Lacrosse team sharpens their skills for upcoming season

By Chase Porter Staff Writer Today, January 10th, was the first day of lacrosse practice and the start of the 2012 season for the three time state championship lacrosse team. Being a member of the team I had the chance to see this years team in action and I was impressed. After losing many highly recruited players from last years team I thought that we would have to rebuild more than usual. Todays practice showed me that was not the case at all. Even though we have an extreme amount of underclassmen this year I have confidence that we will have nothing but a successful season. Today was the first practice with the new coaching…

Lacrosse team finishes 2nd in fall tournament

By Chase Porter Staff Writer This past weekend, the varsity lacrosse team competed in the Halloween Shootout with teams from all over the Dallas. As a senior member of the team, I have had the opportunity to play in this tournament for the four years I have been on the team. This past weekend, October 29th and 30th we had a chance to play 3 games not including the semifinal game and the championship. On Saturday, we lost to ESD but won our second game against Plano West. On Sunday, we faced off against Highland Park beating them in a well fought game from both sides. With two wins under our belts we continued onto…

Lacrosse championship: inside the locker room

By Chase Porter Staff Writer Being a three year varsity lacrosse player has given me the unique chance to experience what really goes on before and after the state championship games. In the locker room everyone was pretty silent, everyone was either listening to music or just starring at the floor. Most of the seniors and starters isolated themselves and focused on the game. Finally, all the coaches called us around and we discussed the game; going over the offenses and defenses one more time just to make sure everyone had it down. After a short pep talk and a lot of yelling and banging on lockers everybody suited up and lined up in the…

Coppell boys’ Lacrosse wins state title

Rebecca Neumann Entertainment Editor Yesterday, at Woodforrest Bank Stadium, the Coppell Cowboys Lacrosse boys took on the Jesuit Rangers in the State Championship. Despite it being the first year for the team to be in Division I, the Cowboys took control and defeated the Rangers 10-8. The playoffs began earlier in the week, and just the day before the Cowboys had overcome St. Mark’s, another Dallas-area team. Though they had two state titles under their belt from the two previous years, the team had only recently made the transition from Division II to Division I, and it was doubtful, at the beginning of the season at least, that they would be able to dominate the…

Lacrosse Playoffs

By: Chris Cummins Staff Writer The Coppell Lacrosse team, a two-time Texas State Lacrosse Division II champion, is going to the state championship. The team is set to play St. Mark’s School of Texas on Saturday in a semifinal matchup is sure to be as heated and competitive as was their previous matchup, in which Coppell only came out on top in overtime. The winner will play either Episcopal School of Dallas or Jesuit College Preparatory School of Dallas, the other two schools still left in the tournament. What makes this tournament different from others the lacrosse team has won is the fact that it’s a Division I tournament. This means the biggest and best…

Coppell LAX advances to first DI tournament

Adam Bremner Staff Writer On Tuesday night, the Coppell Lacrosse club ousted the defending state champion Highland Park Scots, 11-7, to move into the playoffs. In what was essentially a play-in game, the Cowboys got down early in a 3-0 hole, but bounced back. With a 5-3 deficit  in the third quarter, Coppell stringed together seven straight goals, which all but ended the match. Trent Dennington, a student from Colleyville, put four balls in the back of the net, while Syracuse commit Brandon Mullins shut down the Scots’ Campbell Sody, who is a Rutgers commit. Now the Cowboys enter the Texas High School Lacrosse League Division I bracket that consists of 12 highly-skilled teams from…

Lacrosse team takes on Highland Park

By Chase Porter Staff Writer The lacrosse team has had an up and down season but after beating the number one team in Texas, Saint Marks on Monday April 11, everyone on the team is ready for another suspenseful game tomorrow night, April 15 against the Highland Park Scots. Tomorrow night, the lacrosse team will be taking on the defending division 1 state champs. Highland Park, also having a tough season, still has a winning record but if the lacrosse team can deliver a win tomorrow they could possibly knock Highland Park out of their playoff spot. I think that it is highly likely that we will win tomorrow because of a few reason including…

Lacrosse Away from Home

By: Chris Cummins Staff Writer Starting this Friday, Coppell Lacrosse is heading to Philadelphia, home of the Liberty Bell, in order to play the top teams in the City of Brotherly Love. The trip comes as an opportunity to shake the rust off after a week of spring break, and at the same time, recover after a tough loss to an undefeated Jesuit team a few weeks earlier. While not actually participating in an official tournament, the trip is a chance to play some of the best teams in East Coast, and see how one of Texas’ finest teams stand up to what Philadelphia has to offer when not on their home turf. It’s also…

Jesuit Rangers 13, Coppell Cowboys 11

Chase Porter Staff Writer Last night, March 9, 2011, our Coppell High School lacrosse team fell to the number one ranked Jesuit Rangers 13 to 11. The guys Coppell Lacrosse team has is a two time state champion in divsion 2 and this year the team made the switch to division 1. So far the teams record has been undeafted until last night and they are currently ranked second in the state. The game last night against Jesuit was promised to be one of the biggest games of the year and it did just that. Even though the Rangers pulled of the win in the closing minutes the Cowboys gave it all they could but he…

Senior plans to play lacrosse long after he graduates

Kelly Stewart Staff Writer With college on the horizon, many juniors are starting their search for the perfect university. For some athletes, that search has already come to an end. Some junior and senior athletes already know what colleges they are going to. For them, many colleges recruited them, and were offered many scholarships because of it. It was only a matter of picking the best offer and making a commitment to that school. Senior Preston Allison was asked by Providence College in Rhode Island to play on its lacrosse team. “They e-mailed me and expressed interest […] they said ‘We really like your skills and we want to offer you a spot on the…