The score was 8-6 crabs. Great game but the refs made it closer then it should have been.
This is actually brilliant - in two successive posts, we have two posters claiming the score was either 7-5 or 8-6. Two people watching the same game and cannot agree on the final score. If not for the fact that it was a one goal game with an "open cage" goal on the end, chances are that there would have even been more of a discrepancy.
This is just one example as to why the results should be phoned into a central location and recorded. Not only to keep track of these individual games, but to allow the teams to build a proper portfolio of results for future tournaments and, dare we say it, rankings within their age groups.
Imagine if the teams were bracketed properly before the start of the season which would then allow schedules to be constructed at the start of a season for the whole season.
I am from Long Island, my son plays for a LI Club Team (he is younger than the 2017 and 2018 teams I have read about). I havent followed all of the Crabs games, scores, whether they are older or younger, bigger or smaller than our kids, whether the refs call it in their favor or ours. I am not even sure whether the Crabs sent one team or two but it appears to me that two things happened, the Crabs won every game or close to it that they played against LI and that perhaps some LI teams even ducked them? I hope I am wrong and no I am not a Crabs parent, I am just curious as I thought the best lacrosee was played on LI as a matter of fact I preached it to my friends in PA and FL. Please tell me that the Crabs didnt come to LI and beat all of our best teams?
Easy with the drama... If you know anything about lacrosse you would know the Baltimore area and the crabs are also a "hot bed" and have very good programs. Any day a team from the area can compete with a team from Long Island. Doesn't mean Long Island lacrosse is weak.
You will hear of games with 91 , turtles etc going down there and sweeping a weekend also. Doesn't mean lacrosse played down in Baltimore is weak either.
No drama and I know LI lacrosse well. My only point is that as I scanned these posts it appears that the crabs came here and beat all or almost all LI teams which surprised me. Again my son isn't of the age but I thought turtles, terps, some 91 teams, team LI were the best in their age group. And I agree on any given day one very good team can get the better of another ver good team. That's is why I was surprised that it appears the crabs swept LI. Again, no drama. Not disrespecting LI lax, just surprising. Are the crabs by far the best MD teams or are there other programs comparable. I m aware MD has great lacrosse I just wasn't aware that their youth club lax was as strong as ours.
The crabs didn't sweep LI. The U 13 team beat a westchester team an express by 1 an 2 goals but lost to 91 by 6. They didn't play the 2018 TLI because they were too busy playing the u 15 crabs team.Terps 2017 black played the U 15 crabs team tough, but in reality terps Black is closer to a U 14 team. If you want to match the teams up correctly the crabs should have been playing the Barracudas or the Outlaw 2017. Then you would see how LI stacks up.
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