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Notre Dame vs Chicago Machine Scrimmage 10/1/2008 6:37:00 PM by Chicago Machine Chicago Machine players and top college club players will play the Notre Dame Men’s Lacrosse Team in a free “Fall Ball Exhibition” game open to the public at 1:30 pm on Sunday, October 5. Prior to the game, several Chicago Machine players will conduct a youth lacrosse clinic from 11 am to 1 pm. For more information, go to www.chicagomachine.com or to the announcement here.
Benedictine Lacrosse Tournament Seeking Entries 9/16/2008 7:59:00 AM by Dave Kunka The Great Midwest Boys’ Lacrosse Jam will be hosted by Benedictine University on March 27-29 (Some games possibly on March 26 if need arises). We are looking for 8 local Illinois teams to participate with goal of getting 8 out-of-area teams to compete as well. Each team is guaranteed 3 matches with 2 games guaranteed against out-of-area teams (if 8 & 8 are secured). Semifinal and championship rounds will be played also. All games played on turf field at Benedictine University Sports Complex. No cancellations due to soggy conditions. Entry fees still to be determined/finalized. Likely between $600-$800. Please contact Dave Kunka at Benedictine for more information. 630-829-6087 or dkunka@ben.edu
2008 Championship DVDs Available 9/10/2008 9:49:00 PM by Jamie Considine The Chicago Machine, owners of the video copyrights to the 2008 IHSLA Lacrosse Cup and State Championship games, now have DVDs of the games available for $15 each. For more information, contact John Meister at jhmeister@chicagomachine.com.
Puzes Recognized as McDonald's Player of the Week 9/9/2008 4:28:00 PM by Chicago Machine Jarrid Puzes of Stevenson High School has been a force to be reckoned with since he began playing lacrosse only 3 years ago. A hockey player since the age of four, his friends finally convinced him to try lacrosse during his sophomore year in high school. A well-rounded athlete, he also played baseball and football. His previous training from other sports helped this strong athlete take the lacrosse field by storm. Puzes was named 1st team All-Conference, 1st team All-State and Under Armor All-American. He also served as team captain leading his teammates on the field. He has received a scholarship to play at the University of Virginia where he will continue his lacrosse success.
10 v 10 Tournament Invitation 8/8/2008 12:00:00 AM by Chad Moore Washington & Jefferson College in Western Pennsylvania is hosting a 10v10 tournament on November 11th and 12th. It is a good opportunity for Illinois lacrosse clubs with high school age players to participate in preseason game action. Click here for more information.
New Trier Wins Fourth Straight State Championship 6/2/2008 6:30:00 AM by Jamie Considine The New Trier Trevians ravaged the Loyola Academy Ramblers 7-1 en route to their fourth straight IHSLA State Championship title yesterday at Toyota Park. The Ramblers held their own in the first quarter, but the New Trier offense peppered the Loyola defense with goals by six different players. Goalie Mitch Williamson played in all four title games for the Trevians.
Benet Academy Wins Lacrosse Cup 6/2/2008 6:00:00 AM by Jamie Considine First ranked Benet Academy won the 2008 IHSLA Lacrosse Cup over second ranked St. Ignatius in an exciting game yesterday at Toyota Park. The Benet Redwings took an early 5-1 lead into the locker room at halftime, but the St. Ignatius Wolfpack battled back to a 7-6 lead by the beginning of the fourth quarter. Benet responded with eight unanswered goals during an extended man-up situation and finished their B-Class season undefeated with a 14-7 win. Kyle Honn had 9 goals for the Redwings.
All-Star Game Rescheduled 5/30/2008 12:03:00 PM by Jamie Considine The IHSLA All-Star games have been rescheduled due to field conflicts. Both games will be Thursday, June 12 at Lyons Township South Campus. The B-Class game will be at 5:00PM, the A-Class game will be at 7:00PM. Players are expected to be at the field one hour prior to their game time.
2008 Academic All-Americans Announced 5/28/2008 6:15:00 PM by Jamie Considine The IHSLA announced their 2008 Academic All-American selections to recognize outstanding student-athletes involved in high school lacrosse. Congratulations to Adam R. Hasz of Schaumburg High School, Christian Holmes of Hoffman Estates High School, Robert J. Calzaretta of Benet Academy, and Adam W. Goldblatt of Glenbrook North High School.
IHSLA.org Site Problems 5/24/2008 10:30:00 PM by Jamie Considine The IHSLA.org experienced intermittent outages yesterday and today that frustrated users and prevented coaches from updating scores in a timely manner. Many users received "Firewall Trigger" errors and "No Hacking" errors as they casually viewed pages. The site hosting service has found and corrected the errors. IHSLA.org apologizes to all users and coaches who were inconvenienced by the problems.
