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Lax in the CHN

I spent a good chunk of Friday evening covering a local high school lacrosse playoff game. The East Chapel Hill Wildacts beat Mt. Tabor in the end 9-7 as you can read in the accompanying arricle to these two images: Wildcats live to fight another day. The shoot presented some serious technical and personal challenges, so I thought the shoot was a bust until I saw the paper.

Lax in the CHN B&W

Fortunately for East, its defense was up to the task Friday night. Despite lapses in man-up situations, East used defense to grind past Mount Tabor, 9-7, in the North Carolina High School Lacrosse Association quarterfinals.

Despite grainy, dark images, the photos in the paper came out surprisingly nicely. I was stunned. I will go into the challenges in a later post with some of the outtakes.

Wildcat Lacrosse

I needed an action shot where I could identify the player and this was it. I had a few nicer action shot, but could not figure out the player numbers. This image ended up taking up a good portion of the top half of the front of the sports seciton.

Lax Lineup

I submitted this shot on a whim. I really like it, but did not think that the paper would To my surprise, I found this, in black and white, splayed across an inside page of the sparts section.

Despite my success, I do not look forward to shooting lacrosse again soon.

Tags: assignment, carolina, Chapel Hill, CHN, east chapel hill, high school, lacrosse, nc, sports

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