Lacrosse is a fast-paced team sport played by ten players (men) or twelve players (women), each of whom uses a netted stick (called the crosse) in order to pass and catch a very hard rubber ball with the aim of scoring goals, each worth one point, by propelling the ball into the opponent's goal. The team scoring the most points after four quarters, and overtime if necessary, wins. In NCAA men's lacrosse, the quarters are 15 minutes. In most high school lacrosse, quarters are 12 minutes long. In youth leagues, quarters are usually 8 minutes long.http://www.uslacrosse.org/the_sport/mens_rules.phtml. Under international rules, quarters are 20 minutes.http://intlaxfed.org/pdf/rules-2005.pdf In NCAA women's lacrosse, two 25 minute halves are played. Women's high school games consist of two 25 minute halves.http://www.uslacrosse.org/the_sport/womens_rules.phtml

Popular mostly in North America, lacrosse is one of the continent's oldest sports and the fastest growing sport at all levels – youth, high school, college, and professional. Lacrosse is especially popular in the northeastern part of the US and is Canada's national summer sport (although Canadians commonly play the box lacrosse variety of the game which is described below). It is expanding westward, with burgeoning lacrosse communities in Missouri, Illinois, Colorado, California, Oregon, Florida, Tennessee, Texas, and Minnesota.

In its modern form, men's lacrosse is played on a field of grass or artificial turf. Each team is composed of three attackmen, three midfielders, three defensemen, and one goaltender. In men's lacrosse, players wear protective equipment on their heads, shoulders, arms, and hands, as body-checking is an integral part of the game. Women's lacrosse is played in a similar manner except with two additional midfielders per team. Players of women's lacrosse need only wear protective eyewear (except for the goaltender, who wears the same protective equipment as a men's goaltender throat guard, chest protector, etc.), as contact is not permitted apart from minor stick-checks.

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NLL's Boston Blazers Acquire Former UMass Star Sean Morris
Fri, 01 Aug 2008 09:18:00 -0400
In their second major deal this week, the Boston Blazers announced that they acquired forward Sean Morris, a former University of Massachusetts All-American from Marshfield, Mass. The deal unites two players from the University of Massachusetts' 2006 NCAA Final Four team as Morris joins defenseman Jack Reid who was acquired by the Blazers in a trade on Tuesday, July 29. Morris was the 2005 and 2006 New England player of the year as a collegian.
Craig Dowd Named Verizon Wireless Showcase Athlete of the Week
Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:57:07 -0400
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Georgetown University rising junior men's lacrosse player Craig Dowd (East Northport, N.Y./Northport) has been named the Verizon Wireless Showcase Athlete of the Week for the week of July 28.
Former UMass All-American Reid Traded To NLL's Boston Blazers
Wed, 30 Jul 2008 20:59:13 -0400
Former UMass All-American Jack Reid was traded from the Rochester Knighthawks to the expansion Boston Blazers in the National Lacrosse League (indoor lacrosse). Reid played 16 games during the past two seasons in the National Lacrosse League for Rochester and recorded four assists last year. He played four years of college lacrosse at UMass where he became the school's first defenseman to be named a First Team All-American.

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