The Midwest Scholastic Coaches Association has announced new dates for the 2010 Tournament which will take place at Western Reserve Academy in Hudson, OH. The tournament will take place Friday, May 7th and Saturday, May 8th.

The Midwest Scholastic Lacrosse Coaches Association is pleased to announce a new partnership with Queen City Lacrosse headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA. Please support our new sponsor by visiting their website located at http://www.qclax.com/.

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The MSLCA is pleased to announce that videos of the 2009 Tournament are available for purchase.  The ‘A’ and ‘B’ Bracket games were filmed on Friday and every game was filmed on Saturday.  The cost is $15 per DVD.

If you are interested in purchasing a game please contact:

Arrow Video Services
14009 East Willard Drive
Russell Township, OH 44072
440-338-5161
www.arrowvid.com

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BALTIMORE — US Lacrosse has announced the names of the players earning a spot on the 2009 Boys’ High School Academic All-America team.  In order to be considered, players must be in senior standing, must be nominated and must meet the minimum academic achievement requirements from their respective US Lacrosse region.  Specific academic criteria may vary from region to region.  Each pre-determined geographic region is allowed one Academic All-American selectee for every 10 varsity teams in the region.  Only varsity coaches that are members of US Lacrosse may vote in the selection of the nominees.

Michigan
Cenetilivre, Joe — (Detroit, MI/Detroit Jesuit, MI)
Gerow, Dan — Attack (Grosse Pointe Farms, MI/Grosse Point South, MI)
McClain, Matt — (Detroit, MI/Detroit Jesuit, MI)
Rodriguez, Nick — (Grand Rapids, MI/Forest Hills Central, MI)
Schesnuk, Nick — Attack/Midfield (Chesterfield, MI/De La Salle Collegiate, MI) — Detroit
Smith, Andrew — (Grand Rapids, MI/Forest Hills Central, MI)
St. Louis, Derek — (Harrison Township, MI/Lanse Creuse North, MI)
Woznicki, Joel — Attack (Shelby Township, MI/Utica Einsenhower, MI)

Ohio-Central
Abou-Arraj, Najee — Attack (Chagrin Falls, OH/Toledo St. Johns, OH)
Gross, Phil — Defense (Upper Arlington, OH/Upper Arlington, OH) — Yale
Horine, Joseph — Defense (Dublin, OH/Dublin Jerome, OH)

Western Pennsylvania has not yet released their selections.

Read original at Laxpower.com – http://www.laxpower.com/all-amer/aa-list-hs.php?SelYear=2009&SelGender=B&SelList=AAA

BALTIMORE – US Lacrosse is pleased to announce that more than 400 boys’ high school lacrosse players have been named US Lacrosse All-Americans and for the 2009 season.  The process is coordinated by the high school committee of the US Lacrosse Men’s Division Coaches Council.  Area chairpersons for geographic regions designated by the US Lacrosse high school committee coordinated the voting.  Each region is awarded a set number of slots for the team based on the number of high school lacrosse teams in their respective areas.

Ohio-Central
Carey, Kyle — Defense (Worthington, OH/Thomas Worthington, OH) — Syracuse
Drake, Alex — Attack (Upper Arlington, OH/Upper Arlington, OH) — Lehigh
Levelle, A.J. — Goalie (Dublin, OH/Dublin Scioto, OH) — Detroit Mercy
Riffee, Pat — Midfield (Worthington, OH/Worthington Kilbourne, OH) — Ohio State
Ruhl, Eric — Midfield (Dublin, OH/Dublin Jerome, OH) — (junior)
Wright, Austin — Attack/Midfield (Worthington, OH/Worthington Kilbourne, OH) — Hofstra

Ohio-South
Bauer, Cory — Attack (Morrow, OH/Archbishop Moeller, OH) — Wittenberg
McLaughlin, Joe — Attack (Cincinnati, OH/Sycamore, OH) — (senior)
Poplis, Patrick — Defense (Cincinnati, OH/St. Xavier, OH) — (senior)

