Who ever said Lacrosse isn't physical is WRONG

Just by the first picture of this blog and by the title you can see where this is going to be going. After 3 hours of covering baseball I was at Southern Lehigh's Football Stadium to cover a lacrosse game against Easton. By talking to some of the kids on the team this was going to be a huge game, they also said that Easton isn't known for their skills but they are physical so I was pretty excited and looking forward to the game.

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Above Long pole Brett Ryan looks like he is about to curb stomp a kid.

About 5 minutes into the game I knew that I was in for a treat and that this would be a hard hitting game from beginning to end.

Below middy Greg Parker levels a kid in the open field.

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Easton got out to an early lead with 2 quick goals in the first two minutes and kept going after that.

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Above middy Greg Parker attempts to block a shot on goal.

With the first half coming to an end I got one of the biggest hits I have ever seen in person. middy Dave Stohl was in the open field and got leveled on a break away. I put the shots into a movie, there are five clips of the hit total but it plays it through 3 times. Look in the middle of the shot and you will see the hit.

After getting about 5 txts from friends in the stands asking if I had got the shot I went up and showed them myself and they agreed that the hit would have made ESPN's jacked up list.

Here are a few stock shots from the game.

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Above attack man Jake Metzger out runs an Easton defender.

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Above middy Steve Lick sprints down field with his 4.6 speed lol.

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After I thought that the game was going great for me, I hadn't missed anything big and I had gotten alot of cool shots, I missed a BIG hit from Long Pole Brett Ryan. I let go of the shutter 1 or 2 frames to soon. Sorry Brett....

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And that wraps up a big hitting lacrosse game for me.

New Sigma 120-400 and a Lacrosse game

Today was my first time using my brand new, right out of the box Sigma 120-400mm lense. I have to say that I may be in love with it. The week before the game when it was on it's way I was really looking forward to using it on a sport such as lacrosse because it's a fast sport on a big field.

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Team mates Steve Lick and Nicky Daniels pose for a picture during warm ups. I got there way early to get a feel for the new lense and try to see what works with it and what doesn't. After about 45 minutes of me talking to friends the game started and my settings were still not dialed in. After I got to work it didn't take to long because it was a very nice day out and there was really really good light on the field.

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I really like these two shots because he is doing the "Jeter" lacrosse style, there isn't much difference.

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After a very busy first quarter from the Spartans the second quarter started out fast. Greg Parker #16 sprinting down the field and turns a defender around as he flys past.

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Whats funny to me is I got a great shot of him but I also got one that might make him a little mad that i put this up here. There was a ground ball around mid-field and Greg was going to get but didn't know that there was a kid behind him and he got trampled.

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I'll be hearing about that one for awhile in school but I still think its funny. At half time Greg's girl friend and a couple other of my friends were treated to some humus and pita, now this was my first time eating humus and I have to say it wasn't bad.

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Then once the game was over my friend Trevor thought he could throw a football better than Rachel.........sorry bro didn't happen.

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Lax season starts off with a bang

Yesterday marked the first game of Lacrosse season and i had be planning my schedule between lacrosse and baseball for awhile now because out of like next 60 days i think 45 or 46 of them I have something to shoot. Its gonna be insane but that's neither here nor there and ill shut up now and talk about yesterdays game against Exeder.

First off I got there a little late because I was cutting down trees for my grandfather about a mile down the road from the game so it kinda worked out but not really. When I got there I was scouting the field to see where the best place would be to shoot so I picked the mid-field line to start.

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About 5 minutes after this shot a good friend of mine a incredible move on this kid and went down and scored. This is what i got of the move.....

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Trust me that the juke he put of this kid was 100x better than the shot i got. After that it was half time and i decided to move positions to try and get some shots on goal, didn't happen. So after that failed attempt to try and get something cool I moved again and thankfully I did because I got Colby Kent get planted around midfield and the other two photographers and I let out a simultaneous.......woooooow.

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So after laughing about the hit for awhile i got back to shooting and got a couple cool shots.

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And of course Brett and his faces.....haha thanks bro

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And that wraps up the first day of lacrosse.