{"id":2040,"date":"2011-02-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-09T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/hudson-valley-community-college-lacrosse-team-ranked-8-in-preseason-poll\/"},"modified":"2011-02-09T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-09T05:00:00","slug":"hudson-valley-community-college-lacrosse-team-ranked-8-in-preseason-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/hudson-valley-community-college-lacrosse-team-ranked-8-in-preseason-poll\/","title":{"rendered":"Hudson Valley Community College Lacrosse Team Ranked #8 in Preseason Poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Vikings come into the season very young with few returning players. <b>James Bryant (White Plains\/White Plains)<\/b> and <b>James Christenson (Bethlehem\/ White Plains)<\/b> are the top two returning scoring middies who will be heavily relied upon to carry the scoring load. <b>Mason Agosto (Cary-Grove\/Cary, IL)<\/b> and <b>Ryan Polak (Ridgewood\/Loveland, OH)<\/b> are two very talented freshman that should make an immediate impact in the Vikings scoring attack. The defense is anchored by captains <b>Zac Lafarr (Saratoga Springs\/Saratoga Springs)<\/b> and <b>Tom Stoddard (Valley Central\/Montgomery)<\/b>. Lafarr will lead a young but talented defense with the possibility of two freshmen starting beside him.  Tompkins Cortland Community College transfer <b>J.P. Grove (Schuylerville\/Wilton)<\/b> hopes to lock up the starting goalie spot after a very impressive fall.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Head Coach Joe Hayes is optimistic, commenting, &#8220;We have some very talented freshmen, transfers and returners that we are counting on to help this team toward a third consecutive conference title and sixth straight regional appearance. This team has a very challenging season ahead of it, playing six of the top 10 teams in the nation. We believe that playing the best teams will prepare our players in making a run for the conference title and the possibility of a national championship at the end of the season.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>The Hudson Valley Community College Lacrosse team opens the season ranked eighth in the NJCAA Men&#8217;s Lacrosse Top Ten preseason poll.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published:<\/strong>\u00a0Wed, 09 Feb 2011 00:00:00 +0000 by\u00a0d.renfrew<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Vikings come into the season very young with few returning players. James Bryant (White Plains\/White Plains) and James&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2086,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accolades"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2086"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}