Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lets call it mid-season and I have seen more than a few games live and via stream.

In looking at NOVA, as I have not really followed the southern teams, a few things stand out:

Riverside and Indy are by far the top two teams and by a wide margin.

The next class includes teams like Madison, Stone Bridge, Battlefield and maybe, just maybe Robo (if they can really start to score).

I would tend to put Robo at the top of the next group down, to include YT, WS, Chantilly, etc.

Langley for all the preseason hype is not a good team.

Idk about putting YT in a tier with the two teams they just blew out

Why? Because they are not enough for the next tier up, thats why. That tier is for a wide swath of teams thzt are good, but not really good. If you put Robo up with the really good teams, they are "king of the rest", sure.

Don't know why nobody is taking Langley, with all their suspensions figured out Stone Bridge will be no issue

Anonymous wrote:Predictions:

4/15
Riverside 17 West Potomac 6
Stone Bridge 10 Langley 6

4/16
Battlefield 19 Osbourn 0
Indy 19 Gainesville 1

4/17
Battlefield 14 Westfield 5
Indy 19 Potomac Falls 1
McLean 13 Patriot 4
Robinson 16 West Springfield 4
South County 9 Alexandria City 8
West Potomac 10 Lake Braddock 4
Woodson 8 Fairfax 5

4/18
Cosby 9 Yorktown 7
Freeman 13 Langley 9
Gainesville 11 Hayfield 1
Oakton 15 Deep Run 7
Robinson 14 Chantilly 5
Woodson 8 W-L 7

LaxNumbers

4/15
Riverside 15 West Potomac 7
Stone Bridge 9 Langley 8

4/16
Battlefield 18 Osbourn 1
Independence 17 Gainesville 4

4/17
Battlefield 14 Westfield 6
Independence 18 Potomac Falls 1
McLean 11 Patriot 6
Robinson 13 West Springfield 7
South County 10 Alexandria City 9
West Potomac 9 Lake Braddock 7
Woodson 9 Fairfax 8

4/18
Yorktown 10 Cosby 9
Douglas Freeman 11 Langley 9
Gainesville 12 Hayfield 5
Oakton 14 Deep Run 6
Robinson 13 Chantilly 7
Washington-Liberty 9 Woodson 8

Anonymous wrote:Predictions:

4/15
Riverside 17 West Potomac 6
Stone Bridge 10 Langley 6

4/16
Battlefield 19 Osbourn 0
Indy 19 Gainesville 1

4/17
Battlefield 14 Westfield 5
Indy 19 Potomac Falls 1
McLean 13 Patriot 4
Robinson 16 West Springfield 4
South County 9 Alexandria City 8
West Potomac 10 Lake Braddock 4
Woodson 8 Fairfax 5

4/18
Cosby 9 Yorktown 7
Freeman 13 Langley 9
Gainesville 11 Hayfield 1
Oakton 15 Deep Run 7
Robinson 14 Chantilly 5
Woodson 8 W-L 7

stone bridge over langley by 4 is wild

Predictions:

4/15
Riverside 17 West Potomac 6
Stone Bridge 10 Langley 6

4/16
Battlefield 19 Osbourn 0
Indy 19 Gainesville 1

4/17
Battlefield 14 Westfield 5
Indy 19 Potomac Falls 1
McLean 13 Patriot 4
Robinson 16 West Springfield 4
South County 9 Alexandria City 8
West Potomac 10 Lake Braddock 4
Woodson 8 Fairfax 5

4/18
Cosby 9 Yorktown 7
Freeman 13 Langley 9
Gainesville 11 Hayfield 1
Oakton 15 Deep Run 7
Robinson 14 Chantilly 5
Woodson 8 W-L 7

Anonymous wrote:How about LIGHTRIDGE over Broad Run 16-11. Looks like at least a playoff team in 5a.

Is a 5a team beating a 4a team a big win?

Their (your I guess) real schedule starts on the 28th, against Freedom South Riding (which is their first 5 opponent?). Smart to schedule BOC ahead of that.

