Central New York Road Hawks Lacrosse Club

During the MVP Team Camp held this past June, one of the Road Hawks rising junior team qualified for the Dicks Sporting Goods Tournament of Champions going undefeated. Over 128 college coaches attended during the weekend.

Four weeks later, one of the Road Hawks rising senior teams playing in the third annual Syracuse Shootout qualified winning their division for the Dicks Sporting Goods Tournament of Champions held in Florida.

Select White Rising Seniors go on a 13 game winning steak in back to back tournaments

The same team of  Juniors. who won 20 straight games in the first three weekends in November, took the field as Rising Seniors this year, entering the Syracuse Shootout tournament and winning all their games on Friday and Saturday before driving to the Brine Shootout this past Sunday.  During the Syracuse tournament the Select White team competed against some strong opponents on their schedule, Nike Rochester and Nike Western NY teams and prevailed as the Victor with Western putting up a great one point battle with tough close defense.   

Leaving behind  4 of their early committed teammates, the Select White Rising seniors continued their winning streak at The Brine Shootout at UMBC with few numbers that would eventually catch up to them in the final game leading 5-2.  However, they ran out of gas and fell in a one point loss. ending their 6 day winning streak.

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Nick Fiorentino and Paul Richards both 1st year Road Hawks who lit up Homewood field at Champ Camp and paved the way for many Road Hawk players to follow, who join the ranks of the college coaches a few years ago make big moves.

Nick - Graduate of Salisbury and after two years as an assistant coach at Salisbury moves to Ohio Weslian assistant coach while. Paul- Graduate of Loyola took the assistant position with Cornell Univiirsity. 

Mike Stagnitta caught up with both Nick and Paul at in lacke placid  excited to recruit Road Hawks.  Congratulations to both Nick and Paul.

Syracuse University- Matt Abbott, Jeff Gilbert, Tim Desko, Joel White, Jovan Miller, Bryan Clegg, Dave Hamlin.  Cortland College – Tyler-Felice Jennings.  Virginia – Brian McDermott.  Villanova- Brian Karalunas.  Brown- Patrick Curtin.  Cornell- Kyle Doctor.  Hofstra- Dan Pezzolla, Colman Koesterer.  UMBC- Christian Daly.           Notre Dame- Ben Ashenburg. Siena- Jordan Loftus. Lemoyne – Sean Connors, Michael Cignarale, Jack Harmatuck, Matt Chadderdon, Corey Bulken, Jack Venditi, Markus Fallico, Matt Krupka, John Albanees, Brien craig, Washington and Lee, Sscott Meehan

Congratulations to all the Road Hawks - Syracuse University, Cornell University, Lemoyne, and Cortland for a great weekend of lacrosse.

CNY Rising Juniors Compete at Champ Camp, coached by two alumni who played on the 2007 Championship Road Hawk team which went 38 and 1 in tournament play their Junior year.

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in the top forty college bound attackmen in the country. AlexCameron-Carter who is attending Ohio State in September made the list at 31 for the top forty Defensemen.

Our rising seniors Carl Zimmerman(23) , Billy Ward(31) Connor Entenmann(43),  Eric Dejohn(47) have been in your program for years. James Cathers (30) was with us for tournaments in the Fall of 2008.

John Greacen from CBA -Syracuse played his way onto the list of top 50
rising juniors at 45. We are sure that more of our rising juniors will be
working their way onto everyone's radar in the upcoming months.

We would like to congratulate all the players for their hard work and
dedication that got them to this level

Road Hawks Rising So White and Orange Start summer season with a one point win over their opponents. The White team playing at MVP and Orange at the Futures tournament in Gettysburg on Friday both on a good start for the season

Rising Jr. White team Started with a win on Friday and have continued their win streak with a 4-0 going into Sunday’s playoff.

Rising Sr. White with three subs started with a win on Friday and their win streak with a 4-0 going into playoffs on Sunday.

Hattam, JD - Corapi - Liverpool, Waffle- FM, Snyder- West Hill, Kopp - JD, and Curtis- Whitsboro.  All 4 year Road Hawk players bring home the Empire states Silver. 

Congratulations to all the players for a well played tournament

Services will be noon Tuesday at DeWitt Community Church. Burial will be in Collamer Cemetery. Calling hours will be 4 to 8 p.m. Monday at Eaton-Tubbs-Schepp Funeral Home, 7191 E. Genesee St., Fayetteville. For directions or a guest book, please visit www.SCHEPPFAMILY.com In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the Fayetteville Fire Department, 425 E. Genesee St., Fayetteville, NY 13066 or Friends of Town of DeWitt Parks & Recreation, 5400 Butternut Dr., East Syracuse, NY 13057. EATON-TUBBS-SCHEPP Fayetteville 637-3214

All 7th and 8th Grade and Future Hawks 5th-6th Spring and Summer announcements will be available on line the last week in March.

The Road Hawks end their summer at the NSCLA Cup with a laundry list of college coaches in attendance. All three Central Road Hawk teams made it to the playoff round.

The 2012 Class making it into the semi finals fell one point in OT to the winners of the 2012 division, Denver Elite.

While attending the NSCLA Cup two more 2011 Road Hawks committed to college adding a few more talented Hawks to the D-1 lacrosse rosters. 

High school travel teams 1^st practice for all classes 2012-2014 begins June 5^th. Please  go to Travel Team Tab.  

All dates are posted on Calendar

Sr. Brian Karalunas- Villanova Leads at #1  For Division I Caused Tournovers Per Game.

Jr. Andrew D'Agostino- Rutgers and So. Chris Nourse- Georgetown Lead their teams and NCAA top 11 players for Caused tournovers

See link for full stats

http://www.ncaa.com/stats/lacrosse-men/d1/current/individual/560

As the Lakers piled-up on each other in celebration, one should notice the gesture being made by #4 Sean Cannizzaro consoling the upset goaltender from Salmon River, who was visibly devastated after allowing the game winning goal to cross.  As the rest of the Laker team celebrated, Sean demonstrated an ultimate gesture of sportsmanship and winning with class, by temporarily putting aside his personal moment to bask in the glory of a sudden victory win to let the opponent's goaltender know that he had played a great game and to keep his head up. 

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Brian Karalunas- JD- Joel White- Cortland - Jeremy Thompson- Lafayette- Jeremy Boltas- B-Ville

Road Hawk Teams Finish the summer strong at the NSCLA CUP in New Jersey this past weekend. With 30 of the top division one collegiate programs in attendance, and 90 college coaches in total over two days the Road Hawk displayed their upstate endurance late in the summer season. 

The Class of 2014 came together with an awesome display of future Hawk talent showing they have what it takes to compete on a national stage.  The class of 2013 played their hearts out with some of their team mates scattered between  the 2012 and  2012/13 mixed division filling in for the committed and early committed players.

In the last year of the combo mixed division for the NSCLA tournament the 2012/13 class played its way to the championship game.  Once again another group of top lacrosse players representing some of the finest high school programs in upstate earned the nick name the Dirty Dozen in the 2012 class division In an unbelievable championship come back to fight to the end the dirty dozen faced a Buzz Saw Long Island express team with a deep bench and a committed player lineup heading to the top 8 division one programs in the country.

Big congratulations to everyone who attended so late in the season and their commitment to the Road Hawks organization, as well as their representation of your perspective high schools and especially the display of upstate NY tough hearted lacrosse play.

4 Upstate NY Road Hawk players named NSCLA ALL Americans in two classes, two players in the 2012 and two players in the 2013 class.