Patent ID: 7238129

Claim:
A shooting string apparatus for a sports stick, comprising, for use in a lacrosse stick head provided with a top portion component and a base portion component interconnected by a pair of side wall components having an opening within the foresaid head components with flexible elements strung in the opening as a part of a lacrosse stick that is held by a lacrosse player's hands during lacrosse play, a shooting string section with a length dimension greater than the width dimension, wherein the shooting string section further comprises multiple flaps along at least one side of the length dimension of the shooting string section, with the flaps extending out in the width dimension to such a length so as to fold at least one-third over at least one of the flexible elements and thereby holding the shooting string section in constrained proximity to at least one of the flexible elements; wherein the flaps are shaped to interlock with the shooting string section and resist releasing under the rigors of lacrosse play.