To the editor:

A typical Sunday at YSI: the third-to-sixth-grade Hurricanes, 121; Opponents, 7 (Sept. 16).

This is “real sportsmanship” in action, isn’t it? Hurricane coaches recruit the biggest and the fastest so they can hammer and intimidate the other little guys, and score at will – weekly blowouts. Any trophies given at season’s end for such nonsense are totally worthless. This is SUPPOSED to be a learning league!

Each year, it would take the next grade higher to have any chance at all of beating these overgrown teams. Notably, one player on the sixth-grade team stands head and shoulders above everyone else on the field. For the rest of the kids, it is like stepping in front of a truck.

Someone should care enough to enact rules to make these games fair and have an even playing field. It is unfortunate there is absolutely no leadership governing Little League football.

Maybe if every team in the league scratched the Hurricanes from their schedule, it would force a change.

Richard Smith,

Lawrence