2026 Private School Boys Lacrosse Commentary, Scores, and Updates

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St. Ignatius historically is a very strong program out of SF. I think Prep wins by 2 - 4, but it will be a very competitive contest.

Don't think Gonzaga has enough offensive talent to keep pace with PVI's offense. I see PVI winning by 3 - 4.

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Anonymous wrote:St. Chris is actually pretty bad and might have the worst face off unit I’ve seen. GP got up big in 1st half (like 9-2) and took their foot off the gas. EHS needed a career day from their goalie and a dozen St. Chris unforced turnovers to beat them. EHS will get blown out by Bullis, Prep and Landon just like they did b STAB and PVI, and will be lucky to beat StA.

Surprised St. Chris isn't better. Their 2027 class would be top 3 most talented in the DC area, though more deep with solid players than any true stud. Is Taibl still kicking around down there? I remember him being one of the better coaches in this area a while back.

Taibl is assistant AD at St. Chris and coaches JV lax. The Varsity team could use him.

Satire: Bucknell, Bucknell, Loyola, Richmond for the 27's. Well outside the top 3 in DC area.

Caring about some mid tier team in Richmond is a little tangential here. Hell even the STAB chatter of some is pushing the envelope for what’s relevant on a DMV board but at least they’re quite good and fall into the MIAA-A category of potential benchmarks of comparison.

Potential benchmarks? They'd compete for the MIAA championship. This is a lax board, and STAB is relevant to lacrosse discussions for the area. St. Chris is more equivalent to a St. Paul's/Archbishop Spalding. Respectable but not great. EHS is below all of them right now.

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Anonymous wrote:Hillgy was hired to bring the McD model to GP. Part of the philosophy is to focus almost 100% of boarding investments on Attack and Goalie. Even the top 2030 attack recruits will be at OM until Jr year - if they are lucky. The system works - just something to know if your kid plays attack.

It won’t work at Prep.

Prep parents will revolt when legacy kids won’t see the field.

Through the years I have seen scores of legacy boys at Prep “ride the pine” and it’s never been an issue.

You are making stuff up to support an agenda.

You’re probably new to the forum. There are multiple posts by GP parents saying that Hilgartner will have to pay attention to the parents of locals while attacking boarders virtually by name. GP parents hate boarders and transfers. Those posts even threatened donations so drop the BS.

Those posts do not exist from GP parents. That is absurd.

Must be a GP parent covering their own butt. It’s a well known fact that GP parents have a total disdain for boarders. The problem is that in every sport it’s the boarders that make them competitive.

Might be true that they don’t like boarders, but none of them are posting about it here.

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Anonymous wrote:Hillgy was hired to bring the McD model to GP. Part of the philosophy is to focus almost 100% of boarding investments on Attack and Goalie. Even the top 2030 attack recruits will be at OM until Jr year - if they are lucky. The system works - just something to know if your kid plays attack.

It won’t work at Prep.

Prep parents will revolt when legacy kids won’t see the field.

Through the years I have seen scores of legacy boys at Prep “ride the pine” and it’s never been an issue.

You are making stuff up to support an agenda.

You’re probably new to the forum. There are multiple posts by GP parents saying that Hilgartner will have to pay attention to the parents of locals while attacking boarders virtually by name. GP parents hate boarders and transfers. Those posts even threatened donations so drop the BS.

Those posts do not exist from GP parents. That is absurd.

Must be a GP parent covering their own butt. It’s a well known fact that GP parents have a total disdain for boarders. The problem is that in every sport it’s the boarders that make them competitive.

Might be true that they don’t like boarders, but none of them are posting about it here.

And you know this because they all route through you first and you then curate every post from a GP parent? Impressive control on an anonymous board open to anyone with access to the interwebs.

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I know this because I’ve never seen anyone even pretend to be a GP parent on here and post something like that. I’ve seen it mentioned a lot, but always from the perspective of an opposing parent/kid (like you) ascribing that feeling to GP families.

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Anonymous wrote:St. Chris is actually pretty bad and might have the worst face off unit I’ve seen. GP got up big in 1st half (like 9-2) and took their foot off the gas. EHS needed a career day from their goalie and a dozen St. Chris unforced turnovers to beat them. EHS will get blown out by Bullis, Prep and Landon just like they did b STAB and PVI, and will be lucky to beat StA.

