Originally Posted by Anonymous
Why is his team facing those caliber teams then ?


IME (Suffolk County), MS "leagues" are geographic rather than based on power or school size. My very small school district, where any good players move up to HS in 8th grade, faced very large districts where seemingly no one got moved up. Hence, domination by the large school over us. Also keep in mind that at that age, everyone wants to be the hotshot attack. No one is much interested in playing defense so there isn't a lot of effort trying to protect the goalie from the kids that do have any skill. That's my feeling, anyway, based on what I've seen through 3 kids playing MS lax.