The age brackets are there to keep older teams from playing down against younger smaller girls. So playing to your skill level or above should be every teams goal so that they continue to improve. If Mizuno was being blown out by the 14u teams I would agree that they as a team don't belong there. But I don't think that is happening, they are winning and placing in the tournaments that they are playing.
No one is complaining about Smash 98 or Sorcerers 98 playing 16's & 18's. And that's because the quality of the ball is competitive.
Ok so I get this. I don't know the mizuno team but heard they beat up on some good 14s last week at the Breeze friendly. So fine.
But why does Gary allow the Extreme 99 team to play 14s the same weekend. I do know this team and they cannot beat half of the 12's teams in this area. So now my dd's team ends up playing a 12's team that doesn't help. I dont think this would happen down south.