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you are wrong. Enough said.

If you were on that team last year you know its true!

Is this about the Outlaws? If so, they list to a town team at Hofstra last summer. Enough said.

Got to say you parents are nuts. All of those kids got along just fine yesterday on and off the field. Think about what you are doing here....bragging about how your 11 year olds team is way better than another 11 year Olds team. Express is better than outlaws, 91 is better than express, wah wah wah. Let the kids enjoy the games. Believe me about 2 hours later they all could care less if they won or lost. And for those that say they do care, it's only because you as the parent drive that point home. Soon the games will be for real. Not at 11.

AMEN Brother!!

You people are missing the purpose of this website! To rip each other and team apart! Stop making so much sense.

And to also stir the pot, type ridiculous things as if someone else is saying it, and my favorite is when these psycho paths answer themselves 2 threads later, crazy...

If the express A team is that good, then in the spring we should expect to see them play up with smash and United, or will they start out a promising team like last year and slowly self destruct?

United rarely plays up. Smash shouldn't play up. And no express is not that good.

The games are always for real, that's why they keep score.

And there's that parent. Knew sooner or later it would.

Smash and Express play this Saturday.

I love this board. Always get a chuckle.. most posts are from Daddy's that are focused on getting an 1/8 of a Lax Scholarship in 6 years from now for their son. So many people are misguided in thinking that their son will get a full ride - just does not happen in Lax. These kids are 11 years old - let them have fun and learn the game and stop ripping them.

igloo should be in this mix on Saturday

team did not self destruct. We had self destructive parents. Who are now gone.

express may or may not beat smash and or united. Remains to be seen. Doesnt matter. What matters is working like a team and we have that. Good competitive games are what we all strive for. We will certainly have that too. Get off your high horse and look at the big picture.

Anyone seriously paying attention to a fall game is out of control. All of these teams have new pieces and some players that aren't there because of other sports.

Worry about who is better than who in the spring. All of the LI A teams are better than most in the country so stop beating each other up over who is A, AA or B.

Why Shouldn't a team play up? If they feel that they will get more competitive games playing up why not?

Here is why...most teams that play up do so to actually avoid the potential embarrassment of losing to their own age group and so they play up into the B bracket which has weaker competition then the A bracket in their own age group. With very very few exceptions like Crush there is no team that can't find competition in their own age group. I can assure you that smash (arguably the best 2022 team) can find great competition in United, 32/express, igloo etc. or they can go down to Maryland and find 3-4 teams that can compete with them.

Can Bandits beat smash and united?

So far No. Never know each year. That is why LI Lax is great. Love the kids hate the parents!

7th and under if you are not playing up in an "A" bracket you are not playing better competition. Many, actually most B teams will lose to A team the year younger in that grade range.

In the old days the B teams were mixed grade teams- with the age stated and the year below. Now b teams are mainly developmental ( yes I know all teams are developmenatl) but B these days doesn't mean what it used to.

OK. I'm pretty sure smash played all of the teams you mentioned and other than United none of the games were competitive. And before you call me a chest pounding Smash Daddy, I'm Not. I think playing up is good on occasion. As for hiding, since they play every team in the age bracket every single year I think you have them confused with TLI

Anyway. Best of luck this year

I agree with most of this, except the part about "worrying about who's better than who".

Fall ball, a light run to figure things out. Spring/Summertime & it's on! But let's not worry who wins what. LI teams are best in the country. Let's be positive and show respect to the boys who play at such a high level and keep us entertained. Their youth will be gone in a flash.

32 beat smash last summer. I'd say that was a competitive game.

You keep telling yourself that Smash didn't present 32 with a gift...

Okay, 32 joining forces with Express, gotta give Express a slight edge this upcoming weekend over Smash.

Your boys were down the entire game and scored a late goal to make it close, that was the highlight of the summer for 2022 lacrosse. Your smash deez nutz losing to a town team that does equal playing time! What a joke, could you ever imagine that happening to Crush or any other 91 team? And you also lost to your B team, what a joke!

I think the Express parents need to get the coach and tell him to stop playing up. Last year they played up and got killed nearly every game. Its demoralizing to the kids and is not helping them at all. DELETED

I think the Express parents need to get the coach and tell him to stop playing up. Last year they played up and got killed nearly every game. Its demoralizing to the kids and is not helping them at all.DELETED


you were obviously not on the team. We played up once or twice at best. Get over MC. You are obviously gone. You should be happier by now.

Smash by 10 or more!

Final Score was 6-3 ; game was called with five minutes left due to darkness . Outlaws had a 2 man advantage at the time.

we know what score was posted but it was more like 8-3.
game started to get a little out of hand. It was obvious the players were trying to take out express faceoff player. It didn't work. Let it go.

why would they do that? Be serious.

The joke will be on you.

That is a disrespectful and inappropriate comment about a person/coach/director. BOTC should remove this unacceptable post.

I think the Express parents need to get the coach and tell him to stop playing up. Last year they played up and got killed nearly every game. Its demoralizing to the kids and is not helping them at all. DELETED

Can we at least try to be accurate. Not that it makes a difference. It's just annoying when it's not the accurate. They rarely played up, twice in fact. And once was because they were asked to be a last second filler. And to review the scores... the boys lost to the Outlaws by 3 or 4 goals, lost to the Saints by 1, beat the Jesters by 10+, beat Stampede 8+, beat Empire 10+ and lost twice to Ambush by 2 goals. Now I my be off by a goal or two, but at least I am trying to be accurate.

maybe. but the only one losing sleep over it is you. I'm assuming you are yelling this as you type based on your exclamation point. we heard you. so what.

I have no idea what you are referring to.

I was just stating the score it was 6-3. It isn't that hard to add it up when watching. That is such a weird thing about LI lax - you would think that the simplest thing like the score is easy to agree on but it isn't. Happens all the time . Very strange.