VHSL Boys Lacrosse 2025 Season

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Anonymous wrote:I think McLean lost a lot, but still has #3 to contend. Yorktown lost a lot of players (at least quantity wise) too and seems to have been steadily declining the last few years. Langley has to be the favorite in the Liberty.

Looking specifically at the Liberty district it will be hard to tell who will be hurt the most due to graduation but one thing is for sure each team will be down from last year. Yorktown graduated the most seniors including their top scorer in program history, goalie, fogo, 3 of their 4 starting poles, and 4 - 5 mids. McLean also had a big senior class including their top scorer, 3 of their 4 starting poles, both goalies, fogo, and arguably the best d mid in the state. Langley had the smallest group of seniors but their impact will definitely be felt. They lose their top scorer in program history as well as another 1st team all district attackmen, their top offensive midfielder, 1 starting pole, and their d mid that pulled most teams best offensive player. The argument for Langley is clear they return the most proven starters. That being said I think it's a toss up between them and Yorktown with McLean on the outside looking in with the potential to upset either on the right night.

Last season Yorktown fielded arguably the best JV in the state outside of Riverside and Freedom. This group is packed with the younger siblings of proven players from the past. The offense will be led on offense by #37 Nate Randles (70 points 24') and Eli Pilch (51 points 24'). Logan Kaetzel and Mikey Cowan Should provide some depth. The defense will be led by 2nd team all district #2 Evan Beeman to lead the way. Mitchell Fergueson Owen Lefton and PJ Cooper should all be in the mix to fill in the remaining spots. Goalie and Midfield will be the biggest question marks moving forward. The goalie battle will be between Senior Gabe Edmeades and the lefty Sophomore Shane Campbell.

Unlike Yorktown who will be looking to a lot of new faces to carry the torch Langley will lean on a deep group of returners to lead the way. Langley reminds me a lot of 2024 McLean. Strong midfield, defense, and goalie. Their midfield should be this teams deepest unit led by #7 Cole Samburg (1st team all district fogo) who is probably the second best overall mid in the district. He will be joined by #6 Kevin Mahoney (Second Team All District) #12 Wilson Buttz (Second Team All District) and #5 Ethan Cash. They also return 4 senior poles including starters #4 Brigg Carton (1st Team All District)#1 Owen Slamowitz #24 Matt Chen and #16 Brendan Oakes. At Goalie Langley returns 2 year starter #30 Logan Schwartz and picks up One of the top players in the freshman class Luke Milone. Even with this a lot of Langley's success or failure will fall on the shoulders of #8 Jack Milone (2nd team all district) and Ellis Farah on attack. While Milone has proven to be a true scoring threat in big games the question is who will fill the other spot. Outside of the Yorktown game Langley's JV put together a good season but the offense was not their strength.

Don't Sleep on McLean... We get it. The Highlanders like the Saxons return a lot of players that saw a decent amount of action last year. Starting with hands down the best player in the district in midfielder #3 Max Mullen (73 Points). They also return fellow midfielder #4 Landon Moore (20 Points). Look for #19 Christian McNeil (26 Points) and #25 Ethan Jones (14 Points) to have a break out year offensively. #15 Gaulder Maul (7 Points) and Griffin Ferris should be in the mix as well. McLean's biggest question mark is can they replace what was one of the most dominate defenses in the state last year. While this years unit may not have experience on their side they will once again have benefit for size and athletic ability. #2 Thomas Terminella and D Mid #7 Levi Stockwell are the only players that saw significant time last year. #24 Michael Bablitis #77 Jack Schomer and #23 Jake Bell are most likely the front runners to round out this defense. Samuel Brown did a good job on JV last year and will most likely fight for the starting roll this year. There's a good chance McLean is going to need to seriously slow games down this year if they plan to replicate last years region finals run.

This is really impressive. As someone that follows High school sports and specifically the Liberty district Lacrosse closely this was really thorough and I'm not sure how you were able to get all this info. It's hard to get this info on just one school. With that being said I think this will be a 5 school race for the district. Herndon and W&L will upset one or more of the top 3 this year. It's going to be a fun competitive year again in the Liberty.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think McLean lost a lot, but still has #3 to contend. Yorktown lost a lot of players (at least quantity wise) too and seems to have been steadily declining the last few years. Langley has to be the favorite in the Liberty.

