US Lacrosse Community Forum Forums NORTHEAST LACROSSE BOTC MAIN FORUM (LI, CT, WC) Boys 2023 - 6th Grade Fall 2016/ Summer 2017

The Andy Forsberg Memorial .

I heard Outlaws Gold is looking good.

Those are not really National Championships. They are Invitationals for some of the top teams. LI. Md and PA. Very regional. There are a ton of really competitive tourneys this year for 2023's (2 NLF's, NXT, Naptown, Young Guns, etc... ) All of these will have many of the top teams in attendance. Oh, and no one really cares. As crazy as 2023 parents are, we're way lower on the crazy scale than the 2025, 2024 and 2022 parents. This age group has more talented teams than the rest. We're much happier watching our kids grow and get better without worrying about all of the BS that the others do. Good tourneys, good scrimmages, and increasing skill level is all we need.

And, if we're being completely honest, the Bandits would win it 99 times out of 100 so what's the point?

Pretty sure he means NLF. Some really good teams playing. Bandits, S2S, Warriors, Express, Laxachusettes, Crabs, Bethesda, Mesa, Big 4, Primetime, Express North, Leading Edge and Eclipse.

Are 2023 teams in that tournament.

Because he coaches 22s and 24s. He doesn't have a 2023 son

Agree, must give credit where credit is due. They played against us the last game. Some good players on that team.

This board will add 5 pages by Monday night. At least. Keyboard warriors love this time of the year!

Huh? Those are all 2023.

Recon . They beat them pretty bad. My son had the game after so I caught most of the game.The yelling was on both sides as noted by someone else but was really escalating over on the express parents end . The ref stopped play made someone leave then the two refs switched sides of the field.. On a positive note I watched all the coaches from both teams go over to the boy that got it hit and the kid that laid the hit went to him and spoke with him. It didn't look like any retaliation on the field.

Huh the two NLF listed tournament on tourney machine on long island this weekend has no 2023 divisions.

My son was also in the next game, all the yelling started from the Express dads, it escalated with the big hit, the other teams parents only responded when the Express dad started yelling and cursing about the player who made the big hit.

Look again. The "NLF Under Armour Main Event" is for older kids, 2022-2018. It's a showcase. "NLF Super Series 2017" is for youth teams 2025-2022.

Any good match ups at Forsberg this weekend

Any info on this NJ Riot teams?

I think its the first year for NJ Riot North, which is just a Bergen County offshoot of the original Riot team. Bergen County has seen an explosion of travel teams - I think the talent is spread too thin. NJ Riot has been around longer and is more or less a Morris County area team. It should be the better of the two but who knows. I don't think NJ Riot won much last summer at this level, although I think some of their teams are good.

Keep in mind though that grade on grade the NJ teams will be a bit older owing to a different school calendar year. For instance, a true 2023 team from NY should have nearly its whole roster born in 2005. The NJ teams will be more akin to half old 2005/young 2004.

Prediction - Express will underperform. AJ will be silent on the sidelines. Parents will be wishing for BM to return.

And then you wake up.

Why are you tracking a 2023 division so hard when your son is obviously not in the tournament. If he was you would know where it is on TM. Will you be the same troll bashing teams based on scores you read on the App??!!

AJ was stoic as they went down to Laxachusetts. BM would have pulled out the game.

Yeah because he is doing wonders for Legacy!

Guy, his new team lost to a town team. He's a terrible coach that overachieved with a bunch of very skilled players.

Laxachusetts down with a team of men. Embarrassing

Nothing new there. Same team that was heaR a few weeks ago. But, they're still beatable.

Sure they are but you don't think the Crabs and Laxa ended up playing each other in the semis for no reason. Bandits and Express in the other one. Championship games in this heat and this age is rough. Then add in how tough the game before was on your middies. Either way welcome to Long Island lacrosse. Don't give me the 1-4 and 2-3 tournament rules when you control who plays who in pool play. Better have your game on when showing up and run the numbers to get 1 seed. No mercy on the weak teams.

He looked very stoic beating the Bandits. Great job, by great guy leading a great group of kids.

Well done Express! Congrats beating the Bandits!!

Took long enough. Would have beat them last year with BM coaching them.

And than get crushed by the Crabs...

Crickets.... JS performing the walk of shame and the Bandits parents heading for counseling. The good news is that the kids don't care as much as the parents who were all decked out in Bandits gear.

Crabs were worse ... Time to go age based!!!!

Remember the Bandits parent who broke down the standings and put Bandits in a league of their own? Is that the 4th place league (of their own?) all by themselves in 4th place?

Had to be a fluke. Crabs spanked them in the finals.

Very disappointing for bandits.

Kids peak at different times, maybe the bandits have reached their summit,..

Yeah I'm really not sure what 2023 means to Boston and Baltimore but it clearly isn't 11/12 year olds. I understand that teams may have 2-3 kids that hit puberty early but when 75% of the team is 5 foot eight and up it kinda makes u scratch your head

You are an idiot. Express had to play 5 games today in 90 degree heat . On the way to the finals they beat a good Shore to Shore team & then a very good Bandit team. Give credit where credit is due.

No one was beating the crabs. They were bigger than the coaches. Bandits are lucky they lost to Express. Crabs would've dropped a dime on them.

These Bandit parents are drowning on the Kool Aide.

The JS losing streak. SB WLax, Lizards now Bandits. Midas touch turned to the touch of doom.