Mr. Stevens

Kudos to our local paper for once again making our high school/town out to be a bunch of bullies and bad guys. I'm not sure which lacrosse game Mr. Stevens attended yesterday afternoon but it was not the same tournament championship game I was sitting at. Mr. Stevens apparently only wrote about what he "saw" rather than what he "heard." At this juncture I'd like to state that I can neither confirm nor deny reports that Mr. Stevens is hearing and/or visually impaired. His article is riddled w/ inaccuracies and errors. He must not have "heard" the Brentwood player repeatedly telling our parents to shut the F**K up, he must not have "heard" the Brentwood player telling his own teammate to shut the F**K up and he must not have heard the Brentwood player hocking a big loogie at our fans every chance he got. Mr. Stevens must not have heard the Brentwood player head butt Connor C which resulted in the altercation on the field. Mr. Stevens also failed to mention that our 3 players were served severe penalties not because of the situation on the field. It was because we've never, in 3 years of play, had a fight on the field. One of our new players did not know that you are not to step on the field under any circumstances during a dead ball situation. His teammate stepped out onto the field to bring him back to the sidelines. Apparently, the Brentwood team is quite familiar w/ this scenario. From what one of the refs told me, the minute the situation on the field escalated, one of Brentwood's assistant coaches screamed at everyone on the sidelines "to take a knee."

Again, I'd like to thank Mr. Stevens for focusing on one negative situation during one of the biggest lacrosse tournaments in the southeast. Mr. Stevens choose to ignore the other 45 teams that played in the tournament, the hundreds of thousands of dollars these out of town guests spent in our local hotels and restaurants and the efforts of hundreds of volunteers to put on this event of this magnitude. Well done Mr. Stevens.