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Swansea-3
West Florence-2

Swansea-5
Irmo B-0

Swansea-0
AC Flora-0

Swansea-1
Barnwell-0

Swansea-3
BC-1

Swansea goes 4-0-1

I heard that about half of the Swansea ( at least the entire defense) were varisity players that were brought to this tournament. Well within the rules; however, not within the spirit. It should be noted on the tournament application how many varsity players a team intends to bring so the brackets can be adjusted accordingly.

Irmo boys JV won the tournament without pulling any Varsity players down. Congratulations boys!

Nice try Green Acres
Other teams did the exact same thing. Swansea pulled three down to help with depth-but they did not even play in all the games. I know, because I was there! However, Swansea did beat BC in the regular season without the other players. In fact, all the goals were scored by the jv players during the tournament. Oh well... I guess you are trying to find an excuse why your team did not win! Where are you from anyway?

Barnwell Girls scores

Barnwell 2
St. James 0

Barnwell 2
Dreher 0

Barnwell 1
Airport 0

Barnwell 0
Swansea 1

Not a bad weekend for a AA school with no sophomores and only 1 freshman on the roster.

That's kinda funny about Swansea. One of the parents told us Friday night that there were only 3 high school girls on their team-everyone else was in 7th and 8th grades like our West Florence team (1 Sophmore, 1 freshman, 6 8th granders and 8 7th graders).

It is funny. There were actually no sophmores on Friday, and there are only three freshman on their roster. They were playing with the Varsity at Strom Thurmond on Friday. In fact, their starting line-up on Friday was one Freshman, 7 eighth graders, and 3 seventh graders. They did okay against ya'll. I do believe they controlled the game. You all did not score until the last couple minutes and yes that wasn't until they substituted their bench players. Nice try again.

The matter of HS players on the JV is curious to me. I also wonder about the make up of teams and their grade level, not so much because of the JV tournament but what I see as irony in the SCHSL laws. As I understand it middle schoolers, 7th and 8th graders, can't play varsity because it is a contact sport, BUT those same middle schoolers can play JV soccer where they could play against 9th through 11th graders.

What are anyones comments on this?

Also, a JV team can play against a Varsity opponent! The whole situation makes no sense. You just cannot have 7th and 8th graders on a Varsity Team (irony everywhere).

Fort Mill is a 4A school and one of the largest schools (at least until next year) in the state. If we had middle school soccer, and were not allowed to use 7th and 8th graders for the JV, we wouldn't have a junior varsity team. The current system works and shouldn't be changed.

Hats off to quality programs like Wando and Irmo that can field a very competitive JV team comprised of mostly sophomores and freshmen. They are preparing their girls for varsity play....and doing a great job at it.