Surprised St. Chris isn't better. Their 2027 class would be top 3 most talented in the DC area, though more deep with solid players than any true stud. Is Taibl still kicking around down there? I remember him being one of the better coaches in this area a while back.

Taibl is assistant AD at St. Chris and coaches JV lax. The Varsity team could use him.

Satire: Bucknell, Bucknell, Loyola, Richmond for the 27's. Well outside the top 3 in DC area.

Caring about some mid tier team in Richmond is a little tangential here. Hell even the STAB chatter of some is pushing the envelope for what’s relevant on a DMV board but at least they’re quite good and fall into the MIAA-A category of potential benchmarks of comparison.

Potential benchmarks? They'd compete for the MIAA championship. This is a lax board, and STAB is relevant to lacrosse discussions for the area. St. Chris is more equivalent to a St. Paul's/Archbishop Spalding. Respectable but not great. EHS is below all of them right now.

STAB would likely make the MIAA playoffs, but I'm not sure they'd compete for the MIAA championship. Give Nick Bell another year of bringing in boarders and re-classifying kids, and STAB will be a perennial national top 30 program. As for the MIAA is wide open this year between the following teams:

1. Calvert Hall
2. Loyola
3. Saint Marys
4. BL
5. Severn
6. McDonogh

HM: Spalding

Regarding St Chris out of Richmond, no, they aren't good. "Good for the state of Richmond, but they lost to Episcopal, which is embarrassing. St Chris would lose to Spalding by 7+ goals and likely lose to St. Paul's by 3 - 4 goals. The only people on here who think St Chris is any good are likely EHS or Prep boosters trying to justify it was a "good win". Likely Prep boosters, as EHS has never been known to be much of a lacrosse school.

The MIAA, while a very deep conference filled with tons of parity this spring, appears to be down at the national level.

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Anonymous wrote:Landon 16
SSSA 4

What happened to SSSA anyway? Or EHS for that matter? They just stopped resourcing the boys programs?

Combination of factors. Coach is in his second or third year and maybe he'll get 1-2 recruits thru admission per year, but who in their right mind would send their kid to either if you have other cheaper and better lacrosse options with relatively equal academics?? Also, if your DS was a solid player maybe not even a IL top 50 but wants to play at some level in college for a competitive program, while historically both SSSSA and EHS have gotten kids there as recently as last year, its a gamble that is just reckless. If you can afford $60 k per year, you're trying for Bullis, Prep, Gonzaaga or Landon over both SSSA and EHS. I just don't think either will ever be consider a competitive boys lacrosse programs again without a monster donor stepping in to make it happen. Sad.

Couple of other factors on the decline of SSSA/EHS:
- quality and quantity of rec lacrosse programs in NoVa has taken a massive nosedive. Pretty much all of the NoVa HS teams will suck once PVI '26s graduate. The pipeline just isn't there like it used to be
- Cannibalization of Alexandria talent. EHS and SSSA usually split the top kids in Alexandria. Maybe they'll get a few from Fairfax County or Arlington, but very rarely.
- Both schools are expensive and have very small male graduating classes. Much smaller pool of kids to pick from
- More efficient recruiting market. SSSA peaked in the 2010s when the Blackwolf pipeline was humming and they were one of the most aggressive schools in recruiting talent from across NoVa. Now that the other schools have caught on (+ significantly passed them), SSSA just isn't getting the 1-3 D1 transfers each class.
-Other factors like increasing sticker price haven't helped, but I've always been surprised that EHS isn't better. They should have their pick of the litter for top Southern talent, but will occasionally lose some players to disciplinary issues.

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Anonymous wrote:Tuesday Games

Heights @ Ireton.
GZ won by 8 in the battle for top ten. H -6

St. Ignatius CA @ Georgetown Prep.
SI beat the CA team GP beat last week. GP -3

Potomac @ St. Albans.
STA should get a rebound. STA -4

Gonzaga @ Paul VI.
They had a rivalry effort now they need a pride game. PVI -4

St. John’s @ DeMatha.
Should be double digits. SJC -11

Urbana @ Bullis.
The Public will be pumped. Bullis -3

St. Stephens @ Collegiate.
One of the winnable for SSSAS. SSAS +2

Flint Hill @ Episcopal.
A win against the MAAC

Big Week for PVI. Will they be able to beat both GZ and SJC in the same week?

