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So who is the best Long Island team at this age all bickering aside?

The same guy over and over defending the Hawks. Please stop saying "notIntelligent" It's 2 words.

You are spending an awful lot of time defending a team that you claim doesn't used hold backs/reclassed kids. Clearly you know the kids are older and want everyone here to believe you. The problem is that everyone that has played against the Hawks knows they play with older boys.

Sorry we dont.

Sorry we dont.

At the end of the day, playing against the Hawks (however old they are) makes my boy better in the long run. Its better to play against them then thumping lesser skilled teams and bad lax habits are not brought to the forefront. As the boys get older, the age means less and less. The 8th/9th graders will be playing against older kids in school, so it will prepare them for it. As long as the refs control the physical aspect of the game at this age so no one gets hurt because of the size difference, I'm good with it. We don't need any more t shirts.

This is correct. My oldest son always had to play up 2 grades for football because of the weight class. In 5th grade he was playing with and against 7th graders. It helped him big time. When he got to HS it really paid off.

LI Express parents should be more concerned about the goalie mom with the bag of excuses on the sideline than other parents. After a goal for one team she yelled out "don't worry about it, your defense wasn't there for you". That's the way to build team spirit.

No one knows what that is.

From the looks of the scores she may be right. Being a goalie is the toughest spot out there and its a very emotional postilion. No one wants to play it but its the first place you look at when you lose. But it usually is not the goalies fault if they do everything they are supposed to be doing. My son is a goalie on a different team. Our defense is not very good no one slides. We constantly have middies coming straight down the lane and shoot point blank. The goalie can only do so much at that point.

From the looks of the scores she may be right. Being a goalie is the toughest spot out there and its a very emotional postilion. No one wants to play it but its the first place you look at when you lose. But it usually is not the goalies fault if they do everything they are supposed to be doing. My son is a goalie on a different team. Our defense is not very good no one slides. We constantly have middies coming straight down the lane and shoot point blank. The goalie can only do so much at that point.

Great tournament in LI. Terrific competition. We played and lost to a solid Tigers squad. #17 was big (blessed with the size gene) but wasn't the only reason for that team beating Laxachusetts. We must have had 80% possession in the first half and couldn't get our offense on track. Honestly, we didn't play our best game and missed multiple chances. 4 of their 6 goals were man up (one was 2 men up) and didn't have an answer for #17 in those situations. That being said, D kept them to 6 even with those man ups. But that is why you play the game. They had solid D, a very good goalie and didn't give us any space. Also think the boys were looking past Tigers to the Hawks. It didn't materialize. Congrats to the Hawks for winning the tourney. Maybe we'll see you at the NLF Nationals. As for the LI teams, we'll see you in a couple of weeks at Lax Clash.

Seems like quite a few people do. It's a great town tournament organized by Port Washington.

I’m a Hawk’s mom and Laxachusett’s parent’s have always been a class act - we loved playing you guys last year and hopefully we can play again soon

I’m a Hawk’s mom and Laxachusett’s parent’s have always been a class act - we loved playing you guys last year and hopefully we can play again soon

Same goes for the Tigers parents I spoke to.

Except for the one dad who lost his bat for some odd reason!!!!!

Have any teams released their 19/20 tryout dates yet? I know Rebels and Recon have. Interested to know if there have been any other dates released.

I guess the parent gave both the kids the same first name... Kid's first name is listed on both rosters. Strange...

no Hawks at LI tourney this coming weekend. What team will the folks cry about?

no Hawks at LI tourney this coming weekend. What team will the folks cry about?

Did the folks at TriStar (aka Express) ask to see birth certificates causing them to back away?

Uhhh, no. one 6-0 trip to LI in June is enough.

Be sure to pat 14 year old Johnny on the back. He got to beat up kids that are younger than him. You should be a proud Daddy. Still won't see him at the WSYL though.

Will you ever get tired of the same excuse? If Hawks played with 13 and 14 year olds the scores would have been 20-0. It’s not like the games were blowouts. Get over yourself.

Will you ever get tired of the same excuse? If Hawks played with 13 and 14 year olds the scores would have been 20-0. It’s not like the games were blowouts. Get over yourself.

Is that the same excuse that you use to explain the losses to the Tigers and Laxchusetts? If we lost, they must be older, not better....

Just about every other division championship was won by Team 91. I don't see anyone from MD/NJ/MA/PA complaining about the ages of those teams kids. Just realize that you aren't as good as the Hawks and move on.