LSC’s New Contact Sport

2/7/08

By Nathaniel Champagne
Critic Staff

With the start of a new semester, so too starts the official season of Lyndon State’s new lacrosse team, coached by Kingdom Trails’ Tim Tierney.

The team was created along with volleyball as LSC’s two new varsity sports and is said to be the fastest sport on two legs. I talked to “captain” Craig Salvagno for a rundown of lacrosse and what sets it apart from other sports. “Lacrosse is like basketball in that there are set plays, hockey in the physical and hitting aspects and soccer in the running aspect”.

For those whom are not familiar with the sport, lacrosse is a 10 person game consisting of three attack players or “pretty boys” as they’re called, three middies the “work horses”, with a defense made up of three anchormen and a goalie. Start of game is begun with a face off, which is much like a face off in hockey, the two center middies will fight for the ball which can often actually look like a fight. From there the game breaks down into set plays and instinctual reactions to whatever the other team decides to throw at them. The only thing these guys can’t do is take their sticks to each others heads and get caught.

Though they have not yet played any official games, their season will begin in the end of March.

The soccer field will become the new home of our lacrosse team, where they will play teams such as Johnson, Castleton, and Norwich, all of which have good records themselves. Although do to conditions outside the team has been forced indoors for practices where they have been rotating gym time with basketball, softball, and rugby. Even though they team has sufficient numbers to play, they are always looking to expand their roster, which is currently at14. The team is still looking to pick up new players; all someone has to do is stop by a practice.