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Now that the end is here, how about a top 15 for the divisions for NEXT year. Never too early to have a pre-season top 15. 
"Boys, even if it means dying on the pitch, we must win!" Marc-Vivien Foe 1975 - 2003
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2009 Pre-Season Top 15 - AAAA Girls
1.) Mauldin
2.) Wando
3.) Summerville
4.) Ft. Mill
5.) TL Hanna
6.) Dutch Fork
7.) Dorman
8.) Spring Valley
9.) Lexington
10.) Spartanburg
11.) North Augusta
12.) Clover
13.) Byrnes
14.) Wren
15.) Irmo
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16.)Nation Ford
17.)West Ashley
18.)West Florence
19.)Blythewood
20.)Aiken
21.)Northwestern
22.)Greenwood
Things we can probably expect in 2009:
1.) Ft. Mill will make it to the 3rd Round
2.) Region 2 will have 4 teams ranked in the top 15
3.) The Viking Cup winner will experience added pressure
4.) No team will go undefeated
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AAA Dale, if your name doesn't end in "side"....where you going?  Actually....you should be the preseason favorite next year! 
Kids play sports because they find it fun. Eliminate the fun and soon you eliminate the kid.
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SA, Airport, and BC baby.
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Kids play sports because they find it fun. Eliminate the fun and soon you eliminate the kid.
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I do not often predict anything on this message board. I am not happy to predict the following, but in the interest of fairness to the person who becomes coach for the team pegged above at #9 -- the coach who inherits this program should be coach of the year if they crack the top #15. They will be undergoing intensive rebuilding at the same time that they move to a new region with Dutch Fork, Irmo, Aiken, and North Augusta. I think the odds of making the playoffs next year is poor unless this region is given more than 4 slots (a possibility with 8 teams.)
I will be cheering for them and hoping that they do well; but I think it's only fair to set the expectations to a more realistic goal. Making the playoffs next year would be a big accomplishment.
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Has "the window" closed for Lexington?
They have had a great run for the past five years!
Kids play sports because they find it fun. Eliminate the fun and soon you eliminate the kid.
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They've won their region for four straight years -- first time in the school's history (note: I wish it were 5!). I'd love to be proven wrong; and certainly the school has some fine players coming back next year and I'm sure they'll get an excellent coach, but I think that it's going to be a tough haul to win their next region championship even in their existing region. Adding Dutch Fork to the mix makes it that much less probable.
I just don't want to see whoever coaches the team next year to get crushed with too high expectations starting out.
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Quote:
I think the odds of making the playoffs next year is poor unless this region is given more than 4 slots (a possibility with 8 teams.)
I heard Region V-AAAA will get 5 playoff berths next year. I would think DF, Irmo, NA, and Lexington would be favorites to take the top 4 with Aiken and a much improved White Knoll (if healthy) fighting it out for the 5th slot. Both Richland Northeast and Orangeburg-Wilkinson were winless this season and the prospects don't look good for next year.
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