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The week of February 18 to 25 brings Drexel to Charlottesville for the Virginia men’s home opener before making a trip to Long Island to meet Stony Brook, while the Cavalier women take on state rival Virginia tech at home, as well. Area High School Girls have two playing opportunities, while the STAB boy’s team sees its first action in a scrimmage against Woodson/Woodberry. Registration for the AGLL, Boy’s Middle School, and CAYLC Spring programs also continues through the week.

Sunday, February 18
9:30-4:30: Girl’s High School Lax Play Day, Monticello High School,
Charlottesville, Va
12:00 noon: CAYLC Skills Assessment: U-13, St. Anne’s-Belfield Turf Field, Charlottesville, Va
1:00pm: Virginia Men v. Drexel, UVa Turf Field, Charlottesville, Va
1:30pm: CAYLC Skills Assessment: U-15, St. Anne’s-Belfield Turf Field, Charlottesville, Va
3:00pm: CAYLC Skills Assessment: U-16/JV, St. Anne’s-Belfield Turf Field, Charlottesville, Va

Wednesday, February 21
7:00pm: Virginia Women v. Virginia Tech, UVa Turf Field, Charlottesville, Va

Thursday, February 22
Online registration deadline for BMSLL/CAYLC Spring Season deadline. To register, please visit the web form here.

Saturday, February 24
TBA: St. Anne’s - Belfield Boys v. Woodson/Woodberry (Scrimmage)
1:00pm - 5:00pm Girls High School Lacrosse Play Day, UVa Turf Field, Charlottesville, Va. Teams participating include Albemarle High School, Charlottesville High School, Monticello High School, and Western Albemarle High School
7:00pm: Virginia Men @ Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY

Sunday, February 25
12:00 noon: CAYLC Skills Assessment: U-13, St. Anne’s-Belfield Turf Field, Charlottesville, Va
1:30pm: CAYLC Skills Assessment: U-15, St. Anne’s-Belfield Turf Field, Charlottesville, Va
3:00pm: CAYLC Skills Assessment: U-16/JV, St. Anne’s-Belfield Turf Field, Charlottesville, Va
7:00pm: Virginia Women @ Temple, Philadelphia, Pa

The Charlottesville-Albemarle Youth Lacrosse Club, which brings together central Virginia lacrosse players under a single organization, is committed to providing local players with a fun and educational atmosphere. Registration for the 2007 CAYLC travel teams has begun, and is open to all skill levels with the hope of creating multiple teams for each age group. Skills assessment for placement will be held on both February 18th and February 25th on the Turf Field at St. Anne’s Belfield. (Players must attend both days if at all possible.)

Skills assessments will be made at the following times:

• U-13 at 12:00pm (Must have been 12 years of age on 12/31/06, 5th & 6th Grades)
• U-15 at 1:30pm (Must have been 14 years of age on 12/31/06, 7th & 8th Grades)
• U-16/JV 3:00pm (Current 9th & 10th graders only)

In addition to the U-13, U-15, and U-16 teams, CALYC will also sponsor a U-11 team and a High School team. Tryouts for these teams will be held next month.

All boys participating in the CALYC must be a member of US Lacrosse to play in the middle school league. (The US Lacrosse youth membership fee is $20.00 and covers 12 months.) If you should have any questions about the league please contact Bob Mattie (BmattieCDSDMS@aol.com). To register, please visit the web form here.

Via Bob Mattie

On March 17th & 18th, the Boys Middle School Lacrosse League and the Charlottesville-Albemarle Youth Lacrosse Club will sponsor the Nolan Jenkins Preseason LaxMania Youth Tournament. The tournament offer two play in age groups, U-15 (Juniors) and U-13 (Midgets), with at least 2 divisions for each age group. There will be a total of 20 teams for each group.

Each team participating will play at least 4 games, with 20 minute running time halves and a 5 minute half-time. In addition to local teams, the tournament has already received commitments and serious responses from teams in Baltimore, Calvert County, MD, Severna Park, MD, Connecticut, Northern Kentucky, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Roanoke, VA, Northern Virginia, South Carolina and Utah.

In past years, the BMSLL has held a preseason Jamboree to kick off the start of the season. In conjunction with CAYLC, this tournament will provide an expanded opportunity to prepare the BMSLL teams for their regular season. As a bonus, teams from outside the area to will have an great opportunity to visit Charlottesville and attend the UVa vs. Towson game on March 17th.

