Lacrosse is a sport that continues to gain in popularity Summer is here, and baseball will always carry the reputation as America’s quintessential pastime. But the baseball diamond is getting a run for its money from the high drama of lacrosse, which claims to be America’s first sport, tracing its roots back to the North American Indians. Lacrosse continued to explode at the youth, high school and collegiate levels in the spring. More athletes are trading in their baseball and softball bats for lacrosse sticks, face cages and the opportunity to play a fast-paced sport that blends many of the other sports they participate in — namely basketball, soccer, hockey — and even football. “Lacrosse has become a big youth sport,” Pembroke High School athletic director Bill Fallon said. “It reminds of when we had the soccer boom way back in the early ’80s and youth programs started it and everything went from there.” Jim Quatromoni, athletic director at Hull High School, agrees that lacrosse is coming of age. “There will always be that classic element of baseball as America’s pastime, but this game (lacrosse) is coming quick,” said Quatromoni, whose school fielded its first varsity boys and girls program this past season. “You’re out there running in the sun and hitting people in the boys game, and in the girls game the overall athleticism is magnified the most. So I see it continuing to grow.” Hull High is one of many schools that have ele ...
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Lacrosse is a sport that continues to gain in popularity Summer is here, and baseball will always carry the reputation as America’s quintessential pastime. But the baseball diamond is getting a run for its money from the high drama of lacrosse, which claims to be America’s first sport, tracing its roots back to the North American Indians. Lacrosse continued to explode at the youth, high school and collegiate levels in the spring. More athletes are trading in their baseball and softball bats for lacrosse sticks, face cages and the opportunity to play a fast-paced sport that blends many of the other sports they participate in — namely basketball, soccer, hockey — and even football. “Lacrosse has become a big youth sport,” Pembroke High School athletic director Bill Fallon said. “It reminds of when we had the soccer boom way back in the early ’80s and youth programs started it and everything went from there.” Jim Quatromoni, athletic director at Hull High School, agrees that lacrosse is coming of age. “There will always be that classic element of baseball as America’s pastime, but this game (lacrosse) is coming quick,” said Quatromoni, whose school fielded its first varsity boys and girls program this past season. “You’re out there running in the sun and hitting people in the boys game, and in the girls game the overall athleticism is magnified the most. So I see it continuing to grow.” Hull High is one of many schools that have ele ...