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BOTC is opening our Fall 2014 through Summer 2015 thread covering the Girls 2022 age group.

Why are M&D black and YJ blue 2022 in different age groups for the Ocean City tournament ? Seems like a wasted opportunity.

So they can meet in the finals?

Looks like M&D 2022 is going to be playing teams two years older than them. Is that useful? Are they that good? YJ 2022 teams are pretty solid.

It looks like they play one year up but against the B division. In theory that would equal out so why not just play the A division of own age group?

The Ocean City Tourn uses the US Lacrosse age guidelines u11 and u13 are the divisions. Some/most of the M&D girls are older that normal 5th graders, they can't play in u11 most girls are the age of NY 6th graders.

No kid on the team but I saw the 2022 Elevate girls play this winter and they looked very good. Wonder how they will fair against the top teams this summer. Hopefully they are playing in the same tournaments so they will get a shot.

Wrong. There is not one girl on the M&D 2022 or 2021 for that matter that is older than their typical grade level.

The reason the 2022s are playing up is so they don't have to play the stupid 2 pass rule.

The stupid two pass rule??? Yes by all means let's teach the kids to lplay lacrosse by not passing!

Agree. At this age, the games without passing are just a frustrating ball hog fest. 2 pass rule at least encourages them to play the game the right way.

Whatever the reason, they get to play each other 2 weeks later.

Couldnt agree more about pass rule
its a team game
use your teammates learn how to move the ball
Ball hoging shouldn't be rewarded at any age but esp with the up and comer youngsters

Where will they play each other in 2 weeks?

M&D 2022 made semis of U13B. M&D 2023 beat YJ 2022 Blue in U11A. Still question why M&D 2022 played up and YJ didn't?

I think you got this wrong, that was the YJ gold (B) team that lost to M&D 2023. The score was 2-1 in an unfortunately poorly officiated game.. I'm not complaining about the ref making bad calls but that he was more interested in talking to the parents on the sidelines then keeping the game moving.. He did 2 of our 5 games and was awful both times

I would argue that the A brackets at any given age group is more competitive than the B brackets a year up.