Select club lacrosse is a big deal throughout New England, with roughly four dozen club teams from the six-state region coming together to play in some of the nation’s biggest and best recruiting and training tournaments.

Here, in alphabetical order, are New England clubs that reached the championship rounds of tournaments during the summer of 2010:

21 Lacrosse Black Jacks: The Black Jacks Black squad finished the Battle of the Hot Beds Team Camp ranked No. 2 out of 60 squads in attendance. The Black Jacks went 9-0 in divisional play, losing only to the eventual champion Long Island Sting in the semifinals. The tournament/camp, at the University of Delaware, holds two all-star games — one each for rising juniors and seniors – and five members of the Black Jacks squad earned the honor: midfielders Thomas Flibotte (Cohasset, Mass.), Stephen Sousa (Marshfield, Mass.), Bryan Barry (Duxbury, Mass.), and defensemen Sam Leahy (Cohasset, Mass.), and Patrick Hannigan (Hanover, Mass.). In the All-Star game, Flibotte led the White team with two goals.

While the Black Jacks missed out on the playoff round at the Gait Cup in Gettysburg, Pa., Flibotte, Sousa, Will Delorey (Salisbury School, Norwell, Mass.) and Alex Kinnealey (Cohasset, Mass.) made the list of tournament all-stars.

Brass City BLAZE: The BLAZE — a first-year girls travel team made up mostly of players from Brookfield, New Milford, and Wolcott, Conn., plus Brewster and Lagrangeville, N.Y. — won the Silver Medal in the intermediate division at the Connecticut State Nutmeg Games, July 29-31. The BLAZE was undefeated going into the championship game, but dropped a rematch with ReLax 2 by a goal.

CT Chargers: The Chargers U18 and U17 boys teams both won their divisions at Bryant’s Bulldog Classic, with the U17 team also finishing undefeated at the Bison Brawl and the Charger tournament. The U16 Blue and Gold teams also went undefeated at the club’s own Charger Tournament. Chargers U16 and U15 Gold teams were finalists at the Tri-State tournament, with the U15 Blue squad going undefeated at the Pride Fest, and finishing 4-1 at both the Big Time Shootout on Long Island and the Harvard Classic.

On the girls side, the Chargers girls had similar success, with the 2013 Gold squad winning the Tri-State Championships by defeating the 2013 Blue squad in the finals.

Eastern Massachusetts Minutemen: The 2011 Minutemen won the Elite division of the 2010 Sound High School Tournament July 17-18, finishing with a 6-1 record and defeating Rhode Island-based Next Level for the title.

The 2011 squad also was a finalist at the All Nations Top 16 Shootout, winning its first five games before losing to the Long Island Sting Black squad, 7-4, in the championship game. Attackman Todd Galvin (Boston College High, Whitman, Mass.), midfielders Kyle Foster (Medfield, Mass., Christian Durham (Catholic Memorial, Quincy, Mass.), Kevin Curry (Holliston, Mass.), goalie Christopher Fotta (Xaverian, Duxbury, Mass.), and defensemen Garrett Read (Medfield, Mass.), and Jake Kissick (Cohasset, Mass.) made the tournament’s all-star team.

The Minutemen’s 2012 squad, meanwhile, won the varsity division of the Sound tournament in Fairfield, finishing with a 6-0 record to earn the crown. The same squad finished 5-0 at the New England Team Showcase July 4th weekend in Devens, Mass., with attackers Noah Ellis (Hingham, Mass.) and Jon Gomer (Duxbury, Mass.), Austin Bannister (Catholic Memorial, Kingston, Mass.), and goalie Conor Darcey (Wellesley, Mass.) earning all-tournament honors.

Continuing the Minutemen’s domination of the Fairfield tournament was the 2013 squad, which won the high school division with a 6-0 record, defeating its own sister club – the Minutemen’s 17-and-Under squad – in the finals.

The Eastern Mass. Minutemen’s 2014 AA team captured its division at the Big Time Long Island Shootout in late June, defeating four Long Island teams en route to the title. 

Granite State Warriors: The Warriors 13-U boys went 7-0 to win its division at the Bulldog Classic at Bryant, knocking off the Stickheads from West Islip, N.Y. to take the title. The team followed that up with a 5-0 championship run in the 13-U A division at the New England Youth Lacrosse All-Star tournament.

Laxachusetts: The Eastern Mass Laxachusetts 2012 AA team won the Tri-State Rising Junior AA Championships, by defeating Pennsylvania-based Mesa Fresh in the final. The squad also finished as runner-up in the King of the Hill Tournament at Swarthmore College, dropping a two-goal decision in the final to a team from Colorado. Midfielders Joey Kruy (Phillips Andover, Sudbury, Mass.) and Jack Connolly (St Sebastian’s, Wellesley, Mass.) made the tournament all-star team, along with defender James Burke (Duxbury HS, Duxbury).

