The defending champion Half Hollow Hills boys' lacrosse team are putting on a show early in the new season and their perfect record has been as impressive as can be.
The Half Hollow Hills team won the Section XI Class A Suffolk County Championship last season for the second time ever for the school and the first time since 1962. After a championship season like that there is always the worry of a lack of focus from the next year, especially early in the season.
Coach Connor Hagans made sure that didn't happen this spring and the results have been immediate. It's not just that Half Hollow Hills have put up an unbeaten early season record it is also because of the sheer dominance in which they have defeated their opponents.
Hills have scored 18+ goals in each of the last 4 games, they have scored 11+ goals in every match up thus far and it's not just an offensive display as no team has reached even 8 goals against them, and no more than 5 in the past 4 games.
All in all, Hills has outscored their opponents by a ridiculous 87 to 22. When you see those lofty goals scored numbers it's just obvious that you would see Hills players atop the leader boards and that is exactly the case in this early going. Anthony Raio leads Suffolk County in points scored with 38 total and his 23 goals rank second in Suffolk. The leader in goals is his teammate James Bruno who leads with 27 goals and is in second place in points with 30.
In fact, Luke Bradley is inside the top 10 in points Zach Marco is inside the top 15 and Ryan Chung's 9 goals has him at #33 in goals in the county.
It's been a terrific start for the defending champs and their impressive numbers show they are most definitely still the team to beat this year.