2027 Girls Lax WCAC + ISL Outlook

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Good Counsel LOST to STAB which is the same team Saints beat twice and played to Win the VISAA STATE Championship!!!!

And SSSAS lost to SR, and GC beat them soundly. Any team can have one off game. Comparative results with only one or two indicators, only get you so far. We are guessing at a competitive game at the end of the season; a game everyone wants to see except the SSSAS coaches apparently.

The fact is that GC has been the top team in the area since 2023 and hasn't lost to a DC area opponent.

I have seen both teams play multiple times. GC's 2026 team at full strength is sound in every phase and stylistically would be a very tough match up for SSSAS. SSSAS would be their best opponent--other than top 5 powerhouse Sacred Heart. Too bad we won't get to see it.

It's a judgment call to put GC or SSSAS at #1. The loss to STAB was a factor, but they are still #1 in the area in my estimation.

I agree with you my friend that it’s a game many would have liked to see. I’ve also watched GC multiple times and think they would have had their hands full with the SSSAS matchups. The GC game vs SR was tied 11-11 with ten min to play, and the draws and depth were SRs undoing. I think the opposite is the case with SSSAS and GC more likely would have worn down. If that game were early in the season with injuries still impacting SSSAS, maybe you’re right that GC would have had the edge, but by the end of the season SSSAS was playing really good lacrosse and thumping good teams. But reasonable minds can disagree and we’ll never know. This is the kind of good, healthy forum debate we need!

As for the matchup scheduling, I don’t think that SSSAS was ducking anyone this year with that team, but it would be no surprise if some teams did not want to schedule SSSAS this year and risk that loss out of conference. My own personal speculation is that neither team dodged each other, and other factors were in play. The players themselves have good friends on each team, they pull for each other, and one of SSSAS’s long-time and still-beloved D coaches moved to SR. It may be that both just didn’t have a compulsion to play and it could be as benign as that, but I don’t think it’s because SSSAS refused to schedule them.

The only thing we really know for sure is that Maryvale would smoke any team in the country. And everyone else, as they say, was playing for second place!

Good post. Agree on MV. Quite a team.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was so hoping these SSSAS folks had moved on with the '26 class. Guess a few remain. This group was over-hyped and under performed for most of it's career. They split with SR and shared the title and then won VISAA. Good for them. Take the W and move on to college. The fact remains that KJ, Bill and Gussie have one meaningful win in the post shot clock era. While STAB had to endure stall ball let's hope a stick check or a hair band inspection wasn't called for by their classy coach. Let's move on to '27 as '26 was the last gasp of that program.

Someone explain hair band inspection?

[Anonymous]

Can someone wake me up when Kj announces her retirement?

[Anonymous]

Hot take. Sssas sucks next year. And hair bands won’t be called as penalty

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hot take. Sssas sucks next year. And hair bands won’t be called as penalty

Make sure you wear a mouthguard too! Do you wear orange cleats?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was so hoping these SSSAS folks had moved on with the '26 class. Guess a few remain. This group was over-hyped and under performed for most of it's career. They split with SR and shared the title and then won VISAA. Good for them. Take the W and move on to college. The fact remains that KJ, Bill and Gussie have one meaningful win in the post shot clock era. While STAB had to endure stall ball let's hope a stick check or a hair band inspection wasn't called for by their classy coach. Let's move on to '27 as '26 was the last gasp of that program.

Someone explain hair band inspection?

TROLL WHAT ARE YOU SMOKING?! Gussie does not Coach Saints lax. Gussie is not a coach at SSSAS. THE SAINTS TEAM PLAYS BETTER WITH A SHOT CLOCK! THEY WOULD Have PREFERRED A SHOT CLOCK. The 1st half they had like 4 goals in 8 min and STAB had 0 so they came out playing like there was a shot clock. The stall ball saved STAB from a 20-5 loss instead it was only 10-5 as many chances to score on goal were intentionally not taken.

[Anonymous]

Not a part of this argument but seems a nerve was touched. Must be some truth to it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was so hoping these SSSAS folks had moved on with the '26 class. Guess a few remain. This group was over-hyped and under performed for most of it's career. They split with SR and shared the title and then won VISAA. Good for them. Take the W and move on to college. The fact remains that KJ, Bill and Gussie have one meaningful win in the post shot clock era. While STAB had to endure stall ball let's hope a stick check or a hair band inspection wasn't called for by their classy coach. Let's move on to '27 as '26 was the last gasp of that program.

Someone explain hair band inspection?

TROLL WHAT ARE YOU SMOKING?! Gussie does not Coach Saints lax. Gussie is not a coach at SSSAS. THE SAINTS TEAM PLAYS BETTER WITH A SHOT CLOCK! THEY WOULD Have PREFERRED A SHOT CLOCK. The 1st half they had like 4 goals in 8 min and STAB had 0 so they came out playing like there was a shot clock. The stall ball saved STAB from a 20-5 loss instead it was only 10-5 as many chances to score on goal were intentionally not taken.

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The question was about hair band inspections?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was so hoping these SSSAS folks had moved on with the '26 class. Guess a few remain. This group was over-hyped and under performed for most of it's career. They split with SR and shared the title and then won VISAA. Good for them. Take the W and move on to college. The fact remains that KJ, Bill and Gussie have one meaningful win in the post shot clock era. While STAB had to endure stall ball let's hope a stick check or a hair band inspection wasn't called for by their classy coach. Let's move on to '27 as '26 was the last gasp of that program.

Someone explain hair band inspection?

TROLL WHAT ARE YOU SMOKING?! Gussie does not Coach Saints lax. Gussie is not a coach at SSSAS. THE SAINTS TEAM PLAYS BETTER WITH A SHOT CLOCK! THEY WOULD Have PREFERRED A SHOT CLOCK. The 1st half they had like 4 goals in 8 min and STAB had 0 so they came out playing like there was a shot clock. The stall ball saved STAB from a 20-5 loss instead it was only 10-5 as many chances to score on goal were intentionally not taken.

This debate was over a couple of days ago and pretty clearly won by the guy who explained why stall ball in the first half was "bush league", but effective. But just so you understand the flaw in your own logic. If SSSAS would have "PREFERRED A SHOT CLOCK" they could have shot the ball.

[Anonymous]

Everyone prefers a shot clock. Shot clocks should be required for all varsity lax games so silly that so many schools do not. SSSAS and ISL League schools use a shot clock. STAB does not use a shot clock so I am sure they have used plenty of stall ball over their season. STAB start playing with a shot clock in your league!

[Anonymous]

I noticed that the Capital 2028 team is currently ranked 19th, which is quite low. Do you happen to know how many players from that team are at SSSA?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I noticed that the Capital 2028 team is currently ranked 19th, which is quite low. Do you happen to know how many players from that team are at SSSA?

If you want to hear more about 2028 club lacrosse please visit the 2028 thread.

[Anonymous]

Players at this level should know what is legal to have on their wrist and what is not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Saints girl (who actually could get into college) pointed out a hair tie on a STAB players wrist in a tied game that resulted in a possession change that resulted in SSSAS winning the in season game.

“A player was wearing a hair tie on her wrist which is against the rules and caused a turnover “ is all that was necessary.

[Anonymous]

No hair tie in the VISAA Championship game that Saints won easily 10-5! Never have anything on your body in a games refs will call that in HS or college!