GBN Wins Libertyville JV Tourney 5/22/2008 4:20:00 PM by Jamie Considine Glenbrook North won the 6th Annual Libertyville JV Lacrosse Tournament last Saturday beating Libertyville 3-2 in the Championship Game.
Ad Space Available in Championship Day Program Booklet 5/22/2008 3:30:00 PM by Jamie Considine The IHSLA needs advertisers for the Championship Day program booklet. Advertising helps defray the costs of hosting the Championship series at Toyota Park. Parents, please notify local businesses about this great opportunity to reach an enthusiastic lacrosse community at the peak of their excitement. Ad space in 1/8, 1/4, 1/2, 3/4 and full page sizes are available at reasonable rates. Advertisers should contact David Ho at 312-953-6955 or email him at stritalacrosse@lacrosse.com.
Photo Repository Established 5/19/2008 2:30:00 PM by Jamie Considine Due to a truly overwhelming response to the request for game photos, a special location has been setup online for amateur photographers to post pictures from IHSLA games. A username and password is required to post (send an email to webmaster@ihsla.org to get access), but no login is required to view, download or make prints of the images. Check out all the great shots at http://ihsla.smugmug.com. Special thanks to all the photographers who contributed.
Playoff Series Schedule Posted 5/19/2008 10:30:00 AM by Jamie Considine The State Championship (Class A) and Lacrosse Cup (Class B) playoff schedules have been announced and are currently posted online. The details of times and locations will be added as the participating schools make the game arrangements.
The Photos are Pouring In! 5/14/2008 12:00:00 AM by Jamie Considine Thanks to an overwhelming response from parents and amateur photographers, the IHSLA.org home page now sports photos of recent IHSLA games. Contributing photographers from Deerfield, Lake Zurich, Grayslake North, and St. Charles have all offered their game pics for posting on the site. The first rotation is already posted (Deerfield) with more to come. The images are all available for download in their original resolutions, or you can have prints made over the Internet. Watch the Home page for new galleries as they become available. Special thanks to Estes Boshes, Holly Watson-Evans, David Fairweather, Donna Preciado, Stephanie Boissonnas, Amy Peterson and Katie Gilligan.
2008 Viator Invite Frosh Tournamant 5/10/2008 12:00:00 AM by svlaxcoach Congratulations to the Lions of Saint Viator who were able to come away from the 2nd Annual Viator Invite Catholic School Lacrosse Tournament with a victory in the championship game over Notre Dame by a score of 8-2.
2008 Viator Invite JV Tournamant 5/10/2008 12:00:00 AM by svlaxcoach Congratulations go out to the Fenwick Friars who took home the JV tournamnet title with a victory over York in the Final. York was a last minute tournament fill in for another program that dropped out at the last minute. Thank you and congrats to Coach Piggot and his York Dukes for their 2nd place finish on such short notice.
Open Call for Lacrosse Game Photos 5/9/2008 12:00:00 AM by Jamie Considine The IHSLA.org website is looking for action photographs from IHSLA games to post on its pages. If you have any pictures from 2008 games that you would like to see posted, please contact the website administrator at webmaster@ihsla.org. Posted pictures will be resized to 400px wide (proportional height) and should have photo credits embedded at the bottom right (readable at resized dimensions).
Fenwick Friars win Chiefs Summit Frosh Tourney 4/29/2008 12:00:00 AM by chiefslax On Saturday, April 26th the Fenwick Friars won the First Annual Chiefs Summit Frosh Tourney in Orland Park. Fenwick beat Naperville Central, Hinsdale Central, and the host D230 Chiefs in the Championship Game to take the trophy. Third Place went to the Fox Valley Foxes club team. Other participating schools were York, Minooka,Homewood-Flossmoor, and Downers Grove North/South. The Summit was the first tourney of its kind in the southwest suburbs. Photos are available at www.highfivephotos.com
IHSLA Championship Games Rescheduled 4/19/2008 12:00:00 AM by Jamie Considine The IHSLA Lacrosse Cup Championship and the State Championship games originally scheduled for May 31, 2008 at Toyota Park have been rescheduled to Sunday, June 1 at Toyota Park. The corrected dates and times of the playoffs and championships are posted on the IHSLA website.
Summer Lacrosse Camps Posted 4/17/2008 6:00:00 AM by Jamie Considine Visit the "Camps" page to see a listing of summer lacrosse camps in Chicagoland and the surrounding area. If you would like your camp to be included on this free link list, please email the website administrator with the URL.
