By Matt Kelly, Assistant Sports Editor
• March 8, 2012
Every so often, a pair of star players on the boys’ lacrosse team at John Jay High School in Cross River, N.Y., dusted off an old play that could only be formed from a backyard bond.
Most coaches would have ripped their team for the type of performance the men's lacrosse submitted in in the first quarter of Wednesday’s season-opening 13-8 victory against Lycoming, but Head Coach Jeff Long is not most coaches.
Lacrosse has always been embedded in senior attack Jay Lucas’ life, but an incident early in his college career threatened his chance of playing the sport.