Eagle's Lax Talent on Display at LI Showcase

Sixty of Long Island’s top lacrosse players in Nassau and Suffolk Counties gathered for the third annual Long Island Lacrosse Showcase at Dowling College’s Brookhaven sports complex in Shirley Thursday night.

Athletes were broken into rising sophomore, junior and senior teams and performed in front of a myriad of college coaches, who sat on the sidelines and watched, but were not allowed to communicate with them due to NCAA recruiting restrictions.

Hauppauge junior Sam Llinares participated in the Rising Senior game Thursday evening. Suffolk won the senior and junior games, while Nassau took the sophomore contest.. 

Suffolk took no prisoners in the Rising Seniors game, beating Nassau handedly, 11-7.  Llinares, who has a verbal commitment to play at Hofstra University, scored three goals. Locust Valley’s Chris Appell also recorded a hat trick.

“When we picked the team we only took the best athletes,” said Suffolk and William Floyd coach Desmond Magna. “We had a perfect mix of kids. We beat them up physically and were just better athletes today.”