Some drama in the tournament meetings today for fieldhockey

[delawarenole]

A couple of random incoherent comments:

Next year's 3 tiered systems should start to address a lot of problems. It should cut down on the number of running clocks and hopefully small school teams will be able to get through their schedules. The last item has been troublesome.

As all schools are in a "conference" it should eliminate perceived equity issues of the automatic bid. (This has not really been a big problem but could have blown up in this crazy Covid year but didn't.)

I liked the out of state games that had developed some tradition but may have ended up not really lasting. The Cape periodically ferried over to play Cape May. The Sals had Baltimore Poly for like 30 consecutive years. Didn't Caravel and Elkton have a solid rivalry?

That is all the incoherence for now.

You wold still have the open games for rivalries and cross conference play

 

[HSftballlaxFan]

So, in case anyone was wondering, after all this hooha about whether St. Marks field hockey deserved to be in the tournament or not, they lost to DMA tonight 2-1 in a shootout.

 

[BackinBlack86]

So, in case anyone was wondering, after all this hooha about whether St. Marks field hockey deserved to be in the tournament or not, they lost to DMA tonight 2-1 in a shootout.

Technically it would be 0-0 (2-1 DMA in shootout) in hockey shootout scores don't actually count as goals scored it is just a tie breaker..

anyway some other interesting things..

St Marks (5-3) was #7 seed and DMA (5-5-2) #10. If St Marks was out Dickinson( 7-4) would have been #12 seed and played #5 Brandywine (12-0) who Dickinson lost to 7-0 in the reg season less than 2 weeks ago probably would have lost to them again 1st round. Between St Marks and Dickinson St Marks is clearly the better team.

now here is where it gets fun..

With St Marks getting in Friends (4-6) went from #11 to #12 and played #5 Brandywine (12-0) Friends beat Brandywine 4-0 yesterday moving on to second round.. Had Friends been #11 they would have played #6 Indian River (8-4) who beat # 11 Ursuline (5-6) 5-0 yesterday. So I say Friends really benefited getting dropped to 12 by St Marks getting in to play Brandywine instead of IR.. Friends probably would have lost to IR..🤯

 

[delawarenole]

Technically it would be 0-0 (2-1 DMA in shootout) in hockey shootout scores don't actually count as goals scored it is just a tie breaker..

anyway some other interesting things..

St Marks (5-3) was #7 seed and DMA (5-5-2) #10. If St Marks was out Dickinson( 7-4) would have been #12 seed and played #5 Brandywine (12-0) who Dickinson lost to 7-0 in the reg season less than 2 weeks ago probably would have lost to them again 1st round. Between St Marks and Dickinson St Marks is clearly the better team.

now here is where it gets fun..

With St Marks getting in Friends (4-6) went from #11 to #12 and played #5 Brandywine (12-0) Friends beat Brandywine 4-0 yesterday moving on to second round.. Had Friends been #11 they would have played #6 Indian River (8-4) who beat # 11 Ursuline (5-6) 5-0 yesterday. So I say Friends really benefited getting dropped to 12 by St Marks getting in to play Brandywine instead of IR.. Friends probably would have lost to IR..🤯

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