Hawai'i Lacrosse Invitational
WaLax.com/Crease Monkeys dethrone two time champions, Marin Lacrosse Club in men's finals.
| 2000 Men's Bracket Seatings | |
| Group A | Group B |
| 1. Marin Lacrosse Club | 2. WaLax.com/Crease Monkeys |
| 3. Valentia Lacrosse Club | 4. Barbary Coast |
| 5. Laxstore.com | 6. Hawai'i Lacrosse Club |
| 7. Japan West All-Stars | 8. GB Lax |
| 9. Ho'ohule | 10. Japan East All-Stars |
| Marin Lacrosse Club | |
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Marin Lacrosse Club makes its third trip to the island
paradise. This year's team returns with most of last year's
cast of characters and a few new comers. The attack will
feature the Princeton trio of Jon Hess, Todd Eichelberger,
and Taylor Simmers. The midfield will be led by Lorne and
Bryan Smith, Tanner Cambell and Charlie Herrick, Jim Keenan
and Todd Fryatt. The defense will include Vinnie Dello-Iacono
and Dennis Kelly. In the goal will be Brian Carcaterra. The team will once again extend its stay in the islands for the week following the tournament. Assuming a permanent ban from Kauai, the team is currently in negotiations with an undisclosed location that can accommodate the teams strict 24/7 training regime. |
| Visit http://www.marinlax.com for more information. | |
| WaLax.com/Crease Monkeys | |
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Team Goals: Lax, Re-Lax, and Get Lei'd WaLax.com & the Crease Monkeys have joined forces for the Year 2000 Warburg Pincus Hawai'i Lacrosse Invitational. Player/Coaches Matt Cone & Harry Mazaheri formed the team to bring together lacrosse players from the East & West Coasts, as well as the professional and club leagues, to enjoy the spectacular environs of Hawaii, and to play and promote the sport they so enjoy. For many of the players, this will be the first time they have had the opportunity to play together. All are looking forward to meeting players from other areas of the country & overseas, and especially to making new friends! WALAX.com is "The (Internet) Source for (Pacific) Northwest Lacrosse Information", while the Crease Monkeys are a lacrosse tournament team having successfully competed in tournaments from Australia to across the US (Lake Placid, Chicago & Mardi Gras)- with a European Tour planned for the Fall of 2001. The team is lead by a number of players from 2000 USCLA Champion- Team Toyota, the indoor professional league (NLL) and the outdoor professional league (MLL). Many of the players have received All American, USCLA All Star and other honors. Leading the Offensive Unit are: Matt Shearer- Midfield [Team Canada '98/Pittsburgh Crossfire/Team Toyota (Balt.)/Loyola], Tom Ryan- Midfield [Phila. Wings/Team Toyota (Balt.)/Bowdoin], Dave Maguire- Attack [MAB/Ohio Wesleyan], Joe Hope- Attack [Brine Outlaws (Boston)/Ithaca] & Scott Hochstadt- Attack [Buffalo Bandits/Green Turtle-Heroes (Balt.)/Maryland]. Anchoring the Defensive Unit are: Erik Miller- Goalie [MLL/Pittsburgh Crossfire/Team Toyota (Balt.)/Salisbury], Brian Reese- Defense [MLL/Pittsburgh Crossfire/Team Toyota (Balt.)/Maryland], John Ciliberto- Defense [Delaware '00] & Mike Ryan- Defense [Team Toyota (Balt.)/Franklin & Marshall] For entertainment prior to the tournament- many of the team members will travel to Lahaina for Halloween- called 'The Mardi Gras of the Pacific"?! The team will be sporting cool jersey's tie-dyed by Matt Cone's daughters- Taylor & Emily! |
| Visit http://www.creasemonkeys.com and http://www.walax.com for more information. | |
| Valentia Lacrosse Club | |
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Valentia Lacrosse Club makes their first trip to the Warburg Pincus Hawai'i Lacrosse Invitational. Valentia won the Year 2000 Japanese Club Championship and is bringing a competitive group to the islands. Coach Tetsuo Fukasawa will be looking for great things from attackmen Shinya Maruyama & Tetsuhiro Muranatsu, midfielder Hidenori Yokoo, and defenseman Hidenori Yamanaka. All of these players were members of the 1998 Japanese World Team, a team which won all of its first round matches and came just a few goals short of receiving a berth into the semifinals when they lost a very tight game against the Iroquois team. Valentia is very excited about the opportunity to play against many of the world's top players, and is also eager to share Japanese culture with players from all over the world! |
| Barbary Coast Hawaii |
| In the 1880's, there was a notorious area in San Francisco known as the Barbary Coast. Packed tight with bordellos and saloons, the Barbary Coast was a playground for the adventurers who had quested across the continent for golden riches, good booze and beautiful women. In the Barbary Coast, anything could happen, and the meek and timid did not venture there, for the Barbary Coast was well known for being rowdy and dangerous. Now, at the dawn of the new millenium, the Barbary Coast Lacrosse Club strives to ensure that this rowdy and dangerous spirit lives on. Like the gold-fevered 49ers of old San Francisco, the Barbary Coast L.C. quests forth for good booze, good lacrosse and beautiful women. This year's squad has a foundation of BC core players, with a fine complement of lads from the Pacific Northwest and the East Coast. "Keep an eye on em Lad! They could be packin the big guns down below the deck!!" |
| LaxStore.com | |
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With players from as far north as Syracuse, NY, as far
south as Chapel Hill, NC, and as far west as, well I guess,
