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Can I get some insight on the Hammond/PP game? What was up with that? Hey Bear, you got any details?

First, congrats to Hammond, ending Pinewood's streak of over 5 years without a loss to a SCISA team.

Pinewoods goal was off a nice combination play about 10 minutes in. Hammond's goal was off a penalty kick for a handball from a deep throw in, in the first half.

Penatly kicks, Pinewood kicked first. Hammond Keeper saved the first, the next 8 kicks were good, and the Pinewood keeper saved the 5th kick of Hammond's, resulting in 4 - 4 after the 5 kickers. 6th kick, Hammond keeper saved, then Hammond made.

That's pretty much the details.

Hammond was missing their starting center back and forward as well. Pinewood had all starters there. Looks like scisa's a little more competitive then pinewood fans anticipated.

Actually, SCISA is less competitive this year than in years past. In the past the upstate region there were a couple of teams that were battling it out for the region title late in the season. This year, CN is the clear front runner and therefore the favorite. Pinewood in years past has been the front runner and favorite in the lower state region, and is so again this year.

Now, the missing starters that you state would answer some of how the game actually went. I don't know that if the starting center back had been there Pinewood would have had the 4 1v1's with the keeper, and with a starting forward missing, that would explain the lack of effort needed by the Pinewood keeper during the game.

I wasn't saying that scisa overall is very competitive. i was just saying that there are more good teams that anyone gave credit to preseason. Hammond has the number 1 seed in the playoffs over pinewood. Who would have predicted that?

Perhaps rather than saying SCISA, you should have said Hammond, if that was what you were intending to imply then.

Where and how does Hammond have the number 1 seed over Pinewood in the playoffs? Cardinal Newman is the currently ranked #1, followed by Pinewood, followed by Hammond, at least on SC Soccer. I'm just trying to understand you at this point.

CN is #1 upperstate, Hammond #2 upperstate, Pinewood #1 lowerstate. I think there are 3 regions this year, but that still leaves Hammond #2 in their region.

I think you're right Bear. With Hammond being the #2 seed out of their region, they would still have to travel to Pinewood, I believe. At least that is how its been in the last few years.

I was just referring to the fact that pinewood wasn't even considering any teams from scisa and hammond happens to be in scisa. Hammond beat pinewood and wilson hall 2 times who is the other number 1 seed. Therefore if pinewood and hammond win in the first round, pinewood will play Hammond at Hammond because Hammond is the number 1 seed.

Again, you have made a leap from Hammond to SCISA. I'm sorry that no one has said much about Hammond in this discussion, and again congratulations for the win over Pinewood. Somehow, I could be wrong though, I think both teams are looking forward to a rematch.

If you know this seeding and such to be the case, I really wish that you could put some kind of link to it, or at least provide something a little more concrete. No one really seems to know precisely what is happening with the bracketing.

Look at the historical record as it relates to the 2008 SCISA soccer bracket. Sometimes history is the best teacher. The #1 seed Pinewood Prep (Lower State) and the #1 seed St Joseph (Upper State) had home field throughout the playoffs. According to SC Soccer, in 2009 it’s CN and Pinewood Prep. The path to the Championship will definitely run through Lower State with the title game being played at Porter Gaud.