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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I haven't seen any high school lacrosse games attract 2000 fans either.[/quote]
Then you must be stuck watching violin recitals.  [u]The Landon-Prep games typically attract over 4,000 fans[/u].  This year, [u]games between Gonzaga and either Prep or Landon easily exceeded that number[/u] as well.[/quote]
Heehee.  I don't even follow lacrosse, but that claim is obviously false.  From what I can see in photos, there are rarely more than a few hundred fans in the stands at even the championship lacrosse games.

2010 Landon v. Prep video that shows stands at about 0:32-34, and a few other spots, with fewer than 100 people watching
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=F63CR2XNjhk

2010 Landon v. Prep IAC Championship game, with a section of sparsely populated stands in background
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikebahniuk/4628621817/

2012 Gonzaga v. Dematha WCAC Championship shot of monochromatic fans.
http://www.thesportsfannetwork.com/photos/2902-boys-lacrosse-wcac-championship-gonzaga-vs-dematha-5-16-2012/168653/

2012 Gonzaga v. Dematha WCAC Championship with wide angle view of stands.  You also can see from video of the game on YouTube that the fans sit on only one side of the field, so that's all there is at the WCAC championships.
http://www.thesportsfannetwork.com/photos/2905-boys-lacrosse-wcac-championship-gonzaga-vs-dematha-5-16-2012/168760/?page=1

Plus, here is a description from a local newspaper of the Landon v. Prep match, which doesn't say anything about crowd size, but I just thought was funny.
[quote]Minutes before Landon School and Georgetown Prep faced off in one of the bigger boys lacrosse regular-season matchups in the area, Landon’s fans congregated on the sprawling lawn beyond the entrance to Prep’s turf field.  They waited there for a while before unleashing a Braveheart-esque battle cry and charging toward the metal bleachers. Then the mob — [i]all of them wearing white polo shirts and khakis[/i] — piled into the stands single file, the charge toward the field complete.[/quote]
I love the detail that their Braveheart charge is in polo shirts and khakis, and that they finish it in a polite single-file line up to the stands.[/quote]

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