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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Good Counsel LOST to STAB which is the same team Saints beat twice and played to Win the VISAA STATE Championship!!!![/quote]

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.  [/quote]
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![/quote]

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