in all honesty, the committee running these events should enforce a strict set of "sportsmanship" rules for the coaches to follow and pass down to the parents. Im not saying take the foot off the gas, let the kids play and play hard, BUT, enforce the coaches displaying good sportsmanship. Its not only the handshake at the end of the game fellas and this is NOT high school, its still youth sports. To have parents make comments towards to other team is unacceptable at this age. To have coaches say comments like "pour it on"....come on guys. You want to be hard on your team and your players....thats your thing, and the parents on that team will either accept it or not. Thats fine, but to criticize the other team and have parents screaming like they are at a Yankee game is unacceptable and if the coaches will not tell the parents to chill out than the event staff should walk around and enforce good sportsmanship at their event. Seems like Halloween Havoc had plenty of guys to do that. Sooner or later fists will come out and it will all be a total disaster, correct it now please.
Lacrosse is the WILD WEST of youth sports. It's a shame that it is allowed to continue like this. It seems to get worse every year.
