2011 Charlie Murphy Youth Tournamnet and Matt Kull Alumni Game Set For This Weekend

The Yorktown Athletic Club is sponsoring the sixth annual Murphy Youth Lacrosse Tournament in conjunction with the annual Matt Kull Yorktown High School Alumni Game. The Murphy Youth Lacrosse Tournament was founded in 2006 to honor Charlie Murphy who, along with Jim Turnbull, founded the lacrosse program in Yorktown.

In addition, the Murphy Tournament is a fundraiser for Matthew’s Mission and proceeds from the tournament will be donated to the Matt Kull Foundation which helps families of cancer patients at their time of need. 

Kull, a 1997 Yorktown graduate, was an All-American player for the Huskers, who went onto become a starting defenseman at North Carolina. He passed away from lymphoma in 2000.

In 2010, the Yorktown Athletic Club was able to donate $18,000 to the Matthew Kull Foundation which brings a donation total of approximately $65,000 since the tournament’s inception. In addition, 95 pints of blood were donated at the 2010 tournament, which is the highest total they’ve had in the five-year period.

The annual Matt Kull Memorial Blood drive held on Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the gym. The goal is to collect 100 pints of blood during the two-day lacrosse tournament. Those interested can pre-register on Friday night at the Matt Kull Blood Drive sign-up table the Relay-For-Life to be held at Jack Divito Track.

The Matt Kull Alumni Game will be held on Saturday, starting at approximately 5 p.m. 

The Murphy Youth Lacrosse Tournament will include a total of 86 teams (40 girls teams and 46 boys teams) that will participate in three separate age groups. A total of 14 youth teams from Yorktown are participating. The Boys Tournament will be held on Saturday, June 11, and the Girls will be held on Sunday, June 12. 

The Charlie Murphy Youth Tournament will have boys and girls teams from the following towns: Armonk, Bedford, Brewster, Briarcliff Manor, Bronxville, Chappaqua, Cortlandt, Croton-Harmon, Greenwich, Katonah-Cross River, LaGrange, Larchmont, Mahopac, New Canaan, New Fairfield, North Salem, Ossining, Phillipstown, Pleasantville, Putnam Valley, Ridgefield, Rye, Shrub Oak, Somers and Yorktown.

For more information visit www.yacsports.org. Click on Boys Lacrosse and then the Murphy Tournament Tab.

Check back with Patch for a photo gallery of the tournaments.