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High School D1 Spring Season Recent Press |
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2010 SEASON PRESS
2010 All-Area Lacrosse Team honoring Chris Hipps Player of the Year, Derek Thomson Coach of the Year and All-Area Team Players Josh Francis, Jordan Lee, Campbell Powers and Chase Prospere (June 9, 2010, Dallas Morning News)
West Side Lacrosse Ranks #1 in WSL Poll
B-Lacrosse Sunday Tournament Notes (May 14, 2010 ScotSports.com)
B-Lacrosse Back-to-back-to-back on top (May 14, 2010 ScotSports.com)
B-Lacrosse Saturday Tournament Notes (May 8, 2010 ScotSports.com)
B-Lacrosse Fast start lets HP cruise (May 8, 2010 ScotSports.com)
High School Lacrosse Texas, Tennesse, D.C. Metro crown champs (May 8, 2010, Inside Lacrosse)
Highland Park Wins Third Straight Texas State Championship (May 9, 2010, West Side Lacrosse)
Will Boeing Sparks HP to DI Lacrosse title (May 9, 2010, HS Game Time)
St. Mark's Rallies to Beat Highland Park in OT Thriller (West Side Lacrosse)
Five HP Players Named All-Americans (May 7, 2010, West Side Lacrosse)
Sport of lacrosse growing fast in North Texas area (May 6, 2010, HS Game Time)
THSLL Playoffs Highland Park Smashes St. Johns (May 2, 2010, West Side Lacrosse)
SCOTS BOYS LACROSSE TEAM HEADS TO STATE
Scots Varsity Lacrosse (April 12, 2010, Park Cities News)
Scots Varsity Lacrosse (April 5, 2010, Park Cities News)
Scots Varsity Lacrosse (March 29, 2010, Park Cities News)
No. 3 HP routs No. 5 Mullen 10-3 (March 22, 2010, West Side Lacrosse)
No. 3 HP downs Loomis 9-6 (March 21, 2010, West Side Lacrosse)
No. 2 HP edges No. 7 Arapahoe (March 23, 2010, West Side Lacrosse)
Scots Varsity Lacrosse (March 15, 2010, Park Cities News)
No. 1 HP Escapes Upset minded Austin (March 5, 2010, West Side Lacrosse)
Highland Park Routs St. John's in Opener 13-1 (February 27, 2010, West Side Lacrosse)
SCOTS VARSITY LACROSSE TEAM OPENS SEASON AT HIGHLANDER STADIUM
Highland Park to Play Lawrenceville in Big City Classic (January 2010, West Side Lacrosse)
2009 SEASON PRESS Texas High School Boys Lacrosse: Highland Park Boys Lacrosse Captured Second Straight Texas State Boys Lacrosse Title And Finished #20 Nationally (July 12, 2009, LAXBUZZ)
2009 Boys' Lacrosse All-Midwest Region Team (July 1, 2009, LAX POWER)
Dallas Morning News, 2009 All-Area Lacrosse honoring Kevin Fritts Player of the Year, Derek Thomson Coach of the Year and All-Area Team Players Chris Hipps, Jordan Lee, Austin Mai and Chase Prospere (June 27, 2009)
Boys Lacrosse Games of the Year: Midwest Region (June 24, 2009 LAX POWER)
April 5 Highland Park Fighting Scots (TX) 12, Lawrenceville Big Red (NJ) 11 (OT)
2009 National Ratings for High School Boys Lacrosse (June 23, 2009 LAX POWER) Highland Park #20 National Coaches/Computer Ratings
Under Armour/IL High School Power Rankings (June 19, 2009, INSIDE Lacrosse)
Highland Park #18
Kevin Fritts Texas Player of the Year (June 2009, West Side Lacrosse)
High School Program Building (June 2009, INSIDE Lacrosse)
Big Shots: Kevin Fritts, Highland Park (Texas) (Lacrosse Magazine)
High School Boys All-American Team: Austin Mai and Chris Hipps join four other players from Texas
North District DI Awards (Texas High School Lacrosse)
Highland Park Wins 4th Texas State Championship (West Side Lacrosse)
Congratulations to the Scots Varsity Lacrosse Team
TEX Boys No. 1 Wins 2nd Straight Title (West Side Lacrosse)
Highland Park Proves its game in lacrosse (May 22, 2009 Dallas Morning HS Game Time)
SE High School Lacrosse Notebook (May 21, 2009 INSIDE Lacrosse)
Lacrosse Coaches Rankings (May 20, 2009, LAX POWER)
Lacrosse News Midwest Players of the Week (May 18, 2009, LAX POWER)
WSL Top 25 (May 18, 2009, West Side Lacrosse)
Texas State Tournament: Highland Park vs. St. Marks (May 12, 2009, Laxidaxical Ramblings)
Lacrosse Team District Champions (May 15, 2009 HPISD News)
Regional Rankings (May 14, 2009, INSIDE Lacrosse)
Lacrosse News Midwest Game of the Week (May 14, 2009, LAX POWER)
Lacrosse News Midwest Game of the Week (May 7, 2009, LAX POWER)
Lacrosse News Swine Flu Postpones Playoffs (April 30, 2009, LAX POWER)
