06/07/2009 - Another victory today for the Gold Boys Lax second grade team. The team won today beating Northport 12 to 4. The Boys Gold team rolled to an undefeated season with a record of 6 – 0. The offense racked up 94 goals on the season while the defense only allowed 21 goals. A very impressive stat, even at the second grade level. The kids grew a lot over the season as their confidence increased each week. Confidence comes from being prepared. I would like to thank the kids for their hard work all year. I want to thank the other coaches for their assistance and knowledge. I would like to thank the parents for keeping the kids focused on the sport, and being supportive of the team and to the coaching staff. Thank you to the board for allowing us to play and coach this sport. The future is very bright and the Hills are a live. Thank you all, Coach Bill.

05/31/2009 - The second grade Gold boys Lax team cruised to another victory toady defeating Northport, 12 to 3.

05/16/09 - The Boys (Gold) second grade team rolled on again today with another impressive victory. We defeated West Islip 10-5. We were missing a few players, but it didn't seem to slow us down much. They played a great game with good passes and good shot selection. The defense was strong once again and we got very good goal keeping with two goalies who have not played the position this season. We were very proud of their play.

05/10/2009 - The Boys second grade (Gold) Lacrosse team won it's third straight game today defeating a pretty good Harborfields team by the score of; 11 - 5. Everyone played really well and the kids are getting better each game.

04/26/09 - The boys second grade LAX (GOLD) team won it’s opening game this past Sunday against West Islip, and they did it in a convincing fashion with a 12 to 5 victory. The offense won the control game winning most of the face offs and fighting for the ground balls. I was very impressed that a team for the first time on a field together had good game presence. They really passed the ball around well and were UN selfish with possession. There were times when it was like poetry in motion. I was very impressed. The defense caused several turnovers and in many situations, turned them into fast breaks. This was very impressive in its self because for most of the kids on defense, never played that position before, or played 2 games the day before in the tournament. Our goalkeeper was strong between the pipes and for being in the net only for a few days; we were impressed with his grasp of the position. We were proud of all of them. The team worked hard all day and worked together. Our next game is our home opener on Sunday May 3rd at 10:30 AM against Kings Park. Come watch the rising stars of the east.

I really think we played our very best game to date. Our offense looked awesome with most of our goals coming off 2 or more passes, some in transition and others after settling the ball and running the offense. Leading the attack in goals were Dillon "Mac Attack" McManus with 4 goals, Dillon "Feed em" Studdert with 2 goals, Tyler "Locomotive Express" Parkinson with 2 goals and Nick "Mr Hustle" Volpe with 1 goal.

Our defense is purely the best in the game with Reed "I want to play attack" Bresky grabbing numerous ground balls and intercepting a few passes. Nikolas "I’m TOTALLY Fearless" Mikelinich and Christopher "Poke Check" Choinski leading the effort with Matt "Wild Man" Touhamy, Jeffrey "I’m not sick anymore" Vasquez and Tommy "The Terrific" Travaglione rounding out the effort.

Zach "ain’t gonna score on me dude!" Berlin was absolutely AWESOME in net with 10 saves, some at point blank range that kept us in the game from the first face off until the final horn.

Our middies were all over the field today scooping up ground balls and clearing the ball with great ease. Leading the effort was Patch "I had a broken arm?" Dooley, Jason "I’ll kick your butt…… fever and all" Billings, Kyle "Lighting Speed" Bockleman, Nick "what’s baseball?" Torzilli and Dustin "Leave ‘em in the dust" McDonald.

My attack was great as well, with Noah "Smoooooooth as Silk" Dooley and James "Micheal who?" Ciccone keeping the flow of the offense at its best.

And of course my newly injured assistant coach Michael "broken arm" Ciccone was there and cheered his team on.

After a tough loss to Point Lookout last week, our kids worked hard to prepare for this battle against Port Washington. The offense looked great as we assisted on 5 of the 8 goals and controlled time of possession. Unfortunately we didn’t keep stats this week but our goal scorers were Nick Volpe, Nick Torzilli, Dillon Studdert, Dillon McManus and Tyler Parkinson.

Zach Berlin and our defense kept us in the game with a great effort and our midfielders were once again on the top of their game.

James Ciccone played a great game on attack as he scooped up many ground balls and advance to the cage on several occasions. Great Job!

• After averaging 35 ground balls the first two games, we only had 11 today.

• After averaging 21 shots the first two games, we only had 9 today

I couldn’t be more proud of my boys as they played a little short staffed on a hot day. Even with a tough loss we had our few standouts: Zach Berlin was a star in net as he made 7 tremendous saves throughout the day that honestly kept us in the game. Nick Volpe scored two goals and was our typical work horse as he played both middy and attack. Nick Torzilli scored two goals on 2 shots. Dillon Studdert had a nice goal in transition and assisted on another one as he fed Torzilli’s from behind the net. Dillon McManus had two assists, hit the pipe twice and won every one of his face offs.

