3d won the A division beating Hawks 9-4 (impressive), Bethesda 14-0 and Madlax Georgia for the championship.

Next Level won the AA division beating VLC 9-2, Madlax 2019 9-4, Baltimore Roughriders 7-3 and 3d Pacific Coast All Stars by a goal to win the championship.

MadLax Capital lost to the 3d Pacific team 6-9 but beat Madlax 2019 5-4.

Several of these clubs haven't played against each other and go to different tournaments for some reason. Not really shocked if 3D has much improved youth teams. Like Next Level they have some strong coaching in place. FCA and Loonies also have very good 2020 teams.

Anonymous wrote:Can we have a polite consensus of where the 2020/8th grade teams stack up at this point based on the last couple of weeks of games. Easy for the DC area teams and the Hawks because they were at the Madlax tournament last weekend. Here is a shot (know nothing about where Bal teams fit in):

1. Crabs
2. Next Level
3. 3d Mid-Atlantic
4. Madlax Capital
5. Hawks
6. VLC
7. Bethesda
?. Club Blue
?. Cannons

Can you post any head to head scores? Surprised 3d is that high and VLC is that low.

A polite consensus? Good luck with that one when the crazy Madlax and VLC moms get back from yoga.

Can we have a polite consensus of where the 2020/8th grade teams stack up at this point based on the last couple of weeks of games. Easy for the DC area teams and the Hawks because they were at the Madlax tournament last weekend. Here is a shot (know nothing about where Bal teams fit in):

1. Crabs
2. Next Level
3. 3d Mid-Atlantic
4. Madlax Capital
5. Hawks
6. VLC
7. Bethesda
?. Club Blue
?. Cannons

Any feedback on Southern States Elite Prospect Camp in December? Seems a bit late and cold in the year for such a thing. But W and L seems like a solid lacrosse school.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are a lot of local teams going to the Finger Lickin Good in 3D this w/e?

Not VLC. Madlax, I think. Is it a worthwhile recruitment venue?

It seems like each November weekend there are 3-4 different tournaments spraying teams around. The FLG is a big tournament, I'm sure there are others to split the pot. VLC's choices of tournaments is kind of odd. They don't go to the same ones as Crabs do like last weekend or other top teams. Maybe there is a reason for that, but it is strange.

Anonymous wrote:Are a lot of local teams going to the Finger Lickin Good in 3D this w/e?

Not VLC. Madlax, I think. Is it a worthwhile recruitment venue?

Are a lot of local teams going to the Finger Lickin Good in 3D this w/e?

Considering how much of recruiting is done in 8th grade or fall of 9th grade now, it is sad but you're likely right. The higher ground for the club coach is to control the process for really young kids and do it fast as possible. Takes the high school or prep school coaches and programs out of the equation, which of course is the goal. In the current state the parents and kids are hopelessly reliant on the club guys.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For years a number of MoCo kids have been going an hour north to play for Baltimore clubs instead of going to NoVa to play club lacrosse. Given the DMV traffic hell, as irony would have it Baltimore is less time in the car than going through th throat of beltway traffic twice. There are the same number of good players on both sides, the main difference is a ridiculous number of MoCo kids go to MoCo day preps. MoCo public lacrosse is horrendous, agreed there.

No, there is better talent in NoVA and more of it. A lot of it is the numbers - many more people in Loudoun, Alexandria and Fairfax counties. Even Prince William is getting better.

Yeah, I hear ya. But the money and smarts still skew to Moco, so that should make up for a lot. The truth is that the Moco families still think they can navigate the recruitment process without a club team behind them. Dumb asses.

Anonymous wrote:For years a number of MoCo kids have been going an hour north to play for Baltimore clubs instead of going to NoVa to play club lacrosse. Given the DMV traffic hell, as irony would have it Baltimore is less time in the car than going through th throat of beltway traffic twice. There are the same number of good players on both sides, the main difference is a ridiculous number of MoCo kids go to MoCo day preps. MoCo public lacrosse is horrendous, agreed there.

No, there is better talent in NoVA and more of it. A lot of it is the numbers - many more people in Loudoun, Alexandria and Fairfax counties. Even Prince William is getting better.

For years a number of MoCo kids have been going an hour north to play for Baltimore clubs instead of going to NoVa to play club lacrosse. Given the DMV traffic hell, as irony would have it Baltimore is less time in the car than going through th throat of beltway traffic twice. There are the same number of good players on both sides, the main difference is a ridiculous number of MoCo kids go to MoCo day preps. MoCo public lacrosse is horrendous, agreed there.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Doesn't matter. NL has never been able to field HS teams. Their 2019 team is pretty bad so far.

Yeah, weird how Moco teams have not been able to take off like a VLC or Blackwolf or Madlax. Moco has monied families, lots of former laxers a lot of private school kids and Churchill and other publics that are decent in lax.

Those clubs draw mostly from VA, which is a huge advantage. There are many more lacrosse kids in Fairfax, Alexandria and Loudoun counties than in Montgomery and more top talent as well. Plus there are several clubs that target MoCo kids so the talent gets split apart. As for public school lax, Montgomery County is terrible. Far inferior to the VA public schools and even the best team like Churchill would have been worked by the top public school teams in VA.

Anonymous wrote:Doesn't matter. NL has never been able to field HS teams. Their 2019 team is pretty bad so far.

Yeah, weird how Moco teams have not been able to take off like a VLC or Blackwolf or Madlax. Moco has monied families, lots of former laxers a lot of private school kids and Churchill and other publics that are decent in lax.