you people do realize that it is much harder to record an assist in girls lacrosse than score a goal. lacrosse is not hockey. probably less than 10% of all goals in girls lacrosse are scored off true assists. all those assist stats in newsday are greatly exaggerated anyway. This does not excuse a player from running up their goal total in blowouts, however on some teams a few girls need to score to even keep the game close. This is reality and please don't compare teams like Manhasset to lesser opponents when talking about who scores or how many score. Fact is that the top teams have probably 5-10 players that would be the star on 80% of the HS teams out there and would score all of that teams goals. reality
I agree. The assist stat is greatly exaggerated! I also agree that stats for HS sports are totally useless. First of all the stats are not done by professionals and totally subjective(assists and saves). Secondly, The level of competition is totally different from league to league. Even within the divisions there is a major difference in strength of schedule! The thing that is often overlooked in the stat padding, is many coaches leave their "stars" in for the entire game regardless of the outcome. So when you are losing by 10 plus and the other team took out all their starters and your best players are still in the game pumping in garbage goals, it really doesn't mean you are that good! There are teams who take their kids out and teams who never do!
