Now that tournaments are for the most part complete and with tryouts starting early to mid August this is a key year for this group. Here are my rankings for what is likely to be the HOCO elite bracket in the spring. Too many teams to rank them all: 1. Hawks: Despite a zone d they still are the team to beat 2. DC Dogs (CB): close number 2 improved team need to beat Hawks 3. Crabs: well below the top two could fall further with a bad tryout 4-5. NL and Looney's: this is an interesting matchup as they each had some good wins and bad losses. Hard to separate these two. Not sure what happened to NL at Young Guns 6. FCA loss's to Looney's places them at 6 but very solid team could move to #3 with a good tryout. 7. Bethesda-DCE. Seem to be going in the other direction may move down further. Not a great summer showing. 8. The next team to enter Elite. Most likely VLC but could be SR or Cav. VLC appeared to play the toughest summer schedule and only second year team. 9. Team 91: Is Millon going to coach his son??? 2019 HOCO season should be fun. Enjoy youth lacrosse this last season for these boys!