Lacrosse News Midwest Players of the Week (April 6, 2009, LAX POWER)
Highland Park Upsets National Power Lawrenceville (April 2009, West Side Lacrosse)
Lacrosse News Brotherly Love (April 3, 2009, LAX POWER)
Lacrosse News Midwest Game of the Week (March 19, 2009, LAX POWER)
Lovett Drops Two in Texas Swing (March 12, 2009, Inside Lacrosse)
Lacrosse News Games to Watch (March 4, 2009, LAX POWER)
Highland Park Senior Kevin Fritts Signs at Fairfield (November 12, 2008)
HP Lacrosse Team Funds Stadium Wall Padding at Highlander (June 20, 2008, Park Cities People)
Two teams, Two State titles for Scots' Lacrosse Program (May 16, 2008, Park Cities People)
Highland Park Players Honored with Awards (May 16, 2008, Park Cities People) |
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Highland Park Wins 4th Texas State Championship |
Senior attackman Kevin Fritts registered a game-high four points on three goals and one assist to lead No. 1 Highland Park to a 7-5 victory over No. 5 St. Mark’s in the Texas High School Lacrosse League Division I state championship game Sunday afternoon at House Park in Austin.
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The DI Varsity beat Bowie on Saturday, May 16, 14-0 in the state championship semifinal game.
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High School Boys All-American Team. Congratulations to All-American Scots Austin Mai and Chris Hipps. Austin and Chris joined four other Texas players being named to the team. To view the entire team go to: http://www.uslacrosse.org/mens_div/hsaward_index.phtml Texas High School Lacrosse League, North District Awards:
Congratulations to our High School Players on receiving the following awards:
Division I
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All-State |
All-District |
Honorable Mention |
| Kevin Fritts, Attack (Sr.) |
Cody Walker, Defense (Sr.) |
Jackson Coon, Defense LSM (Jr.) |
| Chris Hipps, Defense* (Jr.) |
Will Ziegler, Attack (Sr.) |
Cody Crews, Attack (Jr.) |
| Jordan Lee, Goalie (Jr.) |
Dillon Zweifel, Midfield (Sr.) |
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| Austin Mai, Midfield* (Sr.) |
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| Briggs Montgomery, FOGO (Sr.) |
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| Chase Prospere, Midfield (Jr.) |
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Division II
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All-State |
All-District |
Honorable Mention |
| Parker Brown, Attack (Jr.) |
Charlie Foose, Midfield (Jr.) |
Dillon Cook, Attack (Jr.) |
| Will Merritt, Midfield (Jr.) |
Hunter Moeller, Defense (So.) |
Drew Obenchain, Midfield (Jr.) |
| Bragg Smith, Defense (So.) |
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Lax Power has selected the 2009 Boys' Lacrosse All-Midwest Region Team (July 1, 2009). Congratulations to Chris Hipps on being selected to the team. Jordan Lee and Austin Mai both received an honorable mention. Go Scots!
For the complete article, Click HERE.
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The 2009 All-Area Lacrosse feature is in the Saturday, June 27 edition of the Dallas Morning News Sports Day section (page 7C).
Congratulations to the following Highland Park honorees:
Boys Player of the Year: Kevin Fritts
Boys Coach of the Year: Derek Thomson
Boys All-Area Team: Chris Hipps, Jordan Lee, Austin Mai and Chase Prospere
Click HERE to read the online article at High School Game Time.
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High School Boys All-American Team. Congratulations to All-American Scots Austin Mai and Chris Hipps. Austin and Chris joined four other Texas players being named to the team. To view the entire team go to: http://www.uslacrosse.org/mens_div/hsaward_index.phtml |
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Texas State Championship 2008 |
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Senior midfielder Johnny McKnight scored four goals as Highland Park defeated Episcopal School of Dallas, 9-3, in the Texas High School Lacrosse League Division I state championship on Sunday.
