DAILY PILOT HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETE OF THE WEEK:

Near where Mike Kidushim lives is the beach, a place where he and his brother Dave practiced all day long carrying a stick with a rubber ball.

The siblings brought out their goal before the Corona del Mar High boys’ lacrosse season and left it near a gate to a parking lot.

The reason for not lugging it around was simple. It was convenient having it at the beach.

Until three weeks ago.

One day the two said they saw it in the back of a city truck getting hauled away.

“My dad called the city and asked if we could get it back,” Dave said. “They said no, because the city took it and crushed it.”

Ever since then the two have taken out their frustrations on the opposing team’s net, with Mike pounding through defenders and Dave speeding past defenders to score.

Mike, a senior, has scored nine times, giving him two more goals than Dave, a junior. Three games into the season and the Kidushim brothers are the area’s best one-two act.

Their nickname is not suitable for print, though. Let’s just say it doesn’t make sense for two guys who are always on the attack for CdM (3-0).

Mike, a 5-foot-9, 185-pounder, just physically beats everyone to the goal, even his smaller brother. When the two competed in one-on-one contests in the backyard the past few years, the backyard got too small.

“When I hit him with the stick, he keeps playing,” Dave said. “When he hits me, I have to stop and try to get away.”

Now it makes sense why the beach was the perfect place to play. Dave had more room to maneuver and the chance to break free if Mike clubbed him with the stick too much.

It’s not like Mike is slow. He played linebacker and center on the football field before concentrating full-time on lacrosse as a junior.

The reason Mike tried the sport back as a seventh-grader was because his older brother, Jason, played. In his senior year in 2003, Jason got involved when CdM launched the lacrosse program.

“I saw him do well,” Mike said. “I thought maybe I could as well.”

Mike has come a long way. He’s grown, no longer 5-5, 150 pounds like he said he was as an eighth-grader, his first year on the CdM club varsity team.

It took Mike time to resemble Jason, a 5-10, 210-pounder back then.

But Mike has showcased the same type of aggression his brother did in athletics. Jason was an inside linebacker and center on the football team, earning second-team All-Pacific Coast League honors as a senior.

Some of the better players at CdM are football players, Noah Molnar, JD Abbott and Tyler Harmon.

“But most of them play defense because they love to hit guys and they can’t handle the ball as well,” Mike said. “It’s something you got to get used to. They tell you to cradle it so the ball won’t come out. I got it down.”

Those trying to pop the ball out of Mike’s pocket learn the hard way.

Corona del Mar Coach Mark Todd has seen the collisions many times, more often than not Mike wins. During last week’s season-opening game against Back Bay rival Newport Harbor, Mike crushed a player before the Sea Kings left Sage Hill School with a 15-6 lopsided victory.

“That was one of those hits you see maybe once or twice during a season,” Dave said. “Trust me, I know what those feel like.”

DAVID CARRILLO PEÑALOZA may be reached at (714) 966-4612 or at david.carrillo@latimes.com.