Baltimore, Laxstore.com is comprised of talent featuring
players with college careers at Loyola, Georgetown, Salisbury
State, Mary Washington, and Radford. Three standouts on
this team include, Mike Day a defenseman from Loyola University,
Brian Samson a Defenseman from Georgetown University, and
Keith Malfa, an Attackman from Salisbury State University. The only team in the tournament populated by all East Coast born and bred players, unless you count the Far East kids, we are happy to bring a team from the lacrosse homeland out to the Beautiful Hawaiian Islands. |
| Visit http://www.laxstore.com for more information. | |
| Hawai'i Lacrosse Club | |
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Ten years of lax tournaments in Hawai'i, a very beautiful
thang. Amazingly, a large number of players on this year's
team played for our club in the inaugural tournament in
1991. Hawai'i is truly a fountain of youth for all. In fact,
our starting attack unit, consisting of Jay 'Big Daddy'
Bloom (Cornell), Harry Jackson (Army) and Jeff Kloetzel
(Virginia), have started for us in each and every Hawai'i
tournament. As you can imagine, these guys can feed each
other in their sleep. We will be relying on them to keep
finding the magic that helped the Hawai'i Lacrosse Club
win the 1994 Western States Championship, 1994 Hawai'i Lacrosse
Invitational and 1995 Tahoe Invitational. Our veteran attack will not be without support however. Kenny Wessels (Air Force) is often unbelievable in the cage and has good shot at receiving the award as the top goalie in the tournament. In addition, Brendan Keaney (Duke '99), Raymond Gorman (Hawai'i) and Tom Frost (Hawai'i/Hempstead '96) have strong, young legs and will surely tally a number of goals. However, regardless of the outcome on the field, this year's tourney is sure to be a Blast. Many long time friends will be back in the Land of Aloha for the 10th Anniversary Celebration, and that's just what the tournament will be - a Fine Celebration of all the great times that have come to pass in the past ten year's and the many more fantastic days and nights that are sure to be a part of the next ten years of Hawai'i Lacrosse. Let the Games Begin!!!! |
| Visit http://www.hawaiilacrosse.com for more information. | |
| Japan Lacrosse Association - U-20 Western All-Stars | |
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The Japanese Western All-Stars come to Hawa'i with less international experience than their Eastern counterparts. However, they are just as enthusiastic about the opportunity to match up against top players from the U.S. mainland, Canada and Hawai'i. Midfielder Yusuke Mizuta, defenseman Tasuku Tsutsui and goalie Naoki Wada are expected to lead the charge and hope to bring Coach Takahiro Asato the taste of victory. |
| Visit http://www.lacrosse.gr.jp for more information. | |
| Team GB Lax | |
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Team GB Lax, aka 'The Fun Bunch', is now in its 4th year
at the Hawai'i tournament. This is a fairly eclectic bunch
of men and women mostly from Vancouver and Victoria, two
towns in British Columbia, Canada. Several team members
play in the Western Lacrosse Association, the Western Canada
pro box lacrosse league and the NLL. Former members of Team GB Lax Hawai'i include Team Toyota players Mark Goers, Rodney Tapp, Gary Gait and Hawai'i native Kim Gray. Past teams have also had the joy of playing with USA world team players, Jamie Brodsky and Laura Harmon. In its three previous entries in the Hawai'i tournament, Team GB Lax has won the championship once, finished second another time and took fourth place last year. This could be another winning year for 'The Fun Bunch', unless of course that interferes with the primary purpose of the trip which is to have as good a time as possible…..The Fun Bunch and its entourage are, one might say, a drinking team with a Lacrosse problem. |
| Visit http://www.gblax.com for more information. | |
| HO'OHULE | |
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many of the tournament's other teams bring history and tradition to the
event, Ho'ohule brings youthful enthusiasm and the element of surprise.
The Year 2000 Warburg Pincus Hawai'i Lacrosse Invitational is the very first
tournament in which Ho'ohule has competed. Who are the men who make up this
bunch? Ah hah, that information will not be disclosed. The only way to learn
about the talent on Ho'ohule's team is to line up against them on the field.
Only two pieces of information are being divulged: 1) Steve Webber has the
best 'mug' move (pictured at right) in the world and 2) Ho'ohule means 'to
blank the opponent' or 'shut them out.' |
| Japan Lacrosse Association - U-20 Eastern All-Stars | |
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For the past five years, Japan has brought U-20 all-star teams to the tournament. Their teams are always fast, tenacious and very focused. Last year, the Eastern All-Stars came up with an inspirational overtime victory over the Catonsville Redshirts (a team that came within two goals of making the final). Coach Tatsuya Kinoshita will be relying on the leadership of midfielder Mikio Yamaguchi and defenseman Motoki Hirata who both played for Japan in the U-19 World Games. The Eastern All-Stars are anxious to build on their victory over Catonsville and to garner invaluable experience against many of the world's best. |
| Visit http://www.lacrosse.gr.jp for more information. | |
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