Nicholas Mikelinich played goal for the first few minutes of the game where he made a few saves, he then switched over to defense where he led the team in ground balls with 3 and cause 3 turnovers. Ryan Tam had a few ground balls and force 3 turnovers. Chris Choinski and Tommy Travaglione rounded off our solid defensive squad.

Our rookie players did a great job as well. Noah Dooley won a face off that resulted in a nice fast break.

A team is not a team without the hard work of ALL of its players. Great job by Jason Billings, Michael Ciccone, Kyle Bockleman, James Ciccone, Dustin McDonald, Matt Touhamy and Jeffrey Vasquez for working hard all day.

I saw tremendous character in our boys today who never gave up until the final horn. In my opinion the sign of a good team is not how many wins you have but more about how well you can bounce back after a loss. :o)

Next up……………Port Washington at Home on the Turf.

Our game team stats: 35 Ground Balls, 14 shots on goal, 4 assists and 6 goals. Some standouts today were Dillon McManus with 3 goals on 4 shots, Anthony Cappadona with 2 goals on 2 shots and Nick Volpe with a goal. Dillon Studdert had 3 assists, Nick Torzilli had 5 ground balls and Zach Berlin had 5 saves in net.

I can’t say enough about our defense. Ryan Tam, Reed Bresky, Christopher Choinski, Nikolas Mikelinich and Tommy Travaglione are by far the best 4th grade defensive squad I’ve ever seen. They have a tremendous sense of anticipating what is about to happen. Their covered slides are extremely timely, they effortlessly cherry pick the ball away from the attack and they cleared the ball well this week. Congrats to my awesome defense!

Our middies and attack did a great job as well. We shook it up this week at practice with 2 new last minute plays and although we didn’t have many chances to run them today; my offense still showed some greatness with 4 of our 6 goals coming from assists.

It seemed like Jason Billings, Michael Ciccone, Kyle Bockelman and Tyler Parkinson were involved with every single play as they hustled after ground balls and played great defense. James Ciccone helped our cause by doing a great job of moving the ball on offense and refusing to give up on ground balls that were in our end of the field. That type of hustle results in goals!!

Our rookie middies, Noah Dooley, Dustin McDonald and Matt Touhamy were in the mix this week. Noah won a very important face off, took the ball into our offensive side of the field that resulted in a goal. Great job!

And again fearless Patch "broken arm" Dooley had to be restrained several times from running out onto the field. Great job by all!!!!

4/5/09 - The Hills 4th grade BLACK team started their 2009 season with a 12-6 victory over Huntington Village. What’s great about our youth program is that every year we see many new faces who work hard all week in preparation for our Sunday games. This year is no different as we saw Dustin McDonald, rookie lacrosse player score our very first goal of the 2009 season. Another new player, Kyle Bockleman scored two goals followed by goals from our veteran players Michael "Mad Man" Ciccone, Nick Volpe, Tyler Parkinson, Anthony Cappadana, Nick Torizilli and Jason Billings. Dillon McManus, Noah Dooley and Jeffrey Vazquez rounded out our excellent midfielders scooping up numerous ground balls and completing great passes to ensure a consistent flow of our offense. Anthony Cappadanna, Dillon Studdert, Nick Torzilli and James Ciccone ran our Attack as smooth as silk. Their quick thinking and crisp passing in transition made for some very nice plays. Our defense lead by Reed Bresky, Chris Choinski, Nick Mickelinich and Thomas Travaglione was outstanding causing all sorts of havoc for the Huntington Attack by forcing turnovers, initiating our fast breaks and clearing the ball to our offensive end of the field. Let’s not forget our fearless Patch "broken arm" Dooley. I had to restrain Patch several times from running out onto the field……cast and all. Great job by all !!!!

5/31/09 - The Hills 4th grade red team took on another Manhasset team this week and came away with a 9-4 victory. Charlie was the man in goal making 15 ( that's right 15) saves and throwing darts to his middies. The "D " came up big when they had to with some great plays from Branson Leifer ( super clear to the middies) Jared Leff and Mikko Sims. Causing all sorts of havoc with ground balls was Ramsey Lewis while also keeping his man at bay.The glue of the D is 2nd year player Jeremy Shuster who is learning the game at a rapid pace. The middies ran the other team around with a few noticeable plays from 1st year player Cole Montalvo, high fives from all the coaches! Can't say enough about the other mids, Filacouris, Ryan and Breakstone scooped up numerous ground balls and kept the opponent from shooting up close on Charlie. The scoring came from the big guns of Ry Dog with 3 goals, 3 assists and 6 ground balls, Mule' with 2 goals, 2 assists and 5 ground balls, Lulley with 2 goals 2 assists and 5 ground balls, and Tufano with 2 goals - 2 assists. Leading the day in ground balls was Tiernan with 7, while Jake McDermott and Sean Gorman picked up 2 of their own. Defensive MVP goes to Charlie the stopper, and offensive to "top corner" Doran. Play of the day goes to Cole M

5/16/09- The Hills 4th grade red team beat a very talented West Islip team 10-9 bringing their record to 4-2. This weeks win came from an outstanding effort from the offense lead by Sean Lulley who had 2 goals, 2 assists, 4 face off wins, and an amazing 12 ground balls. Helping Sean out was "Ry dog" with 2 goals, Matty T with 2, and Sean G, KT, Jenson, and Jared B each with a goal. KT also had 5 face off wins and 8 ground balls to go with his goal. Jake M had his first ground ball of the year!

