It’s entertaining to see hartley and desales bicker all the time. Both of these programs are superpowers.
Doing some fact checking:
since they began playing again in 2014 desales leads the series 5-4. Hartley won in 2014, 17, 18, 19. Desales won in 15,16 and all three times in 2020
Hartley was regional runner up in 2017 and 2020 and regional champion in 2019 after being bumped up to d3. Hartley and desales were in the same division and region in 2017,18 and 2020. In 2017 and 18 hartley beat desales and knocked them out of the playoffs altogether.
In 2017 desales had players going to Oklahoma, Ohio, Wisconsin, Michigan, Colorado and Cincinnati. And didn’t make the playoffs and was beaten by hartley. 2018 they had many of the same players and same result.
I’ve been a desales guy but hartley has had the better program over the past decade.