Manhasset - Garden City Lacrosse Rivalry Continues

Brogan Mahon fights for the ground ball

April began with GCHS winning the 114th meeting between the Manhasset Indians and the Garden City Trojan lacrosse teams. This is the oldest continuous lacrosse rivalry in the country and began in 1935. Manhasset leads the series 64-50 but GC has won 10 of the last 12 contests. Many of these rival players join together as teammates in college lacrosse programs across the nation.

The Garden City Maroon 4th graders contributed yet another GC victory to this long and ongoing sports rivalry on the turf at Manhasset's Memorial Field on April 29th.

The scoreboard and announcers only declared the GC victory and the names of the boys scoring goals. It did not report that the goals scored by Jack Tighe, Thomas Wright, Patrick Gibbons, Kieran McGoldrick and Brendan Digan were assisted on 7 of the 9 goals. It did not report how well the 4th graders cleared the ball from their own zone, or how many ground balls were scooped up by GC or the great team play among the middies and attackmen Brogan Mahon, Patrick Gibbons, Jack Tigh, Thomas Wright, Brian Colamussi, Will Glenn, Matt Flynn, Michael Crapotta, Kieran McGoldrick and Brian Shannon. It also did not report on the outstanding effort by cage men Matt Flynn and Brian Colamussi supported by defenders Carson Bauer, Christopher Moscatiello and Brendan Digan.

Kieran McGoldrick goes to goal

GC came out strong in the first period, stunning Manhasset with strong face-offs and ball control and 4 unanswered goals. Manhasset clawed back with 3 goals of their own in the 2nd and held GC to 2 in that period making the score at the half 6-3.

During the 3rd period, Manhasset scored 3 more times. GC matched them. However, it was the 4th period that GC owned. Despite having only 4 subs and strong hearts GC shut down the deeply staffed Indians and their surging effort, allowing only 1 goal. The final score was 9-7. The real story was the way the passion and coordinated effort demonstrated by the team despite the injuries to Evan Nagel, Ryan McCartney, Alex Wood and Thomas Mulligan.

Will Glenn clears the ball Mike Crapotta, Jack Tigh and Matt Flynn defend to crease Carson Bauer defends