Has No Left wrote:The Lakeland/Panas lacrosse team was one of the biggest mistakes ever made by the NYSPHSAA. Lakeland High School, which is a 5A enrollment, started their lacrosse program in 1975. Walter Panas High School is located near the Cortlandt Manor school in Scrub Oak and they are in the same school district. Walter Panas dominated Section One 3A in the '70's and had a program many years before Lakeland.
Lakeland's program never florished through the late '70 and early 80's and they continued to lose to lesser programs such as Roosevelt of Yonkers, White Plains and Mamarenack. Then someone had the bright idea of combining the schools for boy's lacrosse; that was over 25 years ago and I don't know if it's been challenged since!
That's good knowledge from the Rockies...
