Thursday, October 1, 2026
Sitting at 6-2 so far this season, the Baldwin boys lacrosse team won its most recent matchup April 14 but also lost a tough game to Clarke, 7-5, three days earlier so head coach Tim Clancy isn’t one to celebrate until the big cahuna is won and done.
Last season, Baldwin finished their season 7-8, so when the calendar flipped to 2025, it was a race to the drawing board to do better this year.
A couple of seniors have returned to the team, and with a vengeance from the looks of it.
Preston Kirchner, who Clancy called one of the top guys to wield the stick at the attack and midfield spots this season, has 24 goals and 8 assists. The next man up is Jake Stevenson, a starting midfielder with 18 goals and 15 assists to his name.
Baldwin graduated 14 seniors off its roster last June, so the offense was a point of emphasis coming into the season.
“Offensively we’re putting ourselves in a lot of positions to score and we just got to finish,” Clancy said. “We have some kids we the physical ability to play offense, but I think there’s some learning [to do]. As far as our offense goes, there’s still more to learn, offensively we’re still learning our identity a little bit.”
That much is true: in their most recent game, it was pour goals for the Bruins. In a brutal 15-1 decision, in which Kirschner had a hat trick, Stevenson had five goals and four assists, Alejando Acosta had four goals, and Garris Williams found the back of the net twice. Overall, the offense isn’t cause to lose sleep over, but it’s still something that Clancy wants to hammer away, calling it a work in progress for the rest of the season.
Then there’s the starting goalie, senior Dwight Lindsay, that has been equally as fierce between the pipes with 78 saves this season at a 65% save percentage. He went from subbing in for the starter if he got injured to a full-time role, blossoming in the meantime.
Elijah Iles, a junior defenseman who’s been starting for the team since he’s been a freshman. Clancy said that he anchors the back row, leading the team in groundballs, and also contributes at the face-off.
What’s new this year are some of the players brought up from the JV: Noah Collado being one of them. The junior defenseman was labeled as a solid force on the backend of the field and a standout player overall.
There’s also Amir Karl-Otto, a junior midfielder, but he’s relatively new to the game. A basketball player by trade, but has been tearing it up nonetheless.
Now with a tougher leg of their scheduling on deck, with teams like New Hyde Park, Kennedy, East Meadow and Friends Academy coming up, the Bruins know they need to brace themselves for some challenging games, but Clancy said that he’s hoping to finish with an overall winning record. After that, playoffs are on the horizon.
