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Try to force the offensive player to his weak hand. Here, Ned Crotty is a lefty, so I want to shade toward the middle of the fi eld to force him down the alley to his right. Break down in a nice athletic stance.


If he goes to shoot, I have three options:


1. Get my stick on his bottom hand and try to lift up. For him to try to follow through with my stick underneath, the shot is probably going to go off-target.


2. Stay on his backside hip and give a little bit of a bump. I don’t want to push him; that would be a penalty. But I do want to stick to him and make sure I drive him away from the goal.


3. A last resort, if he has a step on me, is to trail check and hopefully dislodge the ball, pick it up and go the other way.


Don’t let him get to the middle. Drive him toward the corner.


A Publication of US Lacrosse September 2014 >> LACROSSE MAGAZINE 57


©JOHN STROHSACKER


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