Basics

The lacrosse field is about the size of a football field. There are 10 players on the field for one team, 20 in total. There are three positions, defense, attack and mid-fielder. The job of the defender is to get the ball out of the defensive zone or to stop the opponent from scoring. The mid-fielder, middies, have to run the entire field. They play both offensive and defense. Lastly are the attack men. They stay on the offensive side of the field and their job is to score on the opponents. The whole objective of lacrosse is to get the ball is the opponents net by passing the ball back and forth, up and down the field. Most games go for about two hours. There are two kinds of lacrosse, men's and women's. Men's is a full contact game while women's lacrosse can't hit each other, only knock or block the ball in the air. Those are the basics of lacrosse.