Playoff Schedules and All-Star Game Finalized 4/16/2008 11:00:00 PM by Jamie Considine The playoff schedules have been set and are as follows: Seeding Meeting - Sunday, May 18, 2008 at 8:00 am - Hillside Best Western Playoffs - State Championship Tuesday, May 20; Thursday, May 22; Saturday, May 24; Wednesday, May 28 State Championship Game, Sunday, June 1, at approx. Noon (20 minutes after the Lacrosse Cup Game) at Toyota Park. Playoffs - Lacrosse Cup Wednesday, May 21; Friday, May 23; Tuesday, May 27; Thursday, May 29 Lacrosse Cup Championship Game, Sunday, June 1, at 10:00am at Toyota Park. All Star Game - Thursday, 7:00pm, June 12 at St. Rita
Support Page Added to Website 4/8/2008 10:00:00 PM by Jamie Considine A support page now resides on the IHSLA website that helps registered users answer common questions to site operations. It explains how to register for an account, how to update game scores, and how to enter player stats among other activities. The page is accessed using the Support link on the main menu.
Chicago Machine Fundraiser for High School Teams 3/5/2008 12:00:00 AM by Jaime Glenn, Chicago Machine Coaches and Parents, The Chicago Machine is pleased to work alongside Illinois High School teams to help raise money for their programs. The fundraiser not only helps raise money for the program, but also gives teams the opportunity to meet and interact with professional Chicago Machine players of the Major League Lacrosse (MLL). The fundraiser involves selling Machine tickets; 50% of every ticket sold will go back to your program. The top 2 teams with the most tickets sold, get to play an intra-squad game at Toyota Park before a Machine Game. There are also several individual incentives that range from receiving a Machine mini stick, winning a helmet, to warming up with the Machine before a home game. If you are interested in learning more about this fundraiser, please contact Jaime Glenn at 312-255-1522. Also, don't forget about the #5 Notre Dame vs. Denver at Toyota Park on April 5th. It is a game you don't want to miss!
New IHSLA Website Now Online 2/25/2008 8:00:00 AM by Jamie Considine The new IHSLA website is now online and is awaiting your feedback. Suggestions from the February IHSLA meeting were incorporated over the last two weeks. The site has been fully debugged and made ready for deployment during the week of Feb 24, 2008. Security features were added that limit coaches' game editing access to scores only. Game schedules will be managed by Linda Bertelson from Lacrosse America. Also, distributable HTML code was added which allows users to put the real-time schedules, team rosters and field locations on their own websites. Finally, a spreadsheet-like page was incorporated into the roster editing module to allow coaches to quickly update player stats.
JV/Frosh FREE Coaching Clinic 2/24/2008 12:00:00 AM by Lacrosse America Free coaches clinic sponsored by Lacrosse America for coaches and players at the freshman and sophomore level. Click here for more information.
Lane Tech Takes Centerstage 7/27/2007 5:52:00 PM by Michael Piccini The Lane Tech stadium will take centerstage in the upcoming football movie, "The Express". Many of the stadium scenes in the movie were filmed on location at Lane Tech this spring. "The Express" is the life story of Ernie Davis, a Syracuse University football player who led the Orange to the school's only national championship in 1959. He became the first African American to win the Heisman Trophy, in 1961. Despite being the first player taken in the 1962 NFL draft, Davis never played a single game of professional football. He died of leukemia in 1963, at the age of 23. "The Express", starring Rob Brown as Ernie Davis and Dennis Quaid as coach Rob Schwartzwalder, will be released in theaters nationally on Oct. 10, 2008.
Glenview North Expands Lacrosse Program 7/24/2007 4:51:00 PM by Michelle Verne Glenview North announced today that the school will be transitioning their club-status lacrosse program to varsity status. The school district will provide jerseys, body armor, and will hire and pay salaries to the coaching staff. Parents will continue to contribute to helmets and gloves for the players. Varsity status was conferred because the Glenview North administration recognized the popularity of the sport, both from the perspective of the players and the fans.
Waubonsie Valley Lacrosse Players Recognized 7/14/2007 2:20:00 PM by Bill Strickland Waubonsie Valley High School District 134 recognized three varsity lacrosse players from WVHS as Academic All-Americans in a press conference at the Aurora courthouse earlier today. Mike Bell, Nick Gatlin, and Henry Cronkite were bestowed the honors in a ceremony that included other academic and athletic awards for WVHS students. Congratulations boys!
New Trier Wins State Championship 6/2/2007 12:00:00 AM by Jamie Considine The New Trier Trevians took their third straight State Championship title with a 7-5 win over North Shore rival Loyola Academy. A Prep Channel highlights video can be viewed here.
Fenwick Wins Lacrosse Cup 6/2/2007 12:00:00 AM by Jamie Considine The Fenwick Friars defeated the Grayslake Central Rams 11-9 to win the Lacrosse Cup title. A Prep Channel highlights video can be viewed here.