Michigan
Brames, Ian — (Orchard Lake, MI/St. Mary’s, MI) — (junior)
Covert, Nick — (Grand Rapids, MI/Forest Hills Central, MI) — (senior)
Degenhardt, Steve — (Troy, MI/Detroit Jesuit, MI) — (junior)
Dirado, Nick — (Northville, MI/South Lyon, MI) — (senior)
Dolick, Nick — (Beverly Hills, MI/Brother Rice, MI) — (senior)
Glendening, Joe — (Grand Rapids, MI/East Grand Rapids, MI) — (senior)
Henneghan, Dan — (Beverly Hills, MI/Brother Rice, MI) — (senior)
Kransberger, Dan — (Grand Rapids, MI/Forest Hills Central, MI) — (junior)
Lubs, D.J. — (Rockford, MI/Rockford, MI) — (senior)
Marsalese, Jon — (Huntington Woods, MI/Detroit Jesuit, MI) — (senior)
Meyer, Nathan — Attack/Midfield (Ann Arbor, MI/Ann Arbor Pioneer, MI) — Detroit
Nemes, Chris — Midfield (Novi, MI/Catholic Central, MI) — Detroit
Nemes, Josh — Attack/Midfield (Farmington Hills, MI/Detroit Jesuit, MI) — Denison
VanDuesen, Pat — (Beverly Hills, MI/Brother Rice, MI) — (junior)
Wells, Adam — Goalie (Lake Orion, MI/Cranbrook, MI) — Michigan
Yost, T.J. — (Bloomfield, MI/Brother Rice, MI) — (senior)

Western PA has yet to be announced.

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The upcoming August issue of Lacrosse Magazine includes LM’s annual season-end, top-25 high school boys’ and girls’ lacrosse rankings. Check back to laxmagazine.com over the next week as we count down to No. 1.

22. Worthington Kilbourne (Ohio)

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In addition to having never won the Ohio championship before, there was also something else that WK had never done in its 17-year history — beat state power Upper Arlington. Well the Wolves (21-2) exorcised two demons in 2009, claiming their first state title and also beating UA. Twice. The second came in the state final as WK rallied from a third quarter deficit to win 7-6.

Read Original at http://www.laxmagazine.com/high_school/boys/2008-09/news/071609_rankings_20_25

No one is saying Tommy Kehoe is faster than a speeding bullet.

Just that he is the speeding Bullet.

Kehoe’s speed and accompanying fervor helped the Gettysburg Bullets lacrosse star become the 2009 NCAA Division III National Player of the Year.

It also helped him get drafted. Wednesday, the senior long-stick midfielder and Coraopolis native was selected by the Chicago Machine in the fifth round of the Major League Lacrosse draft.

“I don’t have a tip or secret,” Kehoe said of his skills. “I’m just lucky to be fast.”

Kehoe is the first Gettysburg player to receive the Player of the Year award, named by the United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association.

Gettysburg coach Hank Janczyk, a member of the award’s voting committee, said it’s “very rare” for a long-stick midfielder who plays offense and defense to win the award.

“Going into the voting, I was hearing people talk about Tom, that he was better than anybody (at his position) by far,” Janczyk said of his star, who scored three goals and played outstanding defense this past season. “That got him the award, and it’s well deserved.”

Last Sunday, Kehoe helped Gettysburg to its first appearance in the Division III national title game since 2002. The Bullets lost, 9-7, to SUNY-Cortland, but that won’t tarnish Kehoe’s mark on Gettysburg lacrosse.

“He’s one of the finest young men I’ve ever had in my program,” Janczyk said.

He’s also one of the best to come out of Sewickley Academy. The 23-year-old Kehoe says his love for the game goes all the way back to middle school.

“Everything I’ve done goes back to Sewickley,” said the 6-foot-2, 178-pounder. “I’m still in touch with my Sewickley class, and that’s when we all bonded.”

Kehoe started getting attention from colleges in high school, but he didn’t indulge in the recruiting process. He went small and chose to play for Division III Franklin and Marshall in Lancaster before transferring in the spring of his sophomore year.

“I wasn’t enjoying it as much as I thought I would,” he said.

That spring, he took classes at Pitt and played on a club lacrosse team. He then called Janczyk to let him know he’d be coming to Gettysburg.

