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Behold the ‘Hidden Ball Trick’ Darien Lacrosse Players Used in the FCIAC Championship Game
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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.
