Lacrosse is a popular sport in the United States, Canada and other countries. Few are familiar with the history of the sport's name. When French pioneers first settled in eastern Canada, they saw the Native North Americans playing a peculiar game. They tossed a small ball of stuffed leather back and forth with long-handled sticks. The sticks were bent or crooked and had nets at the top.
Which sentence would MOST logically fit next in this paragraph?

A) Lacrosse is getting better known in the USA.
B) The field is divided by in half by a center line.
C) Lacrosse players must be fast runners and must be able to throw skillfully.
D) To the French, these strange sticks looked like a cross, so they called the game la crosse.