Looking specifically at the Liberty district it will be hard to tell who will be hurt the most due to graduation but one thing is for sure each team will be down from last year. Yorktown graduated the most seniors including their top scorer in program history, goalie, fogo, 3 of their 4 starting poles, and 4 - 5 mids. McLean also had a big senior class including their top scorer, 3 of their 4 starting poles, both goalies, fogo, and arguably the best d mid in the state. Langley had the smallest group of seniors but their impact will definitely be felt. They lose their top scorer in program history as well as another 1st team all district attackmen, their top offensive midfielder, 1 starting pole, and their d mid that pulled most teams best offensive player. The argument for Langley is clear they return the most proven starters. That being said I think it's a toss up between them and Yorktown with McLean on the outside looking in with the potential to upset either on the right night.

Last season Yorktown fielded arguably the best JV in the state outside of Riverside and Freedom. This group is packed with the younger siblings of proven players from the past. The offense will be led on offense by #37 Nate Randles (70 points 24') and Eli Pilch (51 points 24'). Logan Kaetzel and Mikey Cowan Should provide some depth. The defense will be led by 2nd team all district #2 Evan Beeman to lead the way. Mitchell Fergueson Owen Lefton and PJ Cooper should all be in the mix to fill in the remaining spots. Goalie and Midfield will be the biggest question marks moving forward. The goalie battle will be between Senior Gabe Edmeades and the lefty Sophomore Shane Campbell.

Unlike Yorktown who will be looking to a lot of new faces to carry the torch Langley will lean on a deep group of returners to lead the way. Langley reminds me a lot of 2024 McLean. Strong midfield, defense, and goalie. Their midfield should be this teams deepest unit led by #7 Cole Samburg (1st team all district fogo) who is probably the second best overall mid in the district. He will be joined by #6 Kevin Mahoney (Second Team All District) #12 Wilson Buttz (Second Team All District) and #5 Ethan Cash. They also return 4 senior poles including starters #4 Brigg Carton (1st Team All District)#1 Owen Slamowitz #24 Matt Chen and #16 Brendan Oakes. At Goalie Langley returns 2 year starter #30 Logan Schwartz and picks up One of the top players in the freshman class Luke Milone. Even with this a lot of Langley's success or failure will fall on the shoulders of #8 Jack Milone (2nd team all district) and Ellis Farah on attack. While Milone has proven to be a true scoring threat in big games the question is who will fill the other spot. Outside of the Yorktown game Langley's JV put together a good season but the offense was not their strength.

Don't Sleep on McLean... We get it. The Highlanders like the Saxons return a lot of players that saw a decent amount of action last year. Starting with hands down the best player in the district in midfielder #3 Max Mullen (73 Points). They also return fellow midfielder #4 Landon Moore (20 Points). Look for #19 Christian McNeil (26 Points) and #25 Ethan Jones (14 Points) to have a break out year offensively. #15 Gaulder Maul (7 Points) and Griffin Ferris should be in the mix as well. McLean's biggest question mark is can they replace what was one of the most dominate defenses in the state last year. While this years unit may not have experience on their side they will once again have benefit for size and athletic ability. #2 Thomas Terminella and D Mid #7 Levi Stockwell are the only players that saw significant time last year. #24 Michael Bablitis #77 Jack Schomer and #23 Jake Bell are most likely the front runners to round out this defense. Samuel Brown did a good job on JV last year and will most likely fight for the starting roll this year. There's a good chance McLean is going to need to seriously slow games down this year if they plan to replicate last years region finals run.

This is really impressive. As someone that follows High school sports and specifically the Liberty district Lacrosse closely this was really thorough and I'm not sure how you were able to get all this info. It's hard to get this info on just one school. With that being said I think this will be a 5 school race for the district. Herndon and W&L will upset one or more of the top 3 this year. It's going to be a fun competitive year again in the Liberty.

W-L has zero chance of winning districts. They lost to Langley 23-3 last season, McLean 16-2, Yorktown 14-3. Not that much has changed. I agree with the long poster - likely Yorktown or Langley but McLean has a shot with those two middies able to pump in goals.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Who are some of the best offensive players returning this year for NOVA?

Might have missed a few but these are most of the returning offensive players in Class 6 who were 2nd Team All-District or better.

