The Connecticut Lacrosse Hall of Fame committee announced on Monday seven new members, including former Hand, Cheshire, West Haven and Hamden boys' coach Jeff Gull, will be inducted at a banquet at the Aqua Turf in Southington on Nov. 11 from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. 
Also selected are Ted Garber, who coached boys lacrosse at Loomis Chaffee and is currently coach of the the Ohio Machine of Major League Lacrosse; Liz Grote, a former Simsbury and Vermont player who is coaching at Bowdoin College; Jamie Hanford, a former player at Darien and Loyola with professional stints in the National Lacrosse League and Major League Lacrosse; Pam Hammersmith, who started the Simsbury girls lacrosse program in 1982; Will Hunter, who passed away in 1996, started the boys' lacrosse program at Conard in 1963; and Randy McCue, a football and men's lacrosse standout at UConn who started the boys' lacrosse program at Norwalk in 1976. 
According to the Connecticut Lacrosse Hall of Fame press release, in 1979 in Gull's first head coaching job, he won his first sixteen games as a high school head coach and took Hand to the state championship game where it lost to Wilton 7-5. The following year he again guided Hand to the state championship final.
Gull left Hand in 1984 to start a new boys' program at Cheshire where he was named Coach of the Year in 1985. During his twenty-seven year career as a head coach he amassed over 200 wins and a winning percentage of almost 60 percent at numerous schools across the state, including Cheshire, Hand (twice), Guilford, Hall, Hamden, Holy Cross, Norwich Free Academy and finally at West Haven. Gull is credited with starting youth programs in Madison (1981), Guilford (1990) and Southington (1993). 
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The boys and girls Super Juniors All-Star games, sponsored by the Connecticut Lacrosse Foundation, kicks off tonight with the girls' game at Yale's Johnson Field at 7 p.m.
After tryouts on Monday nearly 50 girls were selected to play in the Super Junior game. Among the local girls competing are Maria Blois and Alyssa Hague of Cheshire and Kara McHugh and Christy Forrest of Hand.
After tryouts on Sunday and Wednesday, 50 boys were selected for the Super Junior Boys All-Star game to be held Sunday at 1 p.m. at Yale's Reese's Stadium.
Among the local boys selected are Kevin Adams, Dylan Baumgardner and Tyler Violano of Cheshire, Matt Brophy and Conor Barr of Fairfield Prep, Kevin Frey and Matt Lee of Hand, Dylan Woods of Xavier, Bill Ring and A.J. Wilcox of Guilford, Tyler Vallie of Amity and Tikim Coombs of Hopkins.

The CIAC released its boys’ and girls’ lacrosse pairings this morning and while the final girls’ seedings gave favorable placements to No. 2 Hand in Class M and No. 2 Cheshire in Class L, the scheduling gods weren’t so kind to the defending Class L champion Cheshire boys.
The Cheshire boys team will face Fairfield Prep today in the SCC tournament championship at Branford at 3 p.m. The Rams, 8-8 in the regular season, drew the No. 17 seed and will have to play at Danbury in a qualifying round game on Saturday at noon. Win that game and the Rams advance to the first round where it will face host and No. 1 seed Newtown.
Ouch.
While the Rams have been playing its best lacrosse of the season lately and have the talent to win those games, playing back-to-back games is a very tough way to start a tournament.
Fairfield Prep drew the No. 4 seed and will host the Southington-Westhill qualifying round winner on Wednesday at 4:30 p.m. Other top teams in L are No. 2 Staples, No. 5 Glastonbury, No. 12 Greenwich and No. 8 Simsbury
No. 1 seed Darien, which is also ranked No. 1 in the Register Top 10 poll, should take no prisoners in Class M for its seventh straight championship. No. 16 Notre Dame-West Haven has the unenviable task of facing host Darien in the first round on Wednesday at 4:30 p.m.
Other local teams with a shot to go far are No. 10 Hand, who has one of the state’s best face-off specialists with Casey Dowd, and No. 13 Guilford.
Somers drew the No. 1 seed in Class S but defending champion and No. 5 seed Weston is the team to beat with Ledyard and Barlow also challengers for the title.
In the girls’ tournament, which goes from a Division I-II format to a Class L-M-S format this season, Hand and Cheshire have a solid opportunity to finally make some state tournament noise.
The Tigers have never made it to a final since the CIAC has sanctioned the tournament in 2004 but they are in a position to turn that around. First, Hand is the No. 2 seed and gets home-field advantage at least through the quarterfinals. Second, Hand gets a great schedule break competing in the lower bracket. Since 2004, No. 1 Wilton, No. 8 New Canaan and No. 13 Darien have won six of the last seven D-I titles. All three of those teams are in the M upper bracket. Hand has a great shot to get to its first final.
Like Hand, Cheshire has never been to a CIAC final but like Hand in M, Cheshire has been put in a position to go far in Class L. The Rams are the No. 2 seed and have home-field advantage at least through the quarterfinals. Like Hand in M, Cheshire is in the lower bracket and three of the toughest teams in L are in the upper bracket – No. 1 Newtown, No. 4 Staples and No. 5 Glastonbury.
In Class S, Haddam-Killingworth, which ended the regular season 15-1 to earn the coveted No. 1 seed, gets a first round bye and then plays host to the Morgan-Immaculate winner in the quarterfinals on June 6. No. 5 Weston and No. 7 Granby are other top challengers in S.