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I’ll take a loss to Express when you’re missing 6 kids. It’s fall ball.

Wow…. So much detest for Looney’s. It doesn’t make any sense to me.

And my dog ate my homework!

Hawks will have 6 new guys next year, they always do.

Express were missing kids too, and they still smoked the Hawks, plus Hawks lost to Sweetlax too. And they lost to a Virginia team in the world series. Hawks are no longer the force that their Dads like to think they are. But it was fun while it lasted!

Seems pointless to detest Looney's

Quit???

I was up in Philly watching my nephew at NXT Nightfall and saw 2 Hawks we know playing for Nationals (one '26 and one '27)...kind of odd if they were guest playing while Hawks were in action. Hawkward!

[quote=Anonymous]0-2 and quit/quote]

False news. Hawks played 3 games and went 1-2.

Annapolis Hawks 3-10 LI Express CoachC
Sweetlax Upstate 6-5 Annapolis Hawks
Annapolis Hawks 6-5 NCF Triad Red

I had no idea the 27 Hawks were playing? Tell us where that was, genius. Also, tell us which 26 Hawk was playing with Nationals. You are truly clueless.

Who are the Predators? Where did their players come from?

Every 2026 was in DE, the healthy and the injured ones. Nice try.

Yep. Lost to Express, definitely the top 2026 team around at the moment. Lost by 1 to Sweetlax after watching their teammate get carried off in an ambulance. Beat NCF in the 3rd game. Plenty of work to do, but that is what the fall is for. Most teams will underperform down 6 middles.

They are a new, elite, platinum, expansion club in Baltimore County. Invite only. Invites were sent out this spring. Mostly comprise of the top players from crabs, FCA, 91 West Coast Stars, Nationals, Madlax etc. If you missed your chance, keep working, keep grinding, hit the wall, and start lining up 3 references for next year.

😂

In all seriousness, they are a new Baltimore county- based team run by the St Paul's and McD coaches. Their kids appear to be mostly from crabs, fca, looney’s and 91.

Crabs hardshells 6 Preds 2
VLC 19 Preds 0
Dark Horse 13 Preds 3

0-3 good start.

And the excuses continue; LOL

Well when dads come on here spouting 'worst to first' and how much improved they are it is hard not to.

Yesterday Looneys lost to Leading Edge by 4, beat the Crabs B team by 8, and beat VLC by 3. Not a bad day, but not exactly setting the world on fire.

As someone else noted: the Preds parents and kids knew what they were getting into. They knew they were playing elite, established programs with only had 4 practices together and missing 5-6 of their kids.
The only ones crowing about the 0-3 start are likely the same people posting the Preds trolling to begin with.

Lots of angsty and petty program directors/coaches with hurt feelings that the Preds opened up shop in Baltimore.

Meh if it was my club and we were 6 weeks old, the only alarming score is the VLC score. Hardshells are decent and have played together, and probably all got their drivers licenses together last summer. Dark Horse is better than advertised. VLC? No. What happened there.

Looneys was missing 2 key starters for Leading Edge game (they had a hockey game). Score would have been different with them there - the team has talent but runs thin. FO guys was on sideline in a walking boot all day. Looney's will be fine for HoCo in Spring.

Club is less than a few months old and is talk of town according to many. They should be fine with these showing. Their future should be good with the coaches and schools they will collect players from. Within a year they will be competitive, my guess.

Lots of Hawks parents yelling at parents, parents yelling at kids, parents yelling at coaches & coaches yelling at parents. Seems like one dysfunctional family! Just seems like you picked up where you left off at the World Series.

Yawn……the team and club are completely irrelevant in Maryland and nationally. No one cares.

No, actually Hardshells is the Crabs team for the 2026 players who don't yet have their drivers licenses.

COVID is also the talk of the town. Doesn't mean it's a good thing.

I'm not sure what you are talking about but we played Hawks and you obviously were not there in Delaware.

Take a minute today to forget about youth sports and hug your kids. Thoughts and prayers to the family of the player and the PLC organization. Heaven gained a middie way too soon and it is heart breaking. RIP

Two types of players went to Preds: The kid that never played on his old team or the kid whose parents are living vicariously through them and have lots of drama baggage. No, they are not a good program having gone 1-11 last weekend. Will they get better? Maybe, but so will every team already ahead of them.

This shows how little you know about youth sports, thinking a team's record determines the quality of a program.

Other factors like quality of coaching, levels of talent, improvement made, time spent together, competitiveness in said games vs level of competition, situational coaching, etc. all matter.

But sure, screaming "1-11!" is an easy way to bash a program.

Just to set some facts about the Hardshells. They are the Crabs' B team, and is brand new. The kids have not played together, with maybe the exception of a couple of players from their previous clubs, and they only had a few practices together. They were clearly overmatched by Looneys and Leading Edge, as they should be, given that those two clubs are supposed to be playing in the HoCo Elite division. I think the Hardshells performance against the Predators (another new club) was a good gauge against AAA HoCo level play. This weekend at the MadLax tournament, they are slotted in the A division (and not the AA division - the Elite clubs), so that will be a better gauge of how competitive they will be come Spring. Good luck to all. I am just happy that the kids can actually go out and play this Fall.

Sorry, what happened?

Young man took his life on Sunday night

OMG I am so sorry, that's awful news. Puts these notIntelligent lax arguments into perspective.

Sure, and the teams that are ahead of them don't have any of those "intangibles". Keep telling yourself you made the right decision to bring your daddy drama to the Preds. And make sure your son HITS THE WALL!!!

Go outside, take a walk, punch a wall, whatever you need to do to decompress from youth sports I'd recommend it.

Hawks making excuses why they lost…. Looneys making excuses why they lost …. Crabs will makes excuses after they lose this weekend.

Team 91…. NO EXCUSES!!

#Gilman#elite

I don't think anyone is bashing the Predators for not coming out and dominating as a brand new club - the comments are more directed at the troll who has been on here predicting world domination by the Predators, lmao. I know some of the Predators coaches well. Good guys/coaches. No doubt in my mind that they will eventually be successful...but the idea that they were going to come out of the gate and start fielding elite-level 6 - 8th grade teams right off the bat was laughable.

Whats wrong with shooting for world domination and winning a PLL title ? Without some of the Predator talk, this place would be boring like many of the Baltimore parents who have zero sense of humor and zero personality to go along with it.

Two types of people post on here.

Nice people who care about youth lacrosse, what it does for our kids, and how teams are developing players.

And people like you.