Player of the week — March 7-11
Nick Rhoades, Sr., Newsome
Position: Midfielder
Season stats: 37 ground balls, 53 faceoff wins, .716 faceoff win percentage
The lowdown: Two weeks ago, Rhoads recorded a combined 20 faceoff wins, 15 ground balls and five goals in wins over Bloomingdale, Bartow and Tampa Catholic. Fans were impressed. Rhoads had 53 percent of the votes (204) in the boys lacrosse player of the week poll to beat out Northeast’s Dustin Orozco, who had 35 percent (132 votes).
Top 10 team rankings
Rank/team | Record | Last spot |
1. Jesuit | 9-1 | No. 1 |
2. Plant | 11-2 | No. 3 |
3. Newsome | 12-2 | No. 2 |
4. Steinbrenner | 12-2 | No. 4 |
5. Mitchell | 9-3 | No. 5 |
6. Berkeley Prep | 6-7 | No. 6 |
7. Alonso | 11-4 | No. 8 |
8. East Lake | 11-3 | No. 5 |
9. Cypress Creek | 9-3 | Unranked |
10. Calvary Christian | 6-7 | No. 10 |
Monday’s matchups (April 4)
Tampa Catholic at Sarasota Out-of-Door, 6
Osceola at Clearwater, 7
Land O’ Lakes at Pasco, 7
Freedom at Sickles, 7
Osceola at Palm Harbor University, 7
Plant at Alonso, 7
Steinbrenner at Durant, 7
Newsome at Lakeland, 7
Bloomingdale at Northside Christian, 7