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Team members for Billerica Youth Lacrosse come together with "sticks in," a great tradition of the game. Photo courtesy of George Lucozzi, ASA Photographic
"While I was leaning on the fence watching my lax friends, a fly ball hit me in the back. I didn’t even bother to pick the ball up, rather I hopped the fence, dropped my glove, picked up a lax stick and played the rest of the afternoon with my lax friends."
Reihl Mahoney on how he left baseball for lacrosse (Page 14)