“That was one of the better phone calls I’ve ever gotten in my life,” Janczyk said.

Still, Janczyk didn’t know just how good Kehoe could be, at least initially.

“I knew he could be a lot better than I expected the first few days we saw him run,” Janczyk said. “With his athleticism, when he got his fundamentals down, we knew he could be something special.”

He didn’t disappoint. Kehoe was first-team All-Centennial conference all three years at Gettysburg, a second-team All-American as a junior and a first-team All-American as a senior.

And now he has a chance to play in the country’s premier outdoor lacrosse league. He joins Seneca Valley graduate Peet Poillon of Maryland-Baltimore County (3rd round, Boston) as a local draftee.

Most MLL players, Kehoe says, have other jobs and fly in for games on weekends, which he says he would do while working in a business development and sales position for Book Country Clearing House in McKeesport. That could be as soon as this summer, provided he makes the team’s 19-man active roster.

“Fortunately, I’m employed, especially with today’s economy,” Kehoe said. “It’s a good feeling. I think I’ll be able to work it out.”

Original appeared in Pittsburgh Tribune-Review:http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/sports/s_627202.html

The MSLCA is pleased to release the list of college coaches in attendance at this year’s MSLCA tournament.  There were 47 coaches from 42 schools.

College                  Coach

Adrian College             Brendan Hayes

Adrian College             Chris Delfansse

Albion College              Jake DeCola

Army                            Mike Murphy

Air Force                     Eric Seremet

Albany                         Bill Ralph

Bellarmine                    Bart Sullivan

Brown                          Errol Wilson

Bucknell                       Eric Genoa

Delaware                      Bob Shillinglaw

Denison                        Mike Caravana

Detroit Mercy               Matt Holtz

Fairfield                        A. Copelan

F&M                           Todd Cavallaro

Georgetown                 Dave Urick

Harvard                        Kevin Warne

Hobart                         Mark Williamson

John Carroll                  Bill Schmoldt

Kenyon                        Doug Misarti

Mercyhurst                   Brendan Burke

Mercyhurst                   Chris Ryan

Navy                            Stan Ross

Notre Dame                 Brian Fisher

Oberlin                         Jake Cohen

Ohio State                    Bill Katsaros

Ohio Wesleyan             Sean Ryan

Otterbein                      Colin Hartnett

Penn State                    Travis Johnson

Providence                   Bennett Murphy

Roanoke                      Jim Mitchell

Robert Morris              Bear Davis

Seton Hill                     Pete DeSantis

Stevens                        Matt Madalon

St. John’s                     Dan Paccione

St. John Fisher              John Johnson

St. John Fisher              Ansley Jemison

St. Vincent                   Vince Mangini

Trine                            Tom Duran

UMBC                         Rob Cross

UofNewEng                 Jon Hunt

UPenn                          Brian Voelker

VMI                             Jeff Shirk

Wash & Jeff                 Chris Read

Wittenberg                   Bryan Arnold

Wooster                       Jason Tarnow

Wooster                       Justin McKenna

Yale                             Ryan Polley

Kyle Bernlohr (WRA '11)

By Eric S. Smith @ Laxpower.com

This past weekend held some big moments for a few high school lacrosse teams in the Midwest and thus a few big-time players stepped up and led their teams. A senior All-State attackman proved why he received that honor as he helped lead his team to a Texas state championship. An Indiana attacker put up eye-popping numbers as his team advanced to the state semifinals. A goalie in Ohio led his team to the Midwestern Scholastic Lacrosse Coaches Association title with timely saves against very talented opponents.

Kyle Bernlohr, Soph., Goalie, Western Reserve Pioneers, OH

The Pioneers captured the Midwestern Scholastic Lacrosse Coaches Association tournament title over the weekend. They scored a tight victory over Upper Arlington, 8-7, on Friday in the semifinals and then posted a 12-9 win over Worthington Kilbourne in the championship on Saturday. Bernlohr played exceptionally well and kept Western Reserve’s talented foes from scoring often. The sophomore made 26 saves over the course of the two games including 14 against Upper Arlington. The Pioneers’ season is now complete since they do not compete in the Ohio High School Lacrosse Association tournament.

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