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Let's clear up a few things. The commissioner of the HOCO league emailed the club owners in the recent weeks a few times. In the first notice, the HOCO commissioner noted this US Lacrosse rule for 2016 in regards to grade based teams:

[i]US Lacrosse has, for 2016, in "Age & Eligibility guidelines" the following:
"Grade-based competition: For leagues or associations in which some or all teams choose to organize by grade, those should be single-grade teams and should play in the age division determined by the oldest player on their roster'[/i]
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I'd like to believe this, but how or where did you find this information? [/quote]

That is a cut/paste from the USL website rules of the game for youth rec and club. I understand well enough that certain clubs and leagues just ignore this. However, the second item I cut and pasted was straight from the HOCO website. I have a hard time believing that Madlax and other clubs abruptly pulled out of this HOCO league for any reason save it would darken their competitive prospects to have to take age based teams into the league. It would not be difficult at all to take kids who are tool old for 2020 and have them play 2019, etc. just for this spring league. But clearly certain club owners have drawn a line they won't abide that, so they are out. I hope and expect to see more of this in the future. Kids constructively playing down with this reclass nonsense is bad sportsmanship straight to the ground and there isn't anything special about lacrosse versus other youth sports which are age based. Doing age based little league, soccer, etc. teams has proven timeless because it is fair. This lacrosse relcass endemic is just something that was come up with by Ryan McClernan and a few others as a way to cheat the fact that the game has grown and good players are everywhere now...not just in Maryland and a few other places.[/quote]

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