Abstract: An improvement in lacrosse equipment reduces scooping friction with the ground and wear on the lower strung portion at the hook of a lacrosse stick by means of "U"-shaped tubular protectors on respective strings, each with the apex of the "U" acting as a fairlead through the frame, and, with the protector stabilized by abutment of the respective arms of the "U" against the forward knots of netting at the throw strings, and by broadening of the protector at the "U"-shaped bend, jamming it in the holes and causing the lower runs to extend resiliently down from the holes as respective skids easing wear on the transverse portion of the lacrosse stick and the thongs at the playing surface when scooping up a lacrosse ball.