[Jack Lambert]

Like I said earlier not trying to discredit anyone, I know this region has always been strong. The Boyle 8th grade team from a few years ago that you speak of are sophomores now and IMO were a much better team than this years team, and the only reason Boyle has never competed in this tournament is simply because the previous coaches had no interest in it this is coach Gavans first year and the fact that Boyle has seven state titles means that they have had the talent to play and compete in this tournament.

The 7 state championships is a great accomplishment. Although that is a high school championship composed of a combined 4 class groups to form one team, talk about that on high school. This is a middle school forum and we are talking about middle school championships they are composed of a single class. We are pulling this way off topic so I am done responding, why doesn't Boyle have a 7 th grade team involved, do they not recognize 7th or do they combine to make team have a little more talent.[/QUOTE]

Can't really answer your question about 7th and 8th grade combined this is a new coaching staff for Boyle I do know they had a 7th grade team that played a full schedule, but my guess would be that some 7th graders probably do play up, I do know from my son playing middle school football that for all the teams in Boyle's conference it's common place for 7th graders to play up.