The tournament is looking for volunteers and referees. If you are interested, please contact Bob Mattie, bmattiecdsdms@aol.com.

Via CAYLC

On October 29th, the Charlottesville-Albemarle Youth Lacrosse (CAYLC) U-16 team won the 2006 Ghost & Goblins Fall Lacrosse Tournament at Colonial Forge High School in Stafford County.

CAYLC won the first game against Oakton, VA, 7-5. The offense was led by Connor McCollough (2 goals, 1 assist) and outstanding defensive play by Chris Macfarlane. In game 2, CAYLC defeated the host team, Bones Lacrosse, 10-2. Outstanding offense was displayed by Owen Van Arsdale (2 goals, 2 assists), Chapin Speidel (2 goals, 2 assists), Jack Viere (1 goal, 2 assists) and Michael Morris (3 goals), the defense was led by the play of goalie Kennon Miller.

Game 3 may have been the toughest of the event for CAYLC, at least in the first half. Pure Lax from Maryland opened the scoring early and each team traded goals until CAYLC scored two in a row to tie the game at the half, 5-5. With Billy Crist dominating the face-offs and stellar work in the goal by Austin Geisler, CAYLC scored 5 unanswered points to win the game 10-5. The offense was lead again by Van Arsdale, Morris and Speidel. Defensively, Reid Brannock and Julian Kroboth help shut down the Pure Lax offense in the second half.

In the Championship game, CAYLC played their best game at both ends of the field, overwhelming Williamsburg, 12-2. Contributing on the offense were Baird Snyder (2 goals, 1 assist), Turner Whitworth (1 goal, 3 assists), Owen Wagenstein (2 goals, 1 assist), Connor Round (2 goals, 2 assists) and Tyler Chappel (1 goal, 1 assist). Stellar defensive was turned by both long-stick middies, Ian Jumper and Josh D’Antoni.

The CAYLC teams (U-11, U-13, U-15 & U-16) will next play in the Fairfax Fall Brawl on November 18th. The Charlottesville Chapter of USLacrosse and cville-lax.com congratulate the CAYLC U-16 team on this impressive tournament championship.

[Report from Bob Crist]

I know that for some of you, the season has been over for a few weeks, but I thought that I would just give you an update of how the CAYLC U-11 team did this past weekend. Please keep in mind, that this is the first year in history that Charlottesville has sent a U11 team to these summer tournaments.

The team traveled to Greensboro, North Carolina this past weekend. Their first game was against Lake Norman, NC on Friday night. The team took an early lead and looked very comfortable in an 8-0 victory. Saturday morning, the team played the host Greensboro team and picked up a 10-3 win. In the afternoon, Charlottesville played the Winston-Salem All Stars and won 11-4.

The big game was on Sunday morning as the team played the All Stars from Charlotte. Both teams were undefeated in the tournament, and the Charlottesville parents noticed that the kids from Charlotte were, on average, much bigger than our kids, but our kids ended up doing very well against them. We took an early 1-0 lead and then found ourselves trailing 3-1. We scored a second goal just before halftime to draw the deficit to 3-2 at half.

In the second half, CAYLC’s goalie Alex Janssens, made a great save, but the ball still trickled in by an inch or two to give Charlotte a 4-2 advantage. After that, it was all Charlottesville, scoring 3 unanswered goals, and basically controlling the ball for probably about 90% of the rest of the game. Following the final horn, with a 5-4 victory, the boys did their own little “doggie pile” of 10 and 11 year old boys in the middle of the field. It was awesome!

The other age groups from Charlottesville also did very well, as well. Special thanks need to go to Brad Haws, Dick Abidin, Austin English and Michael Cross, who coach the U11 team. The team now travels to Cockeysville, Maryland this week for one more tournament before calling it a year.

The Boys Charlottesville-Albemarle Youth Lacrosse Club has announced their 2006 Summer Schedule. This is the 9th year CAYLC has taken teams to tournaments throughout the East Coast to compete against teams from all over the USA.

CAYLC also has announced the addition of a Boys U-11 team. With the success of the YMCA’s Lacrosse Little League (3rd-5th grade boys), which started last year, this is the next logical step to meet our stated goal, to improve the overall quality of the Boys game in the Central Virginia area.

If you have any questions, please call Bob or Terri Mattie, 434-974-9450.

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