2 beats
- Beats
- Dodge
- Cut
- Slide
- 5 yd stripes · not a marking
Settled defense · Man-to-Man
Maryland Slide
Coach’s variation from Bill Cherry (Manhasset)
The play, beat by beat
- 1Their Left Wing dodgesCrease Defender slides (Hot)
- 2Their Left Wing dodgesCrease Defender marks the ball
Coaching points
- Cherry runs it against "1-3" and "1-4" sets when their wings are beating us. Shown against a 2-3-1, our reading of his 1-3 counted from behind.
- Crease defender: release to the ball. The backside middie slides into the crease and takes the crease man, on his ball side and top side.
- The top defender splits the two up top and cheats toward the top man (our reading: the one the middie left).
- Cherry's setup: "offside middie cheats down for the 2 slide; onside shut off." The start draws both.
- Bill Cherry's Manhasset clinic gives the three jobs only, all done at once. Where each man stands is our placement.
How it was checked
Only one source describes it: one coach’s or one program’s own take. We found no second source to check it against. Coach’s variation from Bill Cherry (Manhasset).