Laxachusetts 2012 A  went one better than its big brother by winning the Tri-State Rising Junior A Championship title, defeating Team Long Island to win the crown. The club finished 5-0 at the New England Team Showcase, where defender Dan Elfman (Wellesley, Mass.) goalie Dan Shaunnessy (Sudbury, Mass.), and midfielders Adam Fitzgerald (Duxbury, Mass.), Bill Breen (Boston College High, Duxbury, Mass.), and Zack Snelling (Boston College High, Needham, Mass.) all made the all-tournament team.

The Laxachusetts 2013 A team finished second at the Tri-State tournament in the Rising Sophomore A division, losing to the host Tri-State Lacrosse Club, 3-2, in the finals.

Maine Lacrosse Futures: The 2011 Maine Futures team won the 2011 division at The Northern Rise tournament in late July in Middlesex, Mass.

MAINEiax: The MAINEiax Lacrosse Club’s U-17 girls team capped a successful summer by winning its division at the Bulldog Classic at Bryant University in late June. The MAINEiax defeated Metacomets 2013, 9-8, to earn the crown.

Mass Vikings: The Vikings U-15 team made it to the finals of the World Series of Lacrosse, finishing 4-1 in round-robin play before dropping the final to the Vermont All-Stars.

New Hampshire Tomahawks: The Tomahawks’U-19 Purple team finished third in the NSCLA Club Championship at Germantown, Md., in late July, beating MadLax, 7-6, in overtime to reach the semifinals, where they lost, 6-5, to the eventual champion Baltimore Crabs.

The club’s U-15 Purple team won the championship at the New England Youth Lacrosse All-Star Tournament, played at UMass-Amherst in early July, defeating Pioneer Valley, 5-3, to capture the crown. The team finished the tournament 5-0.

At the 13-U level, the Tomahawks Purple team finished the summer with a 19-1-1 record, including the championship at the Warrior Shootout, held at Babson College in mid-June.

The Tomahawks defeated the Granite State Warriors, 9-5, for the trophy. The 13-U Tomahawks Gold team won its division at the New England Youth All-Star Tournament, beating Turf Island, 5-4, in overtime to take the title.

The Tomahawks’ youngest team, the 11-U Purple squad, had a 21-3 summer record, which included division titles at the Warrior Shootout – defeating the New Hampshire Chiefs in the title game – the Bulldog Lacrosse Classic, where it beat MAINEiax in the finals, and at the World Series of Lacrosse, where it defeated the Eastern Mass Minutemen to win the crown.

Next Level Elite: Hailing from Rhode Island, the Next Level 2011 squad had a strong summer, finishing with a 21-3 record in three tournaments, and never falling short of the championship game. Next Level won the “AA” Division of the Tri-State Nationals in Princeton, N.J., going 9-1 on the weekend and beating a Long Island club, 3-2, to win the trophy. The squad went 7-1 in the “A” Division at the Bulldog Classic at Bryant University, with the one loss being a 6-5 overtime decision against the Connecticut Chargers. The squad finished the summer with a 5-1 record in the “A” Division at the Sound High School Tournament in Fairfield, Mass., and winning the AA Division at the Tri-State tournament.

PrimeTime Power Penguins: The U-13 Penguins were co-champs (with the New Hampshire Tomahawks) at the PrimeTime Warrior Shootout in Wellesley, Mass. in mid-June, and won the select team division of  the World Series of Lacrosse at Brown University a week later. The U-17 PrimeTime Power Penguins were champions of the High School Division of the Ocean State Classic in Portsmouth, R.I., in mid-July, and was runner-up at the Xtreme Lax Tournament hosted by Mass Elite at the Groton School on July 3.

Rhode Island Elite Metacomets: The Metacomets 2011 Black team lost in the finals of the Champions Cup’s “Ultimate Division” in the tournament played June 11-13 in Downingtown, Md. The girls went 4-0 in the preliminary round to win their division, came from behind to defeat a talented STPS team from New Jersey in the semifinals, only to fall to T3 North Black in the championship game.

The Metacomets 2012 Blue team, meanwhile, won the varsity division at the 6th annual Spring Into Summer Tournament in Portsmouth, R.I., going unbeaten on the day and defeating Mass Elite 2012 by a score of 9-5 to capture the crown.

The Metacomets 2013/14 Rising Stars team went unbeaten in five events and 23 games over the course of the summer. The Comets defeated Mass Elite Gold to win their division in the Spring Into Summer Tournament, defeated NESLL 2014 to win the division at the Bulldog Classic at Bryant University in late June and, three weeks later, topped NESLL 2014 again, 8-4, to win the New England All-Stars Tournament at UMass-Amherst.