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Lauren is a senior and a four year Ryle soccer player, second leading scorer past 2 years, same with assists. Rough way to end a season and a career - prayers for her recovery!

Good one, on point! No doubt Brossert j/v would have been a top contender in the tournament, but their players also play big role for varsity. Heard they just opted out of j/v event, like some other teams, due to the difficulty scheduling around the varsity/jv season schedule. and the snow didn't help matters! Did someone finally win this thing? Too bad they didn't put together a gals jv / freshman championship event like the boys did.

Is that true? Would be great for Ryle, they won all 3 1st games. But no advantage in top seeding in 33rd anyway .

The Litkenhous "rating" is just that. Not a poll, but a list of the teams with the highest ratings using their own math formula which comes from win/loss, difficulty of schedule etc and not sure how they could figure in head to head results. and yes note this list is from 1/14. Should be new one soon.

This game was tight several times, Raiders ahead after 1st quarter. The fouls were not too bad which was a relief, but the SK girls were hitting them whenever they got them. Couple girls fouled out. Swartz had a good game, but scoring balanced for Raiders. There looking stronger each game but still improving. SK really fast team and deep. Nice win for them.

Great pictures of some great young ladies on both teams! Thanks to panda for going to games and getting those shoots. hope you get in free at least ? Ryle will be fine, but there are going to be some major growing pains! They play a fairly tough schedule and there will be a lot of losses, but they will do better than people expect. Someone mentioned what a big school Ryle is and yes they have plenty of girls come out for basketball, but only 5 can play at a time. And, the environment for development of a younger player to turn varsity at Ryle hasn't exactly been prime during these past few years. There may be plenty of talent on the team, but their varsity experience level is very low. Looking at the starters from Monday, only two have any significant experience and that's not much. Senvisky has played varsity for 4 years, yet saw limited playing time, never been a regular starter. Lange became a starter last year as a freshman only after Storer - also inexperienced - had season ending injury. Lange then shared the starting spot for the remainder of the year with another player . Schwartz started getting in some games halfway through the year, not getting significant minutes until tournament time. The other starters Jones and Jump only played very briefly in a few varsity games last season and not a lot of J/V either. Also, none of Ryle's players were permitted to play up as middle schoolers. Looking at B B, those girls have been wearing green a long time for the Mustangs, lot's of experience at that upper level and it showed. On Monday some of the younger varsity players were key in both the J/V and the Varsity wins. They will improve with all of that time on the court, and continue to be a force!

If this is the trend, who is setting the trend? The state ? What is the rationale? I get games get rough and we don't want kids hurt but why focus on hand checks and forearms in particular? It just simply slows the game down while not really stopping roughness. Sounds like 50 plus trips to free throw line in at least two games last night, what an exciting game!