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Heights @ Ireton.
GZ won by 8 in the battle for top ten. H -6

St. Ignatius CA @ Georgetown Prep.
SI beat the CA team GP beat last week. GP -3

Potomac @ St. Albans.
STA should get a rebound. STA -4

Gonzaga @ Paul VI.
They had a rivalry effort now they need a pride game. PVI -4

St. John’s @ DeMatha.
Should be double digits. SJC -11

Urbana @ Bullis.
The Public will be pumped. Bullis -3

St. Stephens @ Collegiate.
One of the winnable for SSSAS. SSAS +2

Flint Hill @ Episcopal.
A win against the MAAC

Big Week for PVI. Will they be able to beat both GZ and SJC in the same week?

I think they pull it off. GZ by 4+ and SJC by 2

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Is there a stream for either the GP vs SI game or GZ v PVI game?

I think both games will be very close

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Anonymous wrote:St. Chris is actually pretty bad and might have the worst face off unit I’ve seen. GP got up big in 1st half (like 9-2) and took their foot off the gas. EHS needed a career day from their goalie and a dozen St. Chris unforced turnovers to beat them. EHS will get blown out by Bullis, Prep and Landon just like they did b STAB and PVI, and will be lucky to beat StA.

Surprised St. Chris isn't better. Their 2027 class would be top 3 most talented in the DC area, though more deep with solid players than any true stud. Is Taibl still kicking around down there? I remember him being one of the better coaches in this area a while back.

Taibl is assistant AD at St. Chris and coaches JV lax. The Varsity team could use him.

Satire: Bucknell, Bucknell, Loyola, Richmond for the 27's. Well outside the top 3 in DC area.

Caring about some mid tier team in Richmond is a little tangential here. Hell even the STAB chatter of some is pushing the envelope for what’s relevant on a DMV board but at least they’re quite good and fall into the MIAA-A category of potential benchmarks of comparison.

Potential benchmarks? They'd compete for the MIAA championship. This is a lax board, and STAB is relevant to lacrosse discussions for the area. St. Chris is more equivalent to a St. Paul's/Archbishop Spalding. Respectable but not great. EHS is below all of them right now.

STAB would likely make the MIAA playoffs, but I'm not sure they'd compete for the MIAA championship. Give Nick Bell another year of bringing in boarders and re-classifying kids, and STAB will be a perennial national top 30 program. As for the MIAA is wide open this year between the following teams:

1. Calvert Hall
2. Loyola
3. Saint Marys
4. BL
5. Severn
6. McDonogh

HM: Spalding

Regarding St Chris out of Richmond, no, they aren't good. "Good for the state of Richmond, but they lost to Episcopal, which is embarrassing. St Chris would lose to Spalding by 7+ goals and likely lose to St. Paul's by 3 - 4 goals. The only people on here who think St Chris is any good are likely EHS or Prep boosters trying to justify it was a "good win". Likely Prep boosters, as EHS has never been known to be much of a lacrosse school.

The MIAA, while a very deep conference filled with tons of parity this spring, appears to be down at the national level.

I based my St. Chris opinion based on my memory of its record prior to EHS. St. Chris has been an abject disaster in its last 2 games, and I badly overrated them. The truth came out, and I was wrong.

Far from an EHS booster because I think they suck too, albeit they suck less than St. Chris.

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Anonymous wrote:St. Chris is actually pretty bad and might have the worst face off unit I’ve seen. GP got up big in 1st half (like 9-2) and took their foot off the gas. EHS needed a career day from their goalie and a dozen St. Chris unforced turnovers to beat them. EHS will get blown out by Bullis, Prep and Landon just like they did b STAB and PVI, and will be lucky to beat StA.

Surprised St. Chris isn't better. Their 2027 class would be top 3 most talented in the DC area, though more deep with solid players than any true stud. Is Taibl still kicking around down there? I remember him being one of the better coaches in this area a while back.

Taibl is assistant AD at St. Chris and coaches JV lax. The Varsity team could use him.

Satire: Bucknell, Bucknell, Loyola, Richmond for the 27's. Well outside the top 3 in DC area.

