Really I don't think there is much change in the divisional alignment, only a few questions. Season opens on Saturday March 26th for '26 & '27 grad years and concludes the weekend of May 21st & 22nd. That makes for a 7 game schedule (assuming taking Easter w/e off as usual) unless there is a similar scheduling as last season where some teams played two games in a weekend. (Note that the numbers DO NOT indicate division standings, only serve as team count for that division).
Elite 1) Who will fill out the bottom two spots? My guess based on last spring and this fall results is that Team MD (White) will stay put and True Annapolis swaps with Sidewinders (as noted previously, Zingos doesn't like their players to be challenged so they won't move up). Best guess for teams:
E1 - Hawks E2 - Next Level E3 - ML Capital E4 - Crabs E5 - FCA MD E6 - Team 91 E7 - Team MD E8 - True Annapolis Green
AAA With Mesa MD folding, Looney's apparently not fielding a '27 team and assuming the TA Green moves to Elite, that leaves two openings to fill out an 8-team division. So one question is do any teams from AA move up? None of the AA teams had any notable wins last fall as all the games H2H with other HoCo teams were mostly from A and B divisions. If a team moves it is most likely only Madlax DMV, and there is no information on any new programs (other than MD Predators which will be discussed below). If so then AAA looks like:
3A1 - Sidewinders Black 3A2 - Zingos Black 3A3 - VLC 3A4 - True KP 3A5 - Kooper's 3A6 - BLC Blue 3A7 - Madlax DMV 3A8 - Open?
AA With the cascading effect of one team from both AAA and AA moving up, there would be an opening in the AA Division. Similar to the teams in this division, none of the A division teams had any notable wins which could be considered for the purposes of moving to AA, and historically established teams from A and B don't move up. So the big question is are Predators MD allowed to debut here or will they be regulated to A or B? Given the winless nature of their fall season I would bet on A or B. So then AA looks like:
2A1 - Team Maryland Red 2A2 - Gator Lacrose Club 2A3 - Cavalier 2A4 - True DC (formerly East Side Lacrosse) 2A5 - LTLC 2A6 - True Annapolis White 2A7 - BLC Orange 2A8 - Open?
A Don't really see much change here, but there is potential if any of these teams decide (coerced?) to move to AA or if a new program is able to field a team (rumor mill has it that Baltimore Elite Lacrosse may have a '27 team this year). All things being equal, A could look like:
B Over the past few years we've seen more rec programs offering a "club component" to provide more playing time and more competition for their teams (HLC, Kelly Post, OBGC, etc). This may the most challenging division to predict given the nature of these rec programs. But with some new additions to existing programs (Sidewinders, Rockfish, & MDX) and my guess that Predators will need to prove themselves in B, this is one guess for this division.
B1 - HLC B2 - Ground Control B3 - Top Caliber B4 - Sidewinders Volt B5 - MDX Red B6 - Rockfish Neon B7 - MDX North Blue B8 - Predators
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