Attack

Levi Wentz - Madison
Connor Fructuoso - Robinson
Jack Milone - Langley
Nate Randles - Yorktown
Teegan Louise - Battlefield
Grady Eyler - Battlefield
Tristan Lee - Gainesville
Brendan Robinson - Gainesville
Wyatt Holden - Patriot
Calvin Maier - Freedom

Midfield

Max Mullen - McLean
Landon Moore - McLean
Jonathan Malatesta - W-L
Kevin Mahoney - Langley
Willson Buttz - Langley
Cade Blaha - Patriot
Russell Davis - Unity Reed

Faceoff

Tommy Agents - Robinson
Cole Samburg - Langley
Dylan Galler - Battlefield
Peter Tran - Chantilly

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think McLean lost a lot, but still has #3 to contend. Yorktown lost a lot of players (at least quantity wise) too and seems to have been steadily declining the last few years. Langley has to be the favorite in the Liberty.

Looking specifically at the Liberty district it will be hard to tell who will be hurt the most due to graduation but one thing is for sure each team will be down from last year. Yorktown graduated the most seniors including their top scorer in program history, goalie, fogo, 3 of their 4 starting poles, and 4 - 5 mids. McLean also had a big senior class including their top scorer, 3 of their 4 starting poles, both goalies, fogo, and arguably the best d mid in the state. Langley had the smallest group of seniors but their impact will definitely be felt. They lose their top scorer in program history as well as another 1st team all district attackmen, their top offensive midfielder, 1 starting pole, and their d mid that pulled most teams best offensive player. The argument for Langley is clear they return the most proven starters. That being said I think it's a toss up between them and Yorktown with McLean on the outside looking in with the potential to upset either on the right night.

Last season Yorktown fielded arguably the best JV in the state outside of Riverside and Freedom. This group is packed with the younger siblings of proven players from the past. The offense will be led on offense by #37 Nate Randles (70 points 24') and Eli Pilch (51 points 24'). Logan Kaetzel and Mikey Cowan Should provide some depth. The defense will be led by 2nd team all district #2 Evan Beeman to lead the way. Mitchell Fergueson Owen Lefton and PJ Cooper should all be in the mix to fill in the remaining spots. Goalie and Midfield will be the biggest question marks moving forward. The goalie battle will be between Senior Gabe Edmeades and the lefty Sophomore Shane Campbell.

Unlike Yorktown who will be looking to a lot of new faces to carry the torch Langley will lean on a deep group of returners to lead the way. Langley reminds me a lot of 2024 McLean. Strong midfield, defense, and goalie. Their midfield should be this teams deepest unit led by #7 Cole Samburg (1st team all district fogo) who is probably the second best overall mid in the district. He will be joined by #6 Kevin Mahoney (Second Team All District) #12 Wilson Buttz (Second Team All District) and #5 Ethan Cash. They also return 4 senior poles including starters #4 Brigg Carton (1st Team All District)#1 Owen Slamowitz #24 Matt Chen and #16 Brendan Oakes. At Goalie Langley returns 2 year starter #30 Logan Schwartz and picks up One of the top players in the freshman class Luke Milone. Even with this a lot of Langley's success or failure will fall on the shoulders of #8 Jack Milone (2nd team all district) and Ellis Farah on attack. While Milone has proven to be a true scoring threat in big games the question is who will fill the other spot. Outside of the Yorktown game Langley's JV put together a good season but the offense was not their strength.

Don't Sleep on McLean... We get it. The Highlanders like the Saxons return a lot of players that saw a decent amount of action last year. Starting with hands down the best player in the district in midfielder #3 Max Mullen (73 Points). They also return fellow midfielder #4 Landon Moore (20 Points). Look for #19 Christian McNeil (26 Points) and #25 Ethan Jones (14 Points) to have a break out year offensively. #15 Gaulder Maul (7 Points) and Griffin Ferris should be in the mix as well. McLean's biggest question mark is can they replace what was one of the most dominate defenses in the state last year. While this years unit may not have experience on their side they will once again have benefit for size and athletic ability. #2 Thomas Terminella and D Mid #7 Levi Stockwell are the only players that saw significant time last year. #24 Michael Bablitis #77 Jack Schomer and #23 Jake Bell are most likely the front runners to round out this defense. Samuel Brown did a good job on JV last year and will most likely fight for the starting roll this year. There's a good chance McLean is going to need to seriously slow games down this year if they plan to replicate last years region finals run.

