2026 Private School Boys Lacrosse Commentary, Scores, and Updates

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Top Ten

1. Paul VI. Will take a massive upset in the next 4 to slip

2. Bullis. Solid #2

3. Georgetown Prep. Never really in doubt

4. Landon. Pretender or Contender on Friday

5. St. John’s. Tried very hard to lose

6. Good Counsel. Thumped in the 2nd half

7. Gonzaga - Comeback falls short, stays where they are until GC

8. St. Albans - Needs the win vs Ep on Friday

9. Urbana - Blows out another public

10. Heights - Squeezes past STMR by one

If Bullis ends up #1 make Urbana #2. SOS doesn't matter. Only loss was vs Bullis where backups got to play. Plus, they really gave it to #1,373 Oakdale. Nobody can compare to Urbana, literally, because nobody else plays that weak a schedule.
Why not add STAB since they actually played multiple teams on this list. They'd slot in at 3. Prep bumps down to 6 and Urbana never belonged near top 10 anyway.

I’d be fine with adding STAB for the reason cited (they regularly play a lot of DMV teams) but you’d also have to at least consider some of the Baltimore metro teams that do the same and if you do that you’d likely have only 5 dmv teams in the top ten. This year anyway.

St. Chris' plays too, is Richmond part of DC? It's dcum.com, not midatlanticum.com. Those teams are regularly used as comparison games to rank teams in an anonymous and overly snarky forum.

Not OP but it’s just as arbitrary to scrounge up 10 teams worthy of a top 10 as it is to draw hard mileage lines for it. There are usually only 5-6 teams each year that are actually good enough to not get shellacked when playing a high quality opponent. The scrap should be over that, not who bottom feeds or nepos their way to some Madlax marketing list.

For what it is worth, the rankings below are from LaxNumbers, its compiled a top 10 from teams from the IAC, WCAC and MIAA.
As the season carries on, I do think these computer rankings do make more sense as more data is ran through its calculations. Not sure if there is any subjective factor in these rankings.

1 Georgetown Prep 9-3-0 94.39 2.50 91.89
Team Website
2 McDonogh 7-3-0 94.29 4.10 90.19
Team Website Team Instagram
3 Bullis 12-2-0 93.71 5.42 88.28
Team Website
4 Calvert Hall 6-3-0 93.42 2.66 90.76
Team Website
5 Landon 7-3-0 93.20 2.40 90.80
Team Website Team Instagram
6 St Johns College HS 7-4-0 93.13 2.18 90.95
Team Website
7 Loyola-Blakefield 5-5-0 93.07 -0.70 93.77
Team Website
8 Boys Latin 5-6-0 92.75 0.36 92.39
Team Website
9 Severn School 8-2-0 92.25 2.50 89.75
Team Website
10 St Marys Annapolis 6-4-0 92.25 0.70 91.55
11 Gilman 7-5-0 92.15 3.50 88.65
Team Website
12 Archbishop Spalding 5-5-0 91.73 0.20 91.53
Team Website
13 Gonzaga 5-7-0 91.21 0.41 90.79
Team Website
14 Good Counsel 8-5-0 91.09 4.00 87.09
Team Website
15 St Pauls 3-5-0 90.36 -0.50 90.86

And to be very clear, I'm far from considering myself a GP fan, but you can't deny their SOS this Spring. McDonogh, with its first-year head coach, is flying under the radar and is putting together a sneaky good season as well. Severn has also surprised me this Spring as they are a fairly young squad and might sneak into the MIAA playoffs this year.

The next 4 weeks will bring clarity to who the top dogs are in the region.

Good luck to the players, coaches and the seniors!

Neutral!

Big fan of a data-driven approach, but if your search parameters excluded PVI, a decidedly DMV team, I would tweak them. And I’m very not a PVI partisan.

[Anonymous]

Yeah, I’m curious why that team from ijamsville keeps getting mentioned. I guess it is true what people say. Urbana isn’t a place, it’s a state of mind

[Anonymous]

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If Bullis ends up #1 make Urbana #2. SOS doesn't matter. Only loss was vs Bullis where backups got to play. Plus, they really gave it to #1,373 Oakdale. Nobody can compare to Urbana, literally, because nobody else plays that weak a schedule.
Why not add STAB since they actually played multiple teams on this list. They'd slot in at 3. Prep bumps down to 6 and Urbana never belonged near top 10 anyway.

Why does Urbana keep coming up? They're good for a public, but they'd get dog walked by 20 privates in MD. They're having a good season, have some talented guys, well coached... but they remotely belong in the top 10 convo. Has to be trolling...

Well yeah, he was being sarcastic because he's likely miffed that a rando didn't have his mid private in his top 10. That some rural rednecks might be in the neighborhood of schools that he has to shell out dinero for. Much like you're doing here by exaggerating the number of Maryland privates that are that good, and local privates that would extend past 10. They don't exist.

1. Landon
2. Prep
3. SJC
4. Bullis
5. Good Counsel
6. BL
7. McDonogh
8. Calvert Hall
9. Loyola
10. Severn
11. Spalding

There's more than 10 in MD who would crush them in no particular order.

