"LI will be age like always.."
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Actually it was LI that brought grade based teams to youth lacrosse. ALL Md and Va clubs (including Crabs) were age based until about 2012 when LI teams like came to rec tournaments like lax splash with grade based clubs teams and destroyed everyone. Also all tournaments in md were age. I realize that those team were of proper age but it opened the door for the club directors here to change to grade. Then the club leagues went grade as did the tournaments. The only way to reverse this is for NY teams to go back to age. Then only play in tournaments that go by age. Because there are so many more LI teams that travel to PA and MD for tournaments the tournament directors would change to age in a heart beat if they lost that business. Grade hurts NY teams because of the dec school cutoff. Not sure why they started doing this. | 
