not so fast on drawing that conclusion. first off Abners Team was missing players from the championship roster for Surf Cup. Also two players on the ECNL championship Roster played on the DA squad, Tad's team, for Surf Cup. And scored their goals. Abner was also trying out new positioning and some new additions to the roster as well. so this is a false conclusion actually.
Wrong; two players from 03 ECNl team didn’t play for DA team in this game...DA team had 4 new players playing in this game; 1 from Abner's team, 2 from DA Surf, and the goalie was I believe an 06 player. The game was a white wash, as 06 goalie hardly even saw the ball. If not for the tremendous play by the ECNL goalie, game could have been 5 or 6 nothing. It’s easy to forget the 03 DA team last year was playing up at the 02 level last year. With the additions and dropping down to their age group, DA did show well by dominating the very best of ECNL.