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How was the tournament today in garden city

Surprising
Express tied Rebels
Rush tied Legacy

Not surprising
Legacy beat rebels
Rebels and Rush beat Igloo

Rebels not the same team from Fall 2019. This team was not very good.

No faceoffs also changes game quite a bit

Where is Rush based out of?

Suffolk County, Town of Islip area

Not to start trouble. But all the talk about the turtles. They never seem to be at any tournaments against the top Long Island teams. Am I missing something? Do they play games or just train?

You would think they would be at Tuesday’s tournament

I must have missed “all the talk about turtles” unless of course it was negative

Toughest division is colgate... Legacy, Northmen, RUSH, GC. Weakest is Cornell (RUSH B, 3 village, icon, recon, polar bears)... Canisius (Express, FLG, Rebels and Venom) will be competitive.

i think they should have put legacy,northmen, rebels, and 91 in one bracket

Lax Unlimited owner has done nothing with this team. Smithtown daddy coaches, friends.

Considering that Rush beat Northmen on Thursday and Friday, I’d say Rush should be in there over the Northmen

good point

Should be Northmen, Rush, Venom, and 91... Rebels tied Express last week - Rebels, FLG, Express, and GC are next group.

Rebels are out, a mish mash team will be filling in for them. Not sure what to expect, all the good teams are pretty much at the tournament, may be a long day for them, but at least the brackets are full.

Why did the rebels pull out of their own tournament?

Parents are fed-up taking time off during the week in the middle of August to attend a meaningless 5th grade tournament.

Only the 2028 rebel parents? Not the other grades or other clubs?

Lies

There has been no Turtle Talk. They have no Dads coaching and maybe the Rebels had a conflict. Why do you people have to bash everyone? They are 10 year olds playing a kids sport for gods sake. All the rankings, lists and bashing is pathetic.

For some of these teams this is their 4th or 5th tournament in 2 weeks, some have been out of state, all in over 95 degree heat. How much is enough? Are you really doing it for the kids? Or, are you doing it because your Coach and Director told you to, just so they can fulfill their 4 tourney commitment and not pay any refunds.

These aren't tournaments. They are play dates. The refs are awful with no concept of any rule modifications - the rules change depending upon what half of the field you're on. There's no interaction betw. games, no vendors, just run back to your car's A/C. Late August is for Beach Days and Pool Parties - not padding pockets of Travel Lacrosse Directors.

Because the parents allow it. Don't you love it when you hear the parents say, "my kid wants to go," shut up already. What a bunch of lies.

this could not have been said better... i was not asking for money back. This stupidity of playing 10 tourneys in 3 weeks is wearing the kids out. And driving to CT and NJ.... who thought that was smart?

Turtles are at LI lax fest this weekend
Tri star was cancelled for next weekend

If your kid doesn’t want to play maybe time to quit travel lacrosse. Kids want to play!

While all the above theories may be true, the scuttle butt at the field was that a player on the Rebels tested positive for Covid. If true, then prudent move and hope his family and teammates get tested too and are OK. Its hot today.

Let’s get real here Rebels didn’t want to play venom

Prudent move? Don't think so, how many people were placed at risk because of the foolish decision these parents made? They got what they deserved!

what was the summary on Blatant today?

For the most part good competition for the teams. Igloo’s defense was drastically better today

Summary-Lax w minimal contact and no faceoffs is very different, some might say awful. Lots of good teams in this age. Venom the best but a bunch not far behind.

ok mom or Dad was your son switched to defense? so obvious

Precious venom lost today.

Venom lost to express

That’s your summary? Tryouts next Tuesday

You would have imagined with all the chatter about Venom beating 27’s and destroying everyone in CT (except Exp N), that they would have won each game very comfortably today (10+ goal wins), losing to express is embarrassing, every team has bad games, but that’s not a strong team for the “top dogs” to lose to

Truth. Clubs will go back to what they were doing before Covid. Us parents could of changed how they operate. But did the opposite traveled to state to state on weekdays with a couple days notice , fighting metro area traffic . Also adding to your tuition with Gas , tolls , breakfast, lunch and dinner . $$$ for what because the clubs strong armed you ?

rough day for FLG