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Here’s how Darien girl’s lacrosse win at the Class L state championship game was covered from all over, and the reaction to it, and the celebration:
[View the story “State Lacrosse Championships: Darien Girls” on Storify]
Here’s how Darien boys’s win was covered from all over, and the reaction to it, and the celebration:
[View the story “State Lacrosse Champions: Darien Boys” on Storify]
For the past year, Darien High School lacrosse team members Rock Stewart and Ryan Cornell had been trying to perfect a hidden ball trick to fool members of an opposing team into thinking one player had the ball while another one got past them to score. Despite the practice, they hadn’t been able to actually do it in a game, the players told GameTime CT, a sports news website. That changed when Darien met New Canaan at the FCIAC championship on Thursday, and it contributed to the team’s 9-5 win. Darien Coach Jeff Brameier said the “awesome” play was one “everybody will be thinking about for years to come.” The trick, captured on video, has already become hot on Twitter, with 1,100 retweets of this tweet by LaxVines (in 12 hours, as of early Saturday morning). Brameier, quoted in the Darien Times, called Cornell and Stewart’s play “one of the best hidden ball tricks in high school lacrosse history.”
Hidden ball tricks are the type of play, according to the LaxLibrary.com website, that lacrosse teams should try only after mastering the basics.
This article by Jes Sauerhoff originally was published (here) by NewCanaanite.com. It is republished here with permission:
As if New Canaan and Darien residents need any more incentive to go see their respective high school boys lacrosse teams square off, Saturday afternoon’s contest pitted the longtime rivals up against one another with both squads coming in undefeated. And the stadium field at Darien High School was packed because of it. While New Canaan’s senior attacker Clayton Burt recorded four second-half goals in the hopes of sparking a late New Canaan (9-1, 4-1 FCIAC) rally, a pair of Darien (9-0, 5-0 FCIAC) hat tricks from senior Jack Kniffin and junior Kevin Lindley and—coupled with untimely turnovers and penalties—proved too much for the Rams to overcome, as they fell to their rival for their first defeat of the season, 10-7. “They [Darien] rode us really well,” New Canaan head coach Chip Buzzeo said. “We probably were in the double digits when it comes to failed clears, and hats off to them for forcing those mistakes. We can’t give Darien extra possessions, especially when we were winning faceoffs.
This “hype” video honoring the Darien High School Lacrosse Team is from Garden Gate Productions (and, it says,sponsored by the Darien Athletic Foundation). The two-minute video was posted to YouTube by Jack Book on Wednesday:
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See also: Check Out the New Darien Boys Swim & Dive Team Hype Video (Feb. 19)