Valley Central boys lacrosse routs Newburgh, extends winning streak to eight

Valley Central turned another Orange County rivalry game into a statement about the county title race, rolling past Newburgh 17-1 at Academy Field and stretching its winning streak to eight games. Newburgh scored first-quarter goal was its only one, while the Vikings answered quickly and then broke the game open with a big second quarter that put it out of reach.

The offensive production again ran through eighth-grader Dylan Roszkowski, who finished with four goals and two assists. His line was the latest sign that Valley Central has more than one threat carrying the attack, and it came in a game that was effectively decided early. The margin also reinforced how far apart the programs were when they met again, with Newburgh entering the game after losing its first seven contests of the 2026 season.

The result was Valley Central’s third blowout of Newburgh in the same span of the season. The Vikings had already beaten the Goldbacks 17-4 on April 2 and 18-1 on April 14, showing a level of consistency that goes beyond one hot afternoon. In the April 2 meeting, coach Tom Stoddard said communication on defense and offense needed to improve, and captain Ryan Lewis was singled out for six takeaways. Roszkowski led that game too, scoring five goals, while Dylan Waite added four and Andrew Quaglietta finished with three goals and two assists.

That kind of depth has helped Valley Central open the season with wins over O’Neill, Delaware Valley, Goshen, Pine Bush and Red Hook/Pine Plains, a run that put the Vikings among the top Section 9 Class A teams on LaxNumbers. Against a schedule that was tightening across baseball, golf, girls lacrosse, softball, tennis, unified basketball and track, the boys lacrosse team was making the strongest case yet that it could stay in the county’s upper tier deep into late spring.

The broader picture matters in Orange County, where the district fields at Valley Central’s Middle School campus see six to seven contests a day during peak spring season and the school is set to move up to Class AAA next fall because of increased enrollment. For Valley Central, the win at Academy Field was not just another lopsided score. It was another marker that the Vikings were building toward something larger than a streak.