MICDS Edges O'Fallon, IL in Lacrosse Playoffs

Rams advance to Final 4 and face the winner of CBC/Lafayette Tuesday.

MICDS is having another one of this stellar lacrosse seasons. They staged a come-from-behind 7-6 victory in a low scoring affair over O'Fallon, Illinois Thursday night at home. An overflow crowd took in the action. William Moorehead, who will play for Providence College, Rhode Island next year scored three times in the match. Saturday, Patch will have an account of the game; a scoring summary and interviews with Moorehead and the winning coach Andy Kay. Check out the lacrosse summary on Saturday on Patch.

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Coach's Corner

MICDS Lacrosse is the Highlight of Every Opponent's Schedule this Spring

Rams have one of the perennial power house programs in the Mid West

Andy Kay, teacher and former dean at MICDS has brought a passion for the game of Lacrosse to the Rams program. He works extra hard to gain exposure for his talented athletes. Last winter, he organized and hosted a clinic so the top teams in the East could come to St. Louis and learn more about the talent which exists overall in St. Louis. Kay will be taking his team to Philadelphia over the weekend to play in a challenge series and their games will be held around collegiate games. Kay talks about developing his program, where sports fits in with academics and the arts at MICDS and gives us some insight about his most talented senior, William Morehead, headed to Providence College to play lacrosse at the next level in the Coaches Corner …

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The Baer Facts

Alright, I'm Hooked on Lacrosse Already

The sport is growing like flowers in the springtime.

I have a confession to make. I must admit, as of late, I’m hooked on the sport of lacrosse-hook line and sinker. Just the other night I was watching the Northwestern Women beating Syracuse on ESPNU for the national title. I was channel surfing the next day for the men’s title game, Loyola of Baltimore and Maryland. Until this spring, I had seen little of local lacrosse. I find the game to be fast paced, action-packed and just down right interesting. However, the strategies and approach to the game between boys and girls lacrosse is quite different. The girls play more of a strategic, skills-oriented game. The boys, well we might say they like to knock down the house, and everything in its path. That’s why there are equipment differences I …

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SLUH Wins Out Over MICDS for State Lacrosse Title

In a rematch of top squads, Junior Billikens edge Rams 7-6 in the sweltering heat at Lindenwood.

By Ross Woolsey, Special to the Ladue-Frontenac Patch Back on March 16, St. Louis University High and MICDS battled through three overtimes before the Rams finally prevailed. Neither team lost another game to an in-state opponent until they met again on Saturday in the Missouri State Lacrosse finals at Lindenwood University. This time SLUH was the one-goal victor in a back and forth game, 7-6, winning their second state championship, their first since 2009. SLUH jumped off to a two goal advantage early in the game on goals by Thomas Place and Daniel Tiapek. The normally explosive MICDS transition game started off slowly, as the Rams appeared sluggish in the on-field 106º heat. With just 48 seconds left in the first quarter a Jack Howell …

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MIssouri Lacrosse Club to Host Clinic in December

Goal is to promote lacrosse locally and select a premier team to represent the region.

On any given Sunday, fans will find some 1,400 youngsters playing lacrosse at SportPort in the River Port area of far west St. Louis County. This is a sport that has enjoyed phenomenal growth from both girls and boys. The sport, started by Indians played primarily with a stick and ball was imported from eastern U.S.schools in the early 1970s. MICDS was the local initiator of this fast-growing sport. Andy Kay, English teacher and dean of seventh grade at MICDS, and Chris Mower, former MICDS grad and parent, are reaching out to take this to the next level. Kay, formerly of Washington D.C., has organized a couple of major events to make this sport explode locally. On Dec. 10 and 11, he has rounded up coaches primarily from eastern …

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James Baer

7:37 pm on Monday, November 21, 2011

Here is the information about the lacrosse camp in December at MICDS. http://patch.com/A-mV7S   more ›

MICDS Lacrosse Coach Honored

Andy Kay was named "Man of the Year" by the Missouri Chapter of US Lacrosse.

MICDS boys lacrosse coach Andy Kay is truly "The Man" on campus these days. Kay, who is also an English Teacher and Seventh Grade Dean at the school, was recently named the "Man of the Year" by the Missouri Chapter of US Lacrosse. The announcement was made at the end of the season all-state selection meeting May 19 and was voted on by his peers. Kay will be recognized at the US Lacrosse Banquet June 14 at the Double Tree Hotel in Westport. "I am humbled and honored to be chosen, especially since it was voted on by my coaching colleagues," said Kay, whose team is preparing for the final four tournament this week. Kay was raised in Durham, N. C. where his father was a professor at Duke University. He attended Durham Academy and then went on …

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