Caring about some mid tier team in Richmond is a little tangential here. Hell even the STAB chatter of some is pushing the envelope for what’s relevant on a DMV board but at least they’re quite good and fall into the MIAA-A category of potential benchmarks of comparison.

There isn't enough credit given for comments like this. Respect.

Potential benchmarks? They'd compete for the MIAA championship. This is a lax board, and STAB is relevant to lacrosse discussions for the area. St. Chris is more equivalent to a St. Paul's/Archbishop Spalding. Respectable but not great. EHS is below all of them right now.

STAB would likely make the MIAA playoffs, but I'm not sure they'd compete for the MIAA championship. Give Nick Bell another year of bringing in boarders and re-classifying kids, and STAB will be a perennial national top 30 program. As for the MIAA is wide open this year between the following teams:

1. Calvert Hall
2. Loyola
3. Saint Marys
4. BL
5. Severn
6. McDonogh

HM: Spalding

Regarding St Chris out of Richmond, no, they aren't good. "Good for the state of Richmond, but they lost to Episcopal, which is embarrassing. St Chris would lose to Spalding by 7+ goals and likely lose to St. Paul's by 3 - 4 goals. The only people on here who think St Chris is any good are likely EHS or Prep boosters trying to justify it was a "good win". Likely Prep boosters, as EHS has never been known to be much of a lacrosse school.

The MIAA, while a very deep conference filled with tons of parity this spring, appears to be down at the national level.

I based my St. Chris opinion based on my memory of its record prior to EHS. St. Chris has been an abject disaster in its last 2 games, and I badly overrated them. The truth came out, and I was wrong.

Far from an EHS booster because I think they suck too, albeit they suck less than St. Chris.

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Anonymous wrote:St. Chris is actually pretty bad and might have the worst face off unit I’ve seen. GP got up big in 1st half (like 9-2) and took their foot off the gas. EHS needed a career day from their goalie and a dozen St. Chris unforced turnovers to beat them. EHS will get blown out by Bullis, Prep and Landon just like they did b STAB and PVI, and will be lucky to beat StA.

Surprised St. Chris isn't better. Their 2027 class would be top 3 most talented in the DC area, though more deep with solid players than any true stud. Is Taibl still kicking around down there? I remember him being one of the better coaches in this area a while back.

Taibl is assistant AD at St. Chris and coaches JV lax. The Varsity team could use him.

Satire: Bucknell, Bucknell, Loyola, Richmond for the 27's. Well outside the top 3 in DC area.

Caring about some mid tier team in Richmond is a little tangential here. Hell even the STAB chatter of some is pushing the envelope for what’s relevant on a DMV board but at least they’re quite good and fall into the MIAA-A category of potential benchmarks of comparison.

Potential benchmarks? They'd compete for the MIAA championship. This is a lax board, and STAB is relevant to lacrosse discussions for the area. St. Chris is more equivalent to a St. Paul's/Archbishop Spalding. Respectable but not great. EHS is below all of them right now.

STAB would likely make the MIAA playoffs, but I'm not sure they'd compete for the MIAA championship. Give Nick Bell another year of bringing in boarders and re-classifying kids, and STAB will be a perennial national top 30 program. As for the MIAA is wide open this year between the following teams:

1. Calvert Hall
2. Loyola
3. Saint Marys
4. BL
5. Severn
6. McDonogh

HM: Spalding

Regarding St Chris out of Richmond, no, they aren't good. "Good for the state of Richmond, but they lost to Episcopal, which is embarrassing. St Chris would lose to Spalding by 7+ goals and likely lose to St. Paul's by 3 - 4 goals. The only people on here who think St Chris is any good are likely EHS or Prep boosters trying to justify it was a "good win". Likely Prep boosters, as EHS has never been known to be much of a lacrosse school.

The MIAA, while a very deep conference filled with tons of parity this spring, appears to be down at the national level.

I based my St. Chris opinion based on my memory of its record prior to EHS. St. Chris has been an abject disaster in its last 2 games, and I badly overrated them. The truth came out, and I was wrong.

Far from an EHS booster because I think they suck too, albeit they suck less than St. Chris.

There isn't enough credit given for comments like this. Respect.

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Prep loses to California power St Ignatius 8-7

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GZ 8-7 over PVI in OT