mikemavs: I agree the Lasers Green are an excellent team, but pretty much every single team at the Compuware tournament is excellent. Of the 32 16-U teams there, I saw only one that was an average travel team and another one was maybe slightly above average. The other 30 were all among the top several teams in their states.
bhoh: As bcatfan said, we are the younger of the three 16-U Heat teams. I think five of our girls are still eligible at 14-U and another two are within a month of that. We're much happier playing at 16-U, first because we have several girls eligible only at 16-U who this team belongs to as much as any, but also because we're getting great competition and plenty of college looks at 16-U that we wouldn't be getting at 14-U.
It toughens the girls physically and mentally to play Compuware and go from the Pitt. Spirit Gold to Grand Slam to the Indiana Twisters to Finesse to the Ohio Wolfpack. It ain't doing much for the coach, though!
I think in the final eight at 16-U you had the Wolfpack vs. Ohio Ice, Stingrays vs. Indiana Twisters, Indy Edge vs. ? and I'm not sure of the other game. The Indy Edge hadn't given up a run as of Saturday night and supposedly had a girl throwing 62-64 who just dominated.