Originally Posted by Anonymous
Originally Posted by Anonymous
Fall Lax Showdown results are in... Next Level was clearly the cream of the crop. Surprisingly, Team 11 out of PA was very competitive. They have a large, athletic defense that had NL on their heels for a good part of the game. Ultimately NL prevailed 6-5. That was the only team to give NL any challenge.

Bethesda Blue appears to have taken a big step back. 0-3 on the day, although two of their losses were to NL and Mad Dog National Black (the other 3-0) team. Their offense seemed especially anemic.

VLC looked like they have improved. Went 1-1 on the day. VLC beat True Chesapeake 6-4.

FCA looked solid and able to compete at the elite level. They were winning against VLC until a last minute goal that left the game in a tie. FCA was 1-1-1 on the day, beating Mad Dog National Gold 8-3 and losing to Team 11 9-4.

Not sure what is going on with True Chesapeake. Their attack still looks legit. But the team overall looked pretty sluggish in their only win against Mad Dog National Gold prevailing 3-2. They did play MD National Black tough losing 7-5. They also lost to VLC 6-4.

100% Agree....Bethesda seems to have lost a lot and True Chesapeake either lost some players, or was missing guys due to fall sports conflicts.

Madlax and Hawks are both just so much better and on a different level. Extremely talented and well coached. They will continue to battle each other all year.

Next Level, VLC, LTLC, and maybe sounds like FCA are in that second Tier.

True Chesapeake and Bethesda round out the bottom..........Team 91 MD, Predators, and Team Maryalnd are just not at the level to be in the conversation in my opinion.

100% correct on ML/Hawks at the moment. This will change but it's true for the next 10 months anyway.

LTLC and BLC need to stay at elite to even hope to retain talent through 8th grade.

FCA would fit fine, it's time for them to transition up. I recall they've beaten LTLC the last few times they've played.

If you look at how bad 91 was last year (goal differential -70ish), they need to go back to AAA but that's against 91 policy, so I guess they'll stay another year and get beat up. They'll start to absorb the talent from the rec programs that end in 8th grade.

Predators should go to AAA, they had an easy time at AA (goal differential about +50) and picked up more AAA kids this year. Not sure how they will beat Team MD though. Since they've been picking off kids from 91 for the last 2 years, I'd like to see them play 91 as well.