Entries from June 2008

June 30, 2008

Starz Cup Championship Update

 
North Division Review

 
The north division opened Starz Cup Championship play at the beautiful Campus El Segundo this past weekend.  With Youth and Middle School brackets being played on Saturday and High School and Elite on Sunday, the turf got a serious workout!  Heat in the low 90’s turned the sidelines into the perfect pop up [...]

June 29, 2008

And Now For Something Slightly Different…Polocrosse..

The growing global popularity of polocrosse is taking two Upcounty teens below the equator next week to promote the sport in Australia.

Nick Balogh and Shannon Molsky, both 17, will travel to New South Wales on Tuesday as part of the American Polocrosse Association’s youth development team. They and their four teammates will compete against Australian [...]

June 28, 2008

Spring Orange County All-League Boys Lacrosse Teams

(From OCVarsity.com)
SOUTH COAST LEAGUE  
MVP: Brandon Morris (Mission Viejo, Jr.)
First Team: Bryce Hirschburg (Aliso Niguel, Sr.); Brandon Morris (Mission Viejo, Jr.); Hudson Parker (Mission Viejo, Jr.); Duke de Lancelotti (San Clemente, Jr.); John Grubert (Capistrano Valley, Jr.); Colin McCracken (Mission Viejo, Jr.); Scott Anderson (Tesoro, Sr.); Chad Bollman (Aliso Niguel, Sr.); David Wallace (Mission Viejo, [...]

June 27, 2008

Tara Arolla: WSL California Girls Lacrosse Player of the Year

La Costa Canyon Senior Attack Tara Arolla

WSL CALIFORNIA GIRLS PLAYERS OF THE YEARTara Arolla, La Costa Canyon
2007: Brandi Jones, Poway
2006: Haley Geller, Berkeley
2008:

By James Joseph
WSL Senior Features Writer
Tara Arolla did not begin playing lacrosse until the winter of her freshman year of high school.
But just a couple months after she learned how to throw and [...]

June 26, 2008

Cameron Piorek: Rehabilitation At The International Center for Spinal Cord Injury at the Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore, Maryland

Cameron will still be released on Thursday from St. Jude, but he will NOT be going home to Laguna Niguel. Instead, he will be staying at the Embassy Suites Hotel in Brea Thursday, Friday and Saturday night. On Sunday, he and Brandon and his Grandparents will board a plane and head off to The International [...]

June 26, 2008

San Diego Hall of Champions Announces 2008 High School Girls All-County and All-Section Teams

ALL-LEAGUE TEAMS Selected by league coaches under the auspices of the San Diego Hall of Champions. Selection committees can recognize athletes in excess of the authorized number, but only those whose names will appear on the Hall of Champions certificates are listed below.

North County ConferenceFirst team – Tara Arolla (La Costa Canyon) Sr.; Ashley Inman [...]

June 25, 2008

PHOTOS: OC Starz 9th Sunday Games At Camp El Segundo

Connor “Quan” Cummins clears “rock” out of OC Starz 9th defensive end on Sunday’s Game against South Bay (1st Picture)…..Cameron Cole fires his patented side arm cannon shot (Picture #2)….Jill Cole, aka Super Mom and OC Starz All-Everything, ices Quan’s bone bruise after OC Starz game against South Bay…OC Starz won game….Photos by LaxBuzz

 

June 25, 2008

Lacrosse In Los Angeles…Glendale High Starts With Club Lacrosse Team

(From GlendaleNewsPress.com)
GLENDALE — With the first phase of the foundation completed, Joe Campbell will look to further strengthen the groundwork of the Glendale Lacrosse Club.
Campbell, one of two coaches overseeing the club, has got a pretty good idea of what will need to be done following the first year of the club’s existence. While [...]

June 25, 2008

2008 High School Girls Lacrosse Academic All-Americans For Southern California

Orange County
   Centner, Genevieve — (Foothill) — (senior)
   Cross, Natalie — (Foothill) — (junior)
   Cummins, Natalie — (Foothill) — (senior, pictured below)
   Danbara, Kristina — (El Toro) — (junior)
   Gallagher, Devin — (Foothill) — (senior)
   Grose, Shelby — Midfield (Rancho Santa Margarita, CA/Trabuco Hills, CA) — UC Santa Barbara
   Paquette, Jacqueline — (Foothill) — (junior)
   [...]

June 24, 2008

Lauren “Chico” Chicomascolo Brought Lacrosse Skills From Connecticut With Her To Lead St. Margarets To Title

(From NewsTimes.com article)
Lauren Chicomascolo gave area lacrosse fans a glimpse of what we’d be missing, offered a snapshot of a star in the making, during one of her last games for Newtown High.
This was in the spring of 2006 when Chicomascolo, still just a sophomore, led the Nighthawks past Brookfield 14-10 in the South-West Conference [...]