3 beats
- Beats
- Clamp
- Box out
- Cut
- Ground ball
- Carry
- Recover
- 5 yd stripes · not a marking
Face-offs
Lost Face-Off: Pole on the Ball
Verified · checked against ACTIVE.com and USA Lacrosse Magazine (C.J. Costabile), with The Daily Princetonian (Bill Tierney)
The play, beat by beat
- 1Their FOGO clamps itRight Wing boxes out his man
- 2Their FOGO wins the ground ballFOGO cuts
- 3Their FOGO carriesFOGO recovers
Coaching points
- Lose the face-off, and your pole wing goes straight at the ball: a long stick on the ball right away stops the fast break. Your close defense stays matched up, and your far wing sprints to the hole, then finds their open wing.
- Line your pole up on their face-off man's left. That's where his clean exit goes (Bill Tierney, Princeton).
- Can't get there first? Your first sprint is back to their attackmen: make it 4-on-4 instead (C.J. Costabile).
- Two poles on the wings puts two long sticks back first. You're allowed four, so a middie with a short stick stands in your defensive box until possession, then swaps with a defenseman (Bill Tierney).
How it was checked
Two or more independent sources describe every step of it. Verified · checked against ACTIVE.com and USA Lacrosse Magazine (C.J. Costabile), with The Daily Princetonian (Bill Tierney).