5/10/09- The Hills 4th grade red team treated their mom's to a victory over Manhasset by the score of 9-6. Players of the day awards went to Branson Leifer with best "D" man and "Ry Dog" with best "O" man. Branson led a tough defense that constantly pushed the offense out of the scoring zone and kept the crease area cleared for Charlie ( 9 big saves). Ryan led the potent offense with 3 goals and 3 assists. Adding to that was Sean L with 3/1 Jared B with another 2 and K T and Matty T with 1 each. Alexander led the team with 4 groundballs followed by Kt and Ry dog with 3 each. Jared B also caused 3 def turnovers. Great team "D" and "O. The teams record stands at 3-2.

5/03/09 - The Hills 4th grade red team played a team mirrored to theirs; West Islip, but came away with a 13-6 victory. The differenace in the game was the teams outstanding defense as was noted by the opposing coach and both refs. The "D" started with charlie making 9 saves, many of them acrobatic with pinpoint clears to the middies. The guys in front of Charlie were stellar! Mikko, Jeremy, Branson, jared L, and Cole played the best D we have seen this and last year. They were the reason for the "W". We also had great team offense with 12 of the 13 goals coming on pass plays. Leading the way were Matty T (this seems like a weekly thing)with 4 goals, Ryan Doran running the offense on all cylinders with 2 goals and 4 assists, Kyle Tiernan 2 goals and 2 assists, Jared B with 2 goals and 4 face-off wins, Sean Lulley with 2 goals and 1 assist, and Cam with 1 goal 1 assist and hard work in the trenches. Not to be forgotten with their tireless effort on "D" and "O" were Jake A,and Alexander. Sean G chipped in with 3 ground balls and Jared M had 1 of his own. Nice Team win!

4/29/09 - The 4th grade red team suffered their 2nd loss of the season against a combined CSH team with a score of 13-10. The kids played an excellent game leading most of the way before CSH tied it at 9 and eventually pulled away as our boys wilted in the heat. The Hills gang played team lacrosse scoring all their goals on pass plays while CSH used 1v1 to score 10 of their goals. The team never gave up and showed the "correct way" to play lacrosse. Highlights of the day were from Charlie "the rock" in goal with 9 saves, Sean Gorman with his first goal on a nice pass play from Cam Mule', and Matty T throwing in 4 goals while adding an assist. Cam, Kyle and Sean were tremendous on face-offs beating one of the top kids in the age group 75% of the time.

4/19/09- The 4th grade red team played to their best ability but lost to an "all-star team" from Smithtown 12-7. The Hills team with a combination of 11 new/1 year players never gave up and made the coaches extremely proud. Our defense ( Smithtown averages 20 goals per game) was stellar with Jeremy ( 3 forced turnovers), Danny, Joe,and Cole, keeping the opponents offense at bay. Charlie was his usual in goal, making 6 key saves while scrambling for a few groundballs of his own. The offense was lead by Sean lulley with 3 goals, Matt T 2, and Kyle Tiernan having 3 assists while showing excellent ball handling skills. The entire team should be proud of themselves because the coaches are! This was definitely a "Good Loss"!

4/5/09- The Hills 4th grade red team started their 2009 season with a 9-6 victory over a big, physical Wantagh team. Many new faces stepped on the field for the first time in a game and hopefully came away having fun. We would like to welcome Cole Montalvo, Jarred Moris, Jake Mcdermott, Ramsey Lewis,and Jake Ashkinos to the Club. Leading the way was Ryan Doran with 3 goals 2 assists, Matty T with 2 goals, Sean Lulley 2 goals 3 assists, and Kyle Tiernan with 1 goal. Jensen Corabi was a menace on face-offs winning everyone as was Lulley. Strong middle play was evident all day with the likes of Jared Breakstone, Mikko Sims, Alexander Filacouris ( 2 assists), Sean Gorman and Jared Leff, devouring ground balls and harassing players on the defensive end. The "D" was strong ( we had to be with 10 penalties) with Joe Sanfratello, and Jeremy Shuster, leading the way. Player of the day goes to Charlie Ricottoni who had 7 saves in the cage and kept us in the game early on. Special thanks to Branson Leifer showing up hurt but supporting the team.