Lacrosse Training and Competitive Game Installation With Variable Trajectory Control

A method of training and providing a competitive game installation for lacrosse players comprising the steps of:

• providing an elongated enclosed space having a pair of side walls and containing a goal area adjacent one end of said space and a player area at an opposite end thereof, said goal area having a rear wall and respective left and right forward projecting side baffle regions projecting forward from said rear wall of said goal area;
• each of said side baffle regions having a throwing aperture through which lacrosse balls are hurled into said enclosed space in sequence;
• mounting a ball projector assembly behind said side baffle adjacent each of said throwing apertures for hurling said lacrosse balls into said enclosed space;
• mounting a simulated goal for rotation around a vertical axis in said goal area for simulating throwing and shooting of balls at various angles to a goal;
• installing a system for collecting balls from said goal area and delivering said balls to each said ball projector assembly;
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• directing said ball projector assemblies to hurl balls sequentially and alternately from opposite throwing apertures into said player space, changing direction and height of said balls, and simultaneously rotating said simulated goal to train each player to receive passes from other players and throw each ball received at said simulated target at any angle.