Lacrosse shot of the year! (Vanity)

YouTube ^ | 5/15/2011 | Me

[MarkL]

Finally a story posted about Lacrosse that had nothing to do with death, arrests, or rape!

With Stony Brook's loss last week to Hartford, I wasn't too interested in who would win the NCAA LAX championship.

As I was watching the quarter-final game between Maryland and UNC, there was a play that was just unbelievable. I was wondering what the heck was going on. Everybody was fooled, including the cameramen.

[MarkL]

A long stick mid-fielder appeared to flip the ball to an attack-man, but he actually kept the ball himself. As the attack-man dodged and juked, the midfielder with the ball non-chalantly jogged over to the other side of the field, where he passed the ball to another attack-man who was completely open, and fired the ball right behind the UNC goalie, right into the net!

Amazing!

Mark

[Chode]

hide in plain sight...

[softwarecreator]

I don’t know much about Lacrosse ... but that was one SMART move!!! That goalie never saw it coming.

[Howie66]

OUTSTANDING play!

[Vision]

It’s a memorable play but there have been amazing goals this year.

[hinckley buzzard]

Lacrosse is a highly exciting and under-appreciated game. A uniquely American game, It has its origins in native American ritual competitions, called "the little brother of war" by the Cherokee. The Iriquois sometimes played for days, with goals so far apart as to be out of sight of each other.

Fascinating game and I hope it gains in favor as time goes on.

[Vision]

It's gaining popularity. The first NCAA tournament lacrosse game west of the Mississippi is happening tonight.

[Cyclone59]

too cool

If you are a soccer fan, check out this penalty kick
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zWCDCY1xKo

[Hoodat]

Virginia comes from behind to beat Bucknell in OT, 13-12.

GO HOOS!!!

[dfwgator]

It’s a shame, thanks to Title IX, that SEC schools like Florida, don’t have Men’s Lacrosse teams.

[DJ MacWoW]

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[Amazedbyitall]

Nothing that spectacular, Just a copy of what our politicians do to us on a daily basis.

;-)

[scbison]

It is.. I live here South Carolina where lacrosse is growing very very fast. Our rec leauge grew from about 200 kids last year to over 500 this year and they plan on adding more leagues next year. My son was in a lacrosse tournament this weekend and baseball coach came by and saw all the kids involved in the sport and said our sport is in trouble which is pretty big since South Carolina is still a big baseball state.

[MarkL]

Shame about the Brattons, though... I guess they were seniors and already picked up in the draft, so it doesn’t really matter.

Still, it sullies their accomplishments at Virginia.

Mark

[MarkL]

I had heard of LAX, but never actually seen it when I was a returning student (from the midwest) at SUNY @ Stony Brook. One of my room mates was a long-stick midi, and he didn't mind having someone with whom to play catch. He was surprised that I took to it as quickly as I did. He suggested that I come to a team meeting, and since at the time, Stony Brook was a DIV III team, I still had some eligibility, and was invited to be the 3rd goalie for the team, or I'd play defense during practices. While I never was any good, I loved the practices, and stood on the sidelines as a photographer for the school paper, so I was able to get some really great shots from the bench!

Unfortunately for me, that was the only year I was able to play. The women's basketball team went DIV I, and when a mens team goes DIV I, a female team has to do the same. In this case, it was just the opposite. So when the LAX team went DIV I, I lost my elligibilty, and had to stop practicing with the team.

It's an awesome sport, and a number of high schools in the Kansas City area are now playing. In fact, the local sports channel even shows some of the high school LAX games!

Mark