This is really impressive. As someone that follows High school sports and specifically the Liberty district Lacrosse closely this was really thorough and I'm not sure how you were able to get all this info. It's hard to get this info on just one school. With that being said I think this will be a 5 school race for the district. Herndon and W&L will upset one or more of the top 3 this year. It's going to be a fun competitive year again in the Liberty.

W-L has zero chance of winning districts. They lost to Langley 23-3 last season, McLean 16-2, Yorktown 14-3. Not that much has changed. I agree with the long poster - likely Yorktown or Langley but McLean has a shot with those two middies able to pump in goals.

Well then it's a 3 way race for the Liberty again since Herndon has no chance seeing as they lost to W&L twice last year. Again I BELIEVE either Herndon or W&L will UPSET one of the top 3 schools. I'm not picking them both to finish above the other 3 I just Think it'll be more competitive this year. I've seen teams lose bad in the regular season and upset a team in the playoffs the same year. To say they have no chance after graduation and a whole year of development is simply lazy to me.

[Anonymous]

With that being said Langley has to be the favorite with Yorktown a close second IMO.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:With that being said Langley has to be the favorite with Yorktown a close second IMO.

All the other talk here is just noise, this here is fair though. Now, who wins the district tourney championship? That's been 4 years running for Yorktown? I think Langley get it this year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:With that being said Langley has to be the favorite with Yorktown a close second IMO.

All the other talk here is just noise, this here is fair though. Now, who wins the district tourney championship? That's been 4 years running for Yorktown? I think Langley get it this year.

Unless they choke again!

[Anonymous]

I have to agree with Langley winning the liberty championship . Best fogo, best goalie, best defense and 4-5 very strong offensive players led by #8 from last year

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have to agree with Langley winning the liberty championship . Best fogo, best goalie, best defense and 4-5 very strong offensive players led by #8 from last year

Won't be easy. They need better offensive sets. Their offense is pretty stagnant compared teams like Yorktown and Madison, which feature way more off ball movement and cutting. They can score against the bad teams but when things tighten up in the playoffs they struggle.

Robinson seems like a like for lock for Patriot District and Madison seems like a lock for Concorde. Cedar Run could be interesting. Freedom could push Battlefield again this year.

[Anonymous]

Didn't Langley score 13 on Yorktown. Last year most of the comments were about their defense and goalie last year.

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Anonymous wrote:Didn't Langley score 13 on Yorktown. Last year most of the comments were about their defense and goalie last year.

Not involved with Langley or Yorktown and watched this game last year. I believe this was the game where I noted BOTH team D was just bad.

I see posts above talking up how good the Langley D was, but from what I saw was A LOT of off ball watching by both teams. Also, there was a time in the game where NEITHER team could clear the ball and the game was played between the boxes and just horrible passing, catching and decision making on the clear by the long poles.

[Anonymous]

Langley, as well as Yorktown, was definitely flawed last year. In the end, none of it mattered as ROBO was head and shoulders above.

[Anonymous]

My sleeper for 2025 is West Potomac.

As someone who coached against them last year, and scouted them deeply, they are returning almost 100% of their roster from 2024. They finished as a top 8 team in 2024 and are returning the highest % of their team in the state

They are returning 16/18 players that routinely touched the field last year, including their Jacksonville commit Grant Maloney.

They are in my top 5 going into 2025 and wouldn't be surprised if they make a state championship push

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Anonymous wrote:My sleeper for 2025 is West Potomac.

As someone who coached against them last year, and scouted them deeply, they are returning almost 100% of their roster from 2024. They finished as a top 8 team in 2024 and are returning the highest % of their team in the state

They are returning 16/18 players that routinely touched the field last year, including their Jacksonville commit Grant Maloney.

They are in my top 5 going into 2025 and wouldn't be surprised if they make a state championship push

Thanks WestPo dad!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My sleeper for 2025 is West Potomac.

As someone who coached against them last year, and scouted them deeply, they are returning almost 100% of their roster from 2024. They finished as a top 8 team in 2024 and are returning the highest % of their team in the state

They are returning 16/18 players that routinely touched the field last year, including their Jacksonville commit Grant Maloney.

They are in my top 5 going into 2025 and wouldn't be surprised if they make a state championship push

Thanks WestPo dad!

They are returning the most of the team that lost to Robinson 17-5, 17-2, and 17-6?