Junior attackman Kevin Fritts chipped in three goals for Highland Park, which also won state lacrosse titles in 2004 and '05.
ESD, which scored two of its goals in the final four minutes, was the defending state champion.
Highland Park (17-3) won its final 11 games of the season, including the North District championship over ESD last weekend.
"It was a total team effort all year," Highland Park coach Derek Thompson said.
McKnight, who on Saturday scored five goals in a semifinal win over Austin, was named MVP of the state tournament. He is a North District all-state selection and an All-American nominee.
Highland Park sophomore goalie Jordan Lee made 14 saves Sunday and was named the Defensive MVP of the state tournament.
Junior attackman Will Ziegler and senior attackman Travis Gallivan scored Highland Park's other goals.
Briefly: Highland Park II won the Division II championship, beating Houston Cy-Fair, 17-10. Junior attackman Blake Lafitte was named offensive MVP in Div. II, and sophomore defenseman B.G. Yarto was named defensive MVP. ... Hockaday won the Div. I girls title, beating Houston St. John's, 13-12, in overtime. |
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HP Lacrosse Player Kevin Fritts Signs at Fairfield |
November 12, 2008 The Highland Park Boys Lacrosse Club is proud to announce the signing of attackman Kevin Fritts to Fairfield University. Former HP lacrosse players have played in college programs such as Duke, Denver, Villanova, Hofstra, Denison, Whittier, St. Joseph, Washington & Lee, Hampden-Sydney, Lynchburg, and Swarthmore.  | Courtesy photo
Pictured (from left) Chris Van Dorn, Assistant Varsity Coach, Kevin Fritts, and Derek Thomson, Head Coach of HP Boys Lacrosse. |
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HP Lacrosse Team Funds Stadium Wall Padding at Highlander |
Addition will provide extra measure of safety for athletes  | Courtesy photo
Pictured adjacent to the new wall padding funded by the Highland Park boys lacrosse program (from left) are Mark Dickenson, board member of HP Boys Lacrosse Club; Derek Thomson, head coach of HP Boys Lacrosse; Randy Allen, HP athletic director for men’s sports and Paul Rowsey, board chair of HP Sports Club. | The Highland Park Boys Lacrosse Club funded the recent installation of more than 200 yards of safety wall padding at Highlander Stadium. The padding clads the stadium walls on the home and visitor sides of the field and will provide an extra measure of safety for all athletes competing at the facility. The HP boys lacrosse club has competed in Highlander Stadium for the past 10 years and has won four Texas high school state championships during that time.
Highland Park Boys Lacrosse, Inc. is a non profit 501 (c) 3 governed by a volunteer board. The Highland Park lacrosse team was founded in the winter of 1995 with 21 players to promote lacrosse in the community. HP was one of the first youth teams involved with what would become known as the North Texas Youth Lacrosse Association in 1998.
The HP youth program is a member program of the North Texas Lacrosse Youth Association (NTLYA). The high school program is a member of Texas High School Lacrosse League (THSLL). Players who do not reside in the Highland Park district will not be registered with Highland Park Boys lacrosse.
Former HP lacrosse players have played in college programs such as Duke, Denver, Villanova, Hofstra, Denison, Whittier, St. Joseph, Washington & Lee, Hampden-Sydney, Lynchburg, and Swarthmore.
Park Cities People | June 20th, 2008 |
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Two Teams, Two State Titles For Scots' Lacrosse Program |
Division I squad claims third title in last five seasons By Chuck Cox
Park Cities People Sports Editor  | Staff photos: Chris McGathey
Members of Highland Park’s Division I lacrosse team pile on top of one another Sunday as they celebrate winning the state championship with a 9-3 victory over ESD. The Scots’ Division II team also won state. | FRIENDSWOOD – The Highland Park Scots are once again kings of the Texas high school lacrosse world.
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HP won both the Division I and Division II state championships on Sunday at Henry Winston Stadium to become the first school in Texas’ lacrosse history to win both titles in the same year. Both went through defending state champions to pull off the feat.
The Division I team rolled past the Episcopal School of Dallas, 9-3, while the Division II team took out Cypress-Fairbanks, 17-11. Both Scots teams were the top seeds entering the tournament.
Senior midfielder Johnny McKnight led the way for the D-I team with four goals in the championship game. McKnight was named the tournament’s Most Valuable Player just moments after learning he was also named an All-American.