[Anonymous]

I don't think either Bullis or Landon score 10.
Landon 7 Bullis 6

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Anonymous wrote:Talent is pretty spread out among seven teams right now. If PVI and GC continue to field good teams it’s less likely that you will see multiple DMV teams in the top 25. A lot of the top PVI and GC players would have found their way to Gonzaga, Landon, and GP in the past. 15 years ago almost all talent was concentrated in those three schools and then Bullis and SJC emerged over the last decade as consistent programs.

+100.

Worth noting that area rec programs are all folding up shop as lacrosse is morphing into a "club bro" sport marketed towards families who can strike checks $8K a year even at the elementary years. You are seeing fewer athletes (i.e. football players) pick up the stick for the first time due to the perception of the sport and financial barriers. Just look at how poor the quality of play is now in the public schools. JV teams are nearly non-existent for several Fairfax and MoCo schools; this was not the case a decade ago.

Lacrosse is no longer growing in the DMV; it hit a plateau during COVID.

The plateau in the DMV was 5 years earlier, 2015ish. Nationally, it was 2018. It's not due to the perception of the sport. It's due to early adopters not bringing their friends along. They went out and found new friends outside of the neighborhood so they could play 50 minute games an hour and a half away.

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If Bullis ends up #1 make Urbana #2. SOS doesn't matter. Only loss was vs Bullis where backups got to play. Plus, they really gave it to #1,373 Oakdale. Nobody can compare to Urbana, literally, because nobody else plays that weak a schedule.
Why not add STAB since they actually played multiple teams on this list. They'd slot in at 3. Prep bumps down to 6 and Urbana never belonged near top 10 anyway.

Why does Urbana keep coming up? They're good for a public, but they'd get dog walked by 20 privates in MD. They're having a good season, have some talented guys, well coached... but they remotely belong in the top 10 convo. Has to be trolling...

Well yeah, he was being sarcastic because he's likely miffed that a rando didn't have his mid private in his top 10. That some rural rednecks might be in the neighborhood of schools that he has to shell out dinero for. Much like you're doing here by exaggerating the number of Maryland privates that are that good, and local privates that would extend past 10. They don't exist.

1. Landon
2. Prep
3. SJC
4. Bullis
5. Good Counsel
6. BL
7. McDonogh
8. Calvert Hall
9. Loyola
10. Severn
11. Spalding

There's more than 10 in MD who would crush them in no particular order.

You should read the previous posts first.
Claims were:
1) 20 MD privates that would dogwalk them.
2) they belong nowhere near a DMV top 10.

So find 20 MD privates for 1).
And let's say... 13? or so DMV privates that would show how they don't belong near a top 10. 9-13 should be amusing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You should read the previous posts first.
Claims were:
1) 20 MD privates that would dogwalk them.
2) they belong nowhere near a DMV top 10.

So find 20 MD privates for 1).
And let's say... 13? or so DMV privates that would show how they don't belong near a top 10. 9-13 should be amusing.

nobody wants to talk about ijamsville relax

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You should read the previous posts first.
Claims were:
1) 20 MD privates that would dogwalk them.
2) they belong nowhere near a DMV top 10.

So find 20 MD privates for 1).
And let's say... 13? or so DMV privates that would show how they don't belong near a top 10. 9-13 should be amusing.

nobody wants to talk about ijamsville relax

Evidently 2 or 3 guys want to. I'm good if the topic doesn't come up again.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Top Ten

1. Paul VI. Will take a massive upset in the next 4 to slip

2. Bullis. Solid #2

3. Georgetown Prep. Never really in doubt

4. Landon. Pretender or Contender on Friday

5. St. John’s. Tried very hard to lose

6. Good Counsel. Thumped in the 2nd half

7. Gonzaga - Comeback falls short, stays where they are until GC

8. St. Albans - Needs the win vs Ep on Friday

9. Urbana - Blows out another public

10. Heights - Squeezes past STMR by one

If Bullis ends up #1 make Urbana #2. SOS doesn't matter. Only loss was vs Bullis where backups got to play. Plus, they really gave it to #1,373 Oakdale. Nobody can compare to Urbana, literally, because nobody else plays that weak a schedule.
Why not add STAB since they actually played multiple teams on this list. They'd slot in at 3. Prep bumps down to 6 and Urbana never belonged near top 10 anyway.

I’d be fine with adding STAB for the reason cited (they regularly play a lot of DMV teams) but you’d also have to at least consider some of the Baltimore metro teams that do the same and if you do that you’d likely have only 5 dmv teams in the top ten. This year anyway.

St. Chris' plays too, is Richmond part of DC? It's dcum.com, not midatlanticum.com. Those teams are regularly used as comparison games to rank teams in an anonymous and overly snarky forum.

Not OP but it’s just as arbitrary to scrounge up 10 teams worthy of a top 10 as it is to draw hard mileage lines for it. There are usually only 5-6 teams each year that are actually good enough to not get shellacked when playing a high quality opponent. The scrap should be over that, not who bottom feeds or nepos their way to some Madlax marketing list.