How about LIGHTRIDGE over Broad Run 16-11. Looks like at least a playoff team in 5a.

Anonymous wrote:Lets call it mid-season and I have seen more than a few games live and via stream.

In looking at NOVA, as I have not really followed the southern teams, a few things stand out:

Riverside and Indy are by far the top two teams and by a wide margin.

The next class includes teams like Madison, Stone Bridge, Battlefield and maybe, just maybe Robo (if they can really start to score).

I would tend to put Robo at the top of the next group down, to include YT, WS, Chantilly, etc.

Langley for all the preseason hype is not a good team.

Idk about putting YT in a tier with the two teams they just blew out

Anonymous wrote:Stone Bridge vs. Langley tonight got a little more interesting now.

Why "more" interesting?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Did Herndon really beat Wakefield by 26 goals? If that's the case, really poor form from the coaching staff! I hope they pulled the starters and it was JV call ups who were scoring.

Herndon has been on the other side of a lot of these through the years so I think a little grace can be given here. These types of games are difficult to manage and like anything else in life take practice. The first quarter got away from them a little 11 or 12 goals. After that coaches did a good job to subbing guys in a really spreading the scoring out but they.

What years, 2008? The biggest loss margin in the past 11years (Laxnumbers limit) is 15 goals in 2021. No one in this program was around then so I don't know why we feel the need for grace here. If they scored 11-12 in the 1st, that's a goal ever min, you're not running an offense at that point, you're just winning the FO and dodging on repeat. 27 goals, you're scoring ever 2 mins avg in the game; you can't tell me they held back.

Wakefield has been on the other end of these types of games for the majority of their history so maybe we should show them some grace and compassion.

Didn't watch the game (yet?) so I don't know how it all went down. But sometimes you put in backups and they can still score readily. At some point the losing team has to be able to stop goals from being scored, it's a "lose lose" when a winning team is obviously passing it around to kill the clock.

For some reason MaxPreps has been thinking Wakefield HS is Wakefield school and incorrectly listing them in schedules, but according to MaxPreps (because you can't effing check schedules on the actual HS athletics' pages still) JV also played Wakefield last night - https://www.maxpreps.com/va/herndon/herndon-hornets/lacrosse/jv/schedule/

You can't play JV guys in both games, so there were no "call ups" to put in. Just your back ups.

Credit to Wakefield for playing the game and not backing out just because they knew they would lose

Anonymous wrote:Lets call it mid-season and I have seen more than a few games live and via stream.

In looking at NOVA, as I have not really followed the southern teams, a few things stand out:

Riverside and Indy are by far the top two teams and by a wide margin.

The next class includes teams like Madison, Stone Bridge, Battlefield and maybe, just maybe Robo (if they can really start to score).

I would tend to put Robo at the top of the next group down, to include YT, WS, Chantilly, etc.

Langley for all the preseason hype is not a good team.

As of now, concur

Correct, as I said they let the first quarter get away from them. They needed to shut down transition earlier. They will learn.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Did Herndon really beat Wakefield by 26 goals? If that's the case, really poor form from the coaching staff! I hope they pulled the starters and it was JV call ups who were scoring.

Herndon has been on the other side of a lot of these through the years so I think a little grace can be given here. These types of games are difficult to manage and like anything else in life take practice. The first quarter got away from them a little 11 or 12 goals. After that coaches did a good job to subbing guys in a really spreading the scoring out but they.

What years, 2008? The biggest loss margin in the past 11years (Laxnumbers limit) is 15 goals in 2021. No one in this program was around then so I don't know why we feel the need for grace here. If they scored 11-12 in the 1st, that's a goal ever min, you're not running an offense at that point, you're just winning the FO and dodging on repeat. 27 goals, you're scoring ever 2 mins avg in the game; you can't tell me they held back.

Wakefield has been on the other end of these types of games for the majority of their history so maybe we should show them some grace and compassion.

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