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PLEASE READ FOR SAFETY PURPOSES AS WELL AS MEETING NCAA SPECIFICATIONS

Why do we place our base lacing rails on the outside of the base goal legs…it makes our goals NCAA LEGAL and SAFE. Here’s why:

1. Safety: Having a top rail on the flat iron base was/is causing injuries to players. As players are getting more aggressive and falling on the back of the nets due to being pushed or just tripping onto the net, the lacing rail on top of the base leg of the goal can cause injuries in the form of a broken bone or lacerations in some cases. So we decided to move the lacing rails to the outside of the base bar so it would lay down flat below the base bar profile to eliminate the hazard.

1. Goals: It was also determined that the top lacing rail was not allowing the goal to capture the ball properly and balls were hitting the rail and bouncing out where a ref may not call a goal if he wasn’t positioned properly or close enough, to see the ball inside the goal before it bounced back out (thinking it just hit pipe and bounced out and was not a goal). According to Section 3 of the NCAA lacrosse specification document for goals, a top lacing rail on the base legs of a goal are illegal because it allows the ball to re-enter the field of play when a shot is deflected back into the field of play by the lacing rail. This is why we do not use metal tubes for the base bar as well at this level. See section 3 below with highlighted text for the NCAA language.

From the NCAA specifications for goals-section #3

"Lacrosse goals shall be constructed in a manner such that when a ball enters the goal mouth and is in fact a goal, it shall not reenter the field of play. The recommended goal for natural- surface fields is an in-ground goal. The vertical posts shall be 7 1/2 feet in overall length and shall be inserted into 1 1/2 foot by 2-inch vertical sleeves that are inserted into the ground, exposing 6 feet of vertical post above the ground. The sleeves shall be capped at the bottom, and the top of the sleeves shall be at ground level.

On fields where an in-ground goal cannot be used or on an artificial-surface fields, the following goals are acceptable and legal:

a. Flat-iron goal--(recommended for use on artificial-surface fields) Each vertical post shall be 6 feet in overall length and shall be attached to a piece of flat iron at the bottom. The two flat irons, each attached to a vertical post, shall meet at a point 7 feet back from the center of the goal. The maximum thickness of the flat iron shall be 1/2 inch with no part of the flat iron extending into the goal line."