US Lacrosse Community Forum Forums National Premier Youth Lacrosse League - Spring 2014

Something about a Bitmore kid whacking one of Millon's players after he was on the ground, Million took exception with the ref's inattentiveness.

Something about a Bitmore kid whacking one of Millon's players after he was on the ground, Million took exception with the ref's inattentiveness.

Why was Bitmore playing A and not AA ??? they where all 2021 team with an 2020 kid. Embarrassing trophy chasing.

2018 FCA Blue beat the Hawks as well. 2019 Low & Away from HoCo league beat Crabs.

Why was Bitmore playing A and not AA ??? they where all 2021 team with an 2020 kid. Embarrassing trophy chasing.

Bitmore 2021 team is playing B at green turtle and the rest of the summer looks like many trophies for them. Congrats on playing down and not challenging your kids.

Philadelphia Freedom 2021 did the same thing. 5th grade team playing in 4th grade division. They pulled that 2 years ago when my older son played with Arden and beat us in the finals. This year my younger sons 4 grade team beat them. Embarrassing.

I think at the time of initial registration there were supposed to be three divisions.

AA Solid 5th grade teams
A Weak 5th grade teams/Solid 4th grade teams
B 4th grade teams.

Maybe the freedom and bitmore put themselves in the weak 5th grade category. Considering freedom lost to a 4th grade team and bitmore did not have an outrageous goal differential maybe that is not all that inappropriate

Bitmore 2021 team is playing B at green turtle and the rest of the summer looks like many trophies for them. Congrats on playing down and not challenging your kids.

Bitmore in A at GT. They were .500 in Hoco club league. never seem them play but wouldn't think they are "AA" team. Summer exposure had AA, A & A1 for u11. What is the lowest dicision. I would think that Bitmore going in the middle would be reasonable

Carolina Cannons does the same thing - they enter their teams one level too low

Happens in U13 too, the Threshers (NY) had a team of mostly 8th graders (2018) playing U13A, several of the kids were as big as the coaches. They rode roughshod over their 6th grade competition and lost to Carolina Cannons in the final. Cannons must be an amazing team or equally large, did not see them.

A mixed grade (2019/2020) true U13 team - with a bunch of U12's that is the makeup of the Cannons. A bunch of the boys were in the [lacrosse]'s U11 bracket back in December. According to the website suggested brackets U13A was appropriate. If you entered an all 2020 team in U13A you were playing up - so easy to accuse others of cheating when you lose

HOGAN LAX SITE:
U13
AA- for very competitive teams
A- for not as competitive teams
B- for teams with all first year (born between 9/1/2001-8/31/2002 or later) U13 players. No team with second year (born between 9/1/2000-8/31/2001) U13 players can play in the B Division.

Grade has quite a bit to do with it. Yes, it was an age based tournament but the Threshers were the ONLY team in the entire U13 Division that had ANY 2018 players much less the majority of their roster. DOBs were not posted on the Hogan website - grades were. The only explanations for a team of 2018 players in U11 are:
1. 11 of the 17 players skipped a grade so they are not only a team whose players are in the 150-200th percentile height and weight wise for their age but they are also brilliant
2. The entire team cannot follow simple instructions to register
3. They were in the wrong division

U13 was a division with over 60 teams. Do the math-statistically and logically speaking if the only 2018 graduates out of 1,000+ players were all on one team it is logical to conclude that the majority of the Threshers were not U13.

This is an issue all parents should be concerned about, to maintain the integrity of the game and keep all of the players as safe as possible. No matter how you look at it - Threshers were not U13. Whether they purposely put DOBs down that resulted in them being classified in U13 or whether Hogan made a mistake, a stand up team would have said something the moment the schedule came out.

Additionally this team had the nerve to play U13A as soon-to-be high schoolers - not AA!

Not true at all for Crabs either. Would love to know where you get your misinformation. Unless you have hard facts you shouldn't spread lies.

[quote=Anonymous]Not true at all for Crabs either. Would love to know where you get your misinformation. Unless you have hard facts you shouldn't spread lies.

I'm talking about the Crabs middle school teams. I have no knowledge about the high school teams.