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1. ST. ANTHONY’S (N.Y.) The Friars’ run of six straight CHSAA titles
ended. But with 18 Division I-bound players, including goalie Jack Concannon (Hofstra), and a challenging schedule, they will vie for top billing.
2. MASSAPEQUA (N.Y.) The Chiefs return nine starters from a team that reached the Long Island Class A final.
3. SMITHTOWN WEST (N.Y.) The Bulls boast Ryan Keenan, the only junior to earn All-Long Island honors in 2013.
4. CHAMINADE (N.Y.) Defending a CHSAA title for the first time since
2008, the Flyers return two stud midfielders in Sam Bonafede and Sean Cerrone.
5. WARD MELVILLE (N.Y.) Last year’s national No. 1 team, Ward Melville
lost a lot but brings back four starters. New coach Jay Negus takes over after Mike Hoppey retired.
6. SMITHTOWN EAST (N.Y.) The Smithtown rivalry should be exciting this
year with West being solid and East getting a lot of hype behind attackman Tommy Marino.
7. GARDEN CITY (N.Y.) The defending Class B state champ lost three
starters, including Justin Guterding and Ed Blatz, but still have nine players committed to D-I futures.
8. DARIEN (CONN.) Darien benefits from rebuilding, with 12 players who started games and 33 overall returning.
9. NISKAYUNA (N.Y.) The Class B semifinalist returns eight starters, including Mike D’Amario and Reed Avveduti.
10. JAMESVILLE- DEWITT (N.Y.) The state runner-
up Red Rams lost all-time leading scorer Jordan Evans.
Hebron’s Evan Kalish took his game from Florida to Maine and will land in Kentucky By Mark Macyk
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t’s not difficult to spot the Floridians at Hebron Academy, deep in the woods of Maine. They tend to stick out among mostly New Englanders. “They call us weirdoes,” said Evan Kalish, who grew up in Vero Beach, Fla., but came north to play lacrosse at Hebron as a junior. “The lifestyle
is just a little different where we’re from.” But Kalish, who started his lacrosse
career as a lefty attackman in sunny Florida and now is an ambidextrous defender in snowy Maine, is the kind of guy who can adapt. He likes northeastern winters. (It’s all about layering.) He’s not one of those Sunshine Staters walking around in shorts the day after the Super Bowl. “A couple of the kids say when it’s snowing, they’ll wear pants,” he said. “It’s freezing. Even I’m wearing pants now. Shorts season is way over.” Lacrosse season is just getting
started. And for Hebron, which went 12-5 in 2013 and finished with the No. 6-ranked defense in New England, that means one more year of Kalish before he moves on to Bellarmine. Kalish is a defensive force, with
the mentality of a midfielder. Last year he racked up 68 ground balls, 29 caused turnovers and 17 points, while anchoring a defense that allowed just six goals per game. Kalish scored 11 goals, saying he finds the longer stick gives him a more
Bellarmine-bound Evan Kalish, a defensive force with the mentality of a midfielder, scored 11 goals last year.
powerful shot. He’s played defense only for a few years, starting when his team in Florida needed an extra sub. “I thought, ‘This is fun,’” Kalish said. “I get to hit kids and they don’t get to hit me back, usually.’” Following a tryout with Florida’s Stampede Lacrosse Club, former Sacred Heart
M Craig Berge Massapequa (N.Y.)
A Tyler Breen Taft (Conn.)
LSM Bug Carper Governor’s (Mass.)
M Sean Cerrone Chaminade (N.Y.)
M Adam DiMillo Bishop Timon-St. Jude (N.Y.)
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D Scott Hooper Hotchkiss (Conn.)
A Ryan Keenan Smithtown West (N.Y.)
M Connor Kelly Avon Old Farms (Conn.)
D Nick Panara Pittsford (N.Y.)
A Austin Sims Fairfield Prep (Conn.)
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star Erick Perez said he’d contacted the coach there about Kalish. It was the moment Kalish realized he could play at the next level, and the moment he decided to take his game north. “It’s been around New England way longer than Florida,” Kalish said. “The ball movement is really crisp up here. I like that. I like that you can’t dodge three or four guys. That doesn’t happen back in Florida. It’s that one guy running through everyone. When I got here kids were like, ‘Is this kid even good? He’s from Florida. He’s probably terrible.’ That was just motivation to prove people wrong.” Kalish doesn’t even mind the cold. “Especially when you play and there’s snow on the side of the field,” Kalish said.
“That’s something no one in Florida has ever seen.” Now Kalish’s path takes him to Bellarmine in Louisville, Ky., a homey campus he described as a larger Hebron. “From Maine, which I don’t even know why people live there, down to Kentucky, where you don’t even think they have lacrosse,” Kalish
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