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High School LaCrosse at Madison Square Gardens

Madison Square Garden, April 9, 2008. Mt Olive High School was invited to play an exhibition game during half time at Madison Square Garden. Obviously this was a highlight for the players, including Pat my nephew.

Our team sitting before the professional LaCrosse team started. LaCRosse is a "very American" game created by the American indigenous population centuries ago.

VIDEOS of LaCrosse Game at Madison Square Gardens

Madison Square Garden Mt Olive team play

12 sec - Apr 14, 2008
Description: Patrick up front for 12 seconds view

Mt. Olive scrimmage at Madison Square Garden 4-12-08

2 min 44 sec - Apr 13, 2008
Description: Patrick plays front line. In red stockings. You only see him shortly in this strip.

Lacrosse is played using a small rubber ball and rackets with loose netted pockets called crosses. Offensively the object of the game is to use the crosse to scoop, catch, carry and pass the ball in an effort to score by ultimately throwing the ball into an opponents goal. Defensively the object is to keep the opposing team from scoring and to dispossess them of the ball through the use of stick checking and body contact. There are two main versions of the game; outdoor or field lacrosse and indoor or box lacrosse. The two versions of the sport differ in that field lacrosse is played with ten players to a side on a field roughly the size of a soccer pitch while box lacrosse is played with six players per side in an enclosure similar to that of an ice hockey rink.

Elizabeth with Patrick before the game started. Everyone received orange hats, official color of the Spartan professional LaCrosse team. Indoor LaCrosse is a combination of basketball and indoor football, at least that's the way it appeared to me.

Looking down the "canyons" of Manhattan and spying the Empire State Building.

Looking south on 7th Avenue towards Madison Square Garden.

Entering Madison Square Garden at 33rd in downtown Manhattan.