For what it is worth, the rankings below are from LaxNumbers, its compiled a top 10 from teams from the IAC, WCAC and MIAA.
As the season carries on, I do think these computer rankings do make more sense as more data is ran through its calculations. Not sure if there is any subjective factor in these rankings.

1 Georgetown Prep 9-3-0 94.39 2.50 91.89
Team Website
2 McDonogh 7-3-0 94.29 4.10 90.19
Team Website Team Instagram
3 Bullis 12-2-0 93.71 5.42 88.28
Team Website
4 Calvert Hall 6-3-0 93.42 2.66 90.76
Team Website
5 Landon 7-3-0 93.20 2.40 90.80
Team Website Team Instagram
6 St Johns College HS 7-4-0 93.13 2.18 90.95
Team Website
7 Loyola-Blakefield 5-5-0 93.07 -0.70 93.77
Team Website
8 Boys Latin 5-6-0 92.75 0.36 92.39
Team Website
9 Severn School 8-2-0 92.25 2.50 89.75
Team Website
10 St Marys Annapolis 6-4-0 92.25 0.70 91.55
11 Gilman 7-5-0 92.15 3.50 88.65
Team Website
12 Archbishop Spalding 5-5-0 91.73 0.20 91.53
Team Website
13 Gonzaga 5-7-0 91.21 0.41 90.79
Team Website
14 Good Counsel 8-5-0 91.09 4.00 87.09
Team Website
15 St Pauls 3-5-0 90.36 -0.50 90.86

And to be very clear, I'm far from considering myself a GP fan, but you can't deny their SOS this Spring. McDonogh, with its first-year head coach, is flying under the radar and is putting together a sneaky good season as well. Severn has also surprised me this Spring as they are a fairly young squad and might sneak into the MIAA playoffs this year.

The next 4 weeks will bring clarity to who the top dogs are in the region.

Good luck to the players, coaches and the seniors!

Neutral!

Big fan of a data-driven approach, but if your search parameters excluded PVI, a decidedly DMV team, I would tweak them. And I’m very not a PVI partisan.

He's ranking by Laxnumbers' Power Ranking. PVI would be #3 @ 93.93.

[Anonymous]

Maryland teams that would beat Urbana.
Prep
Landon
Bullis
Gonzaga
GC
St Albans
Heights
DeMatha
Mcdonogh
Calvert Hall
Loyola Blakefield
Boys Latin
Severn
St Mary's
Spalding
St pauls
MSJ
John Carroll
St marys ryken
SJC

[Anonymous]

Bullis by 5+

This year they are better and will win IAC.

[Anonymous]

Urbana thinks they are on the same level as a private school. They recruit. Some of their best players haven’t lived in the Urbana district and should have been playing for other local public’s. It’s been like that for a long time. They use to scrimmage Georgetown prep for several years in the mid 2000s and would get run off the field by preps Freshman and JV team. Gibb wouldn’t even coach that game. He was at the end of the bench watching.

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Anonymous wrote:Maryland teams that would beat Urbana.
Prep
Landon
Bullis
Gonzaga
GC
St Albans
Heights
DeMatha
Mcdonogh
Calvert Hall
Loyola Blakefield
Boys Latin
Severn
St Mary's
Spalding
St pauls
MSJ
John Carroll
St marys ryken
SJC

Let's see... JC, Ryken (2-15 each) and DM (4-15) actually DID get dogwalked by Bullis, STA, SJC and GZ are in DC. Several others are major question marks whether they'd even win.
And the claim was that they'd get dogwalked. Looks like you have a lot of work to do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maryland teams that would beat Urbana.
Prep
Landon
Bullis
Gonzaga
GC
St Albans
Heights
DeMatha
Mcdonogh
Calvert Hall
Loyola Blakefield
Boys Latin
Severn
St Mary's
Spalding
St pauls
MSJ
John Carroll
St marys ryken
SJC

Let's see... JC, Ryken (2-15 each) and DM (4-15) actually DID get dogwalked by Bullis, STA, SJC and GZ are in DC. Several others are major question marks whether they'd even win.
And the claim was that they'd get dogwalked. Looks like you have a lot of work to do.

Not the OP. The “20 MD privates” may have been hyperbole, but I think the point still stands regarding Urbanna.

[Anonymous]

DeMatha Catholic v #1 St. Paul VI Catholic 6:30 PM
PVI -8. DM is getting better but no real challenge

#2 Bullis v #4 Landon 4:30 PM EDT
BU -2. It's not club ball so you don't need a deep roster

#3 Georgetown Prep v St. Stephen's and St. Agnes 4:30 PM
GP -10+. Not much to analyze

#5 St. John's College v #10 The Heights School 4:00 PM
SJC -8. SJC might be down a bit, but H doesn't have enough to keep it close

#6 Good Counsel v #7 Gonzaga College
GC -2. GC catches GZ on another letdown game or has GC realized they aren't there yet

#8 St. Albans v Episcopal 4:30 PM EDT
STA -2

Sidwell v St. James 5 PM
STJ -10+

St. Mary's Ryken v Bishop Ireton

Bishop O'Connell v Bishop McNamara 4:00 PM