The Sabre boys will have a team meeting Monday at 2:30 on the lacrosse practice field behind the bus lot. AutoBell fundraiser tickets will be distributed and the team will have its first open-field workout shortly after. Open-field workouts will take place on Wednesdays from 2:30 to 4:30 beginning in December through the opening of official practice in mid-February on the lax practice field. The boys lax advisor, Chris Anderson, will be around to supervise.

The South Mecklenburg High Lacrosse Club has been approved for a Harris-Teeter VIC card link for the upcoming school year. Our account number is 7331, which you can communicate to the cashier on your next visit to Harris-Teeter. You can also do this online at www.harristeeter.com Web site by accessing the Together In Education section of the site after typing in our USER NAME (TIE7331) and PASSWORD (d3f@ul+).
South Meck Lacrosse will get 2% of the money from all Harris-Teeter label purchases you make, so this is a great way to raise money for uniforms, helmets, etc. and to reduce the fee for playing lacrosse this season.
All families of Sabre boys and girls players are encouraged to link their cards now so we can start raising money for the kids. This is an alternative to the AutoBell fundraiser.

Big news from Sept. 16 Charlotte Observer:

North Carolina High School Athletics Association executive director Charlie Adams said Monday he will recommend to the board of directors that lacrosse be made a sanctioned sport beginning in the 2009-10 school year.
The NCHSAA board will meet in December.
Many schools in Mecklenburg County have lacrosse teams that play on a club level, which means they aren't sanctioned by the NCHSAA to play a state championship.
Adams, speaking at the NCHSAA Region 6 meeting at Ovens Auditorium, said 48 high schools have registered boys' lacrosse teams, and 42 have girls' teams. Interest is heavy from Wilmington to Charlotte, he said.
“We met with the lacrosse folks that know the most about it, and they said it's getting ready to explode,” Adams said. “We'll make a presentation to our board, and ask them to get on top of this to begin with. If those schools offering it now on a club basis convert, we'll have enough for 4A (conferences).”
The sport likely would remain being played in the spring, but that will be determined by the board, NCHSAA spokesman Rick Strunk said.
According to U.S. Lacrosse, the sport's national governing body formed in 1998, lacrosse is the fastest-growing high school sport, with about 201,000 high-schoolers playing. Lacrosse participation in high schools grew 18.6 percent from 2006 to 2007.
Eighteen states recognize it as an official high school sport.
High school club teams in Charlotte are affiliated with three boys' conferences and a girls' conference, and include teams from Ardrey Kell, Butler, Charlotte Catholic, Charlotte Country Day, Charlotte Latin, Hopewell, Mallard Creek, Myers Park, North Mecklenburg, Providence, Providence Day and South Mecklenburg.
There also are teams from Concord Cannon, Fort Mill, Lake Norman, Marvin Ridge, Weddington and Hickory.

Chris Anderson, a first-year Civics & Economics teacher at South Meck, is the new Lacrosse Club advisor and will also join the boys' coaching staff as an assistant. Anderson comes to South from Brentsville (Va.) High, where he started a lacrosse program from scratch and was the head boys' coach from 2005-08 . The Cincinnati native is a 2004 graduate of Wabash College in Indiana and played four years of lacrosse there in addition to leading his Mariemont High team to the Ohio state championship game once and a third-place finish twice.

All South Meck boys who plan to play lacrosse are encouraged to register for the upcoming Lumberjack Elite High School League this fall. This is a great chance to keep your skills sharp and develop better cohesion with your Sabre teammates as you prepare for the 2009 season that begins in February. We would love to have enough players to field a South Meck-only team. The league will include six regular-season games plus playoffs and be played on Saturdays in September and October, with most games at Davie Park. On-line registration is now open at www.stickwithus.org, with Aug. 29 being the deadline to sign up. Signing up for Lumberjack is the first step to making the 2009 Sabre lacrosse season a success.