: a goal game in which players use a long-handled stick that has a triangular head with a mesh pouch to catch, carry, and throw the ball
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Here are The Baltimore Sun’s All-Metro girls lacrosse teams for the 2024 season.
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Rich Scherr, Baltimore Sun, 19 June 2024
The Cougars routed Cretin-Derham Hall in their quarterfinal matchup.
Neubauer, also a top Alpine skier at Stillwater but will play lacrosse at Florida Southern, has at least three goals in five of her past six games.
—Mike Cook, Twin Cities, 11 June 2024
Somers falls to New Fairfield in Class S Robby Martin was the only senior on the Somers lacrosse team this season.
—Lori Riley, Hartford Courant, 9 June 2024
In girls’ lacrosse, the semifinals will have Foothill playing Redondo Union and Mira Costa taking on Marlborough.
—Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2024
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Rich Scherr, Baltimore Sun, 19 June 2024
The Cougars routed Cretin-Derham Hall in their quarterfinal matchup.
Neubauer, also a top Alpine skier at Stillwater but will play lacrosse at Florida Southern, has at least three goals in five of her past six games.
—Mike Cook, Twin Cities, 11 June 2024
Somers falls to New Fairfield in Class S Robby Martin was the only senior on the Somers lacrosse team this season.
—Lori Riley, Hartford Courant, 9 June 2024
In girls’ lacrosse, the semifinals will have Foothill playing Redondo Union and Mira Costa taking on Marlborough.
—Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 2024
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lacrosse
noun
la·crosse
lə-ˈkrȯs 
: a game played on a field in which players use long-handled sticks with shallow nets for catching, throwing, and carrying the ball
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