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<blockquote data-quote="49994" data-source="post: 255112" data-attributes="member: 5213"><p>There has been many good points on both sides of this. When talking about 5th grade sports you can tell in the first 5min of the game if the teams are evenly matched or if its going to get ugly. I have never seen a team come back from 30points down at the 5th grade level and win the game. I grew up in a small town and we went to the optimist tournaments in Dickinson/Bismarck and won most of them. We even scored over a 100 occasionally during 7th/8th grade games against much larger towns. We played ball year round, but I can honestly say it was a combination of how hard we worked and the overall early development of our players physically. We all know of a boy who was shaving in 6th grade and physically much more advanced at that age then others and by the time he is in high school was just an average player as everyone else caught up physically. I believe at this age 5th/6thgrade it should be more about player development then W/L. If you develop skills and knowledge of the game the kids will be much better served in the future. I would encourage you to tell your nephew to continue to work hard as there is no substitute for that in sports or life in general.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="49994, post: 255112, member: 5213"] There has been many good points on both sides of this. When talking about 5th grade sports you can tell in the first 5min of the game if the teams are evenly matched or if its going to get ugly. I have never seen a team come back from 30points down at the 5th grade level and win the game. I grew up in a small town and we went to the optimist tournaments in Dickinson/Bismarck and won most of them. We even scored over a 100 occasionally during 7th/8th grade games against much larger towns. We played ball year round, but I can honestly say it was a combination of how hard we worked and the overall early development of our players physically. We all know of a boy who was shaving in 6th grade and physically much more advanced at that age then others and by the time he is in high school was just an average player as everyone else caught up physically. I believe at this age 5th/6thgrade it should be more about player development then W/L. If you develop skills and knowledge of the game the kids will be much better served in the future. I would encourage you to tell your nephew to continue to work hard as there is no substitute for that in sports or life in general. [/QUOTE]

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