“It’s been a really good day,” McKnight said after the title game. McKnight also scored five goals in the Scots’ 12-3 semifinal victory over Austin High on Saturday. “We just came out as a team and played really well today. We came in pretty confident.”
Sophomore goalie Jordan Lee was named Defensive MVP after a brilliant performance against ESD, holding the Eagles to just one goal until the 3:06 mark of the fourth quarter. Kevin Fritts’ hat trick in the championship game for HP earned him the Offensive MVP award.
“Jordan Lee made some spectacular saves,” McKnight said. “We were pumped up watching him. Our defense just played ridiculously amazing. It was a lot of fun seeing that.”
The Scots (16-2) also beat ESD, 10-5, two weeks ago in the North District championship game. ESD won the teams’ regular-season meeting, 12-10.
“They played great defense,” ESD head coach Kevin Barnicle said. “Their goalie had an outstanding game. He’s a great goalie. We didn’t shoot well enough to beat them. We knew going into this we didn’t score more than five against them last week, so we were going to have to work hard to get shots. We got a lot of good opportunities, but we couldn’t capitalize on them.”
 | | Highland Park coach Derek Thompson, left, displays the state trophy with team captains Johnny McKnight (11), Travis Gallivan (32), and Brett Martin (21). | ESD (16-5) has now played in four straight state championship games, a string that began with the Scots beating the Eagles, 7-6, in the 2005 title game for HP’s second state title.
“I’m very proud of the kids,” HP D-I coach Derek Thomson said. “We played a very challenging schedule. Every time, they rose to the challenge of the competition. We continued to improve during the year. I couldn’t be any happier.”
The D-II team never trailed in its 10-8 win over Cedar Park in Saturday’s semifinal. However, the championship game was extremely close until the Scots blew things wide open with nine unanswered goals after the Ironmen tied the game, 8-8, early in the third quarter.
The contest was a rematch of last year’s title game in which Cy-Fair beat Highland Park, 18-13, in the Scots’ D-II program’s first trip to state.
“We’ve waited 12 months for this moment, and we couldn’t have asked for anything better,” HP D-II coach Ross Thomson said.
Ross Thomson said the turning point in the title game came when Parker Brown was whistled for a three-minute, un-releasable stick penalty with 1:14 left in the first half. Cy-Fair tied the game with the Scots still short-handed.
“I took them into the locker room and said, ‘You’ve got to react to this,” Ross Thomson said. “You’ve got to have the biggest movement we’ve had all year long, in terms of our enthusiasm and our energy. You’ve got to kill this penalty, and once it’s killed there’s an onslaught that’s going to come they’re not going to be prepared for.’ And that’s exactly what happened. I’m very proud of them.”
HP’s Blake Lafitte was named the D-II Offensive MVP, while teammate B.G. Yarto was named Defensive MVP. Cy-Fair’s Travis Tabb won the overall MVP award. The loss was the first of the season for the Ironmen.
Park Cities People | May 16th, 2008 |
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Highland Park Players Honored With Awards |
Senior Murtha wins Commissioners’ AwardBy Chuck Cox
Park Cities People Sports Editor
FRIENDSWOOD — Highland Park lacrosse players not only came away with a state championship last Sunday, several of them also came back with some awards for their accomplishments this season.
In addition to Johnny McKnight being named an All-American and Most Valuable Player of the state tourney, Kevin Fritts being named Offensive MVP and Jordan Lee being named Defensive MVP, senior defensive player Jack Murtha won the league’s Commissioners’ Award.
Prior to the state tourney, McKnight, Briggs Montgomery and Ben Fuller were all named to the All-State Team. The Scots also had several representatives on the All-North District Team – Kevin Fritts, Brett Martin, Travis Gallivan, Will Ziegler, Campbell Powers, Jordan Lee, Cody Walker, Josh Francis and Jordan Vincent.
All four All-Americans came from North District schools. Joining McKnight were: Episcopal School of Dallas’ D.J. Sprenger, Alex Hardt and Cody Solaja, along with St. Mark’s’ James Blair. Arthur Brousseau of St. Mark’s also earned Academic All-American.
In Division II, HP’s Blake Lafitte was named to the All-State Team. Teammates Cole Burdette and Patrick Walter were selected to the all-district squad, while Scots Will Boeing, Charlie Foose, Chase Prospere, James Mills and Will Jennings.
Park Cities People | May 16th, 2008 |
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