MBSLA Top 10 May 7

Northern Lights Lacrosse took a couple weeks off to let things settle out with a few more games before putting together our most recent MBSLA Top 10 rankings.  With so many postponements and cancellations due to the weather, it's been tough to get enough games in to make sense of where teams are at.  After a couple of weeks, we have a little better idea where teams sit right now.  The top 5 teams look solid and after that there's a bit of a drop off.  While there are a few very good teams in the MBSLA this year, the drop off to the bottom tier of teams is drastic, as evidenced by scores of 21-2, 18-4 and games that end at the half 15-0 with the starters of the winning team being pulled for the entire second half.  League wide disparity in talent and experience is becoming an issue in the MBSLA.  Exactly where that bottom tier lies is difficult to determine as well.

Duluth continues to roll finishing the week at 6-0 with a lopsided win over Brainerd.  Becker also stays undefeated with a lopsided win over Waconia.  Hudson also picks up a lopsided win over Mankato.  Lopsided wins all around! (ugh...).  After a couple of weeks and a couple of wins over St. Paul, St. Louis Park is back to their dominant ways as well.  We still think St. Paul is a good team, but St. Louis Park appears to be quite a bit better.  We'll see a nice match-up next week with St. Louis Park taking on Hudson.  In the bottom half of the Top 10, Grand Rapids shut down Proctor with a 5-3 win.  While over the weekend, St. Cloud North beat Grand Rapids in the Grand Rapids Shootout for the Varsity Championship.  The Shootout by the way, was once again well organized and run and was a lot of fun as always.  We'll need a couple more weeks to determine exactly where these three teams shake out in the Top 10.  STMA rounds out the Northern Lights Lacrosse Top 10 at #10. 

Here's the Northern Lights Lacrosse Top 10 after 5 weeks of play:

LaxPower MBSLA Rankings May 6, 2014

Rnk Team                       PR     In    Cor   Chp  WL Pct  W  L  T
  1 Duluth                    90.20  97.20  0.02  0.00  1.00   7- 0- 0
  2 Becker                    88.76  95.09  0.03  0.00  1.00   4- 0- 0
  3 Hudson                    87.69  95.76 -0.02  0.00  0.80   4- 1- 0
  4 St Louis Park             87.39  93.74  0.00  0.00  0.86   6- 1- 0
  5 St Paul                   81.50  86.76 -0.05  0.00  0.50   2- 2- 0
  6 Proctor                   81.15  86.00  0.00  0.00  0.67   4- 2- 0
  7 Grand Rapids              80.08  87.34 -0.03  0.00  0.50   2- 2- 0
  8 Grand Cities              79.78  80.02 -0.08  0.00  0.33   4- 8- 0
  9 St Cloud North            79.76  91.48 -0.08  0.00  0.00   0- 3- 0
 10 St Michael-Albertville    78.91  83.13  0.03  0.00  0.67   4- 2- 0
 11 Wayzata LC                78.24  82.19  0.01  0.00  0.67   2- 1- 0
 12 Red River Valley          77.04  79.67 -0.05  0.00  0.33   2- 4- 0
 13 New Century               76.25  83.03 -0.07  0.00  0.25   1- 3- 0
 14 Brainerd                  72.31  80.58 -0.03  0.00  0.00   0- 1- 0
 15 Shattuck-St Mary's        71.91  77.14 -0.05  0.00  0.00   0- 2- 0
 16 Waconia                   70.81  78.93 -0.03  0.00  0.00   0- 1- 0
 17 Henry Sibley              66.33  76.78 -0.03  0.00  0.00   0- 1- 0
 18 Stillwater LC             66.08  76.52 -0.10  0.00  0.00   0- 4- 0
 19 Mankato                   64.00  74.01 -0.12  0.00  0.00   0- 5- 0

Where the Top 10 MBSLA teams rank overall in Minnesota (including MSHSL schools):

23 Duluth

33 Becker

39 Hudson

40 St. Louis Park

55 St. Paul

57 Proctor

58 Grand Rapids

61 Grand Cities

62 St. Cloud North

65 STMA

78 Shattuck-St. Mary's