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What was the score? Tenacious Turtles have been the best in their class for a long time.

It was 9-0 at half, then 12-1 when I stopped watching to go get coffee. Fake tough is talking trash and then rolling out 21 holdback kids on a roster of 25 2017s and still sucking. Rake your own lawns tough guys.

wait. 21 out of 25? how do you know this?

Their best players held back and are now playing 2018.

2018 beat LI Express 8-5.
good game

I am glad our holdbacks won something.

Have a new team/org to rag on.
Take away some venom from long Island and FCA and Crabs.

Have a new Jack [lacrosse] team-fake tough.....
2018 BLACKWOLF....

What a freakin joke.Bunch of Cheap shot bums.
Nearly killed 2 kids with late hits after getting smoked by crabs.
Stopped keeping score.
In front of college coaches.!!!
And You suck!!!
Where are these clowns from????

Blackwolf is an over-hyped team from dc. Mostly madlax rejects. Had a few good teams a while back but lately mediocre at best

A college coach just shook his head in disgust when
Kid took a running head start and hit another
Player when he was on ground defenseless
Then took out notebook and made a note

Good luck in your "uncommitted " camp

Blackwolf 2018 got introduced (cleanly)to a Hawks Kid #15 I believe then got smoked by the same kid during a braveheart. LOL not so tough after all!

Was a good game-I had 8-6 but crabs definitely controlled second half after being down 5-1. Terps fell apart and crabs just kept fighting. I think these two teams are pretty evenly matched. look forward to the next one...

Blackwolf is not new, theyu are a DC based clubn that has been around for years now and did high school invite only teams very successfully in the recent years. It does seem like their teams after the 2015s and 2016s teams which are very good have dropped down a tier. In the recent year or two it seems they have been less successful picking off players who came up via the other local clubs. It is too bad to read that there were sportsmanship issues out there with the 2018s. Another factor is the DC area prep school lacrosse coaches are aggressively getting into non-spring play and are now doing fall leagues and tournaments and summer tournaments. A lot of kids who would have naturally fit to move over to Blackwolf for no-nonsense high level lacrosse in high school now have those other choices.

12-2 final

AGAIN-Crabs 2017 had several players out with injuries.
Congrats to Turtles...
Don't get too goofy over it...

Injuries or not a beat down is a beat down

wheres looneys at 2017?

Was wondering when the "we had injuries" or " several were sick " would come out to play.

Watched the FCA teams this past Saturday, horrible conditions,18's looked good, solid across the board, committed lefty attack is really good, a bit on the small side, good group all around, they are the team to beat this year, eager to see them play Crabs as FCA took it to Dukes...As for the 17's, not quite the same story...committed goalie looked inferior to the other, bigger goalie, let in some easy shots... midfield is athletic but inconsistent and indersized, attack was ineffective and the defense was invisible, at one point I saw all short sticks on the field. Not the same team I saw last year...wonder if they use the same injury excuse at the Crabs

In all fairness, a number of Crabs were in Florida checking out retirement homes, the faceoff gentleman was getting his prostate checked and one attckman was attending his daughters Bat Mitzvah...tougher to get free when you get older, more responsibilities

Crabs have become a joke. Even the families of kids going to private schools for lacrosse are pulling maneuvers to do a PG year so junior can play college lacrosse. If you already went in for a four year Maryland prep school for lacrosse and it doesn't work, then commit to be a PG for another $60K at a boarding school? Why not just buy the kid a sports car? Cheaper way to address the insecurity and self esteem problems that come with being a Maryland teen who isn't the best lax player for his age.

Actuall the post-grad year is a quality Long Island move.
Rob Pannell and Myles jones are among the highest profile
Long Island kids. Does it matter in you do it in 9th
grade or 12th grade?

Wasnt the result the same at Crabfeast this past summer? Wait...too hot and humid.

Of course it matters. In 9th grade your play is that the kid is bigger and stronger than the little kids a year younger. As a result, he will stand out.

By 12th grade, 98% of the boys are fully grown, size is no longer the play.

PG play is all about--

getting grades up or playing for the specific school you want. In some cases, it used to be about another year of exposure because your HS team had a stud ahead of you and you never saw the field even though you were D-1 material. Today, this doesn't happen because kids are getting recruited in 9th grade before HS ball and as a result of club play...

Yes it matters. the reclass 8/9th graders are gaming the system for the size advantage.

MD parents are smart and figured it out early, the rest of the world is catching on and this will be common place if and when LAX gives full rides at D-1.

Most LI people won't do it now because it is a financial loser.

It is all about the parents ego...JHU anyone?

Kids from all over in many sports have been doing PG years to pull up grades for years. I think the point is entirely lost on Maryland parents. It is pathetic to do 8th grade or 9th grade twice into a four year Maryland prep school for lacrosse, and then go again PG at a NE school after not cutting it as a reclassified kid.

Several of the Turtles 2017 players stayed up late watching television and also had a sugary breakfast. It's almost like those mountains to climb were nothing. Sorry to the Crabs, sounds like the most common injury is bruised egos. Get some rest, it's coming again.

What Maryland boys are reclassing and then doing a PG year? I don't know
of any?

A good start is to look at the Crabs website.

Crabs 2022 is going down next this weekend

Doubt it. To many players in 5th grade on Crabs team should be in 6th grade.

Hawks eat crabs

Wrong. Blackwolf's teams smoke their Madlax counterparts at every grade level.

YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING.......

Ryan McClernan needs to spend more time running an organization and less time on chat boards. Only then will the Crabs be a class organization.

Maybe more time on a treadmill

Crabs eat Hawks players once they have been developed.

NO

Hawks have some great kids and parents.
It's a club for the masses.
Hogan has a cash machine going for that mid-tier player.

Then you graduate and go play with a club that can get you exposure.
2015 team has some commits.
Younger kids leaving.....
Ask some 2016 families.... VERY Frustrated.

I hear crabs 2020 running away from Sunday enemy in the spring. What you can't beat looneys

Arent most teams full of mid tier players? How many HS starting spots are available. Then after that how many College spots are available. Most of us are just chasing a pipedream .

If you knew Hogan, you wouldn't refer to what he has as a cash machine. He's a good guy who knows the players on his teams and gives them great opportunities.