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    #61
    Predictions

    3A Girls
    CG 3, OES 0- Yes they will end the OES streak. CG has the offensive game to score multiple goals and not sure OES can keep up. Also hear OES doesn't have the strongest Keeper this season.

    4A Girls
    Marist 3, Woodburn 1- Woodburn is a nice story on the girls side and is peaking, but this is Marist's year to break through. Strong team across the board.

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      #62
      Smaller school contenders

      CG / OES: This is CG's year. Too many offensive threats and strong across the board with servicable athletic subs. And the best GK at 3A. CG can score from anywhere and from 9 players at any given time. 3-0 is reasonable. OES will be a bit exhausted from a long travel day, but will be up for this game. Just don't think it is within reach this year.

      Marist / Woodburn: Both well coached teams, but I like Marist as well. Technical, athletic and a nice team approach. 2-0.

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        #63
        Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
        CG / OES: This is CG's year. Too many offensive threats and strong across the board with servicable athletic subs. And the best GK at 3A. CG can score from anywhere and from 9 players at any given time. 3-0 is reasonable. OES will be a bit exhausted from a long travel day, but will be up for this game. Just don't think it is within reach this year.

        Marist / Woodburn: Both well coached teams, but I like Marist as well. Technical, athletic and a nice team approach. 2-0.
        I totally disagree, I watched Marist play yesterday and they have no standout players, just a bunch of average players. The Woodburn team has some standouts who are game changers and the Marist defense will not be able to stop them. Woodburn also plays with a TON of heart and I think they will win.

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          #64
          Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
          I totally disagree, I watched Marist play yesterday and they have no standout players, just a bunch of average players. The Woodburn team has some standouts who are game changers and the Marist defense will not be able to stop them. Woodburn also plays with a TON of heart and I think they will win.
          Woodburn girls will win handily and dominate 4A until they are forced to move back to 5A in a couple years. They are strong across their squad and have competition across their squad to get the bests out each player. The local club is just a couple years old and a big reason it got started was because they had no girls team prior. Now they have a long line of girls teams that will continue to feed Woodburn and to a lesser extent North Marion.

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            #65
            Smaller school contenders

            I have been super impressed with the Woodburn club. I have seen their 04-06s girls. Great coaching, solid tactical and technical players. Huge kudos for getting these girls to start playing.

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              #66
              Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
              I have been super impressed with the Woodburn club. I have seen their 04-06s girls. Great coaching, solid tactical and technical players. Huge kudos for getting these girls to start playing.
              Their 04 teams is mostly 05's. Most were at WHS, a few were at NM. Their 06 teams is half 07. Their 07 team is half 08. From the high school prospect perspective they are looking good the next couple years....as long as they stay in 4A.

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                #67
                Woodburn Girls Soccer Dynasty has begun.

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                  #68
                  Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                  Woodburn Girls Soccer Dynasty has begun.
                  And... what’s funny is everyone said Marist would win. And Marist was definitely no match for Woodburn whatsoever.

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                    #69
                    Woodburn Boys win like their 5th in a row, Woodburn girls win their first.

                    Say what you want about them being the size of 6A schools.... At least for the girls, it's a pretty big accomplishment.

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                      #70
                      Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                      Woodburn Boys win like their 5th in a row, Woodburn girls win their first.

                      Say what you want about them being the size of 6A schools.... At least for the girls, it's a pretty big accomplishment.
                      Only in Oregon would a school play.2 classifications below their daily attendance figures and not get they are cheating and not playing fair.

                      Love it.

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                        #71
                        Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                        And... what’s funny is everyone said Marist would win. And Marist was definitely no match for Woodburn whatsoever.
                        Score? Was it a blow out?

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                          #72
                          Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                          Only in Oregon would a school play.2 classifications below their daily attendance figures and not get they are cheating and not playing fair.

                          Love it.
                          They don't see it that way and neither do the politicians that run OSAA. Hand up vs. a hand out.

                          Fair has a different meaning to different people. Iit's the same policies that has built this great state that runs OSAA.

                          Is it fair? That a boys team that has won 8/10 5A championships gets to drop down? Ask North Marion, Stayton, Madras why the poor kids from these communities are less important than poor kids from Woodburn.

