St Mary's Namagunga Champion's of the 5th annual high school girls Lacrosse champioship 2017.

St Mary's Namagunga Champion's of the 5th annual high school girls Lacrosse championship.

For the 4th time consecutively,Nabisunsa Girl's School shied away in the finals held at Makerere University Business School grounds allowing their Nemesis Mount St Mary's Namagunga to win the championship for the 4th time consecutively.
"The morning showers made it more taxing for us to keep on our feet but we won all our three fixtures against Gayaza High School,Nabisunsa Girls School and Caanan High School Lugazi to take back what belongs to us",Beatrice the team captain exclaimed in her remarks.

Mount St Mary's Namagunga,4 time champions.

 The tournament hard four schools turn up for the Annual event sponsored by the Uganda Lacrosse Association to facilitate talent development and competitiveness nationally as a stepping stone to take up the global stage preferably the U-19 World championships 2019 in Canada.

 

1st Runner's up Nabisunsa Girls School (SUNSAS WARRIORS).

 The most improved team and 2nd time competitors Canaan High School put up the best performance's of the lady with great athleticism and properly showing that we could have anew champion of this competition going forward.

Caanan High School-Lugazi.

Great scoring and record statistics were recorded in order of most goals scored St Mary's Namagunga,Nabisunsa,Caanan High School,Gayaza High Scool.

 Finals.

 Nabisunsa Girls 3 vs 9 St Mary's Namagunga

3rd place play off.

 Canaan High School 5 vs 1 Gayaza High School

 

Family photo with over 100 female lacrosse athletes ready to lift the Ugandan flag on an international level.

 Maroons Lacrosse Club- Luzira was the surprise appearance to the tournament when an all star team selected from the high school girls manage to defeat them 5-3 in the most cheared game of the day.

 

Maroons Lacrosse team and Club Chairman Mr. Kirinya Isaac.

 EAST AFRICA LACROSSE 7's CHAMPIONSHIP 12th AUGUST 2017 join Ireland,Israel,USA,Kenya teams to be hosted by Uganda in an international event held in Kampala.

for more info www.ugandalacrosse.info.

 

5th Annual High School Girls Lacrosse Championship.

5th Annual High School Girls Lacrosse Championship.

Mount St Mary's Namagunga the 3 times and defending champions will invade the Makerere University Business School Sports grounds on 25.03.2017 this Saturday with one major goal in mind,to restore their glory and maintain their number one position in girls lacrosse in the country.

This won't go away easily however with seven other teams competing for the same.  

The following teams are taking part:

1-Nabisunsa Girls School.

2-Mount St Marys Namagunga.

3-GreenHill Academy.

4-Gayaza High School.

5-Vienna College.

6-YMCA Comprehensive.

7-Canaan High School,Lugazi.

8-Maroons Lacrosse,Luzira.

The Uganda Lacrosse Association together with it's development partners and the Fellowship Christian Athletes(FCA),KELLY GROUP,Lacrosse Volunteer Corps(FOG) are the major event sponsors.

East Africa Lacrosse 7's 08.12.2017 (UGANDA,KENYA,IRELAND,USA,ISRAEL AND REST OF THE WORLD) www.UgandaLacrosse.info.

BOYS LACROSSE RULES CHANGES 2017 FOR SAFETY.

Boys Lacrosse Rules Changes - 2017.

1-3-2a: If a flat-iron goal is used on a grass field, it may be attached to the ground with ground anchors.

Rationale: Ground anchors are not typically used on grass fields. This change will allow the rules to be aligned with standard practice. The rule change would allow but not require ground anchors.

4-3-1 Exception 2: If a player or team commits a foul before any faceoff, the ball will be awarded to the offended team in its offensive side of the field at the Center.

Onen Castro David taking on Bermuda opponent Fil games Denver 2014.

Rationale: Currently there is a distance of 5 yards from all surrounding players and re-start from spot of the foul. This ruling of “a free clear” is no longer correct and should have been deleted in the current rules book in order to be consistent with Rule 4.4.2 SITUATION B, which calls for a re-start from “the spot where the ball was when play was suspended.”

4-3-3: Paint, a single wrap of tape, or other material of contrasting color to the head may now be used on the handle of the crosse for any player taking a faceoff.

Rationale: New handle materials are already in production and create a more durable solution than tape. The current rule only allows for tape; this rule change would allow for the emerging best practices.

Kampala Juniors vs Masaka Juniors at the East Africa 7's 2017.

4-18-4: No defensive player, other than a properly equipped goalkeeper, can enter his own crease with the perceived intent on blocking a shot or acting as a goalie. Penalty: Conduct foul on the defensive player. A second violation by the player will be enforced as releasable unsportsmanlike conduct.

Note: Officials will stop play as soon as they notice the situation. However, if a shot is already in flight when this is noticed, the shot will be allowed to come to its normal conclusion before the whistle blows to stop play.

Rationale: Risk minimization only the goalkeeper may be located within the crease.

6-5-2: Failure to wear the required mouthpiece (unless it comes out during play) is now a technical foul.

Rationale: Change brings foul into conformity with current trends in the sport and makes it more likely to be enforced and, therefore, should bring greater compliance for risk minimization.

6-10-3: During the last two minutes of regulation play, stalling rules are in effect for the team that is ahead by four goals or less. When the score differential is five goals or more, neither team is forced to keep the ball in the goal area unless warned to “keep it in.”

Rationale: The current “automatic stall warning” in the last two minutes creates a dangerous situation where a team that is essentially “out of the game” is given more opportunity to “punish” the team that is ahead since that team is forced to “keep it in.”



Points of Emphasis

Coaches and Team Area
Defenseless Hits
Blindside Hits
Mouthpieces
Reminder of Crosse Change in 2018.