In football, it’s called the “Statue of Liberty play” — a desperation gambit made famous by Boise State in the 2007 Fiesta Bowl.
In baseball, it’s a deceptive pickoff play. Now, lacrosse too has an incarnation of the hidden ball trick.
In Sunday’s first-round NCAA lacrosse tournament matchup between Maryland and North Carolina, Terrapins Brian Farrell and Grant Catalino pretended to exchange the ball, but Farrell kept it and scored easily after UNC bit on Catalino’s fake.
See the play executed to perfection below.
