In 2017 three of the long island UA teams won the tournament, Boys Command division and the Girls Highlight and Command division. This year the boys Command division team went 3-1 in the pool play round, losing to tournament champion West Coast by 1 goal and easily beating tournament finalist Conny 10-6. It's a great tournament with awesome competition. All these tournament/select teams have politics involved but when you look at the rosters it's hard to argue that these aren't some of the best players, of course some of the other best players are left off. On the girls side the Highlight team won again and the Command team lost in the semis. I wouldn't say these teams underperform.
Love the underclass games but the senior games are the real barometer on how good or badly the regions are doing in who gets nominated to the game. I am pretty sure the South has beaten the North 7 of the last 8 years. Is the South really that much better or are the players being selected based upon reputation and daddy's influence rather than skill.
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