacrosse join the Cornell twins tradition.[/quote]

Based on chatter on laxpower & the Syracuse boards they're Orange...if they can get in.

[Hillel Hoffmann]

Not exactly a recruit, but there's a rumor emerging from the shit shack known as the Syracuse lacrosse forum (The Post Standard's site, syracuse.com) that Syracuse reserve goalie Jake Myers, a junior and former US Lacrosse boy's high school All America selection from California, is transferring to Cornell. Believe at your own risk.

[ithacat]

[quote Hillel Hoffmann]Not exactly a recruit, but there's a rumor emerging from the shit shack known as the Syracuse lacrosse forum (The Post Standard's site, syracuse.com) that Syracuse reserve goalie Jake Myers, a junior and former US Lacrosse boy's high school All America selection from California, is transferring to Cornell. Believe at your own risk.[/quote]

That appears out of the blue -- though it may or may not be true. ::rolleyes::

SU just picked up a committment from the West Genny goalie (Galloway, who picked SU over Cornell among others), which gives them 4 goalies for next year. Given that Myers lost the starting job this year to a RF, maybe he will want to move somewhere. Myers played with Gradinger in HS. Cornell is pretty thin at goalie. Maybe?

Laxpower has Mat Martinez as heading to Cornell next year. Is Grossman coming back? Can Cornell really only have one goalie on the team?

[Al DeFlorio]

[quote ithacat]Can Cornell really only have one goalie on the team?[/quote]
Risky, but hockey won a national championship with, effectively, just one.