                          Is it fair the girls got to drop down, everyone in the community knew this group of girls was coming, and they'll dominate for the next 3-4 years. Most of the team are Freshman and the club teams that back the school are only better in the years to come. Ask the girls from Gladstone, or North Marion. (Nobody cares about Marist.)

                          Woodburn never invested in volleyball so they never won a game. Or Softball, they don't even have a team, but that's why OSAA let them drop down.

                          Now really, what's the point? They are champions and they played the game, the OSAA rules they way OSAA has them set up.

                          Good for them.

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                            #73
                            Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                            Score? Was it a blow out?

                            Yeah, looks like Marist couldn't score a single goal and they are the losers.

                            The funny thing about soccer is it doesn't matter how you win or by how many goals. No asterisks or special designation. Only the winner and the loser. Or in this case Champions.

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                              #74
                              Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                              They don't see it that way and neither do the politicians that run OSAA. Hand up vs. a hand out.

                              Fair has a different meaning to different people. Iit's the same policies that has built this great state that runs OSAA.

                              Is it fair? That a boys team that has won 8/10 5A championships gets to drop down? Ask North Marion, Stayton, Madras why the poor kids from these communities are less important than poor kids from Woodburn.

                              Is it fair the girls got to drop down, everyone in the community knew this group of girls was coming, and they'll dominate for the next 3-4 years. Most of the team are Freshman and the club teams that back the school are only better in the years to come. Ask the girls from Gladstone, or North Marion. (Nobody cares about Marist.)

                              Woodburn never invested in volleyball so they never won a game. Or Softball, they don't even have a team, but that's why OSAA let them drop down.

                              Now really, what's the point? They are champions and they played the game, the OSAA rules they way OSAA has them set up.

                              Good for them.
                              Just an FYI any school can appeal to play up.

                              But, having 4 separate school classifications for Girls Soccer titles is disingenuous to the word and meaning of a state champion, not to mention how utterly painful it is on the eyes. Then layer in teams playing 2 classifications down, if it aint considered cheating, it's created a world of make believe winners and losers. Which is really a shame. We might as well call this the special ed championships, since we are all so special and need a medal playing against schools 1/3 our size. Private schools make their customers pay for this special advantage. OSAA takes care of the public schools in need of feeling better.

                              OSAA needs to merge 5a & 4 into a 64 team classification.

                              Since 6A already has 52

                              If they are truy looking at being fair.

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                                #75
                                Few people look at the Woodburn situation and think it's the right thing. Fact is their volleyball team hadn't won a game in 10 years. Their softball team was so bad losing 40-0 that all the girls quit and nobody would come out for softball. Baseball, same thing. Football, cellar dwellers. They went a couple years without a softball or baseball team. They had about 15 kids on their football team. It was pathetic. It was so bad, you'd get blown out, nobody came out for these sports. Their basketball team competed. A couple years back I think they made it to the State tournament. Basically they had boys soccer and sometimes a decent basketball team. Their JV soccer team would beat many, many 6A varsity teams. If you live in or around Woodburn, their is soccer (Boys Soccer) opportunities everywhere.

                                Nevermind the community invested zero into girls. Didn't matter if it was for soccer, volleyball, or softball. Nevermind their wasn't even so much as a rec program in this town. If you were a girl and wanted to play soccer, IF you were amazing AND your dad was the coach you played on your brothers team until 8th grade (puberty).

                                But that changed with a small group of moms and dads and they created a club that started off with just 2 girls teams. At this same time people were desperate for a little help for the volleyball team and the softball team. A break to help them build their program, let them compete at their level. Let them lose close even... So folks at the Highschool asked for ALL their sports to drop to 4A. Volleyball and softball it made sense, it was just, and nobody was, or is going to lose out on their own highschool experience because Woodburn Volleyball knocked them out of their state title run.

                                But soccer, they knew what they were doing on the boys side, they didn't ask for an exemption. It's a little cheap and a little dirty and nobody feels good about it.

                                The girls, it's not their fault. They played the game they way OSAA set it up.

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