Season in Review: Yorktown Boys Lacrosse

When a team wins its 34th Section 1 championship, the most in Section 1 history, and goes on to play in the state Class B semifinals, which it lost in a hard-fought contest to Garden City 10-8, one can expect a team to garner plenty of individual awards.

That was the case for Yorktown (14-8), which took home the Section 1 Class B crown with a 14-5 triumph against John Jay.

Leading the parade of award winners were All-American seniors Ty Schuldt and Justin Mabus, who have been on the varsity team for three years. 

“They have been tremendous,” Yorktown coach Dave Marr said. “They have been the leaders for awhile. Obviously, they are going to be a big hole to fill, Tyler with his face-offs, Justin with his clearing the ball. They have given good examples for the kids coming up on how to work and how to play.”

Earning all-section honors were Tyler Fahey, Conor Gately, Frankie Fusco, Eric Cooley, Nick Mariano and Trevor Koelsch with Danny Donatelli, Andrew Cohen and Alex Poritzky garnering all-section honorable mention honors.

Marr was also honored as Section 1 Class B Coach of the Year.

“When you win, that is what happens,” Marr said. “I tell the kids, it’s not an individual award, it’s a team award. If you win as a team, those awards will come to your players.”

While losing Schuldt and Mabus, who will be playing at Hartford and Towson next year, are two big losses to graduation, Marr expects the Huskers to continue their winning tradition. Non-seniors included in the Huskers’ starting lineup against Garden City that are expected to carry on that tradition are Gately, Fusco, Koelsch, Cooley, Mariano and Joey Raniolo.

“I feel very good about next year,” Marr said. “Our freshmen, our underclassmen are very good. Our 11th-graders are very good. We have a good corp of players coming back next year. I am hoping to get another chance with this team to get back here (state semis) next year.”