Verona Lacrosse Club: High school boys and girls lacrosse tournaments come to Verona this weekend

For more information, please contact:
Mary Novotny
Publicity Coordinator
Verona Lacrosse Club, (608)712-0082
mary_novotny@hotmail.com

or

Patrick McCulloch
Tournament Director
(608) 712-9005

Verona, WI (May 15, 2012) — The Verona Lacrosse Club is hosting the 12h Annual Bullrush High School Lacrosse Tournament on Saturday and Sunday, May 19 and 20, 2012.

The Verona High School campus will feature 12 boys varsity teams competing on Saturday between 9:30 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., and Sunday from 9:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., with the Bullrush Championship match-up set for 10:45 a.m. Games will run simultaneously on the Verona High School campus, 300 Richard Street, Verona, WI 53593, featuring the following boys teams:

Bay Port
Edgewood
Green Bay Metro
LaCrosse
NiLax Tribe
Sun Prairie
De Forest
Franklin
Green Bay Southwest
Madison East
Sauk Prairie
Verona

The Verona boys open tournament play on Saturday, May 19 at 10:45 a.m. against Edgewood.

In addition, a girls Varsity and JV Lacrosse tournament — Wisconsin cLAXic — will take place on Sunday. Games will begin for the girls’ teams at 9:00 a.m. on Sunday, May 20 with four varsity and eight JV teams from across the state competing in the tournament. Teams from Verona, Madison Westside, Oregon, Kettle Moraine, Neenah, Kenosha, LaCrosse and DePere will showcase girls lacrosse.

The sport of lacrosse continues to grow across Wisconsin. The Verona Lacrosse Club has over 257 boys and girls competing in the sport at the youth through high school levels this season, which represents a 10 percent increase over 2011.